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The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a well-known iterative method for computing maximum likelihood estimates from incomplete data. Despite its numerous advantages, a main drawback of the EM algorithm is its frequently observed…

Computation · Statistics 2018-08-14 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

We consider the problem of constrained multi-objective blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions satisfying a set of constraints while minimizing the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Extreme multi-label classification refers to supervised multi-label learning involving hundreds of thousands or even millions of labels. Datasets in extreme classification exhibit fit to power-law distribution, i.e. a large fraction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-09 Rohit Babbar , Bernhard Shoelkopf

We propose a novel Continuation Multi Level Monte Carlo (CMLMC) algorithm for weak approximation of stochastic models. The CMLMC algorithm solves the given approximation problem for a sequence of decreasing tolerances, ending when the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Nathan Collier , Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Fabio Nobile , Erik von Schwerin , Raul Tempone

The aim of this paper is to propose an optimal control optimization algorithm for reconstructing admittivity distributions (i.e., both conductivity and permittivity) from multi-frequency micro-electrical impedance tomography. A convergent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Habib Ammari , Laure Giovangigli , Loc Hoang Nguyen , Jin-Keun Seo

This paper focuses on the problem of finding a distribution for an associated entropic vector in the entropy space nearest to a given, possibly non-entropic, target vector for random variables with a constraint on alphabet size. We show the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Sultan Alam , Satyajit Thakor , Syed Abbas

Understanding the structural mechanisms of multi-layer networks is essential for analyzing complex systems characterized by multiple interacting layers. This work studies the problem of estimating connection probabilities in multi-layer…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-26 Dingzi Guo , Diqing Li , Jingyi Wang , Wen-Xin Zhou

Characterizing conformational transitions in physical systems remains a fundamental challenge, as traditional sampling methods struggle with the high-dimensional nature of molecular systems and high-energy barriers between stable states.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Magnus Petersen , Gemma Roig , Roberto Covino

We develop a system-theoretic framework for the structured analysis of distributed optimization algorithms with decomposable cost functions. We model such algorithms as a network of interacting dynamical systems and derive tests for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Aron Karakai , Jaap Eising , Andrea Martinelli , Florian Dörfler

We introduce a novel Entropy-driven Monte Carlo (EdMC) strategy to efficiently sample solutions of random Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). First, we extend a recent result that, using a large-deviation analysis, shows that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-26 Carlo Baldassi , Alessandro Ingrosso , Carlo Lucibello , Luca Saglietti , Riccardo Zecchina

Recent works leveraging Graph Neural Networks to approach graph matching tasks have shown promising results. Recent progress in learning discrete distributions poses new opportunities for learning graph matching models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Linfeng Liu , Michael C. Hughes , Soha Hassoun , Li-Ping Liu

Graphs are widely used for describing systems made up of many interacting components and for understanding the structure of their interactions. Various statistical models exist, which describe this structure as the result of a combination…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-28 Louis Duvivier , Rémy Cazabet , Céline Robardet

Amyloid filaments are associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Simplified models of amyloid aggregation are crucial because the original mass-action equations involve numerous variables, complicating…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Xinyu Zhang , Haiyang Jia , Wuyue Yang , Liangrong Peng , Liu Hong

The burgeoning low-altitude economy (LAE) necessitates integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems capable of high-accuracy multi-target localization and velocity estimation under hardware and coverage constraints inherent in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Zhenkun Zhang , Yining Xu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Qixuan Zhang , Songtao Gao , Jiangzhou Wang

We employ the Bayesian improved cross entropy (BiCE) method for rare event estimation in static networks and choose the categorical mixture as the parametric family to capture the dependence among network components. At each iteration of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-25 Jianpeng Chan , Iason Papaioannou , Daniel Straub

We formulate an Alternating Direction Method of Mul-tipliers (ADMM) that systematically distributes the computations of any technique for optimizing pairwise functions, including non-submodular potentials. Such discrete functions are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Mini-batch algorithms have become increasingly popular due to the requirement for solving optimization problems, based on large-scale data sets. Using an existing online expectation-{}-maximization (EM) algorithm framework, we demonstrate…

Computation · Statistics 2019-09-09 H D Nguyen , F Forbes , G J McLachlan

Most of the existing classification methods are aimed at minimization of empirical risk (through some simple point-based error measured with loss function) with added regularization. We propose to approach this problem in a more information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Wojciech Marian Czarnecki , Jacek Tabor

The study of approximate matching in the Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) model has recently seen a burst of breakthroughs. Despite this progress, however, we still have a far more limited understanding of maximal matching which is one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Soheil Behnezhad , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David G. Harris

Markov chain Monte Carlo methods are a powerful and commonly used family of numerical methods for sampling from complex probability distributions. As applications of these methods increase in size and complexity, the need for efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Colin Cotter , Simon Cotter , Paul Russell