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Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a widely used reinforcement learning algorithm that heavily relies on accurate advantage estimates for stable and efficient training. However, raw advantage signals can exhibit significant variance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Soham Sane

In this paper, we address the problem of interference alignment (IA) over MIMO interference channels with limited channel state information (CSI) feedback based on quantization codebooks. Due to limited feedback and hence imperfect IA,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen

Online optimization has emerged as powerful tool in large scale optimization. In this paper, we introduce efficient online algorithms based on the alternating directions method (ADM). We introduce a new proof technique for ADM in the batch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Huahua Wang , Arindam Banerjee

Optimization algorithms appear in the core calculations of numerous Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning methods, as well as Engineering and Business applications. Following recent works on the theoretical deficiencies of AI, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Nikolaos P. Bakas , Vagelis Plevris , Andreas Langousis , Savvas A. Chatzichristofis

This paper introduces a new theoretical framework for optimizing second-order behaviors of wireless networks. Unlike existing techniques for network utility maximization, which only considers first-order statistics, this framework models…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Daojing Guo , Khaled Nakhleh , I-Hong Hou , Sastry Kompella , Clement Kam

This paper investigates the optimal power allocation scheme for sum throughput maximization of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system with $\alpha$-fairness. In contrast to the existing fairness NOMA models, $\alpha$-fairness can only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Peng Xu , Kanapathippillai Cumanan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a new technology that can shape the radio wave propagation and thus offers a great variety of possible performance and implementation gains. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan

Solving optimization tasks using variational quantum algorithms has emerged as a crucial application of the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, these algorithms face several difficulties like finding suitable ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pranav Chandarana , Pablo S. Vieites , Narendra N. Hegade , Enrique Solano , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful black-box optimization framework that looks to efficiently learn the global optimum of an unknown system by systematically trading-off between exploration and exploitation. However, the use of BO as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Dinesh Krishnamoorthy , Joel A. Paulson

Fuzzy systems show strong potential in explainable AI due to their rule-based architecture and linguistic variables. Existing approaches navigate the accuracy-explainability trade-off either through evolutionary multi-objective optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qusai Khaled , Uzay Kaymak , Laura Genga

Movable antenna (MA) technology, which can reconfigure wireless channels by flexibly moving antenna positions in a specified region, has great potential for improving communication performance. In this paper, we consider a new setup of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper introduces a new theoretical framework for optimizing second-order behaviors of wireless networks. Unlike existing techniques for network utility maximization, which only consider first-order statistics, this framework models…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Daojing Guo , Khaled Nakhleh , I-Hong Hou , Sastry Kompella , Celement Kam

Preference optimization is a critical post-training technique used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, typically by fine-tuning on ranked response pairs. While methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rhitabrat Pokharel , Yufei Tao , Ameeta Agrawal

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is increasingly used to automatically tune the predictive performance (e.g., accuracy) of machine learning models. However, in a plethora of real-world applications, accuracy is only one of the multiple --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-25 Robin Schmucker , Michele Donini , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , David Salinas , Cédric Archambeau

In this paper, we study the power-efficient resource allocation for multicarrier non-orthogonal multiple access (MC-NOMA) systems. The resource allocation algorithm design is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem which takes into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

This paper considers a wireless network with a base station (BS) conducting timely transmission to two clients in a slotted manner via hybrid non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)/orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Specifically, the BS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qian Wang , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Methods exploiting sparsity have been popular in imaging and signal processing applications including compression, denoising, and imaging inverse problems. Data-driven approaches such as dictionary learning and transform learning enable one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell

By the seminal paper of Claude Shannon \cite{Shannon48}, the computation of the capacity of a discrete memoryless channel has been considered as one of the most important and fundamental problems in Information Theory. Nearly 50 years ago,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Michail Fasoulakis , Konstantinos Varsos , Apostolos Traganitis

In this paper we propose a global optimization-based approach to jointly matching a set of images. The estimated correspondences simultaneously maximize pairwise feature affinities and cycle consistency across multiple images. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Kostas Daniilidis

Many real-world tasks require optimizing expensive black-box functions accessible only through noisy evaluations, a setting commonly addressed with Bayesian optimization (BO). While Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have recently emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Farhad Mirkarimi