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We present a two-stage least-squares method to inverse medium problems of reconstructing multiple unknown coefficients simultaneously from noisy data. A direct sampling method is applied to detect the location of the inhomogeneity in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Kazufumi Ito , Ying Liang , Jun Zou

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a powerful reconstruction technique, but it needs to be initialized from accurate camera poses and high-fidelity point clouds. Typically, the initialization is taken from Structure-from-Motion (SfM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jizong Peng , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Kai Xu , Wenchao Gao , Angela Yao

We present a simple spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It captures constrained clustering as a generalized eigenvalue problem with graph Laplacians. The algorithm works in nearly-linear time and provides…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla , Gary Miller , Richard Peng

We propose a general random subspace framework for unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems that requires a weak probabilistic assumption on the subspace gradient, which we show to be satisfied by various random matrix ensembles, such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Coralia Cartis , Jaroslav Fowkes , Zhen Shao

This paper is dedicated to the development of numerical analysis for high-order methods solving partial differential equations on scattered point clouds. We build a novel geometric error analysis framework by estimating the error in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Guozhi Dong , Hailong Guo , Zuoqiang Shi

Gradient sampling (GS) has proved to be an effective methodology for the minimization of objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The most computationally expensive component of a contemporary GS method is the need to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Frank E. Curtis , Minhan Li

We introduce a novel semi-supervised version of the least squares classifier. This implicitly constrained least squares (ICLS) classifier minimizes the squared loss on the labeled data among the set of parameters implied by all possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-27 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

Extreme environmental events frequently exhibit spatial and temporal dependence. These data are often modeled using max stable processes (MSPs). MSPs are computationally prohibitive to fit for as few as a dozen observations, with supposed…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-02 Emily C. Hector , Brian J. Reich

We present Automatic Laplace Collapsed Sampling (ALCS), a general framework for marginalising latent parameters in Bayesian models using automatic differentiation, which we combine with nested sampling to explore the hyperparameter space in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Will Handley

We propose a least-squares method involving the recovery of the gradient and possibly the Hessian for elliptic equation in nondivergence form. As our approach is based on the Lax--Milgram theorem with the curl-free constraint built into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Omar Lakkis , Amireh Mousavi

A novel domain-decomposition least-squares Petrov-Galerkin (DD-LSPG) model-reduction method applicable to parameterized systems of nonlinear algebraic equations (e.g., arising from discretizing a parameterized partial-differential-equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Chi Hoang , Youngsoo Choi , Kevin Carlberg

This article considers stochastic algorithms for efficiently solving a class of large scale non-linear least squares (NLS) problems which frequently arise in applications. We propose eight variants of a practical randomized algorithm where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Gábor J. Székely , Uri Ascher

We propose a Randomised Subspace Gauss-Newton (R-SGN) algorithm for solving nonlinear least-squares optimization problems, that uses a sketched Jacobian of the residual in the variable domain and solves a reduced linear least-squares on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Coralia Cartis , Jaroslav Fowkes , Zhen Shao

Partial least squares (PLS) is a simple factorisation method that works well with high dimensional problems in which the number of observations is limited given the number of independent variables. In this article, we show that PLS can…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-09-10 João B. Assunção , Pedro Afonso Fernandes

Traditional Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR) models frequently underperform when handling data characterized by uneven categories. To address the issue, this paper proposes a Data Augmentation Partial Least Squares Regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Haoran Chen , Jiapeng Liu , Jiafan Wang , Wenjun Shi

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

Graph sampling with noise is a fundamental problem in graph signal processing (GSP). Previous works assume an unbiased least square (LS) signal reconstruction scheme and select samples greedily via expensive extreme eigenvector computation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Yuanchao Bai , Gene Cheung , Fen Wang , Xianming Liu , Wen Gao

We investigate the use of renormalisation group methods to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) numerically. Our approach focuses on coarse-graining the underlying continuum process as opposed to the conventional numerical analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nigel Goldenfeld , Alan McKane , Qing Hou

Probabilistic point cloud registration methods are becoming more popular because of their robustness. However, unlike point-to-plane variants of iterative closest point (ICP) which incorporate local surface geometric information such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Weixiao Liu , Hongtao Wu , Gregory Chirikjian

This chapter offers a comprehensive introduction to the least-squares neural network (LSNN) method introduced in [14,16], for solving scalar first-order hyperbolic partial differential equations, specifically linear advection-reaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Min Liu , Zhiqiang Cai