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Compressive sensing (CS) is a new methodology to capture signals at lower rate than the Nyquist sampling rate when the signals are sparse or sparse in some domain. The performance of CS estimators is analyzed in this paper using tools from…
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Oberman gave a stochastic control formulation of the problem of estimating the convex envelope of a non-convex function. Based on this, we develop a reinforcement learning scheme to approximate the convex envelope, using a variant of…
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We develop a sketching algorithm to find the point on the convex hull of a dataset, closest to a query point outside it. Studying the convex hull of datasets can provide useful information about their geometric structure and their…
Convolutional neural networks have achieved a great success in the recent years. Although, the way to maximize the performance of the convolutional neural networks still in the beginning. Furthermore, the optimization of the size and the…
The motivation for this paper stems from the desire to develop an adaptive sampling method for solving constrained optimization problems in which the objective function is stochastic and the constraints are deterministic. The method…