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Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm in machine learning by leveraging shared structures across multiple related tasks. Despite its empirical success, the development of likelihood-based efficiently solvable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Shihong Ding , Fangyu Du , Cong Fang

The paper is devoted to the methods of solving simultaneous recurrences. Specifically, we discuss transformation of matrix recurrences to regular recurrences and propose a way of solving special matrix recurrences of order three by their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Mark Korenblit , Vadim E. Levit

An archetypal problem discussed in computer science is the problem of searching for a given number in a given set of numbers. Other than sequential search, the classic solution is to sort the list of numbers and then apply binary search.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Philon Nguyen

In this paper, we present experimental algorithms for solving the dualization problem. We present the results of extensive experimentation comparing the execution time of various algorithms.

Finite-sum optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning, and are commonly solved using first-order methods which rely on gradient computations. Recently, there has been growing interest in \emph{second-order} methods, which rely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Yossi Arjevani , Ohad Shamir

We present an algorithm for solving the unification problem in the description logic $\mathcal{FL}_\bot$. This logic extends $\mathcal{FL}_0$ with the bottom constructor, and thus supports conjunction, value restrictions, top and bottom…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Barbara Morawska , Dariusz Marzec

We consider the termination/non-termination property of a class of loops. Such loops are commonly used abstractions of real program pieces. Second-order logic is a convenient language to express non-termination. Of course, such property is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet

Low rank approximation is a commonly occurring problem in many computer vision and machine learning applications. There are two common ways of optimizing the resulting models. Either the set of matrices with a given rank can be explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Carl Olsson , Anders Heyden

The completeness of the group classification of systems of two linear second-order ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients is delineated in the paper. The new cases extend what has been done in the literature. These cases…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-03-27 S. V. Meleshko , S. Moyo G. F. Oguis

In this paper we consider word equations with one variable (and arbitrary many appearances of it). A recent technique of recompression, which is applicable to general word equations, is shown to be suitable also in this case. While in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Artur Jeż

The higher order matching problem is the problem of determining whether a term is an instance of another in the simply typed $\lambda$-calculus, i.e. to solve the equation a = b where a and b are simply typed $\lambda$-terms and b is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Gilles Dowek

We present a multi-modal action logic with first-order modalities, which contain terms which can be unified with the terms inside the subsequent formulas and which can be quantified. This makes it possible to handle simultaneously time and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Camilla Schwind

We explore singular second-order boundary value problems with mixed boundary conditions on a general time scale. Using the lower and upper solutions method combined with the Brouwer fixed point theorem we demonstrate the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Shalmali Bandyopadhyay , Curtis J Kunkel

Using an optimization algorithm to solve a machine learning problem is one of mainstreams in the field of science. In this work, we demonstrate a comprehensive comparison of some state-of-the-art first-order optimization algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Yu Wei , Pock Thomas

We consider a class of optimization problems that involve determining the maximum value that a function in a particular class can attain subject to a collection of difference constraints. We show that a particular linear programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Hung Q. Ngo , Kirk Pruhs , Alireza Samadian

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

We develop and analyse a first-order algorithm for the A-optimal experimental design problem. The problem is first presented as a special case of a parametric family of optimal design problems for which duality results and optimality…

Computation · Statistics 2013-11-12 Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu

We present a sound and complete unification procedure for deterministic higher-order patterns, a class of simply-typed lambda terms introduced by Yokoyama et al. which comes with a deterministic matching problem. Our unification procedure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Johannes Niederhauser , Aart Middeldorp

Multiagent planning and coordination problems are common and known to be computationally hard. We show that a wide range of two-agent problems can be formulated as bilinear programs. We present a successive approximation algorithm that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Marek Petrik , Shlomo Zilberstein

We derive a formula which expresses a second order cumulant whose entries are products as a sum of cumulants where the entries are single factors. This extends to the second order case the formula of Krawczyk and Speicher. We apply our…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-05-22 James A. Mingo , Roland Speicher , Edward Tan