1 State Key Laboratory of Eco-Hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China 2 Ningxia Capital Sponge City Construction & Development Co., Ltd., Guyuan, ...

Adequate mathematical modeling is the key to success for many real-world projects in engineering, medicine, and other applied areas. Once a well-suited model is established, it can be thoroughly ...

This course teaches commonly used approximation methods in quantum mechanics. They include time-independent perturbation theory, time-dependent perturbation theory, tight binding method, variational ...

Abstract: Stochastic approximation methods have been extensively studied in the literature for solving systems of stochastic equations and stochastic optimization problems where function values and ...

Abstract: As computing devices continue growing explosively, computational efficiency is increasingly important. To improve the efficiency of computations, approximate computing is widely used in ...

A wealth of computationally efficient approximation methods for Gaussian process regression have been recently proposed. We give a unifying overview of sparse approximations, following ...