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There is a recent interest on first-order methods for linear programming (LP). In this paper,we propose a stochastic algorithm using variance reduction and restarts for solving sharp primal-dual problems such as LP. We show that the…

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This work proposes a novel adaptive linearized alternating direction multiplier method (LADMM) to convex optimization, which improves the convergence rate of the LADMM-based algorithm by adjusting step-size iteratively.The innovation of…

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To construct a parallel approach for solving optimization problems with orthogonality constraints is usually regarded as an extremely difficult mission, due to the low scalability of the orthonormalization procedure. However, such demand is…

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We consider mixed model of traffic flow distribution in large networks (BMW model, 1954 & Stable Dynamic model, 1999). We build dual problem and consider primal-dual mirror descent method for the dual problem. There are two ways to recover…

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First-order primal-dual methods are appealing for their low memory overhead, fast iterations, and effective parallelization. However, they are often slow at finding high accuracy solutions, which creates a barrier to their use in…

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