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most citedNonconvex Optimization via MM Algorithms: Convergence Theory

13 citations · 28 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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stat.ML2023

Wasserstein Geodesic Generator for Conditional Distributions

Young-geun Kim, Kyungbok Lee, Youngwon Choi +2

Generating samples given a specific label requires estimating conditional distributions. We derive a tractable upper bound of the Wasserstein distance between conditional distribut…

stat.ML2022

Statistical inference with implicit SGD: proximal Robbins-Monro vs. Polyak-Ruppert

Yoonhyung Lee, Sungdong Lee, Joong-Ho Won

The implicit stochastic gradient descent (ISGD), a proximal version of SGD, is gaining interest in the literature due to its stability over (explicit) SGD. In this paper, we conduc…

math.OC2022

A unified analysis of convex and non-convex lp-ball projection problems

Joong-Ho Won, Kenneth Lange, Jason Xu

The task of projecting onto norm balls is ubiquitous in statistics and machine learning, yet the availability of actionable algorithms for doing so is largely limited to t…

math.OC2021

Orthogonal Trace-Sum Maximization: Tightness of the Semidefinite Relaxation and Guarantee of Locally Optimal Solutions

Joong-Ho Won, Teng Zhang, Hua Zhou

This paper studies an optimization problem on the sum of traces of matrix quadratic forms in semi-orthogonal matrices, which can be considered as a generalization of the synchr…

math.OC2021★ 13 cited

Nonconvex Optimization via MM Algorithms: Convergence Theory

Kenneth Lange, Joong-Ho Won, Alfonso Landeros +1

The majorization-minimization (MM) principle is an extremely general framework for deriving optimization algorithms. It includes the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, proxim…

stat.CO2020★ 4 cited

DistStat.jl: Towards Unified Programming for High-Performance Statistical Computing Environments in Julia

Seyoon Ko, Hua Zhou, Jin Zhou +1

The demand for high-performance computing (HPC) is ever-increasing for everyday statistical computing purposes. The downside is that we need to write specialized code for each HPC…