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In literature, several algorithms for imaging based on interpolation or approximation methods are available. The implementation of theoretical processes highlighted the necessity of providing theoretical frameworks for the convergence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Danilo Costarelli , Mariarosaria Natale , Michele Piconi

We investigate a class of composite nonconvex functions, where the outer function is the sum of univariate extended-real-valued convex functions and the inner function is the limit of difference-of-convex functions. A notable feature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Hanyang Li , Ying Cui

This paper proposes a unique optimization approach for estimating the minimax rational approximation and its application for evaluating matrix functions. Our method enables the extension to generalized rational approximations and has the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Nir Sharon , Vinesha Peiris , Nadia Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

We consider large linear and nonlinear fixed point problems, and solution with proximal algorithms. We show that there is a close connection between two seemingly different types of methods from distinct fields: 1) Proximal iterations for…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we show that a certain concatenation of a proximity operator with an affine operator is again a proximity operator on a suitable Hilbert space. Second, we use our findings to establish so-called…

We propose a method for solving constrained fixed point problems involving compositions of Lipschitz pseudo contractive and firmly nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. Each iteration of the method uses separate evaluations of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Luis M. Briceño-Arias

Finding a \emph{single} best solution is the most common objective in combinatorial optimization problems. However, such a single solution may not be applicable to real-world problems as objective functions and constraints are only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi

This paper proposes an automated method to detect, group and rectify arbitrarily-arranged coplanar repeated elements via energy minimization. The proposed energy functional combines several features that model how planes with coplanar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 James Pritts , Denys Rozumnyi , M. Pawan Kumar , Ondrej Chum

We provide comparison principles for convex functions through its proximal mappings. Consequently, we prove that the norm of the proximal operator determines a convex the function up to a constant. A new characterization of Lipschitzianity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Emilio Vilches

In this paper we introduce two conceptual algorithms for minimising abstract convex functions. Both algorithms rely on solving a proximal-type subproblem with an abstract Bregman distance based proximal term. We prove their convergence when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Reinier Díaz Millán , Julien Ugon

We consider solving nonconvex composite optimization problems in which the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function is minimized. Many of convergence analyses of proximal gradient-type methods rely on global descent property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Shotaro Yagishita , Masaru Ito

Compositing is one of the most common operations in photo editing. To generate realistic composites, the appearances of foreground and background need to be adjusted to make them compatible. Previous approaches to harmonize composites have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Xiaohui Shen , Zhe Lin , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Xin Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We propose a proximal point algorithm to solve LAROS problem, that is the problem of finding a "large approximately rank-one submatrix". This LAROS problem is used to sequentially extract features in data. We also develop a new stopping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-05 Xuan Vinh Doan , Kim-Chuan Toh , Stephen Vavasis

In this paper, we develop a multivariate framework for approximation by max-min neural network operators. Building on the recent advances in approximation theory by neural network operators, particularly, the univariate max-min operators,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Abhishek Yadav , Uaday Singh , Feng Dai

We show that the set of fixed points of the average of two resolvents can be found from the set of fixed points for compositions of two resolvents associated with scaled monotone operators. Recently, the proximal average has attracted…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Xianfu Wang , Heinz H. Bauschke

We propose a general method for optimization with semi-infinite constraints that involve a linear combination of functions, focusing on the case of the exponential function. Each function is lower and upper bounded on sub-intervals by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Bogdan Dumitrescu , Bogdan C. Sicleru , Florin Avram

We introduce a general framework for the reconstruction of periodic multivariate functions from finitely many and possibly noisy linear measurements. The reconstruction task is formulated as a penalized convex optimization problem, taking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Julien Fageot , Matthieu Simeoni

The purpose of the paper is to provide a characterization of the error of the best polynomial approximation of composite functions in weighted spaces. Such a characterization is essential for the convergence analysis of numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Luisa Fermo , Concetta Laurita , Maria Grazia Russo

Dual averaging-type methods are widely used in industrial machine learning applications due to their ability to promoting solution structure (e.g., sparsity) efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel accelerated dual-averaging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Conghui Tan , Yuqiu Qian , Shiqian Ma , Tong Zhang

We present TRex, a flexible and robust Tomographic Reconstruction framework using proximal algorithms. We provide an overview and perform an experimental comparison between the famous iterative reconstruction methods in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mohamed Aly , Guangming Zang , Wolfgang Heidrich , Peter Wonka