Stochastic Methods

A Catalyst Framework for the Quantum Linear System Problem via the Proximal Point Algorithm AAAI 2026 Adaptive Fidelity Estimation for Quantum Programs with Graph-Guided Noise Awareness AAAI 2026 A Natural-Gradient Approach for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Parameter Uncertainty AAAI 2026 A Single-Loop Stochastic Proximal Quasi-Newton Method for Large-Scale Nonsmooth Convex Optimization JMLR 2026 Bilevel MCTS for Amortized O(1) Node Selection in Classical Planning AAAI 2026 Breadth-First Search vs. Restarting Random Walks for Escaping Uninformed Heuristic Regions AAAI 2026 Brownian Bridge Augmented Surrogate Simulation and Injection Planning for Geological CO2 Storage AAAI 2026 Can SGD Select Good Fishermen? Local Convergence under Self-Selection Biases (Extended Abstract) COLT 2026 Center-Outward q-Dominance: A Sample-Computable Proxy for Strong Stochastic Dominance in Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimisation AAAI 2026 Classical and Quantum Speedups for Non-Convex Optimization via Energy Conserving Descent UAI 2026 Designing Optimal Mechanisms to Locate Facilities with Insufficient Capacity for Bayesian Agents AAAI 2026 Distributionally Robust Regret Optimal Control Under Moment-Based Ambiguity Sets L4DC 2026 EvoGrad: Evolutionary-Weighted Gradient and Hessian Learning for Black-Box Optimization AAAI 2026 Finite-Time Decoupled Convergence in Nonlinear Two-Time-Scale Stochastic Approximation JMLR 2026 Game Theory Based Community-Aware Opinion Dynamics AAAI 2026 Improved Runtime Guarantees for the SPEA2 Multi-Objective Optimizer AAAI 2026 Last-Iterate Convergence of Randomized Kaczmarz and SGD with Greedy Step Size COLT 2026 Multiple-play Stochastic Bandits with Prioritized Arm Capacity Sharing AAAI 2026 Not Just for Archiving: Provable Benefits of Reusing the Archive in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization AAAI 2026 On the Gradient Complexity of Private Optimization with Private Oracles COLT 2026 Ordered Local Momentum for Asynchronous Distributed Learning Under Arbitrary Delays AAAI 2026 Private Frequency Estimation via Residue Number Systems AAAI 2026 Quantized Stochastic Primal–Dual Methods for Distributed Optimization under Relaxed Global Geometry UAI 2026 Quantum Non-Linear Bandit Optimization AAAI 2026 Rigorous Asymptotics for First-Order Algorithms Through the Dynamical Cavity Method COLT 2026