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A stochastic gradient method for finite-sum minimization subject to deterministic linear constraints is proposed and analyzed. The procedure presented adapts the projected gradient method on convex set to the use of both a stochastic…

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A widely used heuristic for solving stochastic optimization problems is to use a deterministic rolling horizon procedure, which has been modified to handle uncertainty (e.g. buffer stocks, schedule slack). This approach has been criticized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Raymond T. Perkins , Warren B. Powell

We propose a stochastic variance reduced optimization algorithm for solving sparse learning problems with cardinality constraints. Sufficient conditions are provided, under which the proposed algorithm enjoys strong linear convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Xingguo Li , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Jarvis Haupt , Tuo Zhao

We present a stochastic method for the calculation of baryon three-point functions that is more versatile compared to the typically used sequential method. We analyze the scaling of the error of the stochastically evaluated three-point…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-15 Constantia Alexandrou , Simon Dinter , Vincent Drach , Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou , Karl Jansen , Dru B. Renner

We consider a strongly heterogeneous medium saturated by an incompressible viscous fluid as it appears in geomechanical modeling. This poroelasticity problem suffers from rapidly oscillating material parameters, which calls for a thorough…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Robert Altmann , Eric Chung , Roland Maier , Daniel Peterseim , Sai-Mang Pun

We present a new method for stochastic shape optimisation of engineering structures. The method generalises an existing deterministic scheme, in which the structure is represented and evolved by a level-set method coupled with mathematical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Lester O. Hedges , H. Alicia Kim , Robert L. Jack

This paper presents a new stochastic finite element method for computing structural stochastic responses. The method provides a new expansion of stochastic response and decouples the stochastic response into a combination of a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Zhibao Zheng

Quantifying the effect of uncertainties in systems where only point evaluations in the stochastic domain but no regularity conditions are available is limited to sampling-based techniques. This work presents an adaptive sequential…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-14 Sebastian Krumscheid , Per Pettersson

The most common approaches for solving multistage stochastic programming problems in the research literature have been to either use value functions ("dynamic programming") or scenario trees ("stochastic programming") to approximate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Warren B Powell , Saeed Ghadimi

The construction of stochastic solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations is a powerful method to obtain new exact results and to develop efficient numerical algorithms, in particular when domain decomposition techniques are…

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Stochastic spectral methods have achieved great success in the uncertainty quantification of many engineering problems, including electronic and photonic integrated circuits influenced by fabrication process variations. Existing techniques…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Chunfeng Cui , Zheng Zhang

Non-linear least squares solvers are used across a broad range of offline and real-time model fitting problems. Most improvements of the basic Gauss-Newton algorithm tackle convergence guarantees or leverage the sparsity of the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Huu Le , Christopher Zach , Edward Rosten , Oliver J. Woodford

We propose an efficient probabilistic method to solve a deterministic problem -- we present a randomized optimization approach that drastically reduces the enormous computational cost of optimizing designs under many load cases for both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Xiaojia Zhang , Eric de Sturler , Glaucio H. Paulino

In this paper, we develop mixed integer linear programming models to compute near-optimal policy parameters for the non-stationary stochastic lot sizing problem under Bookbinder and Tan's static-dynamic uncertainty strategy. Our models…

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In order to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, intelligent robots need to carry out high-level, abstract planning and reasoning in conjunction with motion planning. However, abstract models are typically lossy and plans or policies computed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Naman Shah , Siddharth Srivastava

The uncertainties in material and other properties of structures are usually spatially correlated. We introduce an efficient technique for representing and processing spatially correlated random fields in robust topology optimisation of…

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The present paper proposes a novel Bayesian, computational strategy in the context of model-based inverse problems in elastostatics. On one hand we attempt to provide probabilistic estimates of the material properties and their spatial…

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This work presents a novel lattice-based methodology for incorporating multidimensional constraints into continuous decision variables within a genetic algorithm (GA) framework. The proposed approach consolidates established transcription…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Cameron D. Harris , Kevin B. Schroeder , Jonathan Black

Probabilistic Manifold Decomposition (PMD)\cite{doi:10.1137/25M1738863}, developed in our earlier work, provides a nonlinear model reduction by embedding high-dimensional dynamics onto low-dimensional probabilistic manifolds. The PMD has…

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