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We investigate an optimization problem that arises when working within the paradigm of Data-Driven Computational Mechanics. In the context of the diffusion-reaction problem, such an optimization problem seeks for the continuous primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Pedro B. Bazon , Cristian G. Gebhardt , Gustavo C. Buscaglia , Roberto F. Ausas

Numerical methods of approximate solution of the Cauchy problem for coupled systems of evolution equations are considered. Separating simpler subproblems for individual components of the solution achieves simplification of the problem at a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Petr N. Vabishchevich

In this paper we derive analytically the evolution equation of the interface for a model of surface growth with relaxation to the minimum (SRM) in complex networks. We were inspired by the disagreement between the scaling results of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. E. La Rocca , L. A. Braunstein , P. A. Macri

We present an O(n^3 log^2 n)-time algorithm for the following problem: given a finite metric space X, create a star-topology network with the points of X as its leaves, such that the distances in the star are at least as large as in X, with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-05 David Eppstein , Kevin A. Wortman

In this work we investigate the min-max-min robust optimization problem and the k-adaptability robust optimization problem for binary problems with uncertain costs. The idea of the first approach is to calculate a set of k feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jannis Kurtz

In this paper, we consider a primal-dual domain decomposition method for total variation regularized problems appearing in mathematical image processing. The model problem is transformed into an equivalent constrained minimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Chang-Ock Lee , Jongho Park

The paper describes a sparse direct solver for the linear systems that arise from the discretization of an elliptic PDE on a two dimensional domain. The scheme decomposes the domain into thin subdomains, or ``slabs'' and uses a two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Statistical inference with bandit data presents fundamental challenges due to adaptive sampling, which violates the independence assumptions underlying classical asymptotic theory. Recent work has identified stability as a sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-12 Budhaditya Halder , Ishan Sengupta , Koustav Chowdhury , Koulik Khamaru

The magnetostatic field distribution in a nonlinear medium amounts to the unique minimizer of the magnetic coenergy over all fields that can be generated by the same current. This is a nonlinear saddlepoint problem whose numerical solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Herbert Egger , Felix Engertsberger , Klaus Roppert

We study the problem of enumerating Tarski fixed points on finite lattices. We derive query complexity lower bounds for finding three or more Tarski fixed points of isotone maps and the subclasses of increasing and decreasing isotone maps.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Julian Müller

Generalizing work of K\"unnemann, Paturi, and Schneider [ICALP 2017], we study a wide class of high-dimensional dynamic programming (DP) problems in which one must find the shortest path between two points in a high-dimensional grid given a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Josh Alman , Ethan Turok , Hantao Yu , Hengzhi Zhang

The differential evolution algorithm is applied to solve the optimization problem to reconstruct the production function (inverse problem) for the spatial Solow mathematical model using additional measurements of the gross domestic product…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Sergey Kabanikhin , Olga Krivorotko , Maktagali Bektemessov , Zholaman Bektemessov , Shuhua Zhang

The problem of finding the shortest path in a graph G(V, E) has been widely studied. However, in many applications it is necessary to compute an arbitrary number of them, k. Even though the problem has raised a lot of interest from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Carlos Linares López , Ian Herman

New or enlarged symmetries can emerge at the low-energy spectrum of a Hamiltonian that does not possess the symmetries, if the symmetry breaking terms in the Hamiltonian are irrelevant under the renormalization group flow. In this letter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-28 Mingru Yang , Bram Vanhecke , Norbert Schuch

The advantages of evolutionary algorithms with respect to traditional methods have been greatly discussed in the literature. While particle swarm optimizers share such advantages, they outperform evolutionary algorithms in that they require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Johann Sienz , Mauro S. Innocente

A computational framework is presented for the sampling of the energy surface of magnetic systems via the systematic identification of first-order saddle points that determine connectivity of metastable states and define the mechanisms of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-09 Hendrik Schrautzer , Tim Drevelow , Hannes Jónsson , Pavel F. Bessarab

This paper investigates energy-minimization finite-element approaches for the computation of nematic liquid crystal equilibrium configurations. We compare the performance of these methods when the necessary unit-length constraint is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-31 J. H. Adler , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan , T. A. Manteuffel

We develop an algorithm for minimizing a function using $n$ batched function value measurements at each of $T$ rounds by using classifiers to identify a function's sublevel set. We show that sufficiently accurate classifiers can achieve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-12 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Steve Yadlowsky , John C. Duchi

Discretization based approaches to solving online reinforcement learning problems have been studied extensively in practice on applications ranging from resource allocation to cache management. Two major questions in designing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-30 Sean R. Sinclair , Siddhartha Banerjee , Christina Lee Yu

We develop an unfitted compatible finite element discretisation for the Darcy problem based on $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming flux spaces and discontinuous pressure spaces. The method is designed to preserve pointwise discrete mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Santiago Badia , Anne Boschman , Alberto F. Martín , Erik Nilsson , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Sara Zahedi