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Contrastive learning has recently achieved remarkable success in many domains including graphs. However contrastive loss, especially for graphs, requires a large number of negative samples which is unscalable and computationally prohibitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Marius Portmann , Shekhar S. Chandra

Motivated by a geometric problem, we introduce a new non-convex graph partitioning objective where the optimality criterion is given by the sum of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the partition components. A relaxed formulation is identified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Braxton Osting , Chris D. White , Edouard Oudet

Motivated by the need for decentralized learning, this paper aims at designing a distributed algorithm for solving nonconvex problems with general linear constraints over a multi-agent network. In the considered problem, each agent owns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Jiawei Zhang , Songyang Ge , Tsung-Hui Chang , Zhi-Quan Luo

We consider nonconvex constrained optimization problems and propose a new approach to the convergence analysis based on penalty functions. We make use of classical penalty functions in an unconventional way, in that penalty functions only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Francisco Facchinei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Lorenzo Lampariello , Gesualdo Scutari

Real-world data is often represented through the relationships between data samples, forming a graph structure. In many applications, it is necessary to learn this graph structure from the observed data. Current graph learning research has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Abdullah Karaaslanli , Bisakh Banerjee , Tapabrata Maiti , Selin Aviyente

Decentralized distributed optimization over time-varying graphs (networks) is nowadays a very popular branch of research in optimization theory and consensus theory. One of the motivations to consider such networks is an application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

In many statistical learning problems, it is desired that the optimal solution conforms to an a priori known sparsity structure represented by a directed acyclic graph. Inducing such structures by means of convex regularizers requires…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Dewei Zhang , Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

We propose a symmetric graph convolutional autoencoder which produces a low-dimensional latent representation from a graph. In contrast to the existing graph autoencoders with asymmetric decoder parts, the proposed autoencoder has a newly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Jiwoong Park , Minsik Lee , Hyung Jin Chang , Kyuewang Lee , Jin Young Choi

Min-max problems have broad applications in machine learning, including learning with non-decomposable loss and learning with robustness to data distribution. Convex-concave min-max problem is an active topic of research with efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Hassan Rafique , Mingrui Liu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

Recent developments in deep learning have revolutionized the paradigm of image restoration. However, its applications on real image denoising are still limited, due to its sensitivity to training data and the complex nature of real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Jin Zeng , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Gene Cheung

The decomposition of undirected graphs simplifies complex problems by breaking them into solvable subgraphs, following the philosophy of divide and conquer. This paper investigates the relationship between atom decomposition and the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pei Heng , Yi Sun , Jianhua Guo

Minimax optimization has become a central tool in machine learning with applications in robust optimization, reinforcement learning, GANs, etc. These applications are often nonconvex-nonconcave, but the existing theory is unable to identify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Benjamin Grimmer , Haihao Lu , Pratik Worah , Vahab Mirrokni

The purpose of this paper is to infer a global (collective) model of time-varying responses of a set of nodes as a dynamic graph, where the individual time series are respectively observed at each of the nodes. The motivation of this work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Bo Jiang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Yiyi Yu , Spencer L. Smith

We consider approaches for improving the efficiency of algorithms for fitting nonconvex penalized regression models such as SCAD and MCP in high dimensions. In particular, we develop rules for discarding variables during cyclic coordinate…

Computation · Statistics 2016-07-20 Sangin Lee , Patrick Breheny

We study distributed algorithms built around minor-based vertex sparsifiers, and give the first algorithm in the CONGEST model for solving linear systems in graph Laplacian matrices to high accuracy. Our Laplacian solver has a round…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Xiaorui Sun , Mingquan Ye

We establish an algorithm to learn feedback maps from data for a class of robust model predictive control (MPC) problems. The algorithm accounts for the approximation errors due to the learning directly at the synthesis stage, ensuring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Siddhartha Ganguly , Shubham Gupta , Debasish Chatterjee

We provide novel theoretical results regarding local optima of regularized $M$-estimators, allowing for nonconvexity in both loss and penalty functions. Under restricted strong convexity on the loss and suitable regularity conditions on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Po-Ling Loh , Martin J. Wainwright

We consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems whose objective is level-bounded and is the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz gradient, a proper closed convex function and a continuous concave function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Bo Wen , Xiaojun Chen , Ting Kei Pong

We propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Sparse high dimensional graphical model selection is a popular topic in contemporary machine learning. To this end, various useful approaches have been proposed in the context of $\ell_1$-penalized estimation in the Gaussian framework.…

Computation · Statistics 2022-02-04 Sang-Yun Oh , Onkar Dalal , Kshitij Khare , Bala Rajaratnam