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The rapid advances in the field of optimization methods in many pure and applied science pose the difficulty of keeping track of the developments as well as selecting an appropriate technique that best suits the problem in-hand. From a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Loris Serafino

Trajectory optimization using a learned model of the environment is one of the core elements of model-based reinforcement learning. This procedure often suffers from exploiting inaccuracies of the learned model. We propose to regularize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Rinu Boney , Norman Di Palo , Mathias Berglund , Alexander Ilin , Juho Kannala , Antti Rasmus , Harri Valpola

We revisit gradient-based optimization for infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS), a tensor network ansatz for simulating many-body quantum systems. This approach is hindered by two major challenges: the high computational cost of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-09 Xing-Yu Zhang , Qi Yang , Philippe Corboz , Jutho Haegeman , Wei Tang

A new method for stochastic control based on neural networks and using randomisation of discrete random variables is proposed and applied to optimal stopping time problems. The method models directly the policy and does not need the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-11 Thomas Deschatre , Joseph Mikael

Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Julia Wei , Alec Dektor , Chungen Shen , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang

A new technique of global optimization and its applications in particular to neural networks are presented. The algorithm is also compared to other global optimization algorithms such as Gradient descent (GD), Monte Carlo (MC), Genetic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Homayoun Valafar , Okan K. Ersoy , Faramarz Valafar

In this article we consider min-min type of problems or minimization by two groups of variables. Min-min problems may occur in case if some groups of variables in convex optimization have different dimensions or if these groups have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Petr Ostroukhov

The objective function used in trajectory optimization is often non-convex and can have an infinite set of local optima. In such cases, there are diverse solutions to perform a given task. Although there are a few methods to find multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Takayuki Osa

We present a tensor train (TT) based algorithm designed for sampling from a target distribution and employ TT approximation to capture the high-dimensional probability density evolution of overdamped Langevin dynamics. This involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Fuqun Han , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

A class of algorithms for the solution of discrete material optimization problems in electromagnetic applications is discussed. The idea behind the algorithm is similar to that of the sequential programming. However, in each major iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Johannes Semmler , Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl

We consider a framework for the construction of iterative schemes for operator equations that combine low-rank approximation in tensor formats and adaptive approximation in a basis. Under fairly general assumptions, we obtain a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

In robotics, ergodic control extends the tracking principle by specifying a probability distribution over an area to cover instead of a trajectory to track. The original problem is formulated as a spectral multiscale coverage problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Suhan Shetty , João Silvério , Sylvain Calinon

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maziar Sanjabi

Since traditional tokenizers are isolated from a downstream task and model, they cannot output an appropriate tokenization depending on the task and model, although recent studies imply that the appropriate tokenization improves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Tatsuya Hiraoka , Sho Takase , Kei Uchiumi , Atsushi Keyaki , Naoaki Okazaki

We improve recently introduced consensus-based optimization method, proposed in [R. Pinnau, C. Totzeck, O. Tse and S. Martin, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 27(01):183--204, 2017], which is a gradient-free optimization method for general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-06 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Lei Li , Yuhua Zhu

Differential drive robots are widely used in various scenarios thanks to their straightforward principle, from household service robots to disaster response field robots. There are several types of driving mechanisms for real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Mengke Zhang , Nanhe Chen , Hu Wang , Jianxiong Qiu , Zhichao Han , Qiuyu Ren , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled us to address the curse of dimensionality (COD) by solving problems in higher dimensions. A subset of such approaches of addressing the COD has led us to solving high-dimensional PDEs. This has…

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

First-order methods with momentum such as Nesterov's fast gradient method are very useful for convex optimization problems, but can exhibit undesirable oscillations yielding slow convergence rates for some applications. An adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler