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Two-stage stochastic programs with binary recourse are challenging to solve and efficient solution methods for such problems have been limited. In this work, we generalize an existing binary decision diagram-based (BDD-based) approach of…

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Second-order optimization methods, which leverage curvature information, offer faster and more stable convergence than first-order methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and Adam. However, their practical adoption is hindered by…

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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

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The knowledge discovery algorithms have become ineffective at the abundance of data and the need for fast algorithms or optimizing methods is required. To address this limitation, the objective of this work is to adapt a new method for…

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For the exploration of large state spaces, symbolic search using binary decision diagrams (BDDs) can save huge amounts of memory and computation time. State sets are represented and modified by accessing and manipulating their…

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Most methods for Bundle Adjustment (BA) in computer vision are either centralized or operate incrementally. This leads to poor scaling and affects the quality of solution as the number of images grows in large scale structure from motion…

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We propose a bilinear decomposition for the Burer-Monteiro method and combine it with the standard Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers algorithm for semidefinite programming. Bilinear decomposition reduces the degree of the…

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We propose a novel soft-aided iterative decoding algorithm for product codes (PCs). The proposed algorithm, named iterative bounded distance decoding with combined reliability (iBDD-CR), enhances the conventional iterative bounded distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva , Alex Alvarado

PIM architectures aim to reduce data transfer costs between processors and memory by integrating processing units within memory layers. Prior PIM architectures have shown potential to improve energy efficiency and performance. However, such…

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Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. As opposed to binary matrix factorization which uses standard arithmetic, BMF uses the Boolean OR and Boolean AND…

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A novel adaptive binary decoding algorithm for LDPC codes is proposed, which reduces the decoding complexity while having a comparable or even better performance than corresponding non-adaptive alternatives. In each iteration the variable…

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Many practical applications require solving an optimization over large and high-dimensional data sets, which makes these problems hard to solve and prohibitively time consuming. In this paper, we propose a parallel distributed algorithm…

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In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for program optimization which is based on aggressive aggregation, i.e., on a partial evaluation-based decomposition of acyclic program fragments into a pair of computationally optimal structures: an…

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The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals that share their waiting lists and ORs. We propose a stochastic extension of this problem where surgery…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Cheng Guo , Merve Bodur , Dionne M. Aleman , David R. Urbach

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADM or ADMM) breaks a complex optimization problem into much simpler subproblems. The ADM algorithms are typically short and easy to implement yet exhibit (nearly) state-of-the-art…

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Despite their tremendous success and versatility, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such as Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from inference inefficiency and rely on advanced computational infrastructure. To address these challenges and make…

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Recent advances in neural-network architecture allow for seamless integration of convex optimization problems as differentiable layers in an end-to-end trainable neural network. Integrating medium and large scale quadratic programs into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Andrew Butler , Roy Kwon

We introduce certain modifications of the BFGS method for functions that are not parallelizable by nature (having consecutive operations only) taking advantage of SIMD. We also provide a modified LBFGS\texttt{++} library that takes…

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