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Discrete flow models offer a powerful framework for learning distributions over discrete state spaces and have demonstrated superior performance compared to the discrete diffusion models. However, their convergence properties and error…

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Two optimization algorithms are proposed for solving a stochastic programming problem for which the objective function is given in the form of the expectation of convex functions and the constraint set is defined by the intersection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Hideaki Iiduka

Quasi-convex optimization acts a pivotal part in many fields including economics and finance; the subgradient method is an effective iterative algorithm for solving large-scale quasi-convex optimization problems. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Yaohua Hu , Jiawen Li , Carisa Kwok Wai Yu

Semi-infinite programming can be used to model a large variety of complex optimization problems. The simple description of such problems comes at a price: semi-infinite problems are often harder to solve than finite nonlinear problems. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer

This work investigates the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering problem for discrete-time linear systems subject to both additive and multiplicative uncertainties as well as state and input chance constraints. In particular, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Jacob Knaup , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Many descent algorithms for multiobjective optimization have been developed in the last two decades. Tanabe et al. (Comput Optim Appl 72(2):339--361, 2019) proposed a proximal gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Hiroki Tanabe , Ellen H. Fukuda , Nobuo Yamashita

We study the problem of efficient compression of a stochastic source of probability distributions. It can be viewed as a generalization of Shannon's source coding problem. It has relation to the theory of common randomness, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andreas Winter

The optimal control of a mechanical system is of crucial importance in many realms. Typical examples are the determination of a time-minimal path in vehicle dynamics, a minimal energy trajectory in space mission design, or optimal motion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-09 S. Ober-Bloebaum , O. Junge , J. E. Marsden

A receiver wants to compute a function of two correlated sources separately observed by two transmitters. One of the transmitters may send a possibly private message to the other transmitter in a cooperation phase before both transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten

The goal of this paper is to investigate new and simple convergence analysis of dynamic programming for linear quadratic regulator problem of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. In particular, bounds on errors are given in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Donghwan Lee

We propose in this paper a unifying scheme for several algorithms from the literature dedicated to the solving of monotone inclusion problems involving compositions with linear continuous operators in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

This paper develops a discrete data-driven approach for solving the inverse source problem of the wave equation with final time measurements. Focusing on the $L^2$-Tikhonov regularization method, we analyze its convergence under two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

For optimal power flow problems with chance constraints, a particularly effective method is based on a fixed point iteration applied to a sequence of deterministic power flow problems. However, a priori, the convergence of such an approach…

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We present a methodology for obtaining explicit solutions to infinite time horizon optimal stopping problems involving general, one-dimensional, It\^o diffusions, payoff functions that need not be smooth and state-dependent discounting.…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-10-10 Timothy C. Johnson

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving continuous nonlinear-equality-constrained optimization problems where the objective and constraint functions are defined by expectations or averages over large, finite numbers of…

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This paper is concerned with the numerical analysis of the explicit upwind finite volume scheme for numerically solving continuity equations. We are interested in the case where the advecting velocity field has spatial Sobolev regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 André Schlichting , Christian Seis

We study inverse problems of reconstructing static and dynamic discrete structures from tomographic data (with a special focus on the `classical' task of reconstructing finite point sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$). The main emphasis is on recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann

A space-time interface-fitted approximation of an inverse source problem for the advection-diffusion equation with moving subdomains is investigated. The problem is reformulated as an optimization problem using Tikhonov regularization. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Thi Thanh Mai Ta , Quang Huy Nguyen , Dinh Nho Hào

The study of a machine learning problem is in many ways is difficult to separate from the study of the loss function being used. One avenue of inquiry has been to look at these loss functions in terms of their properties as scoring rules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Zac Cranko , Robert C. Williamson , Richard Nock