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One of the most widely used methods for solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems is distributed asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (DASGD), a family of algorithms that result from parallelizing stochastic gradient descent…
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This paper proposes a joint decomposition method that combines La- grangian decomposition and generalized Benders decomposition, to efficiently solve multiscenario nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems to global…
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This paper presents a "two-dimensional Fourier Continuation" method (2D-FC) for construction of bi-periodic extensions of smooth non-periodic functions defined over general two-dimensional smooth domains. The approach can be directly…