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Inspired by the boolean discrepancy problem, we study the following optimization problem which we term \textsc{Spherical Discrepancy}: given $m$ unit vectors $v_1, \dots, v_m$, find another unit vector $x$ that minimizes $\max_i \langle x,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Chris Jones , Matt McPartlon

Fitting an unknown number of hyperplanes to data is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning, characterized by its non-convexity, non-differentiability, and unknown model order. Existing approaches often struggle with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiqin Cheng , Yu Zhan , Mingjin Zhang , Lingbo Liu , Liang Lin

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful tool for tackling a wide range of computationally hard problems such as clustering. Despite the high accuracy, semidefinite programs are often too slow in practice with poor scalability on large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Yubo Zhuang , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

We consider algorithms that, from an arbitrarily sampling of $N$ spheres (possibly overlapping), find a close packed configuration without overlapping. These problems can be formulated as minimization problems with non-convex constraints.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Pierre Degond , Marina A. Ferreira , Sébastien Motsch

We propose a novel Bayesian framework for changepoint detection in large-scale spherical spatiotemporal data, with broad applicability in environmental and climate sciences. Our approach models changepoints as spatially dependent…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-16 Samantha Shi-Jun , Bo Li

Sphere packing problems have a rich history in both mathematics and physics; yet, relatively few analytical analyses of sphere packings exist, and answers to seemingly simple questions are unknown. Here, we present an analytical method for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-17 Natalie Arkus , Vinothan N. Manoharan , Michael P. Brenner

Classifying points in high dimensional spaces is a fundamental geometric problem in machine learning. In this paper, we address classifying points in the $d$-dimensional Hilbert polygonal metric. The Hilbert metric is a generalization of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Aditya Acharya , Auguste H. Gezalyan , David M. Mount

Sparse polynomial approximation has become indispensable for approximating smooth, high- or infinite-dimensional functions from limited samples. This is a key task in computational science and engineering, e.g., surrogate modelling in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

With the growing adoption of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), training or fine-tuning models on private datasets has become increasingly prevalent. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hong Guan , Lei Yu , Lixi Zhou , Li Xiong , Kanchan Chowdhury , Lulu Xie , Xusheng Xiao , Jia Zou

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a unifying framework that generalizes both linear programming and quadratically-constrained quadratic programming, while also yielding efficient solvers, both in theory and in practice. However, there exist…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Elena Grigorescu , Young-San Lin , Sandeep Silwal , Maoyuan Song , Samson Zhou

Support vector machines (SVMs) are well-studied supervised learning models for binary classification. In many applications, large amounts of samples can be cheaply and easily obtained. What is often a costly and error-prone process is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Veronica Piccialli , Jan Schwiddessen , Antonio M. Sudoso

Finding the densest sphere packing in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is an outstanding fundamental problem with relevance in many fields, including the ground states of molecular systems, colloidal crystal structures, coding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-12 Étienne Marcotte , Salvatore Torquato

Accurate approximation of scalar-valued functions from sample points is a key task in computational science. Recently, machine learning with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has emerged as a promising tool for scientific computing, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Higher-dimensional orthogonal packing problems have a wide range of practical applications, including packing, cutting, and scheduling. Combining the use of our data structure for characterizing feasible packings with our new classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Joerg Schepers , Jan C. van der Veen

The densest local packing (DLP) problem in d-dimensional Euclidean space Rd involves the placement of N nonoverlapping spheres of unit diameter near an additional fixed unit-diameter sphere such that the greatest distance from the center of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. B. Hopkins , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

Statistical models with constrained probability distributions are abundant in machine learning. Some examples include regression models with norm constraints (e.g., Lasso), probit, many copula models, and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA).…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Shiwei Lan , Babak Shahbaba

Given a set of vectors (the data) in a Hilbert space H, we prove the existence of an optimal collection of subspaces minimizing the sum of the square of the distances between each vector and its closest subspace in the collection. This…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-02-07 Akram Aldroubi , Carlos Cabrelli , Ursula Molter

Numerical resolution of high-dimensional nonlinear PDEs remains a huge challenge due to the curse of dimensionality. Starting from the weak formulation of the Lawson-Euler scheme, this paper proposes a stochastic particle method (SPM) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao , Yunfeng Xiong

The problem of packing equal circles in a circle is a classic and famous packing problem, which is well-studied in academia and has a variety of applications in industry. This problem is computationally challenging, and researchers mainly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jianrong Zhou , Kun He , Jiongzhi Zheng , Chu-Min Li

Minesweeper is a popular spatial-based decision-making game that works with incomplete information. As an exemplary NP-complete problem, it is a major area of research employing various artificial intelligence paradigms. The present work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yash Pratyush Sinha , Pranshu Malviya , Rupaj Kumar Nayak