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Estimation of parameters that obey specific constraints is crucial in statistics and machine learning; for example, when parameters are required to satisfy boundedness, monotonicity, or linear inequalities. Traditional approaches impose…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Lachlan Astfalck , Deborshee Sen , Sayan Patra , Edward Cripps , David Dunson

We reformulate in a systematic way the conversional approach in its most general and compact form. We present a new definition of generalized Dirac bracket directly in terms of the super-observables commuting with the basic BFV-BRST charge.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-05 Igor A. Batalin , Peter M. Lavrov

The nonholonomic constrained system with second-class constraints is investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) quantization scheme to yield the complete equations of motion of the system. Although the integrability conditions in the HJ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Soon-Tae Hong , Won Tae Kim , Yong-Wan Kim , Young-Jai Park

We construct a new kind of measures, called projection families, which generalize the classical notion of vector and operator-valued measures. The maximal class of reasonable functions admits an integral with respect to a projection family,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Luis A. Cedeño-Pérez , Hernando Quevedo

Data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

The projected subgradient method for constrained minimization repeatedly interlaces subgradient steps for the objective function with projections onto the feasible region, which is the intersection of closed and convex constraints sets, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-21 Yair Censor , Ran Davidi , Gabor T. Herman , Reinhard W. Schulte , Luba Tetruashvili

An effective formalism for quantum constrained systems is presented which allows manageable derivations of solutions and observables, including a treatment of physical reality conditions without requiring full knowledge of the physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Martin Bojowald , Barbara Sandhoefer , Aureliano Skirzewski , Artur Tsobanjan

To exhibit the possible origin of the inner complexity of the Berkovits's pure spinor approach, we consider the covariant BRST quantization of the D=11 massless superparticle (M0-brane) in its spinor moving frame or twistor-like Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor A. Bandos

In this work, we present an efficient gradient projection method for solving a class of stochastic optimal control problem with expected integral state constraint. The first order optimality condition system consisting of forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Qiming Wang , Wenbin Liu

We propose a new family of neural networks to predict the behaviors of physical systems by learning their underpinning constraints. A neural projection operator lies at the heart of our approach, composed of a lightweight network with an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Shuqi Yang , Xingzhe He , Bo Zhu

A Newton-type active set algorithm for large-scale minimization subject to polyhedral constraints is proposed. The algorithm consists of a gradient projection step, a second-order Newton-type step in the null space of the constraint matrix,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 William W. Hager , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh

The time-convolutionless (TCL) projection operator technique allows a systematic analysis of the non-Markovian quantum dynamics of open systems. We introduce a class of projection superoperators which project the states of the total system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Recent results of BRST quantization on inner product spaces are reviewed. It is shown how relativistic particle models may be quantized with finite norms and that the relation between the operator method and the conventional path integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Marnelius

A systematic procedure is proposed for deriving all the gauge symmetries of the general, not necessarily variational, equations of motion. For the variational equations, this procedure reduces to the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

This study develops a framework for a class of constant modulus (CM) optimization problems, which covers binary constraints, discrete phase constraints, semi-orthogonal matrix constraints, non-negative semi-orthogonal matrix constraints,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Junbin Liu , Ya Liu , Wing-Kin Ma , Mingjie Shao , Anthony Man-Cho So

We introduce a constrained optimization framework for training transformers that behave like optimization descent algorithms. Specifically, we enforce layerwise descent constraints on the objective function and replace standard empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Javier Porras-Valenzuela , Samar Hadou , Alejandro Ribeiro

Many core problems in robotics can be framed as constrained optimization problems. Often on these problems, the robotic system has uncertainty, or it would be advantageous to identify multiple high quality feasible solutions. To enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Griffin Tabor , Tucker Hermans

Covariant quantization of the Nambu-Goto spinning particle in 2+1-dimensions is studied. The model is relevant in the context of recent activities in non-commutative space-time. From a technical point of view also covariant quantization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Subir Ghosh

The ability to generalize is an important feature of any intelligent agent. Not only because it may allow the agent to cope with large amounts of data, but also because in some environments, an agent with no generalization capabilities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Alexey A. Melnikov , Adi Makmal , Vedran Dunjko , Hans J. Briegel

The general structure of the Sp(2) covariant version of the field-antifield quantization of general constrained systems in the Lagrangian formalism, the so called triplectic quantization, as presented in our previous paper with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 Igor Batalin , Robert Marnelius