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This work is devoted to establish the strong convergence results of an iterative algorithm generated by the shrinking projection method in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approximation sequence is used to find a common element in the set of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Abdul Ghaffar , Zafar Ullah , Muhammad Aqeel Ahmad Khan , Faisal Mumtaz

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

We study the problem of finding the global Riemannian center of mass of a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, we investigate the convergence of constant step-size gradient descent algorithms for solving this problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Bijan Afsari , Roberto Tron , René Vidal

We study three well-known minimization problems in Hilbert spaces: the weighted least squares problem and the related problems of abstract splines and smoothing. In each case we analyze the solvability of the problem for every point of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Maximiliano Contino , Maria Eugenia Di Iorio y Lucero , Guillermina Fongi

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle

Orthogonality constraints naturally appear in many machine learning problems, from principal component analysis to robust neural network training. They are usually solved using Riemannian optimization algorithms, which minimize the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Pierre Ablin , Simon Vary , Bin Gao , P. -A. Absil

The article studies a generalization of the classical Fermat-Torricelli problem to normed spaces of arbitrary finite dimension. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of the solution of the Fermat-Torricelli problem for any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Daniil A. Ilyukhin

In this paper, we will present a generalization for a minimization problem from I. Daubechies, M. Defrise, and C. Demol [3]. This generalization is useful for solving many practical problems in which more than one constraint are involved.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Saman Khoramian

To compute the spatially distributed dielectric constant from the backscattering data, we study a coefficient inverse problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. To solve the inverse problem, we establish a new version of Carleman estimate and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Michael V. Klibanov , Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

In this paper we develop algorithms to solve generalized weighted Fermat-Torricelli problems with positive and negative weights and multifacility location problems involving distances generated by Minkowski gauges. We also introduce a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Nguyen Mau Nam , R. Blake Rector , Daniel Giles

This paper presents a new extension of the classical Heron problem, termed the generalized $(k,m)$-Heron problem, which seeks an optimal configuration among $k$ feasible and $m$ target non-empty closed convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Triloki Nath , Manohar Choudhary , Ram K. Pandey

A closed set of a Euclidean space is said to be Chebyshev if every point in the space has one and only one closest point in the set. Although the situation is not settled in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, in 1932 Bunt showed that in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-27 Heinz H. Bauschke , Xianfu Wang , Jane Ye , Xiaoming Yuan

In 1933 von Neumann proved a beautiful result that one can approximate a point in the intersection of two convex sets by alternating projections, i.e., successively projecting on one set and then the other. This algorithm assumes that one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Robert Weismantel

A known first order method to find a feasible solution to a conic problem is an adapted von Neumann algorithm. We improve the distance reduction step there by projecting onto the convex hull of previously generated points using a primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-15 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

In 1996, Meshulam proved that any sequence generated in Euclidean space by randomly projecting onto affine subspaces drawn from a finite collection stays bounded even if the intersection of the subspaces is empty. His proof, which works…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Heinz H. Bauschke , Tran Thanh Tung

We obtain a general concept of triplet of Hilbert spaces with closed (unbounded) embeddings instead of continuous (bounded) ones. The construction starts with a positive selfadjoint operator $H$, that is called the Hamiltonian of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Petru Cojuhari , Aurelian Gheondea

We prove the convergence of the fixed-point (also called thresholding) algorithm in three optimal control problems under large volume constraints. This algorithm was introduced by C\'ea, Gioan and Michel, and is of constant use in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Antonin Chambolle , Idriss Mazari-Fouquer , Yannick Privat

We consider Riemannian optimization problems with inequality and equality constraints and analyze a class of Riemannian interior point methods for solving them. The algorithm of interest consists of outer and inner iterations. We show that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mitsuaki Obara , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

This work focuses on convergence analysis of the projected gradient method for solving constrained convex minimization problem in Hilbert spaces. We show that the sequence of points generated by the method employing the Armijo linesearch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Jose Yunier Bello Cruz , Welington de Oliveira

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

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