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A variational formulation for accelerated optimization on normed vector spaces was recently introduced in Wibisono et al., and later generalized to the Riemannian manifold setting in Duruisseaux and Leok. This variational framework was…
The present research work proposes a new fast fixed-point averaging algorithm on the compact Stiefel manifold based on a mixed retraction/lifting pair. Numerical comparisons between fixed-point algorithms based on the proposed…
Articulation-centric 2D/3D pose supervision forms the core training objective in most existing 3D human pose estimation techniques. Except for synthetic source environments, acquiring such rich supervision for each real target domain at…
The last decade has witnessed an explosion in the development of models, theory and computational algorithms for "big data" analysis. In particular, distributed computing has served as a natural and dominating paradigm for statistical…
The Euclidean scattering transform was introduced nearly a decade ago to improve the mathematical understanding of the success of convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) in image data analysis and other tasks. Inspired by recent interest…
It is well known that Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is strongly affected by outliers and a lot of effort has been put into robustification of PCA. In this paper we present a new algorithm for robust PCA minimizing the trimmed…
We investigate the minimization of a quadratic function over Stiefel manifolds (the set of all orthogonal $r$- frames in $\mathbf{R}^n$), which has applications in high-dimensional semi-supervised classification tasks. To reduce the…
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Although Deep Learning (DL) has achieved success in complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks, it suffers from various notorious problems (e.g., feature redundancy, and vanishing or exploding gradients), since updating parameters in…
In this paper, we extend the proximal point algorithm for vector optimization from the Euclidean space to the Riemannian context. Under suitable assumptions on the objective function the well definition and full convergence of the method to…
Domain adaptation has been a fundamental technology for transferring knowledge from a source domain to a target domain. The key issue of domain adaptation is how to reduce the distribution discrepancy between two domains in a proper way…
Normalized graph cut (NGC) has become a popular research topic due to its wide applications in a large variety of areas like machine learning and very large scale integration (VLSI) circuit design. Most of traditional NGC methods are based…
The paper studies decentralized optimization over networks, where agents minimize a sum of {\it locally} smooth (strongly) convex losses and plus a nonsmooth convex extended value term. We propose decentralized methods wherein agents {\it…
In this paper, we focus on solving a class of constrained non-convex non-concave saddle point problems in a decentralized manner by a group of nodes in a network. Specifically, we assume that each node has access to a summand of a global…
Adaptive methods do not have a direct generalization to manifolds as the adaptive term is not invariant. Momentum methods on manifolds suffer from efficiency problems stemming from the curvature of the manifold. We introduce a framework to…
We develop new adaptive algorithms for variational inequalities with monotone operators, which capture many problems of interest, notably convex optimization and convex-concave saddle point problems. Our algorithms automatically adapt to…
Completely positive factorization (CPF) is a critical task with applications in many fields. This paper proposes a novel method for the CPF. Based on the idea of exterior point iteration, an optimization model is given, which aims to…
Many machine learning applications are naturally formulated as optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. The main idea behind Riemannian optimization is to maintain the feasibility of the variables while moving along a descent…
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