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Reducing energy consumption has become a pressing need for modern machine learning, which has achieved many of its most impressive results by scaling to larger and more energy-consumptive neural networks. Unfortunately, the main algorithm…

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Deep learning models in large-scale machine learning systems are often continuously trained with enormous data from production environments. The sheer volume of streaming training data poses a significant challenge to real-time training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Chaosheng Dong , Xiaojie Jin , Weihao Gao , Yijia Wang , Hongyi Zhang , Xiang Wu , Jianchao Yang , Xiaobing Liu

In this paper we address planning problems in high-dimensional hybrid configuration spaces, with a particular focus on manipulation planning problems involving many objects. We present the hybrid backward-forward (HBF) planning algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Caelan Reed Garrett , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

In this paper, we conduct a theoretical and numerical study of the Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA) under strong convexity assumptions. We propose an autonomous Lyapunov function that reflects the strong convexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Luis M. Briceño-Arias

We consider convex-concave saddle-point problems where the objective functions may be split in many components, and extend recent stochastic variance reduction methods (such as SVRG or SAGA) to provide the first large-scale linearly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-04 P Balamurugan , Francis Bach

Stochastic planning can be reduced to probabilistic inference in large discrete graphical models, but hardness of inference requires approximation schemes to be used. In this paper we argue that such applications can be disentangled along…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhennan Wu , Roni Khardon

FISTA is a popular convex optimisation algorithm which is known to converge at an optimal rate whenever a minimiser is contained in a suitable Hilbert space. We propose a modified algorithm where each iteration is performed in a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Antonin Chambolle , Robert Tovey

In terms of the concepts of state and state transition, a new algorithm-State Transition Algorithm (STA) is proposed in order to probe into classical and intelligent optimization algorithms. On the basis of state and state transition, it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-15 Xiaojun Zhou , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

In this paper we focus on the convergence analysis of the forward-backward splitting method for solving nonsmooth optimization problems in Hilbert spaces when the objective function is the sum of two convex functions. Assuming that one of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-17 J. Y. Bello Cruz , T. T. A. Nghia

The division operation is important for many areas of data processing. Especially considering today's demand for hardware accelerators for machine learning algorithms, there is a high demand for an efficient calculation of the division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Michael Lunglmayr

Splitting is a method to handle application problems by splitting physics, scales, domain, and so on. Many splitting algorithms have been designed for efficient temporal discretization. In this paper, our goal is to use temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang

The splitting method is a powerful method for solving partial differential equations. Various splitting methods have been designed to separate different physics, nonlinearities, and so on. Recently, a new splitting approach has been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Wenyuan Li , Zecheng Zhang

The calibration and training of a neural network is a complex and time-consuming procedure that requires significant computational resources to achieve satisfactory results. Key obstacles are a large number of hyperparameters to select and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari , Gabriele Maroni , Loris Cannelli , Dario Piga , Simone Formentin

In this work we investigate the practicality of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems. Such algorithms have been shown in the machine learning literature…

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Pre-trained vision-language models provide a robust foundation for efficient transfer learning across various downstream tasks. In the field of video action recognition, mainstream approaches often introduce additional modules to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Haoxing Chen , Zizheng Huang , Yan Hong , Yanshuo Wang , Zhongcai Lyu , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Zhangxuan Gu

Foundation models achieve state-of-the-art performance across different tasks, but their size and computational demands raise concerns about accessibility and sustainability. Existing efficiency methods often require additional retraining…

Sparse coding is typically solved by iterative optimization techniques, such as the Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA). Unfolding and learning weights of ISTA using neural networks is a practical way to accelerate estimation.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Pierre Ablin , Thomas Moreau , Mathurin Massias , Alexandre Gramfort

Accelerated proximal gradient methods, which are also called fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithms (FISTA) are known to be efficient for many applications. Recently, Tanabe et al. proposed an extension of FISTA for multiobjective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Yuki Nishimura , Ellen H. Fukuda , Nobuo Yamashita

We analyze the convergence rate of an accelerated backward forward method for solving convex composite optimization problems. The method was developed by Taylor, Hendrickx and Glineur, and is different from the FISTA algorithm in its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Zepeng Wang , Juan Peypouquet

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah