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Finding a common factor of two multivariate polynomials with approximate coefficients is a problem in symbolic-numeric computing. Taking a tropical view on this problem leads to efficient preprocessing techniques, applying polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-02 Danko Adrovic , Jan Verschelde

Alternating minimization represents a widely applicable and empirically successful approach for finding low-rank matrices that best fit the given data. For example, for the problem of low-rank matrix completion, this method is believed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-04 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sujay Sanghavi

In this PhD thesis we propose an algorithmic approach to the study of the Hilbert scheme. Developing algorithmic methods, we also obtain general results about Hilbert schemes. In Chapter 1 we discuss the equations defining the Hilbert…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Paolo Lella

A class of algorithms for the solution of discrete material optimization problems in electromagnetic applications is discussed. The idea behind the algorithm is similar to that of the sequential programming. However, in each major iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Johannes Semmler , Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl

In this work, we show that for linearly constrained optimization problems the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm, analyzed by Chambolle and Pock [3], can be written as an entirely primal algorithm. This allows us to prove convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Yura Malitsky

A very brief introduction to tropical and idempotent mathematics is presented. Tropical mathematics can be treated as a result of a dequantization of the traditional mathematics as the Planck constant tends to zero taking imaginary values.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-11 G. L. Litvinov

We propose NEP_MiniMax, a novel computational method for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems (NEPs) $T(\lambda)\mathbf{u}= 0$ on compact continua $\Omega \subset \mathbb{C}$. The method combines two key components: (1) a rational minimax…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Chenkun Zhang , Jiawei Gu , Lei-Hong Zhang

We propose an asymmetric affinity score for representing the complexity of utilizing the knowledge of one task for learning another one. Our method is based on the maximum bipartite matching algorithm and utilizes the Fisher Information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Cat P. Le , Juncheng Dong , Mohammadreza Soltani , Vahid Tarokh

Pairwise comparison methods, such as Fuzzy Preference Relations and Saaty's Multiplicative Preference Relations, are widely used to model expert judgments in multi-criteria decision-making. However, their application is limited by the high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Diego García-Zamora , Álvaro Labella , José Rui Figueira

We introduce a novel approach to portfolio optimization that leverages hierarchical graph structures and the Schur complement method to systematically reduce computational complexity while preserving full covariance information. Inspired by…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-18 Gamal Mograby

Increasing spatial and temporal resolution of numerical models continues to propel progress in hydrological sciences, but, at the same time, it has strained the ability of modern automatic calibration methods to produce realistic model…

Applications · Statistics 2020-04-08 Ruochen Sun , Felipe Hernández , Xu Liang , Huiling Yuan

The tropical semiring is a semiring of extended real numbers, where the operations of `max' and `+' replace the usual addition and multiplication, respectively. Difference equations obtained from the ultradiscrete limit of discrete…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Yuki Nishida , Sennosuke Watanabe , Yoshihide Watanabe

We propose a test of fairness in score-based ranking systems called matched pair calibration. Our approach constructs a set of matched item pairs with minimal confounding differences between subgroups before computing an appropriate measure…

One-sided linear systems of the form ``$Ax=b$'' are well-known and extensively studied over the tropical (max-plus) semiring and wide classes of related idempotent semirings. The usual approach is to first find the greatest solution to such…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Sulaiman Alhussaini , Sergei Sergeev

We present a hierarchical computation approach for solving finite-time optimal control problems using operator splitting methods. The first split is performed over the time index and leads to as many subproblems as the length of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Georgios Stathopoulos , Tamás Keviczky , Yang Wang

In this article a topology optimization method is developed, which is aware of material uncertainties. The uncertainties are handled in a worst-case sense, i.e. the worst possible material distribution over a given uncertainty set is taken…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Jannis Greifenstein , Michael Stingl

In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of the knapsack problem and subset sum problem for the following tropical algebraic structures. We consider the semigroup of square matrices of size $k \times k$ with non-negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 I. M. Buchinskiy , M. V. Kotov , A. V. Treier

In recent years, low-rank tensor completion (LRTC) has received considerable attention due to its applications in image/video inpainting, hyperspectral data recovery, etc. With different notions of tensor rank (e.g., CP, Tucker, tensor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-30 Yunfeng Cai , Ping Li

We consider the Adaptive Regularization with Cubics approach for solving nonconvex optimization problems and propose a new variant based on inexact Hessian information chosen dynamically. The theoretical analysis of the proposed procedure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini

In this paper, we study linear programming based approaches to the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The semi-streaming model has gained attention as a model for processing massive graphs as the importance of such graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha