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A framework is introduced for sequentially solving convex stochastic minimization problems, where the objective functions change slowly, in the sense that the distance between successive minimizers is bounded. The minimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Craig Wilson , Venugopal Veeravalli , Angelia Nedich

Machine learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being used to accelerate combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. We investigate the Set Cover Problem (SCP) and propose Graph-SCP, a graph neural network method that augments existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zohair Shafi , Benjamin A. Miller , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Rajmonda S. Caceres

Conventional correlation-based frame synchronization techniques can suffer significant performance degradation over multi-path frequency-selective channels. As a remedy, in this paper we consider joint frame synchronization and channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Ozgur Ozdemir , Ridha Hamila , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Ismail Guvenc

We consider stochastic convex optimization problems where the objective is an expectation over smooth functions. For this setting we suggest a novel gradient estimate that combines two recent mechanism that are related to notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Tehila Dahan , Kfir Y. Levy

Given recent deep learning results that demonstrate the ability to effectively optimize high-dimensional non-convex functions with gradient descent optimization on GPUs, we ask in this paper whether symbolic gradient optimization tools such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Ga Wu , Buser Say , Scott Sanner

Topology Optimization seeks to find the best design that satisfies a set of constraints while maximizing system performance. Traditional iterative optimization methods like SIMP can be computationally expensive and get stuck in local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Giorgio Giannone , Faez Ahmed

As global attention on renewable and clean energy grows, the research and implementation of microgrids become paramount. This paper delves into the methodology of exploring the relationship between the operational and environmental costs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hongyi Duan , Qingyang Li , Yuchen Li , Jianan Zhang , Yuming Xie

Stochastic Optimization is a cornerstone of operations research, providing a framework to solve optimization problems under uncertainty. Despite the development of numerous algorithms to tackle these problems, several persistent challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Di Zhang , Suvrajeet Sen

The efficient solution of large-scale multiterm linear matrix equations is a challenging task in numerical linear algebra, and it is a largely open problem. We propose a new iterative scheme for symmetric and positive definite operators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Davide Palitta , Martina Iannacito , Valeria Simoncini

In this work, the author presents a novel method for finding descent directions shared by two or more differentiable functions defined on the same unconstrained domain space. Then, the author illustrates an alternative Multiple-Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Francesco Della Santa

We propose a fast sequential algorithm for the fundamental problem of estimating frequencies and amplitudes of a noisy mixture of sinusoids. The algorithm is a natural generalization of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) to the continuum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Babak Mamandipoor , Dinesh Ramasamy , Upamanyu Madhow

We study nonlinear constrained optimization problems in which only function evaluations of the objective and constraints are available. Existing zeroth-order methods rely on noisy gradient and Jacobian surrogates in high dimensions, making…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Runyu Zhang , Gioele Zardini

Exactly solving multi-objective integer programming (MOIP) problems is often a very time consuming process, especially for large and complex problems. Parallel computing has the potential to significantly reduce the time taken to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

In this paper, a new sequential surrogate-based optimization (SSBO) algorithm is developed, which aims to improve the global search ability and local search efficiency for the global optimization of expensive black-box models. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Chunlin Gong , Xu Li , Hua Su , Jinlei Guo , Liangxian Gu

The Symbolic Regression (SR) problem, where the goal is to find a regression function that does not have a pre-specified form but is any function that can be composed of a list of operators, is a hard problem in machine learning, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vernon Austel , Cristina Cornelio , Sanjeeb Dash , Joao Goncalves , Lior Horesh , Tyler Josephson , Nimrod Megiddo

Optimizing with group sparsity is significant in enhancing model interpretability in machining learning applications, e.g., feature selection, compressed sensing and model compression. However, for large-scale stochastic training problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Tianyi Chen , Guanyi Wang , Tianyu Ding , Bo Ji , Sheng Yi , Zhihui Zhu

Multi-objective verification problems of parametric Markov decision processes under optimality criteria can be naturally expressed as nonlinear programs. We observe that many of these computationally demanding problems belong to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Murat Cubuktepe , Nils Jansen , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Ivan Papusha , Hasan A. Poonawala , Ufuk Topcu

This paper proposes a mode multigrid (MMG) method, and applies it to accelerate the convergence of the steady state flow on unstructured grids. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) technique is used to analyze the convergence process of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang , Jiaqing Kou

In this paper, we consider a general stochastic optimization problem which is often at the core of supervised learning, such as deep learning and linear classification. We consider a standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-27 Lam M. Nguyen , Nam H. Nguyen , Dzung T. Phan , Jayant R. Kalagnanam , Katya Scheinberg

Generative Recommendation (GR) has recently transitioned from atomic item-indexing to Semantic ID (SID)-based frameworks to capture intrinsic item relationships and enhance generalization. However, the adoption of high-granularity SIDs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tianyu Zhan , Kairui Fu , Chengfei Lv , Zheqi Lv , Shengyu Zhang