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We develop a rigorously controlled multi-time scale averaging technique; the averaging is done on a finite time interval, properly chosen, and then, via iterations and normal form transformations, the time intervals are scaled to arbitrary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 Shmuel Fishman , Avy Soffer

This paper introduces a novel second-order splitting scheme for charged-particle dynamics in strong magnetic fields characterized by the maximal ordering. The proposed scheme is explicit and symmetric, which respectively ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Mengting Hu , Jiyong Li , Bin Wang

Various kinetic Monte Carlo algorithms become inefficient when some of the population sizes in a system are large, which gives rise to a large number of reaction events per unit time. Here, we present a new acceleration algorithm based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-24 Yen Ting Lin , Song Feng , William S. Hlavacek

For Hamiltonian systems, simulation algorithms that exactly conserve numerical energy or pseudo-energy have seen extensive investigation. Most available methods either require the iterative solution of nonlinear algebraic equations at each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Stefan Bilbao , Michele Ducceschi , Fabiana Zama

Accelerated gradient methods are the cornerstones of large-scale, data-driven optimization problems that arise naturally in machine learning and other fields concerning data analysis. We introduce a gradient-based optimization framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Param Budhraja , Mayank Baranwal , Kunal Garg , Ashish Hota

The effectiveness of stochastic algorithms based on Monte Carlo dynamics in solving hard optimization problems is mostly unknown. Beyond the basic statement that at a dynamical phase transition the ergodicity breaks and a Monte Carlo…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-10 Maria Chiara Angelini , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

This paper extends the blurring mean shift algorithm from vector-valued data to functional data, enabling effective clustering in infinite-dimensional settings without requiring specification of the number of clusters. To address the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Toshinari Morimoto , Ting-Li Chen , Su-Yun Huang , Ruey S. Tsay

We consider the projected gradient algorithm for the nonconvex best subset selection problem that minimizes a given empirical loss function under an $\ell_0$-norm constraint. Through decomposing the feasible set of the given sparsity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

We deal with the problem of the mean square optimal estimation of linear transformations of the unobserved values of a continuous time stochastic process with periodically correlated increments. Estimates are based on observations of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Maksym Luz , Mikhail Moklyachuk

Machine learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings are highly susceptible to the influence of even a small fraction of structured outliers, making robust optimization techniques essential. In particular, within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Changyu Gao , Andrew Lowy , Xingyu Zhou , Stephen J. Wright

This paper deals with speeding up the convergence of a class of two-step iterative methods for solving linear systems of equations. To implement the acceleration technique, the residual norm associated with computed approximations for each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Fatemeh P. A. Beik , Michele Benzi , Mehdi Najafi-Kalyani

This paper considers the robust phase retrieval, which can be cast as a nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problem. We propose two first-order algorithms with adaptive step sizes: the subgradient algorithm (AdaSubGrad) and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Zhong Zheng , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

In this paper, we propose two novel non-stationary first-order primal-dual algorithms to solve nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems. Unlike existing primal-dual schemes where the parameters are often fixed, our methods use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yuzixuan Zhu

The availability of data sets with large numbers of variables is rapidly increasing. The effective application of Bayesian variable selection methods for regression with these data sets has proved difficult since available Markov chain…

Computation · Statistics 2019-05-08 Jim Griffin , Krys Latuszynski , Mark Steel

In this work, we present a second-order nonuniform time-stepping scheme for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation. We show that the proposed scheme preserves the discrete maximum principle, and by using the convolution structure of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Hong-lin Liao , Tao Tang , Tao Zhou

Efficient and faithful parallel simulation of large asynchronous systems is a challenging computational problem. It requires using the concept of local simulated times and a synchronization scheme. We study the scalability of massively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Korniss , M. A. Novotny , P. A. Rikvold , H. Guclu , Z. Toroczkai

Sparse signal recovery is one of the most fundamental problems in various applications, including medical imaging and remote sensing. Many greedy algorithms based on the family of hard thresholding operators have been developed to solve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Rachel Grotheer , Shuang Li , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Jing Qin

It is shown that for a parabolic problem with maximal $L^p$-regularity (for $1<p<\infty$), the time discretization by a linear multistep method or Runge--Kutta method has maximal $\ell^p$-regularity uniformly in the stepsize if the method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-06 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We provide faster algorithms for approximately solving $\ell_{\infty}$ regression, a fundamental problem prevalent in both combinatorial and continuous optimization. In particular, we provide accelerated coordinate descent methods capable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian