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We consider solving the $\ell_1$-regularized least-squares ($\ell_1$-LS) problem in the context of sparse recovery, for applications such as compressed sensing. The standard proximal gradient method, also known as iterative…

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We analyze the convergence rate of the multiplicative gradient (MG) method for PET-type problems with $m$ component functions and an $n$-dimensional optimization variable. We show that the MG method has an $O(\ln(n)/t)$ convergence rate, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Renbo Zhao

Evaluating moving average options is a tough computational challenge for the energy and commodity market as the payoff of the option depends on the prices of a certain underlying observed on a moving window so, when a long window is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-08-26 Ludovic Goudenège , Andrea Molent , Antonino Zanette

Quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) and Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) techniques are applied for pricing and hedging representative financial instruments of increasing complexity. We compare standard Monte Carlo (MC) vs QMC results using Sobol' low…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-17 Stefano Scoleri , Marco Bianchetti , Sergei Kucherenko

We propose the deep parametric PDE method to solve high-dimensional parametric partial differential equations. A single neural network approximates the solution of a whole family of PDEs after being trained without the need of sample…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-14 Kathrin Glau , Linus Wunderlich

This paper presents a robust enhancement of the Tangent space Hermite Interpolation (THI) method for manifold-valued data by integrating the multivariate Arnoldi process. To circumvent the inherent numerical instability of multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuxuan Li , Qiang Niu , Wubin Zhou

The simulation of high-dimensional problems with manageable computational resource represents a long-standing challenge. In a series of our recent work [25, 17, 18, 24], a class of sparse grid DG methods has been formulated for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Wei Guo

Variational Physics-Informed Neural Networks often suffer from poor convergence when using stochastic gradient-descent-based optimizers. By introducing a Least Squares solver for the weights of the last layer of the neural network, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Carlos Uriarte , Manuela Bastidas , David Pardo , Jamie M. Taylor , Sergio Rojas

Interior eigenvalue problems for large-scale sparse Hermitian matrices are fundamental in computational science. We propose an adaptive polynomial filtering strategy based on Chebyshev expansion of a step function, integrated into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xiaofei Xu , Yuhui Ni , Shengguo Li , Juan Zhang

Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 John Chiang

Monte Carlo is a simple and flexible tool that is widely used in computational finance. In this context, it is common for the quantity of interest to be the expected value of a random variable defined via a stochastic differential equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Desmond J. Higham

Can Monte Carlo (MC) solvers be directly used in gradient-based methods for PDE-constrained optimization problems? In these problems, a gradient of the loss function is typically presented as a product of two PDE solutions, one for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Qin Li , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

We present a novel method for exact hierarchical sparse polynomial regression. Our regressor is that degree $r$ polynomial which depends on at most $k$ inputs, counting at most $\ell$ monomial terms, which minimizes the sum of the squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Dimitris Bertsimas , Bart Van Parys

We consider the problem of pricing path-dependent options on a basket of underlying assets using simulations. As an example we develop our studies using Asian options. Asian options are derivative contracts in which the underlying variable…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-04 Piergiacomo Sabino

This research focuses on solving time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), in particular the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, using matrix product states (MPS). We propose an extension of Hermite Distributed Approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jorge Gidi , Paula García-Molina , Luca Tagliacozzo , Juan José García-Ripoll

In this paper, we study the communication and (sub)gradient computation costs in distributed optimization and give a sharp complexity analysis for the proposed distributed accelerated gradient methods. We present two algorithms based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Huan Li , Cong Fang , Wotao Yin , Zhouchen Lin

In this paper, we present a reduced basis method for pricing European and American options based on the Black-Scholes and Heston model. To tackle each model numerically, we formulate the problem in terms of a time dependent variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-07 Olena Burkovska , Bernard Haasdonk , Julien Salomon , Barbara Wohlmuth

Sparse optimization receives increasing attention in many applications such as compressed sensing, variable selection in regression problems, and recently neural network compression in machine learning. For example, the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Saeed Damadi , Jinglai Shen

In this work, we study the Hermite interpolation on $n$-dimensional non-equally spaced, rectilinear grids over a field $\Bbbk $ of characteristic zero, given the values of the function at each point of the grid and the partial derivatives…