3 papers
econ.TH2020
Sales Policies for a Virtual Assistant
Wenjia Ba, Haim Mendelson, Mingxi Zhu
We study the implications of selling through a voice-based virtual assistant (VA). The seller has a set of products available and the VA decides which product to offer and at what…
math.OC2019
On a Randomized Multi-Block ADMM for Solving Selected Machine Learning Problems
Mingxi Zhu, Kresimir Mihic, Yinyu Ye
The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has now days gained tremendous attentions for solving large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems due to the…
math.OC2019
Managing Randomization in the Multi-Block Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Quadratic Optimization
Kresimir Mihic, Mingxi Zhu, Yinyu Ye
The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has gained a lot of attention for solving large-scale and objective-separable constrained optimization. However, the two-bloc…