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Cranley and Patterson put forward the following randomization as the basis for the estimation of the error of a lattice rule for an integral of a one-periodic function over the unit cube in s dimensions. The lattice rule is randomized using…
The development of randomized algorithms for numerical linear algebra, e.g. for computing approximate QR and SVD factorizations, has recently become an intense area of research. This paper studies one of the most frequently discussed…
We study algorithms using randomized value functions for exploration in reinforcement learning. This type of algorithms enjoys appealing empirical performance. We show that when we use 1) a single random seed in each episode, and 2) a…
We study multivariate integration of functions that are invariant under the permutation (of a subset) of their arguments. Recently, in Nuyens, Suryanarayana, and Weimar (Adv. Comput. Math. (2016), 42(1):55--84), the authors derived an upper…
A key goal in the design of probabilistic inference algorithms is identifying and exploiting properties of the distribution that make inference tractable. Lifted inference algorithms identify symmetry as a property that enables efficient…
We consider the sensitivity of algorithms for the maximum matching problem against edge and vertex modifications. Algorithms with low sensitivity are desirable because they are robust to edge failure or attack. In this work, we show a…
This short article studies a deterministic quasi-Monte Carlo lattice rule in weighted unanchored Sobolev spaces of smoothness $1$. Building on the error analysis by Kazashi and Sloan, we prove the existence of unshifted rank-1 lattice rules…
We study multivariate numerical integration of smooth functions in weighted Sobolev spaces with dominating mixed smoothness $\alpha\geq 2$ defined over the $s$-dimensional unit cube. We propose a new quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)-based quadrature…
The (fast) component-by-component (CBC) algorithm is an efficient tool for the construction of generating vectors for quasi-Monte Carlo rank-1 lattice rules in weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We consider product weights, which…
Automatic cubatures approximate multidimensional integrals to user-specified error tolerances. For high dimensional problems, it makes sense to fix the sampling density but determine the sample size, $n$, automatically. Bayesian cubature…
We study quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for numerical integration of multivariate functions defined over the high-dimensional unit cube. Lattice rules and polynomial lattice rules, which are special classes of QMC methods, have been…
Many problems in robotics seek to simultaneously optimize several competing objectives under constraints. A conventional approach to solving such multi-objective optimization problems is to create a single cost function comprised of the…
An existence result is presented for the worst-case error of lattice rules for high dimensional integration over the unit cube, in an unanchored weighted space of functions with square-integrable mixed first derivatives. Existing studies…
This paper provides the theoretical foundation for the construction of lattice algorithms for multivariate $L_2$ approximation in the worst case setting, for functions in a periodic space with general weight parameters. Our construction…
Several more and more efficient component--by--component (CBC) constructions for suitable rank-1 lattices were developed during the last decades. On the one hand, there exist constructions that are based on minimizing some error functional.…
We mainly study numerical integration of real valued functions defined on the $d$-dimensional unit cube with all partial derivatives up to some finite order $r\ge1$ bounded by one. It is well known that optimal algorithms that use $n$…
This paper investigates the construction of space-filling designs for computer experiments. The space-filling property is characterized by the covering and separation radii of a design, which are integrated through the unified criterion of…
Consider the design based situation where an $r$-regular set is sampled on a random lattice. A fast algorithm for estimating the integrated mean curvature based on this observation is to use a weighted sum of $2\times \dotsm \times 2$…
We contribute the first randomized algorithm that is an integration of arbitrarily many deterministic algorithms for the fully online multiprocessor scheduling with testing problem. When there are two machines, we show that with two…
We introduce a new method to approximate integrals $\int_{\mathbb{R}^d} f(\boldsymbol{x}) \, \mathrm{d} \boldsymbol{x}$ which simply scales lattice rules from the unit cube $[0,1]^d$ to properly sized boxes on $\mathbb{R}^d$, hereby…