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stat.ML2017★ 8 cited
Communication-Avoiding Optimization Methods for Distributed Massive-Scale Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation
Penporn Koanantakool, Alnur Ali, Ariful Azad +5
Across a variety of scientific disciplines, sparse inverse covariance estimation is a popular tool for capturing the underlying dependency relationships in multivariate data. Unfor…
math.OC2017★ 4 cited
A Semismooth Newton Method for Fast, Generic Convex Programming
Alnur Ali, Eric Wong, J. Zico Kolter
We introduce Newton-ADMM, a method for fast conic optimization. The basic idea is to view the residuals of consecutive iterates generated by the alternating direction method of mul…