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most citedConsensus-Based Optimization with Truncated Noise

4 citations · 4 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

math.AP2026

The nonlocal attraction-repulsion transport equation with power kernels

Massimo Fornasier, Hui Huang, Lukang Sun

We study a nonlocal continuity equation on in which a probability density is driven by the competition between attraction toward a prescribed background measure …

cs.IT2026

Concavity of Tsallis Entropy and Tsallis Entropy Power along Heat Flow

Lukang Sun

We study the evolution of Tsallis entropy along the heat flow and establish concavity results in arbitrary dimensions. Extending earlier one-dimensional results, we prove that Tsal…

math.AP2025

Large-Time Analysis of the Langevin Dynamics for Energies Fulfilling Polyak-Łojasiewicz Conditions

Massimo Fornasier, Lukang Sun, Rachel Ward

In this work, we take a step towards understanding overdamped Langevin dynamics for the minimization of a general class of objective functions . We establish well-pose…

math.AP2025

Well-posedness and Smoothing Effect of the Porous Media Equation under Poincaré Inequality

Lukang Sun

We study the Cauchy problem for a weighted porous medium equation on associated with a Gibbs probability measure . Under a Poincaré inequality for and the convex…

math.OC2025

Faithful global convergence for the rescaled Consensus-Based Optimization

Hui Huang, Hicham Kouhkouh, Lukang Sun

We analyze the Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) algorithm with a consensus point rescaled by a small fixed parameter . Under minimal assumptions on the objective func…

math.AP2025

Regularity and positivity of solutions of the Consensus-Based Optimization equation: unconditional global convergence

Massimo Fornasier, Lukang Sun

Introduced in {\it R. Pinnau, et al. (Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 2017)}, Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) has rapidly emerged as a significant breakthrough in global optimi…

math.AP2024

A PDE Framework of Consensus-Based Optimization for Objectives with Multiple Global Minimizers

Massimo Fornasier, Lukang Sun

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is an agent-based derivative-free method for non-smooth global optimization that has been introduced in 2017, leveraging a surprising interplay b…

math.OC2023★ 4 cited

Consensus-Based Optimization with Truncated Noise

Massimo Fornasier, Peter Richtárik, Konstantin Riedl +1

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a versatile multi-particle metaheuristic optimization method suitable for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dime…