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Clustering is a hard discrete optimization problem. Nonconvex approaches such as low-rank semidefinite programming (SDP) have recently demonstrated promising statistical and local algorithmic guarantees for cluster recovery. Due to the…
We formulate here an approach to model reduction that is well-suited for linear time-invariant control systems that are stabilizable and detectable but may otherwise be unstable. We introduce a modified $\mathcal{H}_2$-error metric, the…
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We study the Regularized A-optimal Design (RAOD) problem, which selects a subset of $k$ experiments to minimize the inverse of the Fisher information matrix, regularized with a scaled identity matrix. RAOD has broad applications in Bayesian…
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