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We deal with the numerical solution of the time-dependent partial differential equations using the adaptive space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. The discretization leads to a nonlinear algebraic system at each time level, the size…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Vit Dolejsi , Jakub Sistek

This paper presents optimal scaling of the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for a class of distributed quadratic programming problems. The scaling corresponds to the ADMM step-size and relaxation parameter, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 André Teixeira , Euhanna Ghadimi , Iman Shames , Henrik Sandberg , Mikael Johansson

This paper investigates the cooperative planning and control problem for multiple connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in different scenarios. In the existing literature, most of the methods suffer from significant problems in computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoxue Zhang , Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Sunan Huang , Frank L. Lewis , Tong Heng Lee

Second-order optimizers hold intriguing potential for deep learning, but suffer from increased cost and sensitivity to the non-convexity of the loss surface as compared to gradient-based approaches. We introduce a coordinate descent method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ravi G. Patel , Nathaniel A. Trask , Mamikon A. Gulian , Eric C. Cyr

Network-distributed optimization has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its ever-increasing applications. However, the classic decentralized gradient descent (DGD) algorithm is communication-inefficient for large-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

This paper proposes a new decentralized conjugate gradient (NDCG) method and a decentralized memoryless BFGS (DMBFGS) method for the nonconvex and strongly convex decentralized optimization problem, respectively, of minimizing a finite sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Liping Wang , Hao Wu , Hongchao Zhang

Large-scale L1-regularized loss minimization problems arise in high-dimensional applications such as compressed sensing and high-dimensional supervised learning, including classification and regression problems. High-performance algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-19 Chad Scherrer , Ambuj Tewari , Mahantesh Halappanavar , David Haglin

With the recent proliferation of large-scale learning problems,there have been a lot of interest on distributed machine learning algorithms, particularly those that are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Ruiliang Zhang , Shuai Zheng , James T. Kwok

$L_0$-smoothness, which has been pivotal to advancing decentralized optimization theory, is often fairly restrictive for modern tasks like deep learning. The recent advent of relaxed $(L_0,L_1)$-smoothness condition enables improved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar

Constrained clustering leverages limited domain knowledge to improve clustering performance and interpretability, but incorporating pairwise must-link and cannot-link constraints is an NP-hard challenge, making global optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pedro Chumpitaz-Flores , My Duong , Cristobal Heredia , Kaixun Hua

This letter studies the AltGDmin algorithm for solving the noisy low rank column-wise sensing (LRCS) problem. Our sample complexity guarantee improves upon the best existing one by a factor $\max(r, \log(1/\epsilon))/r$ where $r$ is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Ankit Pratap Singh , Namrata Vaswani

We investigate the problem of recovering a partially observed high-rank matrix whose columns obey a nonlinear structure such as a union of subspaces, an algebraic variety or grouped in clusters. The recovery problem is formulated as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-12 Florentin Goyens , Coralia Cartis , Armin Eftekhari

We propose a new stochastic optimization framework for empirical risk minimization problems such as those that arise in machine learning. The traditional approaches, such as (mini-batch) stochastic gradient descent (SGD), utilize an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Kenji Kawaguchi , Haihao Lu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time novel view synthesis. As an explicit representation optimized through gradient propagation among primitives, optimization widely accepted in deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Renjie Ding , Yaonan Wang , Min Liu , Jialin Zhu , Jiazheng Wang , Jiahao Zhao , Wenting Shen , Feixiang He , Xiang Chen

We consider the problem of reconstructing a low rank matrix from a subset of its entries and analyze two variants of the so-called Alternating Minimization algorithm, which has been proposed in the past. We establish that when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-21 David Gamarnik , Sidhant Misra

The implementation of a vast majority of machine learning (ML) algorithms boils down to solving a numerical optimization problem. In this context, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) methods have long proven to provide good results, both in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Despite the remarkable success of low-rank estimation in data mining, its effectiveness diminishes when applied to data that inherently lacks low-rank structure. To address this limitation, in this paper, we focus on non-negative sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qingsong Wang , Yunfei Qu , Chunfeng Cui , Deren Han

Tensor ring (TR) decomposition has been widely applied as an effective approach in a variety of applications to discover the hidden low-rank patterns in multidimensional data. A well-known method for TR decomposition is the alternating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Yajie Yu , Hanyu Li

Composite minimization is a powerful framework in large-scale convex optimization, based on decoupling of the objective function into terms with structurally different properties and allowing for more flexible algorithmic design. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

The low-tubal-rank tensor model has been recently proposed for real-world multidimensional data. In this paper, we study the low-tubal-rank tensor completion problem, i.e., to recover a third-order tensor by observing a subset of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Xiao-Yang Liu , Shuchin Aeron , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang