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Dynamic data race detection has emerged as a key technique for ensuring reliability of concurrent software in practice. However, dynamic approaches can often miss data races owing to nondeterminism in the thread scheduler. Predictive race…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zheng Shi , Umang Mathur , Andreas Pavlogiannis

Coordinate-type subgradient methods for addressing nonsmooth optimization problems are relatively underexplored due to the set-valued nature of the subdifferential. In this work, our study focuses on nonsmooth composite optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Lei Zhao , Ding Chen , Daoli Zhu , Xiao Li

Today, machine learning tools, particularly artificial neural networks, have become crucial for diverse applications. However, current digital computing tools to train and deploy artificial neural networks often struggle with massive data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Bora Çarpınlıoğlu , Uğur Teğin

This article introduces an enhanced particle swarm optimizer (PSO), termed Orthogonal PSO with Mutation (OPSO-m). Initially, it proposes an orthogonal array-based learning approach to cultivate an improved initial swarm for PSO,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Lewis Mitchell

Multiobjective feature selection seeks to determine the most discriminative feature subset by simultaneously optimizing two conflicting objectives: minimizing the number of selected features and the classification error rate. The goal is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhenxing Zhang , Qianxiang An , Yilei Wang , Chenfeng Wu , Baoling Dong , Chunjie Zhou

In this paper, a robust sequential quadratic programming method for constrained optimization is generalized to problem with an {expectation} objective function {and} deterministic equality and inequality constraints. A stochastic line…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Songqiang Qiu , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

In decision-making under uncertainty, Contextual Robust Optimization (CRO) provides reliability by minimizing the worst-case decision loss over a prediction set. While recent advances use conformal prediction to construct prediction sets…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-25 Yajie Bao , Yang Hu , Haojie Ren , Peng Zhao , Changliang Zou

Band selection, by choosing a set of representative bands in hyperspectral image (HSI), is an effective method to reduce the redundant information without compromising the original contents. Recently, various unsupervised band selection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Qi Wang , Fahong Zhang , Xuelong Li

In the paper, we propose solving optimization problems (OPs) and understanding the Newton method from the optimal control view. We propose a new optimization algorithm based on the optimal control problem (OCP). The algorithm features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Huanshui Zhang , Hongxia Wang

In this paper we combine two important extensions of ordinary least squares regression: regularization and optimal scaling. Optimal scaling (sometimes also called optimal scoring) has originally been developed for categorical data, and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Jacqueline J. Meulman , Anita J. van der Kooij

Assortment optimization is a fundamental challenge in modern retail and recommendation systems, where the goal is to select a subset of products that maximizes expected revenue under complex customer choice behaviors. While recent advances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Miao Lu , Yuxuan Han , Han Zhong , Zhengyuan Zhou , Jose Blanchet

One-class Classification (OCC) is an area of machine learning which addresses prediction based on unbalanced datasets. Basically, OCC algorithms achieve training by means of a single class sample, with potentially some additional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-27 Sarah Itani , Fabian Lecron , Philippe Fortemps

Ordinal optimization (OO) is a widely-studied technique for optimizing discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDS). It evaluates the performance of the system designs in a finite set by sampling and aims to correctly make ordinal comparison of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-30 Yanwen Li , Siyang Gao

Achieving better exploitation and exploration capabilities (EEC) have always been an important yet challenging issue in the design of evolutionary optimization algorithm (EOA). The difficulties lie in obtaining a good balance in EEC, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Zi Kang Peng , Shao Yong Zheng , Kit Sang Tang

Stochastic optimal control (SOC) aims to direct the behavior of noisy systems and has widespread applications in science, engineering, and artificial intelligence. In particular, reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow matching models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Carles Domingo-Enrich

Optimization-based (OB) alternatives to traditional flux limiters couch preservation of properties such as local bounds and maximum principles into optimization problems, which impose these properties through inequality constraints. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Falko Ruppenthal , Denis Ridzal , Dmitri Kuzmin , Pavel Bochev

In safety-critical applications such as medical image segmentation, prediction systems must provide reliability guarantees that extend beyond conventional expected loss control. While risk-controlling prediction sets (RCPS) offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jiayi Huang , Amirmohammad Farzaneh , Osvaldo Simeone

Diversification in a set of solutions has become a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. It has been proven beneficial for optimisation problems in several ways, such as computing a diverse set of high-quality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Amirhossein Moosavi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Robust optimization is a framework for modeling optimization problems involving data uncertainty and during the last decades has been an area of active research. If we focus on linear programming (LP) problems with i) uncertain data, ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Roberto Mínguez , Víctor Casero-Alonso

This paper proposes a novel second-order optimization algorithm based on the Optimal Control Principle (OCP), applicable to large-scale optimization problems in neural network training. The algorithm has a computational complexity of O(d)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jindi Zhong , Congyaohui Yin , Zhaorong Zhang , Huanshui Zhang