arXiv:2209. 03282v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research.
By John Chiang
arXiv:2509. 11285v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) in deep neural networks is conventionally framed as an iterative gradient-based optimization problem, incurring high computational cost, hyperparameter sensitivity, and risk of catastrophic forgetting.
By Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Bertha Guijarro-Berdi\~nas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos
arXiv:2606. 09278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models frequently hallucinate in precision-critical domains such as technical diagramming and mechanical design, where outputs must satisfy strict geometric constraints.
By Rafael Cabral, Pang Zixi, Ziyi Shou, Shen Xin
The paper presents a unified taxonomy that classifies machine‑learning and artificial‑intelligence applications according to mathematical programming paradigms such as linear, quadratic, mixed‑integer, conic, bilevel, and others. It standardizes notation, identifies key inputs, decision variables, and principal formulations for each application, and discusses structural properties, solution strategies, and limitations. The authors compare tractability, relaxation quality, decomposition, approximation guarantees, and scalability across paradigms, emphasizing that mathematical programming serves as a disciplined interface between predictions and constrained decisions rather than a universal modeling claim.
By Chaosheng Dong
arXiv:2608.22636v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Q-learning with linear function approximation can be unstable because an arbitrary approximation architecture need not preserve the Bellman contracti...
By Shengbo Wang
arXiv:2601. 16884v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study multigrade deep learning (MGDL) as a principled framework for structured error refinement in deep neural networks.
By Shijun Zhang, Zuowei Shen, Yuesheng Xu
arXiv:2509. 14026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are central to quantum machine learning, while recent progress in Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) highlights the power of learnable activation functions.
By Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Morris Yu-Chao Huang, Tianlong Chen, Hsi-Sheng Goan
arXiv:2609.01493v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Black-Box Optimization (BBO) has found broad applications, but evolutionary algorithms and Bayesian optimization face efficiency challenges as real-w...
By Chao Qian, Chen-Guang Wang, Rong-Xi Tan, Ke Xue
arXiv:2602. 17554v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training large-scale generative models is resource-intensive and relies heavily on heuristic dataset weighting.
By Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong
arXiv:2406. 14340v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method, as well as adaptive methods such as the Adam optimizer fail to converge if the learning rates do not converge to zero (particularly, in the situation of constant learning rates).
By Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen, Adrian Riekert
arXiv:2606. 16926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Functional optimization problems are typically solved by optimizing the parameters of a fixed representation, such as a neural network, resulting in highly nonconvex losses that complicate both training and theoretical analysis.
By Daniel Csillag, Rodrigo Schuller, Pedro Dall'Antonia, Leonidas Guibas, Luiz Velho, Tiago Novello
The paper demonstrates that tree tensor networks (TTNs) can encode arbitrary read‑once Boolean formulas, yielding polynomial‑size targets that are hard for gradient descent to learn in polynomial time, yet their loss landscapes are conditionally benign: every minimum‑norm local minimum is global. This shows that bad local minima are not the source of learning difficulty in TTNs; instead, high‑order degenerate saddle points caused by rank‑deficiency can impede learning. A case study on the parity function illustrates how TTNs can link landscape geometry to computational hardness.
By Zach Furman, Stephan W\"aldchen, Yangda Bei, Liam Hodgkinson