English
Related papers

Related papers: A finitely convergent circumcenter method for the …

200 papers

Convex clustering has recently garnered increasing interest due to its attractive theoretical and computational properties, but its merits become limited in the face of high-dimensional data. In such settings, pairwise affinity terms that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Jason Xu

This work is about ME, the Method of Ellipcenters. ME was recently introduced by these very authors as a first order accelerated scheme for unconstrained minimization. Its iterates are all centers of ellipses carefully designed to somehow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Roger Behling , Ramyro Correa , Eduarda Ferreira , Vincent Guigues

Discrete Fourier transforms~(DFTs) over finite fields have widespread applications in digital communication and storage systems. Hence, reducing the computational complexities of DFTs is of great significance. Recently proposed cyclotomic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Xuebin Wu , Meghanad Wagh , Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan , Ying Wang

A version of the so-called "convexification" numerical method for a coefficient inverse scattering problem for the 3D Hemholtz equation is developed analytically and tested numerically. Backscattering data are used, which result from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Aleksandr E. Kolesov

The convergence analysis of a third-order scheme for the highly nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a non-convex constraint is considered. In this paper, we first present a fully discrete semi-implicit method for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Changjian Xie , Cheng Wang

In this paper, the author derives an $O(h^4)$-superconvergence for the piecewise linear Ritz-Galerkin finite element approximations for the second order elliptic equation $-\nabla \cdot(A\nabla u)= f$ equipped with Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Chunmei Wang

In this paper we consider a class of structured nonsmooth difference-of-convex (DC) constrained DC program in which the first convex component of the objective and constraints is the sum of a smooth and nonsmooth functions while their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Zhaosong Lu , Zhe Sun , Zirui Zhou

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

We investigate how to solve smooth matrix optimization problems with general linear inequality constraints on the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. We present solution methods to obtain exact global minima for linear objective functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, we develop new affine-invariant algorithms for solving composite convex minimization problems with bounded domain. We present a general framework of Contracting-Point methods, which solve at each iteration an auxiliary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

This paper presents and analyzes the first matrix optimization model which allows general coordinate and spectral constraints. The breadth of problems our model covers is exemplified by a lengthy list of examples from the literature,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Shuzhong Zhang

We present a globally convergent SQP-type method with the least constraint violation for nonlinear semidefinite programming. The proposed algorithm employs a two-phase strategy coupled with a line search technique. In the first phase, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Wenhao Fu , Zhongwen Chen

We consider the problem of constructing distribution-free prediction sets with finite-sample conditional guarantees. Prior work has shown that it is impossible to provide exact conditional coverage universally in finite samples. Thus, most…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-18 Isaac Gibbs , John J. Cherian , Emmanuel J. Candès

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

This paper presents new variants of the averaged alternating modified reflections (AAMR) method for the best approximation problem. Under a mild constraint qualification, we first show its weak convergence and then establish a convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Shin-ya Matsushita

In this paper, we study inexact high-order Tensor Methods for solving convex optimization problems with composite objective. At every step of such methods, we use approximate solution of the auxiliary problem, defined by the bound for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

This paper proposes an algorithm for solving structured optimization problems, which covers both the backward-backward and the Douglas-Rachford algorithms as special cases, and analyzes its convergence. The set of fixed points of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Nguyen Hieu Thao

The numerical approximation of an inverse problem subject to the convection--diffusion equation when diffusion dominates is studied. We derive Carleman estimates that are on a form suitable for use in numerical analysis and with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper, the proximal point algorithm for quasi-convex minimization problem in nonpositive curvature metric spaces is studied. We prove $\Delta$-convergence of the generated sequence to a critical point (which is defined in the text)…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Hadi Khatibzadeh , Vahid Mohebbi

This paper proposes a method for computing the visible occluding contours of subdivision surfaces. The paper first introduces new theory for contour visibility of smooth surfaces. Necessary and sufficient conditions are introduced for when…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chenxi Liu , Pierre Bénard , Aaron Hertzmann , Shayan Hoshyari