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Finding an exact maximum distance of two points in the given set is a fundamental computational problem which is solved in many applications. This paper presents a fast, simple to implement and robust algorithm for finding this maximum…

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We expand the basic geometric elements of the simplex method to linear programs in locally convex topological vector spaces and provide conditions under which the method converges in value to optimality. This setting generalizes many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Robert L Smith , Christopher Thomas Ryan

In classic distributed graph problems, each instance on a graph specifies a space of feasible solutions (e.g. all proper ($\Delta+1$)-list-colorings of the graph), and the task of distributed algorithm is to construct a feasible solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Weiming Feng , Yitong Yin

The question whether there exists a hypergraph whose degrees are equal to a given sequence of integers is a well-known reconstruction problem in graph theory, which is motivated by discrete tomography. In this paper we approach the problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Michela Ascolese , Matthias Lienau , Matthias Schulte , Anusch Taraz

We present an implementation of a Monte Carlo algorithm that generates points randomly and uniformly on a set of arbitrary surfaces. The algorithm is completely general and only requires the geometry modeling software to provide the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-03-19 J. A. Detwiler , R. Henning , R. A. Johnson , M. G. Marino

The aim of this paper is to develop greedy algorithms which generate uniformly distributed sequences in the $d$-dimensional unit cube $[0,1]^d$. The figures of merit are three different variants of $L_2$ discrepancy. Theoretical results…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Ralph Kritzinger

In a recent paper the author proved a theorem to the effect that the matrix of normalized Euclidean distances on the set of specially distributed random points in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb R^{n}$ with independent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 A. P. Zubarev

We introduce a fast and easy-to-implement simulation algorithm for a multivariate normal distribution truncated on the intersection of a set of hyperplanes, and further generalize it to efficiently simulate random variables from a…

Computation · Statistics 2017-02-21 Yulai Cong , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

We give the first fully polynomial-time algorithm for learning halfspaces with respect to the uniform distribution on the hypercube in the presence of contamination, where an adversary may corrupt some fraction of examples and labels…

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This paper is devoted to the general problem of projection onto a polyhedral convex cone generated by a finite set of generators.This problem is reformulated into projection onto the polytope obtained by simple truncation of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Evgeni Nurminski

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

A disordered medium is often constructed by $N$ points independently and identically distributed in a $d$-dimensional hyperspace. Characteristics related to the statistics of this system is known as the random point problem. As $d \to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesar Augusto Sangaletti Tercariol , Alexandre Souto Martinez

This article introduces an algorithm to draw random discrete uniform variables within a given range of size n from a source of random bits. The algorithm aims to be simple to implement and optimal both with regards to the amount of random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Jérémie Lumbroso

In this paper we propose a fast algorithm for trivariate interpolation, which is based on the partition of unity method for constructing a global interpolant by blending local radial basis function interpolants and using locally supported…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

This paper deals with simultaneously fast and in-place algorithms for formulae where the result has to be linearly accumulated: some of the output variables are also input variables, linked by a linear dependency. Fundamental examples…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Bruno Grenet

Polynomial systems occur in many areas of science and engineering. Unlike general nonlinear systems, the algebraic structure enables to compute all solutions of a polynomial system. We describe our massive parallel predictor-corrector…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Jan Verschelde , Xiangcheng Yu

We show how to obtain a fast component-by-component construction algorithm for higher order polynomial lattice rules. Such rules are useful for multivariate quadrature of high-dimensional smooth functions over the unit cube as they achieve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Jan Baldeaux , Josef Dick , Gunther Leobacher , Dirk Nuyens , Friedrich Pillichshammer

We describe a new algorithm to compute the geometric intersection number between two curves, given as edge vectors on an ideal triangulation. Most importantly, this algorithm runs in polynomial time in the bit-size of the two edge vectors.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

We consider the problem of distributed learning, where a network of agents collectively aim to agree on a hypothesis that best explains a set of distributed observations of conditionally independent random processes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe