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We introduce sparse polynomial zonotopes, a new set representation for formal verification of hybrid systems. Sparse polynomial zonotopes can represent non-convex sets and are generalizations of zonotopes, polytopes, and Taylor models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

Polynomial approximations of functions are widely used in scientific computing. In certain applications, it is often desired to require the polynomial approximation to be non-negative (resp. non-positive), or bounded within a given range,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yuan Chen , Dongbin Xiu , Xiangxiong Zhang

A new algorithm for the efficient numerical approximation of weakly singular integrals over convex polytopes is introduced. Such integrals appear in the Galerkin discretizations of integral equations and nonlocal partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Johannes Tausch

Given an approximation to a multiple isolated solution of a polynomial system of equations, we have provided a symbolic-numeric deflation algorithm to restore the quadratic convergence of Newton's method. Using first-order derivatives of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anton Leykin , Jan Verschelde , Ailing Zhao

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

In this paper, a multiplicity preserving triangular set decomposition algorithm is proposed for a system of two polynomials. The algorithm decomposes the variety defined by the polynomial system into unmixed components represented by…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-01-20 Jin-San Cheng , Xiao-Shan Gao

We introduce a subexponential algorithm for geometric solving of multivariate polynomial equation systems whose bit complexity depends mainly on intrinsic geometric invariants of the solution set. From this algorithm, we derive a new…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 M. Giusti , J. Heintz , K. Hägele , J. E. Morais , L. M. Pardo , J. L. Montaña

This chapter studies the problem of decomposing a tensor into a sum of constituent rank one tensors. While tensor decompositions are very useful in designing learning algorithms and data analysis, they are NP-hard in the worst-case. We will…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study the problem of finding elements in the intersection of an arbitrary conic variety in $\mathbb{F}^n$ with a given linear subspace (where $\mathbb{F}$ can be the real or complex field). This problem captures a rich family of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Nathaniel Johnston , Benjamin Lovitz , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

In this paper we propose a new inexact dual decomposition algorithm for solving separable convex optimization problems. This algorithm is a combination of three techniques: dual Lagrangian decomposition, smoothing and excessive gap. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-11 Quoc Tran Dinh , Ion Necoara , Moritz Diehl

We derive tight expressions for the maximum number of $k$-faces, $0\le{}k\le{}d-1$, of the Minkowski sum, $P_1+...+P_r$, of $r$ convex $d$-polytopes $P_1,...,P_r$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d\ge{}2$ and $r<d$, as a (recursively defined)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Menelaos I. Karavelas , Eleni Tzanaki

Recently, several works have shown that natural modifications of the classical conditional gradient method (aka Frank-Wolfe algorithm) for constrained convex optimization, provably converge with a linear rate when: i) the feasible set is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Dan Garber , Ofer Meshi

We provide an effective algorithm for determining whether an element of the outer automorphism group of a free group is fully irreducible. Our method produces a finite list which can be checked for periodic proper free factors.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Matt Clay , Johanna Mangahas , Alexandra Pettet

The polytope containment problem is deciding whether a polytope is a contained within another polytope. This problem is rooted in computational convexity, and arises in applications such as verification and control of dynamical systems. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Sadra Sadraddini , Russ Tedrake

Decoupling multivariate polynomials is useful for obtaining an insight into the workings of a nonlinear mapping, performing parameter reduction, or approximating nonlinear functions. Several different tensor-based approaches have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Konstantin Usevich , Philippe Dreesen , Mariya Ishteva

We introduce a generalized framework for studying higher-order versions of the multiscale method known as Localized Orthogonal Decomposition. Through a suitable reformulation, we are able to accommodate both conforming and nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Moritz Hauck , Alexei Lozinski , Roland Maier

A broad range of inverse problems can be abstracted into the problem of minimizing the sum of several convex functions in a Hilbert space. We propose a proximal decomposition algorithm for solving this problem with an arbitrary number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

We study the probability that a random polynomial with integer coefficients is reducible when factored over the rational numbers. Using computer-generated data, we investigate a number of different models, including both monic and non-monic…

We present randomized algorithms to compute the sumset (Minkowski sum) of two integer sets, and to multiply two univariate integer polynomials given by sparse representations. Our algorithm for sumset has cost softly linear in the combined…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Andrew Arnold , Daniel S. Roche