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We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Axel G. R. Turnquist

Building on existing $hp$-adaptive algorithms driven by equilibrated-flux estimators from [ESAIM Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 57 (2023), 329--366] and the references therein, we propose a novel $h$-adaptive algorithm for a fixed polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Zhaonan Dong , Gregor Gantner , Martin Vohralík

Convex regression is the problem of fitting a convex function to a data set consisting of input-output pairs. We present a new approach to this problem called spectrahedral regression, in which we fit a spectrahedral function to the data,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Eliza O'Reilly , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We introduce an efficient and scalable method for density-based multi-material topology optimization, integrating classical mirror descent techniques with point-wise polytopal design constraints. Such constraints arise naturally in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Peter Gangl , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Boyan S. Lazarov , Thomas M. Surowiec

In this paper, we introduce some new iterative optimisation algorithms on Riemannian manifolds and Hilbert spaces which have good global convergence guarantees to local minima. More precisely, these algorithms have the following properties:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Tuyen Trung Truong

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

We consider the problem of approximating a given element $f$ from a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ by means of greedy algorithms and the application of such procedures to the regression problem in statistical learning theory. We improve on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Andrew R. Barron , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Ronald A. DeVore

Iterative phase retrieval algorithms typically employ projections onto constraint subspaces to recover the unknown phases in the Fourier transform of an image, or, in the case of x-ray crystallography, the electron density of a molecule.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Veit Elser

In many iterative optimization methods, fixed-point theory enables the analysis of the convergence rate via the contraction factor associated with the linear approximation of the fixed-point operator. While this factor characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Trung Vu , Raviv Raich

We consider adaptive finite element methods for second-order elliptic PDEs, where the arising discrete systems are not solved exactly. For contractive iterative solvers, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which monitors and steers the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Gregor Gantner , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius , Stefan Schimanko

We present an Expectation-Maximization algorithm for the fractal inverse problem: the problem of fitting a fractal model to data. In our setting the fractals are Iterated Function Systems (IFS), with similitudes as the family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-03 Peter Bloem , Steven de Rooij

We establish the uniform in time stability, w.r.t. the marginals, of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure, also known as Sinkhorn algorithm, used to solve entropy-regularised Optimal Transport problems. Our result is quantitative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 George Deligiannidis , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

We propose an exact iterative algorithm for minimization of a class of continuous cell-wise linear convex functions on a hyperplane arrangement. Our particular setup is motivated by evaluation of so-called rank estimators used in robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Michal Černý , Milan Hladík , Miroslav Rada

The Irreversible Port-Hamiltonian Systems (IPHS) framework is extended to the modelling of non-isentropic fluids with viscous dissipation in the Eulerian description. Building on earlier IPHS formulations for diffusion-driven and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ahlam Ouardi , Arijit Sarkar , Hector Ramirez , Yann Le Gorrec

Iterative proportional fitting (IPF) is a widely used method for spatial microsimulation. The technique results in non-integer weights for individual rows of data. This is problematic for certain applications and has led many researchers to…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-22 Robin Lovelace , Dimitris Ballas

Previous methods solve feature matching and pose estimation using a two-stage process by first finding matches and then estimating the pose. As they ignore the geometric relationships between the two tasks, they focus on either improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Fei Xue , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

We establish linear convergence rates for a certain class of extrapolated fixed point algorithms which are based on dynamic string-averaging methods in a real Hilbert space. This applies, in particular, to the extrapolated simultaneous and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Christian Bargetz , Victor I. Kolobov , Simeon Reich , Rafał Zalas

This paper provides a unifying view of a wide range of problems of interest in machine learning by framing them as the minimization of functionals defined on the space of probability measures. In particular, we show that generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Casey Chu , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

An $hp$ version of interface penalty finite element method ($hp$-IPFEM) is proposed for elliptic interface problems in two and three dimensions on unfitted meshes. Error estimates in broken $H^1$ norm, which are optimal with respect to $h$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Haijun Wu , Yuanming Xiao

The iterated posterior linearization filter (IPLF) is an algorithm for Bayesian state estimation that performs the measurement update using iterative statistical regression. The main result behind IPLF is that the posterior approximation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Matti Raitoharju , Lennart Svensson , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert Piché
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