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In this paper, we survey and study definitions and properties of tropical polynomials, tropical rational functions and in general, tropical meromorphic functions, emphasizing practical techniques that can really carry out computations. For…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-17 Yen-lung Tsai

We propose a fast and scalable optimization method to solve chance or probabilistic constrained optimization problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-dimensional random parameters. To address the critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

Differential (Ore) type polynomials with approximate polynomial coefficients are introduced. These provide a useful representation of approximate differential operators with a strong algebraic structure, which has been used successfully in…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Mark Giesbrecht , Joseph Haraldson

A linear vector equation in two unknown vectors is examined in the framework of tropical algebra dealing with the theory and applications of semirings and semifields with idempotent addition. We consider a two-sided equation where each side…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Nikolai Krivulin

We address composite optimization problems, which consist in minimizing the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function, without any convexity assumptions. Numerical solutions of these problems can be obtained by proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Alberto De Marchi

We define a formal framework for the study of algebras of type Max-plus, Min-Plus, tropical algebras, and more generally algebras over a commutative idempotent semi-field. This work is motivated by the increasingly diversified use of these…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2008-07-22 Dominique Castella

The motivation of this paper is the development of an optimisation method for solving optimisation problems appearing in Chebyshev rational and generalised rational approximation problems, where the approximations are constructed as ratios…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 R. Díaz Millán , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

Approximating distributions from their samples is a canonical statistical-learning problem. One of its most powerful and successful modalities approximates every distribution to an $\ell_1$ distance essentially at most a constant times…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Yi Hao , Ayush Jain , Alon Orlitsky , Vaishakh Ravindrakumar

This paper is our third step towards developing a theory of testing monomials in multivariate polynomials and concentrates on two problems: (1) How to compute the coefficients of multilinear monomials; and (2) how to find a maximum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Zhixiang Chen , Bin Fu

We introduce a new numerical method, based on Bernoulli polynomials, for solving multiterm variable-order fractional differential equations. The variable-order fractional derivative was considered in the Caputo sense, while the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Somayeh Nemati , Pedro M. Lima , Delfim F. M. Torres

An important yet challenging problem in numerical linear algebra is finding a principal submatrix with maximum determinant from a given symmetric positive semidefinite matrix. This problem arises in experimental design, statistics, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Hao Hu , Stefan Sremac , Hugo J. Woerdeman , Henry Wolkowicz

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

The eigenvalues of a matrix polynomial can be determined classically by solving a generalized eigenproblem for a linearized matrix pencil, for instance by writing the matrix polynomial in companion form. We introduce a general scaling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-13 Stéphane Gaubert , Meisam Sharify

Trigonometric polynomials are widely used for the approximation of a smooth function $f$ from a set of nonuniformly spaced samples $\{f(x_j)\}_{j=0}^{N-1}$. If the samples are perturbed by noise, controlling the smoothness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Thomas Strohmer

Multipoint polynomial evaluation and interpolation are fundamental for modern symbolic and numerical computing. The known algorithms solve both problems over any field of constants in nearly linear arithmetic time, but the cost grows to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Victor Y. Pan

An algorithm for numerically computing the exponential of a matrix is presented. We have derived a polynomial expansion of $e^x$ by computing it as an initial value problem using a symbolic programming language. This algorithm is shown to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Daniel Gebremedhin , Charles Weatherford

Matrix Factorization (MF) has found numerous applications in Machine Learning and Data Mining, including collaborative filtering recommendation systems, dimensionality reduction, data visualization, and community detection. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ioannis Kordonis , Emmanouil Theodosis , George Retsinas , Petros Maragos

In this paper we develop an optimisation based approach to multivariate Chebyshev approximation on a finite grid. We consider two models: multivariate polynomial approximation and multivariate generalised rational approximation. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 R. Díaz Millán , V. Peiris , N. Sukhorukova , J. Ugon

This is a survey on best polynomial approximation on the unit sphere and the unit ball. The central problem is to describe the approximation behavior of a function by polynomials via smoothness of the function. A major effort is to identify…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Yuan Xu

We study the geometry of tropical Fermat--Weber points, that is, optimal solutions to a location problem over a projective space using a dissimilarity measure derived from the tropical metric. It is well-known that for a given sample, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 John Sabol , David Barnhill , Ruriko Yoshida , Keiji Miura