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In this paper, we study the Crank-Nicolson method for temporal dimension and the piecewise quadratic polynomial collocation method for spatial dimensions of time-dependent nonlocal problems. The new theoretical results of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Rongjun Cao , Minghua Chen , Michael K. Ng , Yu-Jiang Wu

We consider the following natural question. Given a matrix $A$ with i.i.d. random entries, what are the moments of the determinant of $A$? In other words, what is $\mathbb{E}[\det(A)^k]$? While there is a general expression for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Dominik Beck , Zelin Lv , Aaron Potechin

We introduce a new notion of the determinant, called symmetrized determinant, for a square matrix with the entries in an associative algebra $\AA$. The monomial expansion of the symmetrized determinant is obtained from the standard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Barvinok

Gradient Descent (GD) and Conjugate Gradient (CG) methods are among the most effective iterative algorithms for solving unconstrained optimization problems, particularly in machine learning and statistical modeling, where they are employed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Xianqi Jiao , Jia Liu , Zhiping Chen

Barvinok introduced the symmetrized determinant ($\sdet$) as a \emph{non-commutative} analogue of the determinant. Intuitively, given a square matrix over an associative algebra, we can obtain the symmetrized determinant by averaging over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sanyam Agarwal , Markus Bläser , Mridul Gupta

In this paper we consider distributed optimization problems in which the cost function is separable, i.e., a sum of possibly non-smooth functions all sharing a common variable, and can be split into a strongly convex term and a convex one.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a framework for constructing discrete versions of exterior differential calculus objects, and is widely used in computer graphics, computational topology, and discretizations of the Hodge-Laplace operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Erick Schulz , Gantumur Tsogtgerel

In this paper, we consider the problem of computing the entire sequence of the maximum degree of minors of a block-structured symbolic matrix (a generic partitioned polynomial matrix) $A = (A_{\alpha\beta} x_{\alpha \beta} t^{d_{\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Yuni Iwamasa

We propose a new pivotal method for estimating high-dimensional matrices. Assume that we observe a small set of entries or linear combinations of entries of an unknown matrix $A\_0$ corrupted by noise. We propose a new method for estimating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Olga Klopp , Stéphane Gaiffas

We obtain better algorithms for computing more balanced orientations and degree splits in LOCAL. Important to our result is a connection to the hypergraph sinkless orientation problem [BMNSU, SODA'25] We design an algorithm of complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yannic Maus , Alexandre Nolin , Florian Schager

The Hadamard maximal determinant (maxdet) problem is to find the maximum determinant D(n) of a square {+1, -1} matrix of given order n. Such a matrix with maximum determinant is called a saturated D-optimal design. We consider some cases…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Richard P. Brent

Let $\A_0, \A_1, \ldots, \A_n$ be given square matrices of size $m$ with rational coefficients. The paper focuses on the exact computation of one point in each connected component of the real determinantal variety $\{\X \in\RR^n \: :\:…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Didier Henrion , Simone Naldi , Mohab Safey El Din

We present a new, practical algorithm for computing the determinant of a non-singular dense, uniform matrix over Z; the aim is to achieve better practical efficiency, which is always at least as good as currently known methods. The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-15 John Abbott , Claus Fieker

We give a {\em deterministic} algorithm for approximately computing the fraction of Boolean assignments that satisfy a degree-$2$ polynomial threshold function. Given a degree-2 input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ and a parameter $\eps >…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Anindya De , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio

Given a nonsingular $n \times n$ matrix of univariate polynomials over a field $\mathbb{K}$, we give fast and deterministic algorithms to compute its determinant and its Hermite normal form. Our algorithms use…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-03-31 George Labahn , Vincent Neiger , Wei Zhou

The complexity of graph homomorphisms has been a subject of intense study [11, 12, 4, 42, 21, 17, 6, 20]. The partition function $Z_{\mathbf A}(\cdot)$ of graph homomorphism is defined by a symmetric matrix $\mathbf A$ over $\mathbb C$. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Jin-Yi Cai , Artem Govorov

We propose new sequential simulation-optimization algorithms for general convex optimization via simulation problems with high-dimensional discrete decision space. The performance of each choice of discrete decision variables is evaluated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Haixiang Zhang , Zeyu Zheng , Javad Lavaei

In this paper, we study the communication and (sub)gradient computation costs in distributed optimization and give a sharp complexity analysis for the proposed distributed accelerated gradient methods. We present two algorithms based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Huan Li , Cong Fang , Wotao Yin , Zhouchen Lin

A $\mathit{\text{moving frame}}$ at a rational curve is a basis of vectors moving along the curve. When the rational curve is given parametrically by a row vector $\mathbf{a}$ of univariate polynomials, a moving frame with important…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Hoon Hong , Zachary Hough , Irina A. Kogan , Zijia Li

We present a parallel algorithm for calculating very large determinants with arbitrary precision on computer clusters. This algorithm minimises data movements between the nodes and computes not only the determinant but also all minors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Gleb Beliakov , Yuri Matiyasevich