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We leverage the connections between nonexpansive maps, monotone Lipschitz operators, and proximal mappings to obtain near-optimal (i.e., optimal up to poly-log factors in terms of iteration complexity) and parameter-free methods for solving…

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In this paper, we propose a coupled tensor norm regularization that could enable the model output feature and the data input to lie in a low-dimensional manifold, which helps us to reduce overfitting. We show this regularization term is…

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Binary optimization, a representative subclass of discrete optimization, plays an important role in mathematical optimization and has various applications in computer vision and machine learning. Usually, binary optimization problems are…

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