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A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, reflectance, or illumination rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathan T. Barron , Jitendra Malik

In this paper, we prove several generalizations and applications of a fixed point theorem. This theorem is used to prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the linear sparse matrix problem considered.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Xiaorong Liu

With the ever increasing computational power available and the development of high-performances computing, investigating the properties of realistic very large-scale nonlinear dynamical systems has been become reachable. It must be noted…

This paper presents a method for computing a least fixpoint of a system of equations over booleans. The resulting computation can be significantly shorter than the result of iteratively evaluating the entire system until a fixpoint is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viktor Kuncak , K. Rustan M. Leino

In this article we study the problem of recovering the unknown solution of a linear ill-posed problem, via iterative regularization methods. We review the problem of projection-regularization from a statistical point of view. A basic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ana K. Fermin , Carenne Ludena

Deep functional maps have emerged in recent years as a prominent learning-based framework for non-rigid shape matching problems. While early methods in this domain only focused on learning in the functional domain, the latest techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Robin Magnet , Maks Ovsjanikov

A broad class of problems at the core of computational imaging, sensing, and low-level computer vision reduces to the inverse problem of extracting latent images that follow a prior distribution, from measurements taken under a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Felix Heide , Gordon Wetzstein

We consider the multilinear pagerank problem studied in [Gleich, Lim and Yu, Multilinear Pagerank, 2015], which is a system of quadratic equations with stochasticity and nonnegativity constraints. We use the theory of quadratic vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Beatrice Meini , Federico Poloni

We construct a quantum-inspired classical algorithm for computing the permanent of Hermitian positive semidefinite matrices, by exploiting a connection between these mathematical structures and the boson sampling model. Specifically, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 L. Chakhmakhchyan , N. J. Cerf , R. Garcia-Patron

We provide criteria for deciding whether a given planar curve is an image of a given spatial curve, obtained by a central or a parallel projection with unknown parameters. These criteria reduce the projection problem to a certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Joseph M. Burdis , Irina A. Kogan

In this work, we focus on the Neumann-Neumann method (NNM), which is one of the most popular non-overlapping domain decomposition methods. Even though the NNM is widely used and proves itself very efficient when applied to discrete problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas , Martin J. Gander

Non-commutative polynomial optimization is a powerful technique with numerous applications in quantum nonlocality, quantum key distribution, causal inference, many-body physics, amongst others. The standard approach is to reduce such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Andrew J. P. Garner , Mateus Araújo

Benson's outer approximation algorithm and its variants are the most frequently used methods for solving linear multiobjective optimization problems. These algorithms have two intertwined components: one-dimensional linear optimization one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Laszlo Csirmaz

Designing faster algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems is highly desired across numerous practical domains, as a vast array of complex real-world challenges can be effectively modeled as MILP formulations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ruizhi Liu , Liming Xu , Xulin Huang , Jingyan Sui , Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

In this paper, we introduce a new iterative method which we call one step back approach: the main idea is to anticipate the consequence of the iterative computation per coordinate and to optimize on the choice of the sequence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Dohy Hong

It is known that one can solve semidefinite programs to within fixed accuracy in polynomial time using the ellipsoid method (under some assumptions). In this paper it is shown that the same holds true when one uses the short-step, primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Etienne de Klerk , Frank Vallentin

Iterative refinement -- start with a random guess, then iteratively improve the guess -- is a useful paradigm for representation learning because it offers a way to break symmetries among equally plausible explanations for the data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Michael Chang , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sergey Levine

Polyhedral projection is a main operation of the polyhedron abstract domain.It can be computed via parametric linear programming (PLP), which is more efficient than the classic Fourier-Motzkin elimination method.In prior work, PLP was done…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Hang Yu , David Monniaux

An intriguing phenomenon about JPEG compression has been observed since two decades ago- after repeating JPEG compression and decompression, it leads to a stable image that does not change anymore, which is a fixed point. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhaofeng Si , Siwei Lyu