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Optimality of several quasi-Monte Carlo methods and suboptimality of the sparse-grid quadrature based on the univariate Gauss--Hermite rule is proved in the Sobolev spaces of mixed dominating smoothness of order $\alpha$, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yoshihito Kazashi , Yuya Suzuki , Takashi Goda

In this paper, we give explicit descriptions of versions of (Local-) Backtracking Gradient Descent and New Q-Newton's method to the Riemannian setting.Here are some easy to state consequences of results in this paper, where X is a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Tuyen Trung Truong

Adaptive regularized framework using cubics has emerged as an alternative to line-search and trust-region algorithms for smooth nonconvex optimization, with an optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. In this paper, we propose and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-30 El houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Serge Gratton

We develop a new parallel algorithm for minimizing Lipschitz, convex functions with a stochastic subgradient oracle. The total number of queries made and the query depth, i.e., the number of parallel rounds of queries, match the prior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Arun Jambulapati , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

This paper presents a quadratic formula-based nonlinear representation for a given single-variable function f(x), $-1 \leq x \leq 1$. First, we construct the explicit polynomial coefficient functions a(x), b(x), and c(x) using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ziqin He , Can Chen , Min Hyung Cho , Jingfang Huang , Yichao Wu

We address black-box convex optimization problems, where the objective and constraint functions are not explicitly known but can be sampled within the feasible set. The challenge is thus to generate a sequence of feasible points converging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Baiwei Guo , Yuning Jiang , Maryam Kamgarpour , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

We describe two quantum algorithms to approximate the mean value of a black-box function. The first algorithm is novel and asymptotically optimal while the second is a variation on an earlier algorithm due to Aharonov. Both algorithms have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Gilles Brassard , Frederic Dupuis , Sebastien Gambs , Alain Tapp

We present a randomized algorithm for producing a quasi-optimal hierarchically semi-separable (HSS) approximation to an $N\times N$ matrix $A$ using only matrix-vector products with $A$ and $A^T$. We prove that, using $O(k \log(N/k))$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Noah Amsel , Tyler Chen , Feyza Duman Keles , Diana Halikias , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , David Persson

This paper addresses black-box smooth optimization problems, where the objective and constraint functions are not explicitly known but can be queried. The main goal of this work is to generate a sequence of feasible points converging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Baiwei Guo , Yuning Jiang , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Maryam Kamgarpour

We introduce a new approach aiming at computing approximate optimal designs for multivariate polynomial regressions on compact (semi-algebraic) design spaces. We use the moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy of semidefinite programming problems…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Yohann De Castro , Fabrice Gamboa , Didier Henrion , Roxana Hess , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give a class of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations which generate search directions parallel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

Quartic eigenvalue problem $(\lambda^4 A + \lambda^3 B + \lambda^2C + \lambda D + E)x = \mathbf{0}$ naturally arises e.g. when solving the Orr-Sommerfeld equation in the analysis of the stability of the {Poiseuille} flow, in theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Zlatko Drmač , Ivana Šain Glibić

The Golomb ruler problem is defined as follows: Given a positive integer n, locate n marks on a ruler such that the distance between any two distinct pair of marks are different from each other and the total length of the ruler is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Burak Kocuk , Willem-Jan van Hoeve

In frequency-limited model order reduction, the objective is to maintain the frequency response of the original system within a specified frequency range in the reduced-order model. In this paper, a mathematical expression for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Umair Zulfiqar , Zhi-Hua Xiao , Qiu-Yan Song , Mohammad Monir Uddin , Victor Sreeram

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the best approximation of a given matrix onto the intersection of linear equalities, inequalities and the doubly nonnegative cone (the cone of all positive semidefinite matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

A Hamiltonian algorithm, both theoretical and numerical, to obtain the reduced equations implementing Pontryagine's Maximum Principle for singular linear-quadratic optimal control problems is presented. This algorithm is inspired on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-13 M. Delgado-Tellez , A. Ibort

This paper presents an algorithm for solving multiobjective optimization problems involving composite functions, where we minimize a quadratic model that approximates $F(x) - F(x^k)$ and that can be derivative-free. We establish theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 V. S. Amaral , P. B. Assunção , D. R. Souza

The approximate degree of a Boolean function $f \colon \{-1, 1\}^n \rightarrow \{-1, 1\}$ is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates $f$ pointwise to error at most $1/3$. We introduce a generic method for increasing the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mark Bun , Justin Thaler

This paper investigates the numerical approximation of integrals for functions in fractional Gaussian Sobolev spaces $W^s_{p}(\mathbb{R}^d,\gamma)$ with dominating mixed smoothness defined via kernel related to the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Van Kien Nguyen

We provide tools to help automate the error analysis of algorithms that evaluate simple functions over the floating-point numbers. The aim is to obtain tight relative error bounds for these algorithms, expressed as a function of the unit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Jean-Michel Muller , Bruno Salvy