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We study the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence approximation theory of Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) by isolating an abstract mechanism behind several necessary-and-sufficient statements. The necessity direction is universal: if a density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hien Duy Nguyen

The Kullback-Leibler divergence, the Kullback-Leibler variation, and the Bernstein "norm" are used to quantify discrepancies among probability distributions in likelihood models such as nonparametric maximum likelihood and nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Tetsuya Kaji

Multi-homogeneous polynomial systems arise in many applications. We provide bit complexity estimates for solving them which, up to a few extra other factors, are quadratic in the number of solutions and linear in the height of the input…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Mohab Safey El Din , Eric Schost

In this paper, we present a new iterative approximate method of solving boundary value problems. The idea is to compute approximate polynomial solutions in the Bernstein form using least squares approximation combined with some properties…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Przemysław Gospodarczyk , Paweł Woźny

In this paper, we employ the concept of quasi-relative interior to analyze the method of Lagrange multipliers and establish strong Lagrangian duality for nonsmooth convex optimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Then, we generalize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Nguyen Mau Nam , Gary Sandine , Quoc Tran-Dinh

In this paper, we introduce the Maximum Matrix Contraction problem, where we aim to contract as much as possible a binary matrix in order to maximize its density. We study the complexity and the polynomial approximability of the problem.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Dimitri Watel , Pierre-Louis Poirion

We consider a multi-agent optimization problem where agents subject to local, intermittent interactions aim to minimize a sum of local objective functions subject to a global inequality constraint and a global state constraint set. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Minghui Zhu , Sonia Martinez

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used method for solving many convex minimization models arising in signal and image processing. In this paper, we propose an inertial ADMM for solving a two-block separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Yang Yang , Yuchao Tang

Low rank approximation is a commonly occurring problem in many computer vision and machine learning applications. There are two common ways of optimizing the resulting models. Either the set of matrices with a given rank can be explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Carl Olsson , Anders Heyden

This paper shows that large nonparametric classes of conditional multivariate densities can be approximated in the Kullback--Leibler distance by different specifications of finite mixtures of normal regressions in which normal means and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-05 Andriy Norets

Given a dissimilarity matrix, the metric nearness problem is to find the nearest matrix of distances that satisfy the triangle inequalities. This problem has wide applications, such as sensor networks, image processing, and so on. But it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Peipei Tang , Bo Jiang , Chengjing Wang

In this paper, we suggest a new Heterogeneous Multiscale Method (HMM) for the (time-harmonic) Maxwell scattering problem with high contrast. The method is constructed for a setting as in Bouchitt\'e, Bourel and Felbacq (C.R. Math. Acad.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Barbara Verfürth

The main goal of this paper is to achieve a parametrization of the solution set of the truncated matricial Hausdorff moment problem in the non-degenerate and degenerate situation. We treat the even and the odd cases simultaneously. Our…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Bernd Fritzsche , Bernd Kirstein , Conrad Mädler

In this paper we consider from two different aspects the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in Hilbert spaces. We first consider the application of the proximal ADMM to solve well-posed linearly constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Qinian Jin

We show that the global minimum solution of $\lVert A - BXC \rVert$ can be found in closed-form with singular value decompositions and generalized singular value decompositions for a variety of constraints on $X$ involving rank, norm,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Zihao Li , Lek-Heng Lim

We construct quantum algorithms to compute the solution and/or physical observables of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJE) via linear representations or exact mappings between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Yue Yu

The forward Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is a ubiquitous objective for fitting a parameterized distribution to samples due to its tractability and equivalence to maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Its inherent asymmetry, however, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Omri Ben-Dov , Luiz F. O. Chamon

We present a new sublinear time algorithm for approximating the spectral density (eigenvalue distribution) of an $n\times n$ normalized graph adjacency or Laplacian matrix. The algorithm recovers the spectrum up to $\epsilon$ accuracy in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Vladimir Braverman , Aditya Krishnan , Christopher Musco

Recently developed quantum algorithms address computational challenges in numerical analysis by performing linear algebra in Hilbert space. Such algorithms can produce a quantum state proportional to the solution of a $d$-dimensional system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Andrew M. Childs , Jin-Peng Liu

This paper presents a modified iterative approach to solve the variational inequality problem using the double inertial technique in the context of a real Hilbert space. Our iterative technique involves a projection onto a generalized…

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