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Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Junxiang Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen , Liang Zhao

Recently, federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for training a global model using data from multiple organizations without leaking their raw data. Nevertheless, directly applying federated learning to real-world tasks faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Bingzhe Wu , Zhipeng Liang , Yuxuan Han , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted for recommendation by framing user preference modeling as a language generation problem. However, existing latent reasoning approaches typically represent user intent with a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tianqi Gao , Chengkai Huang , Zihan Wang , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Lina Yao

We present ADMM-Softmax, an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving multinomial logistic regression (MLR) problems. Our method is geared toward supervised classification tasks with many examples and features. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Samy Wu Fung , Sanna Tyrväinen , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber

Recent advancements in recurrent neural network (RNN) research have demonstrated the superiority of utilizing multiscale structures in learning temporal representations of time series. Currently, most of multiscale RNNs use fixed scales,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Hao Hu , Liqiang Wang , Guo-Jun Qi

In this paper, we depart from the widely-used gradient descent-based hierarchical federated learning (FL) algorithms to develop a novel hierarchical FL framework based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Within this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Viktoria Fodor

Intent-based recommender systems have garnered significant attention for uncovering latent fine-grained preferences. Intents, as underlying factors of interactions, are crucial for improving recommendation interpretability. Most methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Wang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

We propose a novel data-driven method to accelerate the convergence of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for solving distributed DC optimal power flow (DC-OPF) where lines are shared between independent network partitions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-16 David Biagioni , Peter Graf , Xiangyu Zhang , Ahmed Zamzam , Kyri Baker , Jennifer King

This paper proposes Relational Similarity Machines (RSM): a fast, accurate, and flexible relational learning framework for supervised and semi-supervised learning tasks. Despite the importance of relational learning, most existing methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-03 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Multi-view multi-label learning frequently suffers from simultaneous feature absence and incomplete annotations, due to challenges in data acquisition and cost-intensive supervision. To tackle the complex yet highly practical problem while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Quanjiang Li , Zhiming Liu , Tianxiang Xu , Tingjin Luo , Chenping Hou

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that allows to accomplish model training without aggregating data at a central server. Most studies on FL consider a centralized framework, in which a single server is endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Bin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Xiaojun Yuan , Qing Ling

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

Multi-Behavior Recommendation (MBR) leverages multiple user interaction types (e.g., views, clicks, purchases) to enrich preference modeling and alleviate data sparsity issues in traditional single-behavior approaches. However, existing MBR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ranxu Zhang , Junjie Meng , Ying Sun , Ziqi Xu , Bing Yin , Hao Li , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

Multi-modal learning, which focuses on utilizing various modalities to improve the performance of a model, is widely used in video recognition. While traditional multi-modal learning offers excellent recognition results, its computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Rameswar Panda , Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Ximeng Sun , Kate Saenko , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris

Relational databases are the de facto standard for storing and querying structured data, and extracting insights from structured data requires advanced analytics. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved super-human prediction performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaofeng Cai , Kaiping Zheng , Gang Chen , H. V. Jagadish , Beng Chin Ooi , Meihui Zhang

Multi-agent distributed optimization over a network minimizes a global objective formed by a sum of local convex functions using only local computation and communication. We develop and analyze a quantized distributed algorithm based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shengyu Zhu , Mingyi Hong , Biao Chen

This study focuses on the feature extraction problem in multi-modal data regression. To address three core challenges in real-world scenarios: limited and non-IID data, effective extraction and fusion of multi-modal information, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haozhe Wu

We study a multi-factor block model for variable clustering and connect it to regularized subspace clustering through a distributionally robust version of nodewise regression. To solve the latter problem, we derive a convex relaxation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaizheng Wang , Xiao Xu , Xun Yu Zhou

Federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) enables agents to collaboratively train a global policy without sharing their individual data. However, high communication overhead remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for natural policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Guangchen Lan , Han Wang , James Anderson , Christopher Brinton , Vaneet Aggarwal

One of the crucial issues in federated learning is how to develop efficient optimization algorithms. Most of the current ones require full device participation and/or impose strong assumptions for convergence. Different from the widely-used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Shenglong Zhou , Geoffrey Ye Li