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The problem of imaging point objects can be formulated as estimation of an unknown atomic measure from its $M+1$ consecutive noisy Fourier coefficients. The standard resolution of this inverse problem is $1/M$ and super-resolution refers to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Weilin Li , Wenjing Liao , Albert Fannjiang

Many geometric estimation problems take the form of synchronization over the special Euclidean group: estimate the values of a set of poses given noisy measurements of a subset of their pairwise relative transforms. This problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-13 David M. Rosen , Luca Carlone , Afonso S. Bandeira , John J. Leonard

We study a Q learning algorithm for continuous time stochastic control problems. The proposed algorithm uses the sampled state process by discretizing the state and control action spaces under piece-wise constant control processes. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Erhan Bayraktar , Ali Devran Kara

The paper proposes an approach for the efficient model order reduction of dynamic contact problems in linear elasticity. Instead of the augmented Lagrangian method that is widely used for mechanical contact problems, we prefer here the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Diana Manvelyan , Bernd Simeon , Utz Wever

We propose an algorithm for generating explicit solutions of multiparametric mixed-integer convex programs to within a given suboptimality tolerance. The algorithm is applicable to a very general class of optimization problems, but is most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

Acquired 3D point cloud data, whether from active sensors directly or from stereo-matching algorithms indirectly, typically contain non-negligible noise. To address the point cloud denoising problem, we propose a fast graph-based local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic , Cheng Yang

Consider the following problem: given two arbitrary densities $q_1,q_2$ and a sample-access to an unknown target density $p$, find which of the $q_i$'s is closer to $p$ in total variation. A remarkable result due to Yatracos shows that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Olivier Bousquet , Daniel Kane , Shay Moran

We consider the problem of estimating the locations of a set of points in a k-dimensional euclidean space given a subset of the pairwise distance measurements between the points. We focus on the case when some fraction of these measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Venkatesan Ekambaram , Giulia Fanti , Kannan Ramchandran

A regularization algorithm allowing random noise in derivatives and inexact function values is proposed for computing approximate local critical points of any order for smooth unconstrained optimization problems. For an objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-07 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

We consider the quickest change detection problem where both the parameters of pre- and post- change distributions are unknown, which prevents the use of classical simple hypothesis testing. Without additional assumptions, optimal solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Firas Jarboui , Viannet Perchet

We present an efficient approximate message passing solver for the lifted disjoint paths problem (LDP), a natural but NP-hard model for multiple object tracking (MOT). Our tracker scales to very large instances that come from long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Andrea Hornakova , Timo Kaiser , Paul Swoboda , Michal Rolinek , Bodo Rosenhahn , Roberto Henschel

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

Many important geometric estimation problems take the form of synchronization over the special Euclidean group: estimate the values of a set of poses given a set of relative measurements between them. This problem is typically formulated as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-07 David M. Rosen , Luca Carlone , Afonso S. Bandeira , John J. Leonard

We propose a numerical algorithm for computing approximately optimal solutions of the matching for teams problem. Our algorithm is efficient for problems involving large number of agent categories and allows for non-discrete agent type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm for the closest vector problem for all l_p-norms, 1 < p < \infty, and all polyhedral norms, especially for the l_1-norm and the l_{\infty}-norm. We achieve our results by introducing a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Johannes Blömer , Stefanie Naewe

In this paper we consider sparse approximation problems, that is, general $l_0$ minimization problems with the $l_0$-"norm" of a vector being a part of constraints or objective function. In particular, we first study the first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Zhaosong Lu , Yong Zhang

For interior-point algorithms in linear programming, it is well-known that the selection of the centering parameter is crucial for proving polynomility in theory and for efficiency in practice. However, the selection of the centering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Yaguang Yang

It has been shown that the parallel Lattice Linear Predicate (LLP) algorithm solves many combinatorial optimization problems such as the shortest path problem, the stable marriage problem and the market clearing price problem. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Vijay K. Garg

We provide a general framework for getting expected linear time constant factor approximations (and in many cases FPTASs) to several well-known problems in Computational Geometry, such as $k$-center clustering and farthest nearest neighbor.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sariel Har-Peled , Banjamin Raichel

We consider ILPs, where each variable corresponds to an integral point within a polytope $\mathcal{P}$, i. e., ILPs of the form $\min\{c^{\top}x\mid \sum_{p\in\mathcal P\cap \mathbb Z^d} x_p p = b, x\in\mathbb Z^{|\mathcal P\cap \mathbb…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sebastian Berndt , Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota