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Sinkhorn's alternative minimization algorithm applied to a positive $n\times n$ matrix converges to a doubly stochastic matrix. If the algorithm, applied to a $2\times 2$ matrix, converges in a finite number of iterations, then it converges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Melvyn B. Nathanson

Recent research has devoted considerable effort to verifying the intermediate reasoning steps of chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories using process reward models (PRMs) and other verifier models. However, training a PRM typically requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nakyung Lee , Sangwoo Hong , Jungwoo Lee

Discovering and classifying non-trivial mixed states and mixed state phase transitions are some of the most important current issues in condensed matter and quantum information. In this study, we investigate some non-trivial mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yoshihito Kuno , Takahiro Orito , Ikuo Ichinose

Distance measures between quantum states like the trace distance and the fidelity can naturally be defined by optimizing a classical distance measure over all measurement statistics that can be obtained from the respective quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Marco Tomamichel

In distributional semantics, the pointwise mutual information ($\mathit{PMI}$) weighting of the cooccurrence matrix performs far better than raw counts. There is, however, an issue with unobserved pair cooccurrences as $\mathit{PMI}$ goes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Alexandre Salle , Aline Villavicencio

The quantum relative entropy is a measure of the distinguishability of two quantum states, and it is a unifying concept in quantum information theory: many information measures such as entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Mark M. Wilde

In this paper, we propose a Bregman frame for several classical alternating minimization algorithms. In the frame, these algorithms have uniform mathematical formulation. We also present convergence analysis for the frame algorithm. Under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Tao Sun , Lizhi Cheng

Fawzi and Renner [Commun. Math. Phys. 340(2):575, 2015] recently established a lower bound on the conditional quantum mutual information (CQMI) of tripartite quantum states $ABC$ in terms of the fidelity of recovery (FoR), i.e. the maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel

The matrix-based Renyi's \alpha-order entropy functional was recently introduced using the normalized eigenspectrum of a Hermitian matrix of the projected data in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). However, the current theory in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Shujian Yu , Luis Gonzalo Sanchez Giraldo , Robert Jenssen , Jose C. Principe

This study focuses on solving group zero-norm regularized robust loss minimization problems. We propose a proximal Majorization-Minimization (PMM) algorithm to address a class of equivalent Difference-of-Convex (DC) surrogate optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ling Liang , Shujun Bi

Consider the problem of approximating the optimal policy of a Markov decision process (MDP) by sampling state transitions. In contrast to existing reinforcement learning methods that are based on successive approximations to the nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Mengdi Wang

We define Persistent Mutual Information (PMI) as the Mutual (Shannon) Information between the past history of a system and its evolution significantly later in the future. This quantifies how much past observations enable long term…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-13 R. C. Ball , M. Diakonova , R. S. MacKay

Stochastic alternating algorithms for bi-objective optimization are considered when optimizing two conflicting functions for which optimization steps have to be applied separately for each function. Such algorithms consist of applying a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Suyun Liu , Luis Nunes Vicente

The trade-offs between error probabilities in quantum hypothesis testing are by now well-understood in the centralized setting, but much less is known for distributed settings. Here, we study a distributed binary hypothesis testing problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sreejith Sreekumar , Christoph Hirche , Hao-Chung Cheng , Mario Berta

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing demand for portable CT machines worldwide in order to diagnose patients in a variety of settings. This has led to a need for CT image reconstruction algorithms that can produce high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Mai Phuong Pham Huynh , Manuel Santana , Ana Castillo

We analyze the performance of alternating minimization for loss functions optimized over two variables, where each variable may be restricted to lie in some potentially nonconvex constraint set. This type of setting arises naturally in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Wooseok Ha , Rina Foygel Barber

We propose a communication- and computation-efficient distributed optimization algorithm using second-order information for solving empirical risk minimization (ERM) problems with a nonsmooth regularization term. Our algorithm is applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ching-pei Lee , Cong Han Lim , Stephen J. Wright

We develop two new proximal alternating penalty algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach mainly relies on a novel combination of the classical quadratic penalty, alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Quoc Tran-Dinh

Quantum information distribution in a tripartite state plays a fundamental role in quantum information processes. Here we investigate how a bipartite unitary transformation $U_{AB}$ redistributes the quantum mutual information with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Muchun Yang , Cheng-Qian Xu , D. L. Zhou

Numerical approximation of quantum states via convex combinations of states with positive partial transposes (bi-PPT state) in multipartite systems constitutes a fundamental challenge in quantum information science. We reformulate this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Jingwen Fan , Deren Han , Lin Chen