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We propose a novel stochastic gradient descent method for solving linear least squares problems with partially observed data. Our method uses submatrices indexed by a randomly selected pair of row and column index sets to update the iterate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

We present an algorithm to find the determinant and its first and second derivatives of a rank-one corrected generator matrix of a doubly stochastic Markov chain. The motivation arises from the fact that the global minimiser of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Jerzy A Filar , Michael Haythorpe , Walter Murray

In this paper, we study a Markov chain-based stochastic gradient algorithm in general Hilbert spaces, aiming at approximating the optimal solution of a quadratic loss function. We establish probabilistic upper bounds on its convergence. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Priyanka Roy , Susanne Saminger-Platz

The multi-level method for discrete state systems, first introduced by Anderson and Higham [Multiscale Model. Simul. 10:146--179, 2012], is a highly efficient simulation technique that can be used to elucidate statistical characteristics of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-06 Christopher Lester , Ruth E. Baker , Michael B. Giles , Christian A. Yates

Joint diagonalization, the process of finding a shared set of approximate eigenvectors for a collection of matrices, arises in diverse applications such as multidimensional harmonic analysis or quantum information theory. This task is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Erik Troedsson , Marcus Carlsson , Herwig Wendt

In this paper, we explore a specific optimization problem that combines a differentiable nonconvex function with a nondifferentiable function for multi-block variables, which is particularly relevant to tackle the multilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Zehui Liu , Qingsong Wang , Chunfeng Cui

Computing more than one eigenvalue for (large sparse) one-parameter polynomial and general nonlinear eigenproblems, as well as for multiparameter linear and nonlinear eigenproblems, is a much harder task than for standard eigenvalue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Michiel E. Hochstenbach , Bor Plestenjak

Multilevel techniques are efficient approaches for solving the large linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations and other problems. While geometric multigrid requires detailed knowledge about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Tareq. U. Zaman , Scott P. MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Matt West

The standard approach in solving stochastic equations is eigenvector decomposition. Using separation ansatz $P(i,t)=u(i)e^{\mu t}$ one obtains standard equation for eigenvectors $Ku=\mu u$, where $K$ is the rate matrix of the master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Sergei V. Krivov

We propose a nonconvex estimator for joint multivariate regression and precision matrix estimation in the high dimensional regime, under sparsity constraints. A gradient descent algorithm with hard thresholding is developed to solve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Jinghui Chen , Quanquan Gu

This paper aims to develop distributed algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems with complicated constraints associated with a network. The network can be a physical one, such as an electric power network, where the constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Kaizhao Sun , X. Andy Sun

We propose a second-order accurate method to estimate the eigenvectors of extremely large matrices thereby addressing a problem of relevance to statisticians working in the analysis of very large datasets. More specifically, we show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Noureddine El Karoui , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Various numerical linear algebra problems can be formulated as evaluating bivariate function of matrices. The most notable examples are the Fr\'echet derivative along a direction, the evaluation of (univariate) functions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Stefano Massei , Leonardo Robol

While multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods for the numerical approximation of partial differential equations with random coefficients enjoy great popularity, combinations with spatial adaptivity seem to be rare. We present an adaptive MLMC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Ralf Kornhuber , Evgenia Youett

We tackle the general differentiable meta learning problem that is ubiquitous in modern deep learning, including hyperparameter optimization, loss function learning, few-shot learning, invariance learning and more. These problems are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Minyoung Kim , Timothy M. Hospedales

Sequential scaling is a prominent inference-time scaling paradigm, yet its performance improvements are typically modest and not well understood, largely due to the prevalence of heuristic, non-principled approaches that obscure clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Youkang Wang , Jian Wang , Rubing Chen , Tianyi Zeng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Topology optimization problems often support multiple local minima due to a lack of convexity. Typically, gradient-based techniques combined with continuation in model parameters are used to promote convergence to more optimal solutions;…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Patrick E. Farrell , Thomas M. Surowiec

A cascadic multigrid method is proposed for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme. With this new scheme, an eigenvalue problem on the finest space can be solved by smoothing steps on a series of multilevel finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-11 XIaole Han , Hehu Xie

We consider nonlinear eigenvalue problems to compute all eigenvalues in a bounded region on the complex plane. Based on domain decomposition and contour integrals, two robust and scalable parallel multi-step methods are proposed. The first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Yingxia Xi , Jiguang Sun

Estimation of Markov Random Field and covariance models from high-dimensional data represents a canonical problem that has received a lot of attention in the literature. A key assumption, widely employed, is that of {\em sparsity} of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis