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Accelerated Stochastic Matrix Inversion: General Theory and Speeding up BFGS Rules for Faster Second-Order Optimization

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Bootstrapping massive quantum field theories

Denis Karateev

We propose a new non-perturbative method for studying UV complete unitary quantum field theories (QFTs) with a mass gap in general number of spacetime dimensions. The method relies on unitarity formulated as positive semi-definiteness of the matrix of inne ...

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Estimation of discrete choice models with hybrid stochastic adaptive batch size algorithms

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Gael Lederrey

The emergence of Big Data has enabled new research perspectives in the discrete choice community. While the techniques to estimate Machine Learning models on a massive amount of data are well established, these have not yet been fully explored for the esti ...

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A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Train Routing and Scheduling

Zora Oswald

Good train scheduling for a big network with many trains is very hard to achieve. As the trains are competing for the tracks with one another, the number of constraints grows rapidly. Trying to take advantage of emerging technologies in the areas of optimi ...

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Better Guarantees for k-Means and Euclidean k-Median by Primal-Dual Algorithms

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Ashkan Norouzi Fard, Justin Dean Ward

Clustering is a classic topic in optimization with k-means being one of the most fundamental such problems. In the absence of any restrictions on the input, the best-known algorithm for k-means in Euclidean space with a provable guarantee is a simple local ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020

Coordinate Difference Matrices

Martin Vetterli, Gilles Baechler, Miranda Krekovic, Golnooshsadat Elhami

In many problems such as phase retrieval, molecular biology, source localization, and sensor array calibration, one can measure vector differences between pairs of points and attempt to recover the position of these points; this class of problems is called ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020

Recursive blocked algorithms for linear systems with Kronecker product structure

Daniel Kressner

Recursive blocked algorithms have proven to be highly efficient at the numerical solution of the Sylvester matrix equation and its generalizations. In this work, we show that these algorithms extend in a seamless fashion to higher-dimensional variants of g ...

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Matrices with hierarchical low-rank structure, including HODLR and HSS matrices, constitute a versatile tool to develop fast algorithms for addressing large-scale problems. While existing software packages for such matrices often focus on linear systems, t ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020

On maximum volume submatrices and cross approximation for symmetric semidefinite and diagonally dominant matrices

Daniel Kressner, Stefano Massei, Alice Cortinovis

The problem of finding a k x k submatrix of maximum volume of a matrix A is of interest in a variety of applications. For example, it yields a quasi-best low-rank approximation constructed from the rows and columns of A. We show that such a submatrix can a ...

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Scalable Convex Optimization Methods for Semidefinite Programming

Alp Yurtsever

With the ever-growing data sizes along with the increasing complexity of the modern problem formulations, contemporary applications in science and engineering impose heavy computational and storage burdens on the optimization algorithms. As a result, there ...

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