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Many geometric estimation problems take the form of synchronization over the special Euclidean group: estimate the values of a set of poses given noisy measurements of a subset of their pairwise relative transforms. This problem is…

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We show with several examples that renormalization group (RG) theory can be used to understand singular and reductive perturbation methods in a unified fashion. Amplitude equations describing slow motion dynamics in nonequilibrium phenomena…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lin-Yuan Chen , Nigel Goldenfeld , Y. Oono

LLM pre-training efficacy increasingly depends on data composition rather than sheer volume. Yet, optimal mixing is hindered by categorization flaws: human taxonomies suffer from ontological misalignment, and Euclidean clustering fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yue Min , Ziyun Qiao , Ruining Chen , Yujun Li

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) comprise important symmetry properties, which can influence the performance of Monte Carlo methods in Neuroevolution. The problem of the symmetries is also known as the competing conventions problem or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Onay Urfalioglu , Orhan Arikan

We present a method of exploiting symmetries of discrete-time optimal control problems to reduce the dimensionality of dynamic programming iterations. The results are derived for systems with continuous state variables, and can be applied…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-30 John Maidens , Axel Barrau , Silvere Bonnabel , Murat Arcak

Many supervised learning problems involve high-dimensional data such as images, text, or graphs. In order to make efficient use of data, it is often useful to leverage certain geometric priors in the problem at hand, such as invariance to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Alberto Bietti , Luca Venturi , Joan Bruna

Large linear systems with sparse, non-symmetric matrices arise in the modeling of Markov chains or in the discretization of convection-diffusion problems. Due to their potential to solve sparse linear systems with an effort that is linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Benjamin Seibold

In this article, we present a family of numerical approaches to solve high-dimensional linear non-symmetric problems. The principle of these methods is to approximate a function which depends on a large number of variates by a sum of tensor…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

Group synchronization refers to estimating a collection of group elements from the noisy pairwise measurements. Such a nonconvex problem has received much attention from numerous scientific fields including computer vision, robotics, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Linglingzhi Zhu , Jinxin Wang , Anthony Man-Cho So

Many recent applications in machine learning and data fitting call for the algorithmic solution of structured smooth convex optimization problems. Although the gradient descent method is a natural choice for this task, it requires exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Anthony Man-Cho So

A geometric inequality among three triangles, originating in circle packing problems, is introduced. In order to prove it, we reduce the original formulation to the nonnegativity of a particular polynomial in four real indeterminates.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pablo A. Parrilo , Ronen Peretz

Imbalanced classification presents a formidable challenge in machine learning, particularly when tabular datasets are plagued by noise and overlapping class boundaries. From a geometric perspective, the core difficulty lies in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xubin Wang , Qing Li , Weijia Jia

Exploiting symmetry inherent in data can significantly improve the sample efficiency of a learning procedure and the generalization of learned models. When data clearly reveals underlying symmetry, leveraging this symmetry can naturally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Gyeonghoon Ko , Hyunsu Kim , Juho Lee

Non-uniform grids and mesh adaptation have been a growing part of numerical simulation over the past years. It has been experimentally noted that mesh adaptation leads not only to locally improved solution but also to numerical stability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-25 Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Nikolaos Sfakianakis

This paper deals with exploiting symmetry for solving linear and integer programming problems. Basic properties of linear representations of finite groups can be used to reduce symmetric linear programming to solving linear programs of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Richard Bödi , Katrin Herr , Michael Joswig

Existing computationally efficient methods for penalized likelihood GAM fitting employ iterative smoothness selection on working linear models (or working mixed models). Such schemes fail to converge for a non-negligible proportion of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-13 Simon N. Wood

Symmetry techniques based on group theory play a prominent role in the analysis of nuclear phenomena, and in particular in the understanding of observed regular patterns in nuclear spectra and selection rules for electromagnetic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-10 J. M. Yao

State-of-the-art differentially private synthetic tabular data has been defined by adaptive 'select-measure-generate' frameworks, exemplified by methods like AIM. These approaches iteratively measure low-order noisy marginals and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock

In this paper, we discuss the convergence of an Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) method for general symmetric positive-definite matrices. The method relies on an aggregation algorithm, named \emph{coarsening based on compatible weighted matching},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone , Ludmil Zikatanov

Incorporating group symmetries into neural networks has been a cornerstone of success in many AI-for-science applications. Diagonal groups of isometries, which describe the invariance under a simultaneous movement of multiple objects, arise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kevin Han Huang , Ni Zhan , Elif Ertekin , Peter Orbanz , Ryan P. Adams