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A novel and detailed convergence analysis is presented for a greedy algorithm that was previously introduced for operator reconstruction problems in the field of quantum mechanics. This algorithm is based on an offline/online decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-02 S Buchwald , G Ciaramella , Julien Salomon

Greedy Sampling Methods (GSMs) are widely used to construct approximate solutions of Configuration Optimization Problems (COPs), where a loss functional is minimized over finite configurations of points in a compact domain. While effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Evie Nielen , Oliver Tse

Many problems in signal processing and machine learning can be formalized as weak submodular optimization tasks. For such problems, a simple greedy algorithm (\textsc{Greedy}) is guaranteed to find a solution achieving the objective with a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo , Gustavo de Veciana

It is a survey on recent results in constructive sparse approximation. Three directions are discussed here: (1) Lebesgue-type inequalities for greedy algorithms with respect to a special class of dictionaries, (2) constructive sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Vladimir Temlyakov

It is known that greedy methods perform well for maximizing monotone submodular functions. At the same time, such methods perform poorly in the face of non-monotonicity. In this paper, we show - arguably, surprisingly - that invoking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Moran Feldman , Christopher Harshaw , Amin Karbasi

We present a simple greedy procedure to compute an $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner for a graph $G$. We then show that this procedure is useful for building fault-tolerant spanners, as well as spanners for weighted graphs. Our first main result is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Elizaveta Popova , Elad Tzalik

The paper gives a systematic study of the approximate versions of three greedy-type algorithms that are widely used in convex optimization. By approximate version we mean the one where some of evaluations are made with an error. Importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-11 Vladimir Temlyakov

We propose a new scalable method to optimize the architecture of an artificial neural network. The proposed algorithm, called Greedy Search for Neural Network Architecture, aims to determine a neural network with minimal number of layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin , Ying Wai Li , Markus Eisenbach

Tensor regression has shown to be advantageous in learning tasks with multi-directional relatedness. Given massive multiway data, traditional methods are often too slow to operate on or suffer from memory bottleneck. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Rose Yu , Yan Liu

We show for several computational problems how classical greedy algorithms for special cases can be derived in a simple way from dynamic programs for the general case: interval scheduling (restricted to unit weights), knapsack (restricted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Dieter van Melkebeek

Sparse signal recovery deals with finding the sparsest solution of an under-determined linear system $\vx = \mQ\vs$. In this paper, we propose a novel greedy approach to addressing the challenges from such a problem. Such an approach is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Gang Li , Qiuwei Li , Shuang Li , Wu Angela Li

We consider parametrized linear-quadratic optimal control problems and provide their online-efficient solutions by combining greedy reduced basis methods and machine learning algorithms. To this end, we first extend the greedy control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Hendrik Kleikamp , Martin Lazar , Cesare Molinari

The frame algorithm uses a simple recursive formula to approximate an unknown vector from its frame coefficients. This note introduces an adaptive version of the frame algorithm that maximizes the error reduction between steps in terms of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Brody Dylan Johnson

This paper proposes a new algorithm for multiple sparse regression in high dimensions, where the task is to estimate the support and values of several (typically related) sparse vectors from a few noisy linear measurements. Our algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-08 Ali Jalali , Sujay Sanghavi

In this paper, we present two tensor network quantum-inspired algorithms to solve the knapsack and the shortest path problems, and enables to solve some of its variations. These methods provide an exact equation which returns the optimal…

In this paper, we consider a subset selection problem in a spatial field where we seek to find a set of k locations whose observations provide the best estimate of the field value at a finite set of prediction locations. The measurements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Shamak Dutta , Nils Wilde , Stephen L. Smith

In this paper we present a greedy algorithm for solving the problem of the maximum partitioning of graphs with supply and demand (MPGSD). The goal of the method is to solve the MPGSD for large graphs in a reasonable time limit. This is done…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Raka Jovanovic , Abdelkader Bousselham , Stefan Voss

The design of good heuristics or approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems often requires significant specialized knowledge and trial-and-error. Can we automate this challenging, tedious process, and learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Hanjun Dai , Elias B. Khalil , Yuyu Zhang , Bistra Dilkina , Le Song

Identifying breakpoints in piecewise regression is critical in enhancing the reliability and interpretability of data fitting. In this paper, we propose novel algorithms based on the greedy algorithm to accurately and efficiently identify…

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