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This paper proposes and analyzes an accelerated inexact dampened augmented Lagrangian (AIDAL) method for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each iteration of the AIDAL method consists of: (i) inexactly…

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Algorithmic differentiation (AD) has become increasingly capable and straightforward to use. However, AD is inefficient when applied directly to solvers, a feature of most engineering analyses. We can leverage implicit differentiation to…

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As radio telescopes increase in sensitivity and flexibility, so do their complexity and data-rates. For this reason automated system health management approaches are becoming increasingly critical to ensure nominal telescope operations. We…

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Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation refers to the process of retrieving the direction information of several electromagnetic waves/sources from the outputs of a number of receiving antennas that form a sensor array. DOA estimation is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Zai Yang , Jian Li , Petre Stoica , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we demonstrate that the explicit ADER approach as it is used inter alia in [1] can be seen as a special interpretation of the deferred correction (DeC) method as introduced in [2]. By using this fact, we are able to embed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Maria Han Veiga , Philipp Öffner , Davide Torlo

Alignment of large language models remains a central challenge in natural language processing. Preference optimization has emerged as a popular and effective method for improving alignment, typically through training-time or prompt-based…

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Most observations of absorption lines from interstellar and intergalactic matter have sufficient resolution to show most of the structure at differing radial velocities of the absorber. In analyzing the lines, however, it is important to…

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Sensing emerges as a critical challenge in 6G networks, which require simultaneous communication and target sensing capabilities. State-of-the-art super-resolution techniques for the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation encounter…

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The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is one of the most widely used first-order optimisation methods in the literature owing to its simplicity, flexibility and efficiency. Over the years, numerous efforts are made to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Clarice Poon , Jingwei Liang

As a follow up to \cite{Causley2013}, we provide a detailed description of the numerical implementation of an O(N), A-stable, second order accurate solution of the wave equation, constructed from semi-discrete boundary value problems. We…

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In order to improve the ability of cognitive radar (CR) to adapt to the environment, the required ambiguity function (AF) can be synthesized by designing the waveform. The key to this problem is how to minimize the interference power.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Haoyu Yi , Xinyu Zhang , Weidong Jiang , Kai Huo

Eigen-decomposition-based direction finding methods of using large-scale/ultra-large-scale fully-digital receive antenna arrays lead to a high or ultra-high complexity. To address the complexity dilemma, in this paper, three low-complexity…

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Accurate calibration of sensor extrinsic parameters for ground robotic systems (i.e., relative poses) is crucial for ensuring spatial alignment and achieving high-performance perception. However, existing calibration methods typically…

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The data reduction procedure for radio interferometers can be viewed as a combined calibration and imaging problem. We present an algorithm that unifies cross-calibration, self-calibration, and imaging. Being a Bayesian method, that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Philipp Arras , Philipp Frank , Reimar Leike , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten Enßlin

Iterative procedures for parameter estimation based on stochastic gradient descent allow the estimation to scale to massive data sets. However, in both theory and practice, they suffer from numerical instability. Moreover, they are…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-08 Panos Toulis , Dustin Tran , Edoardo M. Airoldi

This letter aims to maximize the average throughput via the joint design of the transmit power and trajectory for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled network. The conventional way to tackle this problem is based on the alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Hongying Tang , Qingqing Wu , Jing Xu , Wen Chen , Baoqing~Li

The alternating gradient descent (AGD) is a simple but popular algorithm which has been applied to problems in optimization, machine learning, data ming, and signal processing, etc. The algorithm updates two blocks of variables in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong , Zhengdao Wang

Most sensor setups for onboard autonomous perception are composed of LiDARs and vision systems, as they provide complementary information that improves the reliability of the different algorithms necessary to obtain a robust scene…

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Due to the high communication cost in distributed and federated learning problems, methods relying on compression of communicated messages are becoming increasingly popular. While in other contexts the best performing gradient-type methods…

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