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Optimizing non-convex functions is a fundamental challenge across machine learning and combinatorial optimization. We introduce and study $\gamma$-weakly $\theta$-up-concavity, a novel first-order condition that characterizes a broad class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Mohammad Pedramfar , Vaneet Aggarwal

This paper considers the problem of unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions having Lipschitz continuous gradients with known Lipschitz constant. We recently proposed an optimized gradient method (OGM) for this problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We consider the problem of finding the isolated common roots of a set of polynomial functions defining a zero-dimensional ideal I in a ring R of polynomials over C. Normal form algorithms provide an algebraic approach to solve this problem.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Bernard Mourrain , Simon Telen , Marc Van Barel

In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success across various tasks, but ensuring reliable uncertainty estimates, known as model calibration, is crucial for their safe and effective deployment. Modern DNNs often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Linwei Tao , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

The main results of this paper provide an Efficient Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme (EPTAS) for approximating the genus (and non-orientable genus) of dense graphs. By dense we mean that $|E(G)|\ge \alpha |V(G)|^2$ for some fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Yifan Jing , Bojan Mohar

In this paper, we consider a class of generalized difference-of-convex functions (DC) programming, whose objective is the difference of two convex (not necessarily smooth) functions plus a decomposable (possibly nonconvex) function with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Chenjian Pan , Yingxin Zhou , Hongjin He , Chen Ling

We consider stochastic gradient methods under the interpolation regime where a perfect fit can be obtained (minimum loss at each observation). While previous work highlighted the implicit regularization of such algorithms, we consider an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Anant Raj , Francis Bach

In this paper, we investigate the convergence properties of Fourier partial sums associated with general orthonormal systems, focusing on functions that belong to specific differentiable function classes. While classical Fourier analysis…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Giorgi Tutberidze , Vakhtang Tsagareishvili , Giorgi Cagareishvili

The conjugate gradient (CG) method is an efficient iterative method for solving large-scale strongly convex quadratic programming (QP). In this paper we propose some generalized CG (GCG) methods for solving the $\ell_1$-regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Zhaosong Lu , Xiaojun Chen

A fast algorithm (linear in the degrees of freedom) for the solution of linear variable-coefficient rational-order fractional integral and differential equations is described. The approach is related to the ultraspherical method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Nicholas Hale , Sheehan Olver

We study the asymptotic shape of the trajectory of the stochastic gradient descent algorithm applied to a convex objective function. Under mild regularity assumptions, we prove a functional central limit theorem for the properly rescaled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Kessang Flamand , Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

We consider large random graphs with prescribed degrees, such as those generated by the configuration model. In the regime where the empirical degree distribution approaches a limit $\mu$ with finite mean, we establish the systematic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Justin Salez

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) has been selected as a baseline waveform for long-term evolution (LTE) and fifth-generation new radio (5G NR). Fast-convolution (FC)-based frequency-domain signal processing has been…

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This paper introduces a design method for densergraph-frequency graph Fourier frames (DGFFs) to enhance graph signal processing and analysis. The graph Fourier transform (GFT) enables us to analyze graph signals in the graph spectral domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Kaito Nitani , Seisuke Kyochi

In this paper, we study a nonconvex, nonsmooth, and non-Lipschitz generalized symmetric matrix factorization model that unifies a broad class of matrix factorization formulations arising in machine learning, image science, engineering, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Lei Yang , Han Wan , Min Zhang , Ling Liang

We study the generalized forward-reflected-backward (GFRB) method, an extension of the forward-reflected-backward (FRB) scheme due to Malitsky and Tam, for solving monotone inclusion problems in real Hilbert spaces. We first analyze GFRB…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Santanu Soe , V. Vetrivel , Jen-Chih Yao

In finite element methods (FEMs), the accuracy of the solution cannot increase indefinitely because the round-off error increases when the number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) is large enough. This means that the accuracy that can be reached…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Jie Liu , Matthias Möller , Henk M. Schuttelaars

We give two new approximation algorithms to compute the fractional hypertree width of an input hypergraph. The first algorithm takes as input $n$-vertex $m$-edge hypergraph $H$ of fractional hypertree width at most $\omega$, runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Viktoriia Korchemna , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan , Jie Xue