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Intrinsic image decomposition (IID) is an under-constrained problem. Therefore, traditional approaches use hand crafted priors to constrain the problem. However, these constraints are limited when coping with complex scenes. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Arjan Gijsenij , Theo Gevers

The Hadamard decomposition is a powerful technique for data analysis and matrix compression, which decomposes a given matrix into the element-wise product of two or more low-rank matrices. In this paper, we develop an efficient algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Samuel Wertz , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

Off-road semantic segmentation is fundamentally challenged by irregular terrain, vegetation clutter, and inherent annotation ambiguity. Unlike urban scenes with crisp object boundaries, off-road environments exhibit strong class-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Seongkyu Choi Jhonghyun An

We consider the constrained Linear Inverse Problem (LIP), where a certain atomic norm (like the $\ell_1 $ norm) is minimized subject to a quadratic constraint. Typically, such cost functions are non-differentiable, which makes them not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Mohammed Rayyan Sheriff , Floor Fenne Redel , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Correlated fermions are of high interest in condensed matter (Fermi liquids, Wigner molecules), cold atomic gases and dense plasmas. Here we propose a novel approach to path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of strongly degenerate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-15 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Alexey Filinov , Michael Bonitz

A recent technique, proposed to alleviate the ``sign problem disease'', is discussed in details. As well known the ground state of a given Hamiltonian $H$ can be obtained by applying the imaginary time propagator $e^{-H \tau}$ to a given…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sorella , L. Capriotti

One of the major problems in modeling natural signals is that signals with very similar structure may locally have completely different measurements, e.g., images taken under different illumination conditions, or the speech signal captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Nebojsa Jojic , Yaron Caspi , Manuel Reyes-Gomez

We present a Gibbs sampling solution to the map-making problem for CMB measurements, building on existing destriping methodology. Gibbs sampling breaks the computationally heavy destriping problem into two separate steps; noise filtering…

We introduce a technically and conceptually simple approach to magnification of circuit and formula lower bounds. Central to the method are so-called distinguishers, sparse matrices that retain some of the key properties of error-correcting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Albert Atserias , Moritz Müller

The multilevel blocking algorithm recently proposed as a possible solution to the sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations has been extended to systems with long-ranged interactions along the Trotter direction. As an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Egger , L. Muehlbacher , C. H. Mak

A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 James Renegar

We consider the identification of spatially distributed parameters under $H^1$ regularization. Solving the associated minimization problem by Gauss-Newton iteration results in linearized problems to be solved in each step that can be cast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Jan Blechta , Oliver G. Ernst

This work proposes a model-reduction approach for the material point method on nonlinear manifolds. Our technique approximates the $\textit{kinematics}$ by approximating the deformation map using an implicit neural representation that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peter Yichen Chen , Maurizio M. Chiaramonte , Eitan Grinspun , Kevin Carlberg

We investigate the sign problem in field theories by using the path optimization method with use of the neural network. For theories with the sign problem, integral in the complexified variable space is a promising approach to obtain a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Akira Ohnishi , Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa

This paper is an attempt to solve an important class of hypersingular integral equations of the second kind. To this end, we apply a new weighted and modified perturbation method which includes some special cases of the Adomian…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Mostafa Akrami , Taher Lotfi , Farajollah Mohammadi Yaghoobi

Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulations involving fermions have the notorious sign problem. Some well-known exceptions of the auxiliary field QMC algorithm rely on the factorizibility of the fermion determinant. Recently, a fermionic QMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-06 Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Two long-standing problems in the construction of coherent state path integrals, the unwarranted assumption of path continuity and the ambiguous definition of the Hamiltonian symbol, are rigorously solved. To this end the fully controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Falk Bruckmann , Juan Diego Urbina

The Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) method provides accurate solutions to the nuclear many-body problem and predicts properties of light nuclei starting from realistic two- and three-body interactions. Controlling the GFMC fermion-sign…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-07 Gurtej Kanwar , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco , Michael Wagman

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of traffic sign recognition algorithms under challenging conditions. Existing datasets are limited in terms of their size and challenging condition coverage, which motivated us to generate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Dogancan Temel , Gukyeong Kwon , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

The Picard-Lefschetz theory has been attracting much attention as a tool to evaluate a multi-variable integral with a complex weight, which appears in various important problems in theoretical physics. The idea is to deform the integration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-10 Genki Fujisawa , Jun Nishimura , Katsuta Sakai , Atis Yosprakob