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We consider trust-region methods for solving optimization problems where the objective is the sum of a smooth, nonconvex function and a nonsmooth, convex regularizer. We extend the global convergence theory of such methods to include…

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We propose a stochastic first-order trust-region method with inexact function and gradient evaluations for solving finite-sum minimization problems. Using a suitable reformulation of the given problem, our method combines the inexact…

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This paper revisits the error analysis of the Stochastic Lanczos Quadrature (SLQ) method for approximating the trace of matrix functions, with a specific focus on asymmetric Lanczos quadrature rules. We reexplain an existing theoretical…

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Retrieval-augmented reasoning (RAR) is a recent evolution of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that employs multiple reasoning steps for retrieval and generation. While effective for some complex queries, RAR remains vulnerable to errors…

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In this paper, we discuss the acceleration of the regularized alternating least square (RALS) algorithm for tensor approximation. We propose a fast iterative method using a Aitken-Stefensen like updates for the regularized algorithm.…

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In this paper, we propose a harmonized rotational gradient method, termed HRGrad, for simultaneously tackling multiscale time-dependent kinetic problems with varying small parameters. These parameters exhibit asymptotic transitions from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhangyong Liang

The cyclic reduction (CR) algorithm is an efficient method for solving quadratic matrix equations that arise in quasi-birth-death (QBD) stochastic processes. However, its convergence is not guaranteed when the associated matrix polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Xu Li , Beatrice Meini

In this paper we propose an identification method for latent-variable graphical models associated to autoregressive (AR) Gaussian stationary processes. The identification procedure exploits the approximation of AR processes through…

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We propose a method to fit arbitrarily accurate blendshape rig models by solving the inverse rig problem in realistic human face animation. The method considers blendshape models with different levels of added corrections and solves the…

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In this paper we propose several adaptive gradient methods for stochastic optimization. Unlike AdaGrad-type of methods, our algorithms are based on Armijo-type line search and they simultaneously adapt to the unknown Lipschitz constant of…

We consider a class of optimization problems with Cartesian variational inequality (CVI) constraints, where the objective function is convex and the CVI is associated with a monotone mapping and a convex Cartesian product set. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Harshal D. Kaushik , Farzad Yousefian

This work introduces a new cubic regularization method for nonconvex unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems. At each iteration of the method, a model associated with the cubic regularization of each component of the objective…

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Long-horizon, sparse-reward tasks pose a fundamental challenge for reinforcement learning, since single-step TD learning suffers from bootstrapping error accumulation across successive Bellman updates. Actor-critic methods with action…

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Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) is one of the oldest but still most widely used clustering methods. However, HAC is notoriously hard to scale to large data sets as the underlying complexity is at least quadratic in the number of…

This paper proposes a stochastic variant of a classic algorithm---the cubic-regularized Newton method [Nesterov and Polyak 2006]. The proposed algorithm efficiently escapes saddle points and finds approximate local minima for general…

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We propose a variational regularization approach based on a multiscale representation called cylindrical shearlets aimed at dynamic imaging problems, especially dynamic tomography. The intuitive idea of our approach is to integrate a…

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Developments in cooperative trajectory planning of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have gathered considerable momentum and research attention. Generally, such problems present strong non-linearity and non-convexity, rendering great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Zhenmin Huang , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

We investigate the Randomized Stochastic Accelerated Gradient (RSAG) method, utilizing either constant or adaptive step sizes, for stochastic optimization problems with generalized smooth objective functions. Under relaxed affine variance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Chenhao Yu , Yusu Hong , Junhong Lin

We develop an adaptive method of time layers with a linearly implicit Rosenbrock method as time integrator and symmetric interior penalty Galerkin method for space discretization for the advective Allen-Cahn equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Murat Uzunca , Bülent Karasözen , Ayşe Sarıaydın Filibelioğlu

Convection is an important physical process in astrophysics well-studied using numerical simulations under the Boussinesq and/or anelastic approximations. However these approaches reach their limits when compressible effects are important…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 T. Padioleau , P. Tremblin , E. Audit , P. Kestener , S. Kokh