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Nowadays, analysing data from different classes or over a temporal grid has attracted a great deal of interest. As a result, various multiple graphical models for learning a collection of graphical models simultaneously have been derived by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Ning Zhang , Yangjing Zhang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Penalized quantile regression (QR) is widely used for studying the relationship between a response variable and a set of predictors under data heterogeneity in high-dimensional settings. Compared to penalized least squares, scalable…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-06 Rebeka Man , Xiaoou Pan , Kean Ming Tan , Wen-Xin Zhou

In this paper, we investigate the matrix estimation problem in the multi-response regression model with measurement errors. A nonconvex error-corrected estimator based on a combination of the amended loss function and the nuclear norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

Binary quadratic programming problems have attracted much attention in the last few decades due to their potential applications. This type of problems are NP-hard in general, and still considered a challenge in the design of efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Khaled Elbassioni , Trung Thanh Nguyen

We propose a solution approach for the problem (P) of minimizing an unconstrained binary polynomial optimization problem. We call this method PQCR (Polynomial Quadratic Convex Reformulation). The resolution is based on a 3-phase method. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Sourour Elloumi , Amélie Lambert , Arnaud Lazare

Computational efficient evaluation of penalized estimators of multivariate exponential family distributions is sought. These distributions encompass among others Markov random fields with variates of mixed type (e.g. binary and continuous)…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-29 Diederik S. Laman Trip , Wessel N. van Wieringen

This work, for the first time, introduces two constant factor approximation algorithms with linear query complexity for non-monotone submodular maximization over a ground set of size $n$ subject to a knapsack constraint, $\mathsf{DLA}$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Canh V. Pham , Tan D. Tran , Dung T. K. Ha , My T. Thai

Quantization is a promising approach for reducing memory overhead and accelerating inference, especially in large pre-trained language model (PLM) scenarios. While having no access to original training data due to security and privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Miaoxi Zhu , Qihuang Zhong , Li Shen , Liang Ding , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

We propose a new algorithm for minimizing regularized empirical loss: Stochastic Dual Newton Ascent (SDNA). Our method is dual in nature: in each iteration we update a random subset of the dual variables. However, unlike existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Zheng Qu , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč , Olivier Fercoq

We propose a novel linesearch variant of the trust region normal map-based semismooth Newton method developed in [Ouyang and Milzarek, Math. Program. 212(1-2), 389--435 (2025)] for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Hanfeng Zeng , Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

We study parameter inference in simulation-based stochastic models where the analytical form of the likelihood is unknown. The main difficulty is that score evaluation as a ratio of noisy Monte Carlo estimators induces bias and instability,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-31 Zehao Li , Zhouchen Lin , Yijie Peng

We consider finding a zero point of the maximally monotone operator $T$. First, instead of using the proximal point algorithm (PPA) for this purpose, we employ PPA to solve its Yosida regularization $T_{\lambda}$. Then, based on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Tao Zhang , Shiru Li , Yong Xia

We study a semismooth Newton-type method for the nearest doubly stochastic matrix problem where both differentiability and nonsingularity of the Jacobian can fail. The optimality conditions for this problem are formulated as a system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Hao Hu , Haesol Im , Xinxin Li , Henry Wolkowicz

Boolean quadratic optimization problems occur in a number of applications. Their mixed integer-continuous nature is challenging, since it is inherently NP-hard. For this motivation, semidefinite programming relaxations (SDR's) are proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-20 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , D. Regruto

We solve the analysis sparse coding problem considering a combination of convex and non-convex sparsity promoting penalties. The multi-penalty formulation results in an iterative algorithm involving proximal-averaging. We then unfold the…

We aim to find a solution $\bm{x}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ to a system of quadratic equations of the form $b_i=\lvert\bm{a}_i^*\bm{x}\rvert^2$, $i=1,2,\ldots,m$, e.g., the well-known NP-hard phase retrieval problem. As opposed to recently proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Ji Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Hongkai Zhao

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

In this paper we present an efficient active-set method for the solution of convex quadratic programming problems with general piecewise-linear terms in the objective, with applications to sparse approximations and risk-minimization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Jacek Gondzio , Dionysis Kalogerias

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. We propose Prox-PEP, a proximal method equipped with quadratic subproblems. To handle nonlinear equality constraints, we employ an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Lixin Tang , Xingyu Wang , Liwei Zhang

Modern second order solvers for convex optimisation, such as interior point methods, rely on primal dual information and are difficult to warm start, limiting their applicability in real time control. We propose the PVM, a duality free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Michael Cummins , Eric Kerrigan