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Optimal treatment regimes (OTR) are individualised treatment assignment strategies that identify a medical treatment as optimal given all background information available on the individual. We discuss Bayes optimal treatment regimes…

We investigate an alternative solution method to the joint signal-beamformer optimization problem considered by Setlur and Rangaswamy[1]. First, we directly demonstrate that the problem, which minimizes the received noise, interference, and…

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Muon and related norm-constrained matrix optimizers have become central to large-scale learning problems. They are formulated as a linear maximization oracle (LMO) over an ambient matrix-norm ball in unconstrained Euclidean space. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yibang Li , Bihari Lal Pandey , Ravi Sah , Andi Han , Cyrus Mostajeran , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

We study inverse optimization (IO), where the goal is to use a parametric optimization program as the hypothesis class to infer relationships between input-decision pairs. Most of the literature focuses on learning only the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Ke Ren , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Angelos Georghiou

We consider the problem of quantifying the Pareto optimal boundary in the achievable rate region over multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channels, where the problem boils down to solving a sequence of convex feasibility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Jiaming Qiu , Rui Zhang , Zhi-Quan Luo , Shuguang Cui

In free-space optical communications and other applications, it is desirable to design optical beams that have reduced or even minimal scintillation. However, the optimization problem for minimizing scintillation is challenging, and few…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-13 Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Samuel N Stechmann

This paper considers the beamforming optimization for sensing a point-like scatterer using a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) radar, which could be part of a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Tobias Laas , Ronald Boehnke , Wen Xu

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular algorithm for solving challenging optimization tasks. It is designed for problems where the objective function is expensive to evaluate, perhaps not available in exact form, without gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-22 Umberto Noè , Dirk Husmeier

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a leading variational approach to combinatorial optimization, but its practical performance depends strongly on objective design, parameter search, and shot allocation. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Siran Zhang , Shuming Cheng

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a common solution to search optimal hyperparameters based on sample observations of a machine learning model. Existing BO algorithms could converge slowly even collapse when the potential observation noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Lei Cui , Yangguang Li , Xin Lu , Dong An , Fenggang Liu

This work addresses data-driven inverse optimization (IO), where the goal is to estimate unknown parameters in an optimization model from observed decisions that can be assumed to be optimal or near-optimal solutions to the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Yen-An Lu , Wei-Shou Hu , Joel A. Paulson , Qi Zhang

Learned image compression (LIC) using deep learning architectures has seen significant advancements, yet standard rate-distortion (R-D) optimization often encounters imbalanced updates due to diverse gradients of the rate and distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Yichi Zhang , Zhihao Duan , Yuning Huang , Fengqing Zhu

Non-coplanar Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) goes a step further by orienting the gantry carrying the radiation beam and the patient couch in a non-coplanar manner to accurately target the cancer region and better avoid…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Fang Guo , Franklin Okoli , Ulrike Schick , Dimitris Visvikis , Antoine Valeri , Julien Bert

With a Bayesian approach, the linear optics correction algorithm for storage rings is revisited. Starting from the Bayes' theorem, a complete linear optics model is simplified as "likelihood functions" and "prior probability distributions".…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Yongjun Li , Robert Rainer , Weixing Cheng

A new method for the design of linear-phase robust far-field broadband beamformers using constrained optimization is proposed. In the method, the maximum passband ripple and minimum stopband attenuation are ensured to be within prescribed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-18 R. C. Nongpiur , D. J. Shpak

Background: Ultra-high-dose-rate (UHDR) radiation therapy has demonstrated promising potential in reducing toxicity to organs-at-risk (OARs). Proton therapy is uniquely positioned to deliver UHDR by leveraging the Bragg peak in conjunction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Jiayue Han , Ya-Nan Zhu , Aoxiang Wang , Wangyao Li , Yuting Lin , Hao Gao

Beam parameter optimization in accelerators involves multiple, sometimes competing objectives. Condensing these individual objectives into a single figure of merit unavoidably results in a bias towards particular outcomes, in absence of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Faran Irshad , Stefan Karsch , Andreas Döpp

Adaptive optics (AO) is a powerful tool employed across various research fields, from aerospace to microscopy. Traditionally, AO has focused on correcting optical phase aberrations, with recent advances extending to polarisation…

Today, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is one of the methods used to treat brain tumors. In conventional treatment planning methods, after identifying planning target volume (PTV), and organs at risk (OARs), and determining the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-15 Mobina Naeemi , Mohamad Reza Esmaeili , Iraj Abedi

In this paper, we propose a new beamforming design to maximize energy efficiency (EE) for multiple input single output interfering broadcast channels (IFBC). Under this model, the EE problem is non-convex in general due to the coupled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Sang-Rim Lee , Jaehoon Jung , Haewook Park , Inkyu Lee