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In many applications, the governing PDE to be solved numerically contains a stiff component. When this component is linear, an implicit time stepping method that is unencumbered by stability restrictions is often preferred. On the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Kevin Chow , Steven J. Ruuth

We investigate the theoretical foundations of a recently introduced entropy-based formulation of weighted least squares for the approximation of overdetermined linear systems, motivated by robust data fitting in the presence of sparse gross…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Felice Iavernaro , Monica Lazzo , Lorenzo Pisani

The rotation search problem aims to find a 3D rotation that best aligns a given number of point pairs. To induce robustness against outliers for rotation search, prior work considers truncated least-squares (TLS), which is a non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Liangzu Peng , Mahyar Fazlyab , René Vidal

In this paper, we present a novel approach to determine the stability of switched linear and nonlinear systems using Sum of Squares optimisation. Particularly, we use Sum of Squares optimisation to search for a Lyapunov function that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Jacopo Piccini , Elias August , Sigurdur Hafstein , Stefania Andersen

The constrained $\ell_0$ regularization plays an important role in sparse reconstruction. A widely used approach for solving this problem is the penalty method, of which the least square penalty problem is a special case. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Na Zhang , Qia Li

The paper addresses the model reduction problem by least squares moment matching for continuous-time, linear, time-invariant systems. The basic idea behind least squares moment matching is to approximate a transfer function by ensuring that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Alberto Padoan

In this paper, we consider the mixed and componentwise condition numbers for a linear function of the solution to the total least squares (TLS) problem. We derive the explicit expressions of the mixed and componentwise condition numbers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Huai-An Diao , Yang Sun

We investigate the theoretical performances of the Partial Least Square (PLS) algorithm in a high dimensional context. We provide upper bounds on the risk in prediction for the statistical linear model when considering the PLS estimator.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Luca Castelli , Irène Gannaz , Clément Marteau

This paper aims at distributed algorithms for solving a system of linear algebraic equations. Different from most existing formulations for this problem, we assume that the local data at each node is not accurately measured but subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Yutao Tang , Yicheng Zhang , Ruonan Li , Xinghu Wang

For a class of quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) of obstacle-type the stability of its solution set and associated optimal control problems are considered. These optimal control problems are non-standard in the sense that they involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Amal Alphonse , Michael Hintermüller , Carlos N. Rautenberg

Consider Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) algorithm, which is proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz (2001) for pricing American style securities. This algorithm is based on the projection of the value of continuation onto a certain set of basis…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-08-01 Oleksii Mostovyi

A nonlinear stochastic differential equation with the order of nonlinearity higher than one, with several discrete and distributed delays and time varying coefficients is considered. It is shown that the sufficient conditions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Leonid Shaikhet

It is shown that the the popular least squares method of option pricing converges even under very general assumptions. This substantially increases the freedom of creating different implementations of the method, with varying levels of…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-18 Maciej Klimek , Marcin Pitera

Conditional stability estimates allow us to characterize the degree of ill-posedness of many inverse problems, but without further assumptions they are not sufficient for the stable solution in the presence of data perturbations. We here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Herbert Egger , Bernd Hofmann

We study the optimization landscape and the stability properties of training problems with squared loss for neural networks and general nonlinear conic approximation schemes. It is demonstrated that, if a nonlinear conic approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Constantin Christof

In this paper, we revisit the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) problem and its robust version, MEB with outliers, in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. Though the problem has been extensively studied before, most of the existing algorithms need at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hu Ding

The tuning parameter selection strategy for penalized estimation is crucial to identify a model that is both interpretable and predictive. However, popular strategies (e.g., minimizing average squared prediction error via cross-validation)…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-10 Julia Holter , Jonathan Stallrich

We address the issue of designing robust stabilization terms for the nonconforming virtual element method. To this end, we transfer the problem of defining the stabilizing bilinear form from the elemental nonconforming virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Silvia Bertoluzza , Gianmarco Manzini , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

For an overdetermined system $\mathsf{A}\mathsf{x} \approx \mathsf{b}$ with $\mathsf{A}$ and $\mathsf{b}$ given, the least-square (LS) formulation $\min_x \, \|\mathsf{A}\mathsf{x}-\mathsf{b}\|_2$ is often used to find an acceptable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Ke Chen , Qin Li , Kit Newton , Steve Wright

In this paper, we address stability of parabolic linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). We consider PDEs with two spatial variables and spatially dependent polynomial coefficients. We parameterize a class of Lyapunov functionals and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Evgeny Meyer , Matthew M. Peet