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We give a new fast method for evaluating sprectral approximations of nonlinear polynomial functionals. We prove that the new algorithm is convergent if the functions considered are smooth enough, under a general assumption on the spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Erwan Faou , Fabio Nobile , Christophe Vuillot

Fractional polynomial models are potentially useful for response surfaces investigations. With the availability of routines for fitting nonlinear models in statistical packages they are increasingly being used. However, as in all…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-29 Luzia A. Trinca , Steven G. Gilmour

Existing methods for rotation estimation between two spherical ($\mathbb{S}^2$) patterns typically rely on spherical cross-correlation maximization between two spherical function. However, these approaches exhibit computational complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anik Sarker , Alan T. Asbeck

A new algorithm to approximate Hermitian matrices by positive semidefinite Hermitian matrices based on modified Cholesky decompositions is presented. In contrast to existing algorithms, this algorithm allows to specify bounds on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Joscha Reimer

We propose and study quantitative measures of smoothness which are adapted to anisotropic features such as edges in images or shocks in PDE's. These quantities govern the rate of approximation by adaptive finite elements, when no constraint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Albert Cohen

This paper provides triangular spherical designs for the complex unit sphere $\Omega^d$ by exploiting the natural correspondence between the complex unit sphere in $d$ dimensions and the real unit sphere in $2d-1$. The existence of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-25 Yu Guang Wang , Robert S. Womersley , Hau-Tieng Wu , Wei-Hsuan Yu

This paper introduces a general method to approximate the convolution of an arbitrary program with a Gaussian kernel. This process has the effect of smoothing out a program. Our compiler framework models intermediate values in the program…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Yuting Yang , Connelly Barnes

This article introduces a functional method for lower-dimensional smooth representations in terms of time-varying dissimilarities. The method incorporates dissimilarity representation in multidimensional scaling and smoothness approach of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-02 Liting Li

We want to introduce a construction of spherical designs from finite graphs with the theory of crystal lattice. We start from a finite graph, and we consider standard realization of the crystal lattices as the maximal Abelian covering of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-21 Junichi Shigezumi

We present an efficient program for the exact diagonalization solution of the pairing Hamiltonian in spherical systems with rotational invariance based on the SU(2) quasi-spin algebra. The basis vectors with quasi-spin symmetry considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Qi , Xin Guan , Zhong Liu

In the past few years, following the differentiable programming paradigm, there has been a growing interest in computing the gradient information of physical processes (e.g., physical simulation, image rendering). However, such processes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Quentin Le Lidec , Louis Montaut , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Justin Carpentier

This article proposes a new discrete framework for approximating solutions to shape optimization problems under convexity constraints. The numerical method, based on the support function or the gauge function, is guaranteed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Beniamin Bogosel

Shearlet systems have so far been only considered as a means to analyze $L^2$-functions defined on $\R^2$, which exhibit curvilinear singularities. However, in applications such as image processing or numerical solvers of partial…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Gitta Kutyniok , Wang-Q Lim

We present in this paper a spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the spherical/vector spherical harmonic expansion of a function/vector field with given (elemental) nodal values on a spherical surface. Built upon suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bo Wang , Li-Lian Wang , Ziqing Xie

A semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

This article provides a novel and simple range description for the spherical mean transform of functions supported in the unit ball of an odd dimensional Euclidean space. The new description comprises a set of symmetry relations between the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Divyansh Agrawal , Gaik Ambartsoumian , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Nisha Singhal

This survey is devoted to recent developments in the statistical analysis of spherical data, with a view to applications in Cosmology. We will start from a brief discussion of Cosmological questions and motivations, arguing that most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Javier Carrón Duque , Domenico Marinucci

We demonstrate a fast spin-s spherical harmonic transform algorithm, which is flexible and exact for band-limited functions. In contrast to previous work, where spin transforms are computed independently, our algorithm permits the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-22 K. M. Huffenberger , B. D. Wandelt

We identity the optimal non-infinitesimal direction of descent for a convex function. An algorithm is developed that can theoretically minimize a subset of (non-convex) functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Andrew J. Young

We present a new simple method for rounding a semidefinite programming relaxation of a constraint satisfaction problem. We apply it to the problem of approximate angular synchronization. Specifically, we are given directed distances on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Kevin L. Chang , Alantha Newman