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In this paper we consider large-scale composite optimization problems having the objective function formed as a sum of two terms (possibly nonconvex), one has (block) coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradient and the other is…
With a greedy strategy to construct control index set of coordinates firstly and then choosing the corresponding column submatrix in each iteration, we present a greedy block Gauss-Seidel (GBGS) method for solving large linear least squares…
The coordinate descent (CD) method has recently become popular for solving very large-scale problems, partly due to its simple update, low memory requirement, and fast convergence. In this paper, we explore the greedy CD on solving…
The efficient solution of large-scale multiterm linear matrix equations is a challenging task in numerical linear algebra, and it is a largely open problem. We propose a new iterative scheme for symmetric and positive definite operators,…
We propose a variable decomposition algorithm -greedy block coordinate descent (GBCD)- in order to make dense Gaussian process regression practical for large scale problems. GBCD breaks a large scale optimization into a series of small…
Coordinate descent algorithms solve optimization problems by successively performing approximate minimization along coordinate directions or coordinate hyperplanes. They have been used in applications for many years, and their popularity…
Cost-efficient compressive sensing is challenging when facing large-scale data, {\em i.e.}, data with large sizes. Conventional compressive sensing methods for large-scale data will suffer from low computational efficiency and massive…
We present a novel greedy Gauss-Seidel method for solving large linear least squares problem. This method improves the greedy randomized coordinate descent (GRCD) method proposed recently by Bai and Wu [Bai ZZ, and Wu WT. On greedy…
In this paper we propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…
Coordinate descent with random coordinate selection is the current state of the art for many large scale optimization problems. However, greedy selection of the steepest coordinate on smooth problems can yield convergence rates independent…
A novel orthogonalization-free method together with two specific algorithms are proposed to solve extreme eigenvalue problems. On top of gradient-based algorithms, the proposed algorithms modify the multi-column gradient such that earlier…
Submodular function minimization is a fundamental optimization problem that arises in several applications in machine learning and computer vision. The problem is known to be solvable in polynomial time, but general purpose algorithms have…
In this paper, we propose a new stochastic column-block gradient descent method for solving nonlinear systems of equations. It has a descent direction and holds an approximately optimal step size obtained through an optimization problem. We…
We propose to use stochastic Riemannian coordinate descent on the orthogonal group for recurrent neural network training. The algorithm rotates successively two columns of the recurrent matrix, an operation that can be efficiently…
We propose a new randomized optimization method for high-dimensional problems which can be seen as a generalization of coordinate descent to random subspaces. We show that an adaptive sampling strategy for the random subspace significantly…
We consider the problem of finding sparse solutions to a system of underdetermined nonlinear system of equations. The methods are based on a Gauss-Newton approach with line search where the search direction is found by solving a linearized…
We study ways to accelerate greedy coordinate descent in theory and in practice, where "accelerate" refers either to $O(1/k^2)$ convergence in theory, in practice, or both. We introduce and study two algorithms: Accelerated Semi-Greedy…
We describe the Greedy Sparse Subspace Clustering (GSSC) algorithm providing an efficient method for clustering data belonging to a few low-dimensional linear or affine subspaces from incomplete corrupted and noisy data. We provide…
This paper presents a memory efficient, first-order method for low multi-linear rank approximation of high-order, high-dimensional tensors. In our method, we exploit the second-order information of the cost function and the constraints to…
The conjugate gradient method is a widely used algorithm for the numerical solution of a system of linear equations. It is particularly attractive because it allows one to take advantage of sparse matrices and produces (in case of infinite…