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We propose a new exact approach for solving integer linear programming (ILP) problems which we will call projective splitting algorithms (PSAs). Unlike classical methods for solving ILP problems, PSAs conduct the search for the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Federico Rodes , Isabel Mendez-Diaz , Paula Zabala

Tau-leaping is a family of algorithms for the approximate simulation of the discrete state continuous time Markov chains. Motivation for the development of such methods can be found, for instance, in the fields of chemical kinetics and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Viktor Reshniak , Abdul Khaliq , David Voss

Cutting planes (cuts) are crucial for solving Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems. Advanced MILP solvers typically rely on manually designed heuristic algorithms for cut selection, which require much expert experience and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Xuefeng Zhang , Liangyu Chen , Zhengfeng Yang , Zhenbing Zeng

The forward-backward splitting algorithm is a popular operator-splitting method for solving monotone inclusion of the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a cocoercive operator. In this paper, we present a new convergence analysis of a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Fuying Cui , Yuchao Tang , Chuanxi Zhu

In this paper we propose a new fast splitting algorithm to solve the Weighted Split Bregman minimization problem in the backward step of an accelerated Forward-Backward algorithm. Beside proving the convergence of the method, numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-01 D. Lazzaro , E. Loli Piccolomini , F. Zama

In this paper we develop a statistical theory and an implementation of deep learning models. We show that an elegant variable splitting scheme for the alternating direction method of multipliers optimises a deep learning objective. We allow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-22 Nicholas G. Polson , Brandon T. Willard , Massoud Heidari

We propose first- and second-order time discretization schemes for the coupled Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes model, leveraging the incremental viscosity splitting (IVS) method. The schemes combine the scalar auxiliary variable method and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Baolin Kuang , Hongfei Fu , Xiaoli Li

Symplectic integration methods based on operator splitting are well established in many branches of science. For Hamiltonian systems which split in more than two parts, symplectic methods of higher order have been studied in detail only for…

Linear programming (LP) is an extremely useful tool which has been successfully applied to solve various problems in a wide range of areas, including operations research, engineering, economics, or even more abstract mathematical areas such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Agniva Chowdhury , Gregory Dexter , Palma London , Haim Avron , Petros Drineas

The explicit split-operator algorithm is often used for solving the linear and nonlinear time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equations. However, when applied to certain nonlinear time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equations, this algorithm loses…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Julien Roulet , Jiří Vaníček

Particle splitting methods are considered for the estimation of rare events. The probability of interest is that a Markov process first enters a set $B$ before another set $A$, and it is assumed that this probability satisfies a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-14 Thomas Dean , Paul Dupuis

Traditional numerical techniques for solving time-dependent partial-differential-equation (PDE) initial-value problems (IVPs) store a truncated representation of the function values and some number of their time derivatives at each time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-08 Hal Finkel

We introduce new planning and reinforcement learning algorithms for discounted MDPs that utilize an approximate model of the environment to accelerate the convergence of the value function. Inspired by the splitting approach in numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amin Rakhsha , Andrew Wang , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Amir-massoud Farahmand

Sparse inversion and classification problems are ubiquitous in modern data science and imaging. They are often formulated as non-smooth minimisation problems. In sparse inversion, we minimise, e.g., the sum of a data fidelity term and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Jonas Latz

Vlasov equations model the dynamics of plasma in the collisionless regime. A standard approach for numerically solving the Vlasov equation is to operator split the spatial and velocity derivative terms, allowing simpler time-stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 James A. Rossmanith , Christine Vaughan

In numerical linear algebra, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining faster algorithms for linear systems whose underlying matrices exhibit structural properties. A prominent success story is the method of generalized nested…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sally Dong , Gramoz Goranci , Lawrence Li , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

Addressing large-scale indefinite least squares (ILS) problem poses notable computational bottlenecks in the field of numerical linear algebra. State-of-the-art iterative schemes for such problems are predominantly constructed upon the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Jun Li , Lingsheng Meng

A parallel splitting method is proposed for solving systems of coupled monotone inclusions in Hilbert spaces. Convergence is established for a wide class of coupling schemes. Unlike classical alternating algorithms, which are limited to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-26 H. Attouch , L. M. Briceno-Arias , P. L. Combettes

Constrained sampling is an important and challenging task in computational statistics, concerned with generating samples from a distribution under certain constraints. There are numerous types of algorithm aimed at this task, ranging from…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-01 Neil K. Chada , Lu Yu

This paper derives two new optimization-driven Monte Carlo algorithms inspired from variable splitting and data augmentation. In particular, the formulation of one of the proposed approaches is closely related to the alternating direction…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-27 Maxime Vono , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais