Abstract
We propose a new formulation of \(p\) -adic optimisation as the infinitesimal limit of the least squares method, and introduce several algorithms for \(p\) -adic optimisation. Since the optimisation problem includes the maximal feasible subsystem problem of linear equations over the finite field \(\mathbb{F}_p\) , which is APX-complete, i.e. complete for the class of problems which allow constant-factor approximations, by E. Amaldi and V. Kann, we mainly deal with heuristic approaches to the \(p\) -adic optimisation under mild assumptions. In particular, we deal with \(p\) -adic polynomial regression under the assumption that noise occurs digitwise sparsely.