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A new method for solving systems of linear algebraic equations of a special type arising in solving problems of image reconstruction has been proposed. This method, due to a certain symmetry of the matrix and the choice of the voxel…
In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm for solving large-scale separable convex problems using Lagrangian dual decomposition and the interior-point framework. By adding self-concordant barrier terms to the ordinary Lagrangian, we…
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We propose a general learning based framework for solving nonsmooth and nonconvex image reconstruction problems. We model the regularization function as the composition of the $l_{2,1}$ norm and a smooth but nonconvex feature mapping…
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