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$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$ We develop a general randomized technique for solving "implic it" linear programming problems, where the collection of constraints are defined implicitly by an underlying ground set of elements. In many…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Timothy M. Chan , Sariel Har-Peled , Mitchell Jones

In this paper, we develop an approach for the exact determination of the minimum sample size for the estimation of a Poisson parameter with prescribed margin of error and confidence level. The exact computation is made possible by reducing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-19 Xinjia Chen

In this paper, we develop an approach for the exact determination of the minimum sample size for estimating the parameter of an integer-valued random variable, which is parameterized by its expectation. Under some continuity and unimodal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Xinjia Chen , Zhengjia Chen

Given a finite set of points $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, we would like to find a small subset $S \subseteq P$ such that the convex hull of $S$ approximately contains $P$. More formally, every point in $P$ is within distance $\epsilon$ from…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Avrim Blum , Vladimir Braverman , Ananya Kumar , Harry Lang , Lin F. Yang

In this paper we develop proximal methods for statistical learning. Proximal point algorithms are useful in statistics and machine learning for obtaining optimization solutions for composite functions. Our approach exploits closed-form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-02 Nicholas G. Polson , James G. Scott , Brandon T. Willard

The aim of this paper is to present a new method of approximation of planar data set using only arcs or segments. The first problem we are trying to solve is the following: the CNC machines can work only with simple curves (arcs or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Maurizio Scarparo

We give a deterministic method of quasi-polynomial complexity to approximate the volume of the intersection of the unit hypercube with two specific sets. The method can actually be applied (without losing the quasi-polynomial complexity) to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Marius Costandin

This article is concerned with the approximation of unbounded convex sets by polyhedra. While there is an abundance of literature investigating this task for compact sets, results on the unbounded case are scarce. We first point out the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Daniel Dörfler

We present a novel algorithm to compute multi-scale curvature fields on triangle meshes. Our algorithm is based on finding robust mean curvatures using the ball neighborhood, where the radius of a ball corresponds to the scale of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Patrick Seemann , Simon Fuhrmann , Stefan Guthe , Fabian Langguth , Michael Goesele

This paper describes novel and fast, simple and robust algorithm with O(N) expected complexity which enables to decrease run-time needed to find an exact maximum distance of two points in E2. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Vaclav Skala

An efficient technique to solve precision problems consists in using exact computations. For geometric predicates, using systematically expensive exact computations can be avoided by the use of filters. The predicate is first evaluated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olivier Devillers , Franco P. Preparata

We describe a randomized algorithm that, given a set $P$ of points in the plane, computes the best location to insert a new point $p$, such that the Delaunay triangulation of $P\cup\{p\}$ has the largest possible minimum angle. The expected…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Boris Aronov , Mark V. Yagnatinsky

Numerical approximate computation can solve large and complex problems fast. It has the advantage of high efficiency. However it only gives approximate results, whereas we need exact results in many fields. There is a gap between…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jingzhong Zhang , Yong Feng

We describe an approximate rational arithmetic with round-off errors (both absolute and relative) controlled by the user. The rounding procedure is based on the continued fraction expansion of real numbers. Results of computer experiments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Grigori Litvinov , Anatoli Rodionov , Andrei Chourkin

When using images to locate objects, there is the problem of correcting for distortion and misalignment in the images. An elegant way of solving this problem is to generate an error correcting function that maps points in an image to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-04-28 Christopher O. Ward

Uniform distribution of the points has been of interest to researchers for a long time and has applications in different areas of Mathematics and Computer Science. One of the well-known measures to evaluate the uniformity of a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Milad Bakhshizadeh , Ali Kamalinejad , Mina Latifi

We introduce new rounding methods to improve the accuracy of finite precision quantum arithmetic. These quantum rounding methods are applicable when multiple samples are being taken from a quantum program. We show how to use multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Rajiv Krishnakumar , William Zeng

We propose a fast and scalable algorithm to project a given density on a set of structured measures defined over a compact 2D domain. The measures can be discrete or supported on curves for instance. The proposed principle and algorithm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat , Pierre Weiss

Sphere fitting is a common problem in almost all science and engineering disciplines. Most of methods available are iterative in behavior. This involves fitting of the parameters in a least square sense or in a geometric sense. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Sumith YD

Motivated by the problem of fingerprint matching, we present geometric approximation algorithms for matching a pattern point set against a background point set, where the points have angular orientations in addition to their positions.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-03 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Jordan Jorgensen , Manuel R. Torres
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