{"title":"A Positive Semidefinite Safe Approximation of Multivariate Distributionally Robust Constraints Determined by Simple Functions.","authors":"Jana Dienstbier, Frauke Liers, Jan Rolfes","doi":"10.1007/s10957-025-02791-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-025-02791-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Single-level reformulations of (nonconvex) distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems are often intractable, as they contain semi-infinite dual constraints. Based on such a semi-infinite reformulation, we present a safe approximation that allows for the computation of feasible solutions for DROs that depend on nonconvex multivariate simple functions. Moreover, the approximation allows to address ambiguity sets that can incorporate information on moments as well as confidence sets. The typical strong assumptions on the structure of the underlying constraints, such as convexity in the decisions or concavity in the uncertainty found in the literature were, at least in part, recently overcome in [16]. We start from the duality-based reformulation approach in [16] that can be applied for DRO constraints based on simple functions that are univariate in the uncertainty parameters. We significantly extend their approach to multivariate simple functions, which leads to a considerably wider applicability of the proposed reformulation approach. In order to achieve algorithmic tractability, the presented safe approximation is then realized by a discretized counterpart for the semi-infinite dual constraints. The approximation leads to a computationally tractable mixed-integer positive semidefinite problem for which state-of-the-art software implementations are readily available. The tractable safe approximation provides sufficient conditions for distributional robustness of the original problem, i.e., obtained solutions are provably robust.</p>","PeriodicalId":50100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications","volume":"208 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12405389/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Statistics and ComputingPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-06-22DOI: 10.1007/s11222-025-10674-y
Wisdom Aselisewine, Suvra Pal
{"title":"A Neural Network Integrated Accelerated Failure Time-Based Mixture Cure Model.","authors":"Wisdom Aselisewine, Suvra Pal","doi":"10.1007/s11222-025-10674-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-025-10674-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mixture cure rate model (MCM) is commonly used for analyzing survival data with a cured subgroup. While the prevailing approach to modeling the probability of cure involves a generalized linear model using a known parametric link function, such as the logit link function, it has limitations in capturing the complex effects of covariates on cure probability. This paper introduces a novel MCM employing a neural network-based classifier for cure probability and an accelerated failure time structure for the survival distribution of uncured patients. An expectation maximization algorithm is developed for parameter estimation. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed model in capturing non-linear classification boundaries compared to logit-based and spline-based MCMs, as well as other machine learning algorithms. This enhances the accuracy and precision of cured probability estimates, improving predictive accuracy. The proposed model and estimation method are applied to survival data on leukemia cancer patients, showcasing their effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":22058,"journal":{"name":"Statistics and Computing","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144969648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Controllability of Boussinesq Flows by Using Only a Temperature Control","authors":"Vahagn Nersesyan, Manuel Rissel","doi":"10.1007/s00205-025-02128-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-025-02128-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We show that buoyancy driven flows can be steered in an arbitrary time towards any state by applying as control only an external temperature profile in a subset of small area. More specifically, we prove that the 2D incompressible Boussinesq system on the torus is globally approximately controllable via physically localized heating or cooling. In addition, our controls have an explicitly prescribed structure; even without such structural requirements, large data controllability results for Boussinesq flows driven merely by a physically localized temperature profile were so far unknown. The presented method exploits various connections between the model’s underlying transport-, coupling-, and scaling mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"249 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a natural (L^2) metric on the space of Hermitian metrics","authors":"Jinwei Gao","doi":"10.1007/s10455-025-10017-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-025-10017-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the space of Hermitian metrics on a fixed complex vector bundle. This infinite-dimensional space has appeared in the study of Hermitian-Einstein structures, where a special <span>(L^2)</span>-type Riemannian metric is introduced. We compute the metric spray, geodesics and curvature associated to this metric, and show that the exponential map is a diffeomorphism. Though being geodesically complete, the space of Hermitian metrics is metrically incomplete, and its metric completion is proved to be the space of “<span>(L^2)</span> integrable” singular Hermitian metrics. In addition, both the original space and its completion are CAT(0). In the holomorphic case, it turns out that Griffiths seminegative/semipositive singular Hermitian metric is always <span>(L^2)</span> integrable in our sense. Also, in the Appendix, the Nash-Moser inverse function theorem is utilized to prove that, for any <span>(L^2)</span> metric on the space of smooth sections of a given fiber bundle, the exponential map is always a local diffeomorphism, provided that each fiber is nonpositively curved.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":"68 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An ODE characterization of multi-marginal optimal transport with pairwise cost functions","authors":"Luca Nenna, Brendan Pass","doi":"10.1093/imanum/draf067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/imanum/draf067","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new numerical method to solve multi-marginal optimal transport problems with pairwise interaction costs. The complexity of multi-marginal optimal transport generally scales exponentially in the number of marginals $m$. We introduce a one-parameter family of cost functions that interpolates between the original and a special cost function for which the problem’s complexity scales linearly in $m$. We then show that the solution to the original problem can be recovered by solving an ordinary differential equation in the parameter $varepsilon $, whose initial condition corresponds to the solution for the special cost function mentioned above; we then present some simulations, using both explicit Euler and explicit higher order Runge–Kutta schemes to compute solutions to the ordinary differential equation, and, as a result, the multi-marginal optimal transport problem.","PeriodicalId":56295,"journal":{"name":"IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vanishing viscosity limit of compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations with the no-slip boundary condition","authors":"Qiangchang Ju , Jiawei Wang , Feng Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.jde.2025.113749","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jde.2025.113749","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we consider the vanishing viscosity limit of the three dimensional compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations with the no-slip boundary condition in the half-space. Assuming that the initial normal magnetic field is non-degenerate, by identifying a new cancellation structure in the momentum equation, we can use the tangential derivatives of solutions to control the normal derivatives of the magnetic field and pressure. Furthermore, we establish uniform regularity estimates of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem of the compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations in conormal Sobolev spaces. Then, based on these uniform regularity estimates and the compactness arguments, the vanishing viscosity limit of solutions to the compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations is rigorously verified in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> sense.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Equations","volume":"451 ","pages":"Article 113749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The GFB Tree and Tree Imbalance Indices.","authors":"Sean Cleary, Mareike Fischer, Katherine St John","doi":"10.1007/s11538-025-01522-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-025-01522-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tree balance plays an important role in various research areas in phylogenetics and computer science. Typically, it is measured with the help of a balance index or imbalance index. There are more than 25 such indices available, recently surveyed in a book by Fischer et al. They are used to rank rooted binary trees on a scale from the most balanced to the least balanced. We show that a wide range of subtree-size based measures satisfying concavity and monotonicity conditions are minimized by the complete or greedy from the bottom (GFB) tree and maximized by the caterpillar tree, yielding an infinitely large family of distinct new imbalance indices. Answering an open question from the literature, we show that one such established measure, the <math><mover><mi>s</mi> <mo>^</mo></mover> </math> -shape statistic, has the GFB tree as its unique minimizer. We also provide an alternative characterization of GFB trees, showing that they are equivalent to complete trees, which arise in different contexts. We give asymptotic bounds on the expected <math><mover><mi>s</mi> <mo>^</mo></mover> </math> -shape statistic under the uniform and Yule-Harding distributions of trees, and answer questions for the related Q-shape statistic as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":9372,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Mathematical Biology","volume":"87 10","pages":"145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144999754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space-Time FEM-BEM Couplings for Parabolic Transmission Problems","authors":"Thomas Führer, Gregor Gantner, Michael Karkulik","doi":"10.1137/24m1695646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/24m1695646","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Volume 63, Issue 5, Page 1909-1932, October 2025. <br/> Abstract. We develop couplings of a recent space-time first-order system least-squares method for parabolic problems and space-time boundary element methods for the heat equation to numerically solve a parabolic transmission problem on the full space and a finite time interval. In particular, we demonstrate coercivity of the couplings under certain restrictions and validate our theoretical findings by numerical experiments.","PeriodicalId":49527,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties via the double Bruhat graph, II : Iwahori–Hecke algebra","authors":"Felix Schremmer","doi":"10.2140/ant.2025.19.2015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2025.19.2015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce a new language to describe the geometry of affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties in affine flag varieties. This second part of a two-paper series uses this new language, i.e., the double Bruhat graph, to describe certain structure constants of the Iwahori–Hecke algebra. As an application, we describe nonemptiness and dimension of affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties for most elements of the affine Weyl group and arbitrary <math display=\"inline\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>σ</mi></math>-conjugacy classes. </p>","PeriodicalId":50828,"journal":{"name":"Algebra & Number Theory","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}