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Linear detectors such as zero forcing (ZF) or minimum mean square error (MMSE) are imperative for large/massive MIMO systems for both the downlink and uplink scenarios. However these linear detectors require matrix inversion which is…
Over the past decade, various matrix completion algorithms have been developed. Thresholded singular value decomposition (SVD) is a popular technique in implementing many of them. A sizable number of studies have shown its theoretical and…
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In this paper, we propose iterative inner/outer approximations based on a recent notion of block factor-width-two matrices for solving semidefinite programs (SDPs). Our inner/outer approximating algorithms generate a sequence of upper/lower…
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The bilinear form of a matrix function, namely $\mathbf{u}^\top f(A) \mathbf{v}$, appears in many scientific computing problems, where $\mathbf{u}, \mathbf{v} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, and $f(z)$ is a given…
Optimization problems under affine constraints appear in various areas of machine learning. We consider the task of minimizing a smooth strongly convex function F(x) under the affine constraint Kx=b, with an oracle providing evaluations of…
One of the main computational drawbacks in the application of 3-D iterative inversion techniques is the requirement of solving the field quantities for the updated contrast in every iteration. In this paper, the 3-D electromagnetic inverse…
It is well known that a fixed point iteration for solving a linear equation system converges if and only if the spectral radius of the iteration matrix is less than one. A method is presented which guarantees the Fixed Point, even if this…
Low precision arithmetic, in particular half precision floating point arithmetic, is now available in commercial hardware. Using lower precision can offer significant savings in computation and communication costs with proportional savings…
Block-structured integer linear programs (ILPs) play an important role in various application fields. We address $n$-fold ILPs where the matrix $\mathcal{A}$ has a specific structure, i.e., where the blocks in the lower part of…
We present exact mixed-integer linear programming formulations for verifying the performance of first-order methods for parametric quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mixed-integer linear program where the…
Augmentation methods for mixed-integer (linear) programs are a class of primal solution approaches in which a current iterate is augmented to a better solution or proved optimal. It is well known that the performance of these methods, i.e.,…
We introduce a new iterative rounding technique to round a point in a matroid polytope subject to further matroid constraints. This technique returns an independent set in one matroid with limited violations of the other ones. On top of the…