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Inexact computing also referred to as approximate computing is a style of designing algorithms and computing systems wherein the accuracy of correctness of algorithms executing on them is deliberately traded for significant resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-31 John Augustine , Dror Fried , Krishna V. Palem , Duc-Hung Pham , Anshumali Shrivastava

This paper proposes several novel optimization algorithms for minimizing a nonlinear objective function. The algorithms are enlightened by the optimal state trajectory of an optimal control problem closely related to the minimized objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Hongxia Wang , Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Huanshui Zhang

Inverse optimization is the problem of determining the values of missing input parameters for an associated forward problem that are closest to given estimates and that will make a given target vector optimal. This study is concerned with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Aykut Bulut , Ted K. Ralphs

This paper introduces real time inverse arithmetic coding and user interfaces based thereupon. The main idea is that information-efficient data entry can be achieved by ensuring that each input's associated display space and ease of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2010-08-31 Patrick Kaifosh

We prove for the first time that, if a linear inverse problem exhibits a group symmetry structure, gradient-based optimizers can be designed to exploit this structure for faster convergence rates. This theoretical finding demonstrates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

This material provides thorough tutorials on some optimization techniques frequently used in various engineering disciplines, including convex optimization, linearization techniques and mixed-integer linear programming, robust optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Wei Wei

This paper introduces a methodology designed to augment the inverse design optimization process in scenarios constrained by limited compute, through the strategic synergy of multi-fidelity evaluations, machine learning models, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luka Grbcic , Juliane Müller , Wibe Albert de Jong

These lecture notes evolve around mathematical concepts arising in inverse problems. We start by introducing inverse problems through examples such as differentiation, deconvolution, computed tomography and phase retrieval. This then leads…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Danielle Bednarski , Tim Roith

Multi-objective optimization is a type of decision making problems where multiple conflicting objectives are optimized. We study offline optimization of multi-objective policies from data collected by an existing policy. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shima Alizadeh , Aniruddha Bhargava , Karthick Gopalswamy , Lalit Jain , Branislav Kveton , Ge Liu

In the last decades the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse has found a wide range of applications in many areas of Science and became a useful tool for physicists dealing, for instance, with optimization problems, with data analysis, with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. C. A. Barata , M. S. Hussein

The inverse of a large matrix can often be accurately approximated by a polynomial of degree significantly lower than the order of the matrix. The iteration polynomial generated by a run of the GMRES algorithm is a good candidate, and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Mark Embree , Joel A. Henningsen , Jordan Jackson , Ronald B. Morgan

Incorporating a deep generative model as the prior distribution in inverse problems has established substantial success in reconstructing images from corrupted observations. Notwithstanding, the existing optimization approaches use gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tianci Liu , Tong Yang , Quan Zhang , Qi Lei

The majorization-minimization (MM) principle is an extremely general framework for deriving optimization algorithms. It includes the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, proximal gradient algorithm, concave-convex procedure, quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Kenneth Lange , Joong-Ho Won , Alfonso Landeros , Hua Zhou

Standard regularization methods that are used to compute solutions to ill-posed inverse problems require knowledge of the forward model. In many real-life applications, the forward model is not known, but training data is readily available.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Several scenarios require the optimization of non-convex black-box functions, that are noisy expensive to evaluate functions with unknown analytical expression, whose gradients are hence not accessible. For example, the hyper-parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

Bayesian optimization is a methodology to optimize black-box functions. Traditionally, it focuses on the setting where you can arbitrarily query the search space. However, many real-life problems do not offer this flexibility; in…

Convex optimization problems arise naturally in quantum information theory, often in terms of minimizing a convex function over a convex subset of the space of hermitian matrices. In most cases, finding exact solutions to these problems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Mark W. Girard , Gilad Gour , Shmuel Friedland

In this paper, we study the recently defined notion of the inverse along an element. An existence criterion for the inverse along a product is given in a ring. As applications, we present the equivalent conditions for the existence and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Huihui Zhu , Pedro Patricio , Jianlong Chen

The present paper studies so-called deep image prior (DIP) techniques in the context of ill-posed inverse problems. DIP networks have been recently introduced for applications in image processing; also first experimental results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Daniel Otero Baguer