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By exploiting double-penalty terms for the primal subproblem, we develop a novel relaxed augmented Lagrangian method for solving a family of convex optimization problems subject to equality or inequality constraints. The method is then…

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Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation with a wide range of applications in scientific computing and artificial intelligence. However, the large scale and sparsity of sparse matrix often make it a performance…

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In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

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