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Point containment queries on trimmed surfaces are fundamental to CAD modeling, solid geometry processing, and surface tessellation. Existing approaches such as ray casting and generalized winding numbers often face limitations in robustness…

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Curves play a fundamental role across computer graphics, physical simulation, and mathematical visualization, yet most tools for curve design do nothing to prevent crossings or self-intersections. This paper develops efficient algorithms…

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In this paper we propose a new iterative algorithm to solve the fair PCA (FPCA) problem. We start with the max-min fair PCA formulation originally proposed in [1] and derive a simple and efficient iterative algorithm which is based on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-11 Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

The chapter contains a detailed presentation of the surface integral theory for modelling light diffraction by surface-relief diffraction gratings having a one-dimensional periodicity. Several different approaches are presented, leading…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-03 Daniel Maystre , Evgeny Popov

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) suffers from inherent limitations that can degrade the quality of reconstructed results, such as noise, artifacts and incomplete data acquisition caused by sparse sampling or partial array detection. In this…

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Surface-subsurface flow models for hydrological applications solve a coupled multiphysics problem. This usually consists of some form of the Richards and shallow water equations. A typical setup couples these two nonlinear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Valentina Schüller , Philipp Birken , Andreas Dedner

This paper introduces the Adaptive Gradient Least Squares Progressive iterative Approximation (AdagradLSPIA), an accelerated version of the Least Squares Progressive Iterative Approximation (LSPIA) method, enhanced with adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Svajūnas Sajavičius

We analyse and explain the increased generalisation performance of iterate averaging using a Gaussian process perturbation model between the true and batch risk surface on the high dimensional quadratic. We derive three phenomena…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Diego Granziol , Xingchen Wan , Samuel Albanie , Stephen Roberts

The contouring methods described by Lewis et al. (1993) and Witt (1993) are very efficient and elegant for obtaining the magnification of a point source moving along a straight track in the source plane. The method is, however, not very…

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In this paper, a Feature-preserving Particle Generation (FPPG) method for arbitrary complex geometry is proposed. Instead of basing on implicit geometries, such as level-set, FPPG employs an explicit geometric representation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Xingyue Yang , Zhenxiang Nie , Yuxin Dai , Zhe Ji

Unsupervised plain graph alignment (UPGA) aims to align corresponding nodes across two graphs without any auxiliary information. Existing UPGA methods rely on structural consistency while neglecting the inherent structural differences in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Boyan Wang , Weijie Feng , Jinyang Huang , Dan Guo , Zhi Liu

At present, most surface-quality prediction methods can only perform single-task prediction which results in under-utilised datasets, repetitive work and increased experimental costs. To counter this, the authors propose a Bayesian…

We study the convergence rate of the proximal incremental aggregated gradient (PIAG) method for minimizing the sum of a large number of smooth component functions (where the sum is strongly convex) and a non-smooth convex function. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Nuri Denizcan Vanli , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asu Ozdaglar

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

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We propose a trait-specific image generation method that models forehead creases geometrically using B-spline and B\'ezier curves. This approach ensures the realistic generation of both principal creases and non-prominent crease patterns,…

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Graphical models have found widespread applications in many areas of modern statistics and machine learning. Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) and its variants have become the default method for undirected graphical model estimation, and…

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The capability of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) in solving the combinatorial optimization problems has been intensively studied in recent years due to its application in the quantum-classical hybrid regime. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Xinwei Lee , Xinjian Yan , Ningyi Xie , Yoshiyuki Saito , Dongsheng Cai , Nobuyoshi Asai

Score-based models have recently been introduced as a richer framework to model distributions in high dimensions and are generally more suitable for generative tasks. In score-based models, a generative task is formulated using a parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Harsh Mishra , Jurijs Nazarovs , Manmohan Dogra , Sathya N. Ravi

Current performance-driven building design methods are not widely adopted outside the research field for several reasons that make them difficult to integrate into a typical design process. In the early design phase, in particular, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Spyridon Ampanavos , Ali Malkawi

In this paper, we introduce an inertial version of the Proximal Incremental Aggregated Gradient method (PIAG) for minimizing the sum of smooth convex component functions and a possibly nonsmooth convex regularization function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Xiaoya Zhang , Wei Peng , Hui Zhang , Wei Zhu