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We address the problem of computing stationary points for non-smooth, non-convex optimization problems. While this topic is well studied in the smooth setting, fewer algorithmic and theoretical results exist for the non-smooth case. Within…
Novel convergence analyses are presented of Riemannian stochastic gradient descent (RSGD) on a Hadamard manifold. RSGD is the most basic Riemannian stochastic optimization algorithm and is used in many applications in the field of machine…
In recent years, a distributed Douglas-Rachford splitting method (DDRSM) has been proposed to tackle multi-block separable convex optimization problems. This algorithm offers relatively easier subproblems and greater efficiency for…
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