Abstract: A popular method of force-directed graph drawing is multidimensional scaling using graph-theoretic distances as input. We present an algorithm to minimize its energy function, known as ...

Abstract: Inverse problems correspond to a certain type of optimization problems formulated over appropriate input distributions. Recently, there has been a growing interest in understanding the ...

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Summers drew a sharp analogy. "Students don't like grades and many business leaders don't like quarterly earnings reports. The reason is the same. Being monitored and ...