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Bayesian nonparametric mixture models provide a flexible framework for data analysis but are often hindered by the computational expense of traditional inference methods like MCMC. A fast, recursive algorithm proposed by Newton (2002)…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-16 Bernardo Flores

We present examples of divergence for the BFGS and Gauss Newton methods. These examples have objective functions with bounded level sets and other properties concerning the examples published recently in this journal, like unit steps and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Walter F. Mascarenhas

We investigate Newton's method for complex polynomials of arbitrary degree $d$, normalized so that all their roots are in the unit disk. For each degree $d$, we give an explicit set $\mathcal{S}_d$ of $3.33d\log^2 d(1 + o(1))$ points with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Todor Bilarev , Magnus Aspenberg , Dierk Schleicher

We first review existing sequential methods for estimating a binomial proportion. Afterward, we propose a new family of group sequential sampling schemes for estimating a binomial proportion with prescribed margin of error and confidence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Zhengjia Chen , Xinjia Chen

In this paper, we consider the feasibility problem, which aims to find a feasible point for the constraint set $\{x \in \mathbb{R}^n: c(x) = 0\}$ over a possibly non-regular subset $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Under the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Nachuan Xiao , Shiwei Wang , Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

The Newton iteration is a popular method for minimising a cost function on Euclidean space. Various generalisations to cost functions defined on manifolds appear in the literature. In each case, the convergence rate of the generalised…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Jonathan H. Manton

We present an iterative root finding method for harmonic mappings in the complex plane, which is a generalization of Newton's method for analytic functions. The complex formulation of the method allows an analysis in a complex variables…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Olivier Sète , Jan Zur

Unconstrained convex optimization problems have enormous applications in various field of science and engineering. Different iterative methods are available in literature to solve such problem, and Newton method is among the oldest and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Santoshi Subhalaxmi Ray , Manideepa Saha

Implementing Bayesian inference is often computationally challenging in applications involving complex models, and sometimes calculating the likelihood itself is difficult. Synthetic likelihood is one approach for carrying out inference…

Computation · Statistics 2021-03-15 David T. Frazier , David J. Nott , Christopher Drovandi , Robert Kohn

A zero-finding technique for solving nonlinear equations more efficiently than they usually are with traditional iterative methods in which the order of convergence is improved is presented. The key idea in deriving this procedure is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Miquel Grau-Sánchez , José Luis Díaz-Barrero

This paper primarily presents numerical results for the Anderson accelerated Newton method on a set of benchmark problems. The results demonstrate superlinear convergence to solutions of both degenerate and nondegenerate problems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Sara Pollock , Hunter Schwartz

We introduce a variant of the $k$-nearest neighbor classifier in which $k$ is chosen adaptively for each query, rather than supplied as a parameter. The choice of $k$ depends on properties of each neighborhood, and therefore may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Akshay Balsubramani , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Yoav Freund , Shay Moran

Lambda quantiles, originally introduced as lambda value at risk, generalise the classical value at risk by allowing for a variable confidence level. This work presents efficient algorithms for computing lambda quantiles and demonstrates…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-08 Ilaria Peri , Linus Wunderlich

A q-Gauss-Newton algorithm is an iterative procedure that solves nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems based on minimization of the sum squared errors of the objective function residuals. Main advantage of the algorithm is that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Danijela Protic , Miomir Stankovic

In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Andre Milzarek , Xiantao Xiao , Shicong Cen , Zaiwen Wen , Michael Ulbrich

We consider systems of recursively defined combinatorial structures. We give algorithms checking that these systems are well founded, computing generating series and providing numerical values. Our framework is an articulation of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Carine Pivoteau , Bruno Salvy , Michele Soria

This study proposes a cubic regularization of the Newton method for generating weakly efficient points of unconstrained vector optimization problems under no convexity assumption on the objective function. It is observed that at a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Debdas Ghosh

We studies the Newton polygon for the L-function of toric exponential sums attached to a family of two variable generalized hyperkloosterman sum,$f_{t}(x,y)=x^{n}+y+\frac{t}{xy}$ with $t$ the parameter. The explicit Newton polygon is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Bolun Wei

This article considers the problem of solving a system of $n$ real polynomial equations in $n+1$ variables. We propose an algorithm based on Newton's method and subdivision for this problem. Our algorithm is intended only for nondegenerate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-12-21 Gun Srijuntongsiri , Stephen A. Vavasis

A class of restarted randomized surrounding methods are presented to accelerate the surrounding algorithms by restarted techniques for solving the linear equations. Theoretical analysis prove that the proposed method converges under the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Junfeng Yin , Nan Li , Ning Zheng