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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

A Box-Spline Framework for Inverse Problems With Continuous-Domain Sparsity Constraints

Michaël Unser, Aleix Boquet I Pujadas, Mehrsa Pourya

The formulation of inverse problems in the continuum eliminates discretization errors and allows for the exact incorporation of priors. In this paper, we formulate a continuous-domain inverse problem over a search space of continuous and piecewise-linear f ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Regularity Matters: Designing Practical FPGA Switch-Blocks

Paolo Ienne, Stefan Nikolic

Several techniques have been proposed for automatically searching for FPGA switch-blocks which typically show some tangible advantage over the well-known academic architectures. However, the resulting switch-blocks usually exhibit high levels of irregulari ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

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

Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Timothy Michael Hillel, 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 ...

2021

Assisted specification of discrete choice models

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Nicola Marco Ortelli

Determining appropriate utility specifications for discrete choice models is time-consuming and prone to errors. With the availability of larger and larger datasets, as the number of possible specifications exponentially grows with the number of variables ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

A New Lighting on Analytical Discrete Sensitivities in the Context of IsoGeometric Shape Optimization

Thibaut Hirschler

Isogeometric shape optimization has been now studied for over a decade. This contribution aims at compiling the key ingredients within this promising framework, with a particular attention to sensitivity analysis. Based on all the researches related to iso ...

2021

An Optimal-Storage Approach to Semidefinite Programming Using Approximate Complementarity

Volkan Cevher, Alp Yurtsever

This paper develops a new storage-optimal algorithm that provably solves almost all semidefinite programs (SDPs). This method is particularly effective for weakly constrained SDPs under appropriate regularity conditions. The key idea is to formulate an app ...

SIAM Publications2021

LENA: Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning with Self-Triggered Gradient Uploads

Martin Jaggi, Sebastian Urban Stich

In distributed optimization, parameter updates from the gradient computing node devices have to be aggregated in every iteration on the orchestrating server. When these updates are sent over an arbitrary commodity network, bandwidth and latency can be limi ...

MICROTOME PUBLISHING2021

Consensus Control for Decentralized Deep Learning

Martin Jaggi, Sebastian Urban Stich, Tao Lin, Anastasiia Koloskova

Decentralized training of deep learning models enables on-device learning over networks, as well as efficient scaling to large compute clusters. Experiments in earlier works reveal that, even in a data-center setup, decentralized training often suffers fro ...

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH2021

Dynamic lane restrictions on congested arterials

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Buses operating in mixed traffic experience problems with delay and travel time variability in peak periods. Numerous transit priority measures are found in the literature but most rely on separating buses from other vehicles. Complete separation such as d ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

A Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Formulation for Optimizing Multi-Scale Material and Energy Integration

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau

This research presents a mathematical formulation for optimizing integration of complex industrial systems from the level of unit operations to processes, entire plants, and finally to considering industrial symbiosis opportunities between plants. The fram ...

2020

Distributed Multi-Building Coordination for Demand Response

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu

This paper presents a distributed optimization algorithm tailored for solving optimal control problems arising in multi-building coordination. The buildings coordinated by a grid operator, join a demand response program to balance the voltage surge by usin ...

ELSEVIER2020

The Minimization of Public Facilities With Enhanced Genetic Algorithms Using War Elimination

Michael Mark

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing a network of state facilities that provide essential public services (schools, offices, and hospitals). The goal is to reduce the size of the network in order to minimize the costs associated with it. Ho ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Machine learning methods to assist energy system optimization

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

This study evaluates the potential of supervised and transfer learning techniques to assist energy system optimization. A surrogate model is developed with the support of a supervised learning technique (by using artificial neural network) in order to bypa ...

2019

Adversarially Robust Optimization with Gaussian Processes

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett, Ilija Bogunovic

In this paper, we consider the problem of Gaussian process (GP) optimization with an added robustness requirement: The returned point may be perturbed by an adversary, and we require the function value to remain as high as possible even after this perturba ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

Real-Time Optimization of Interconnected Systems via Modifier Adaptation, with Application to Gas-Compressor Stations

Predrag Milosavljevic

The process industries are characterized by a large number of continuously operating plants, for which optimal operation is of economic and ecological importance. Many industrial systems can be regarded as an arrangement of several subsystems, where outp ...

EPFL2018

On Risk Reduction in Kelly Betting Using the Conservative Expected Value

Daniel Kuhn, Napat Rujeerapaiboon

The celebrated Kelly betting strategy guarantees, with probability one, higher long-run wealth than any other causal investment strategy. However, on the way to its long-term supremacy, this strategy has a notable downfall: it typically displays high varia ...

2018

Computational methods for multi-criteria decision support in urban planning

Nils Christian Schüler

Urbanization and climate change induce many challenges for todayâ s cities. These challenges have to be faced by urban planners during complex planning processes that involve many stakeholders. Interactive computational approaches can provide assistance d ...

EPFL2018

Profit Optimization for Wireless Video Broadcasting Systems Based on Polymatroidal Analysis

Pascal Frossard

This study addresses the problem of profit maximization between wireless service providers (WSPs) and content providers (CPs) in wireless broadcasting systems, while simultaneously providing high quality of experience for end-users (EUs). We first study th ...

2015

Viability Principles for Constrained Optimization Using a (1+1)-CMA-ES

Dario Floreano, Andrea Maesani

Viability Evolution is an abstraction of artificial evolution which operates by eliminating candidate solutions that do not satisfy viability criteria. Viability criteria are defined as boundaries on the values of objectives and constraints of the problem ...

Springer International Publishing2014