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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Dustin Cartwright

The paper concerns the study of criticality of Lagrange multipliers in variational systems that has been recognized in both theoretical and numerical aspects of optimization and variational analysis. In contrast to the previous developments…

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We present an exact and complete algorithm to isolate the real solutions of a zero-dimensional bivariate polynomial system. The proposed algorithm constitutes an elimination method which improves upon existing approaches in a number of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Eric Berberich , Pavel Emeliyanenko , Michael Sagraloff

We present a new algorithm for solving a polynomial program P based on the recent "joint + marginal" approach of the first author for, parametric optimization. The idea is to first consider the variable x1 as a parameter and solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Jean B. Lasserre , Thanh Tung Phan

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the optimal partition problem using Lagrange multipliers. By rewriting it into constrained gradient flows, three and four steps numerical schemes based on the Lagrange multiplier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Qing Cheng , Jing Guo , Dong Wang

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization problems. To solve them, we give a method based on polynomial optimization relaxations. Each relaxation is obtained from the Kurash-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for the lower level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Jane Ye , Suhan Zhong

LP relaxation-based message passing algorithms provide an effective tool for MAP inference over Probabilistic Graphical Models. However, different LP relaxations often have different objective functions and variables of differing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Zhen Zhang , Qinfeng Shi , Yanning Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

We consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We develop a new method that improves the efficiency of equation-by-equation algorithms for solving polynomial systems. Our method is based on a novel geometric construction, and reduces the total number of homotopy paths that must be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Timothy Duff , Anton Leykin , Jose Israel Rodriguez

We study bihomogeneous systems defining, non-zero dimensional, biprojective varieties for which the projection onto the first group of variables results in a finite set of points. To compute (with) the 0-dimensional projection and the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matías Bender , Laurent Busé , Carles Checa , Elias Tsigaridas

Polyhedral estimate is a generic efficiently computable nonlinear in observations routine for recovering unknown signal belonging to a given convex compact set from noisy observation of signal's linear image. Risk analysis and optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Border bases can be considered to be the natural extension of Gr\"obner bases that have several advantages. Unfortunately, to date the classical border basis algorithm relies on (degree-compatible) term orderings and implicitly on reduced…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta

Numerical algebraic geometry revolves around the study of solutions to polynomial systems via numerical methods. The polyhedral homotopy of Huber and Sturmfels for computing isolated solutions and the concept of witness sets as numerical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Tianran Chen

We study a broad class of polynomial optimization problems whose constraints and objective functions exhibit sparsity patterns. We give two characterizations of the number of critical points to these problems, one as a mixed volume and one…

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We propose a new algorithm to the problem of polygonal curve approximation based on a multiresolution approach. This algorithm is suboptimal but still maintains some optimality between successive levels of resolution using dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre-François Marteau , Gilbas Ménier

This paper deals with the computation of polytopic invariant sets for polynomial dynamical systems. An invariant set of a dynamical system is a subset of the state space such that if the state of the system belongs to the set at a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi , Antoine Girard

Many problems of systems control theory boil down to solving polynomial equations, polynomial inequalities or polyomial differential equations. Recent advances in convex optimization and real algebraic geometry can be combined to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Didier Henrion

The goal of this paper is to provide computational tools able to find a solution of a system of polynomial inequalities. The set of inequalities is reformulated as a system of polynomial equations. Three different methods, two of which…

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