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The primal-dual distributed optimization methods have broad large-scale machine learning applications. Previous primal-dual distributed methods are not applicable when the dual formulation is not available, e.g. the sum-of-non-convex…
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Existing high-dimensional online learning methods often face the challenge that their error bounds, or per-batch sample sizes, diverge as the number of data batches increases. To address this issue, we propose an asynchronous decomposition…
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