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This letter presents a method to reduce the computational demands of including second-order dynamics sensitivity information into the Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) trajectory optimization algorithm. An approach to DDP is developed…

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A novel approach is given to overcome the computational challenges of the full-matrix Adaptive Gradient algorithm (Full AdaGrad) in stochastic optimization. By developing a recursive method that estimates the inverse of the square root of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Wei Lu , Bruno Portier

Computing eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) of a given linear operator, or finding its leading eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, is a fundamental task in many machine learning and scientific computing problems. For high-dimensional eigenvalue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 J. Jon Ryu , Xiangxiang Xu , H. S. Melihcan Erol , Yuheng Bu , Lizhong Zheng , Gregory W. Wornell

Deep neural networks are usually trained with stochastic gradient descent (SGD), which minimizes objective function using very rough approximations of gradient, only averaging to the real gradient. Standard approaches like momentum or ADAM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jarek Duda

In this paper, we propose a distributed stochastic second-order proximal method that enables agents in a network to cooperatively minimize the sum of their local loss functions without any centralized coordination. The proposed algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Chenyang Qiu , Shanying Zhu , Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

We study how to construct compressed datasets that suffice to recover optimal decisions in linear programs with an unknown cost vector $c$ lying in a prior set $\mathcal{C}$. Recent work by Bennouna et al. provides an exact geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuhan Ye , Saurabh Amin , Asuman Ozdaglar

Differentiable programming is a new programming paradigm which enables large scale optimization through automatic calculation of gradients also known as auto-differentiation. This concept emerges from deep learning, and has also been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Chenhua Geng , Hong-Ye Hu , Yijian Zou

We present a stochastic descent algorithm for unconstrained optimization that is particularly efficient when the objective function is slow to evaluate and gradients are not easily obtained, as in some PDE-constrained optimization and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 David Kozak , Stephen Becker , Alireza Doostan , Luis Tenorio

We present a systematic derivation of the algorithms required for computing the gradient and the action of the Hessian of an arbitrary misfit function for large-scale parameter estimation problems involving linear time-dependent PDEs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Kai Rothauge , Eldad Haber , Uri Ascher

Adversarial training can be used to learn models that are robust against perturbations. For linear models, it can be formulated as a convex optimization problem. Compared to methods proposed in the context of deep learning, leveraging the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-20 Antônio H. RIbeiro , Thomas B. Schön , Dave Zahariah , Francis Bach

Randomized numerical linear algebra is proved to bridge theoretical advancements to offer scalable solutions for approximating tensor decomposition. This paper introduces fast randomized algorithms for solving the fixed Tucker-rank problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Maolin Che , Yimin Wei , Chong Wu , Hong Yan

In this paper, we present a deep learning-based numerical method for approximating high dimensional stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). At each time step, our method relies on a predictor-corrector procedure. More precisely,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 He Zhang , Ran Zhang , Tao Zhou

Scientific studies often require the precise calculation of derivatives. In many cases an analytical calculation is not feasible and one resorts to evaluating derivatives numerically. These are error-prone, especially for higher-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Mathias Wagner , Andrea Walther , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

In this work, to efficiently help escape the stationary and saddle points, we propose, analyze, and generalize a stochastic strategy performed as an operator for a first-order gradient descent algorithm in order to increase the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Wei Zhang , Yu Bao

We introduce Deep Adaptive Design (DAD), a method for amortizing the cost of adaptive Bayesian experimental design that allows experiments to be run in real-time. Traditional sequential Bayesian optimal experimental design approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-14 Adam Foster , Desi R. Ivanova , Ilyas Malik , Tom Rainforth

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its many variants are the widespread optimization algorithms for training deep neural networks. However, SGD suffers from inevitable drawbacks, including vanishing gradients, lack of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Gustavo Batista , Mohammad Deghat

In this paper, based on the combination of tensor neural network and a posteriori error estimator, a novel type of machine learning method is proposed to solve high-dimensional boundary value problems with homogeneous and non-homogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Yifan Wang , Zhongshuo Lin , Yangfei Liao , Haochen Liu , Hehu Xie

We explore in detail a method to solve ordinary differential equations using feedforward neural networks. We prove a specific loss function, which does not require knowledge of the exact solution, to be a suitable standard metric to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Liam L. H. Lau , Denis Werth

Stochastic optimisation problems minimise expectations of random cost functions. We use 'optimise then discretise' method to solve stochastic optimisation. In our approach, accurate quadrature methods are required to calculate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Yuancheng Zhou

We present a new method based on functional tensor decomposition and dynamic tensor approximation to compute the solution of a high-dimensional time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE). The idea of dynamic approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Alec Dektor , Daniele Venturi