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Large optimization problems with hard constraints arise in many settings, yet classical solvers are often prohibitively slow, motivating the use of deep networks as cheap "approximate solvers." Unfortunately, naive deep learning approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Priya L. Donti , David Rolnick , J. Zico Kolter

Recently, the problem of local minima in very high dimensional non-convex optimization has been challenged and the problem of saddle points has been introduced. This paper introduces a dynamic type of normalization that forces the system to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Armen Aghajanyan

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently used for dynamic optimization problems. With this paper, we contribute to the theoretical understanding of this research area. We present the first computational complexity analysis of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

The existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to dynamical low-rank evolution problems for parabolic partial differential equations in two spatial dimensions is shown, covering also non-diagonal diffusion in the elliptic part. The proof is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Markus Bachmayr , Henrik Eisenmann , Emil Kieri , André Uschmajew

Designing the topology of three-dimensional structures is a challenging problem due to its memory and time consumption. In this paper, we present a robust and efficient algorithm for solving large-scale 3D topology optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Alfredo Vitorino , Francisco A. M. Gomes

The Matching Augmentation Problem (MAP) has recently received significant attention as an important step towards better approximation algorithms for finding cheap $2$-edge connected subgraphs. This has culminated in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Etienne Bamas , Marina Drygala , Ola Svensson

In a previous paper it was shown that a machine learning regression problem can be solved within the framework of random function theory, with the optimal kernel analytically derived from symmetry and indifference principles and coinciding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuriy N. Bakhvalov

We consider the following inference problem: Given a set of edge-flow signals observed on a graph, lift the graph to a cell complex, such that the observed edge-flow signals can be represented as a sparse combination of gradient and curl…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Til Spreuer , Josef Hoppe , Michael T. Schaub

We consider the problem of minimizing a differentiable function with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient on a stratified set and present a first-order algorithm designed to find a stationary point of that problem. Our assumptions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Guillaume Olikier , Kyle A. Gallivan , P. -A. Absil

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to evaluate and compare the performance of stochastic gradient algorithms for distributed learning in relation to their behavior around local minima in nonconvex environments. Previous works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ying Cao , Zhaoxian Wu , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

The capability of discretization of matrix elements in the problem of quadratic functional minimization with linear member built on matrix in N-dimensional configuration space with discrete coordinates is researched. It is shown, that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-04 Boris Kryzhanovsky , Mikhail Kryzhanovsky , Magomed Malsagov

This paper presents a minimum flow approach applicable to a wide range of doubly nonlinear diffusion problems. We introduce a minimum flow steepest descent algorithm that seeks an optimal traffic flow by minimizing an internal energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Noureddine Igbida

In this study, we investigate the application of Semidefinite Programming (SDP) to phylogenetics. SDP is a powerful optimization framework that seeks to optimize a linear objective function over the cone of positive semidefinite matrices.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 P. Skums

We develop a novel iterative algorithm for locally optimal experimental design under constraints, like budget or performance constraints. It is an adaptive discretization algorithm. In every iteration, a discretized version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jochen Schmid , Philipp Seufert , Jan Schwientek , Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer

Current algorithms used to put a lattice gauge configuration into Landau gauge either suffer from the problem of critical slowing-down or involve an additional computational expense to overcome it. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), which have…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 J. F. Markham , T. D. Kieu

The alternating least squares algorithm for CP and Tucker decomposition is dominated in cost by the tensor contractions necessary to set up the quadratic optimization subproblems. We introduce a novel family of algorithms that uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Linjian Ma , Edgar Solomonik

We devise a space-time tensor method for the low-rank approximation of linear parabolic evolution equations. The proposed method is a stable Galerkin method, uniformly in the discretization parameters, based on a Minimal Residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Thomas Boiveau , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern , Anthony Nouy

In this paper, we consider a class of non-convex and non-smooth sparse optimization problems, which encompass most existing nonconvex sparsity-inducing terms. We show the second-order optimality conditions only depend on the nonzeros of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Luwei Bai , Yaohua Hu , Hao Wang , Xiaoqi Yang

By generalizing the notion of linearization, a concept originally arising from microlocal analysis and symbolic calculus, to diffeological spaces, we make a first proposal setting for optimization problems in this category. We show how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jean-Pierre Magnot

We prove that the minimizer in the N\'ed\'elec polynomial space of some degree p > 0 of a discrete minimization problem performs as well as the continuous minimizer in H(curl), up to a constant that is independent of the polynomial degree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Alexandre Ern , Martin Vohralík