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20142022
most citedA decentralized proximal-gradient method with network independent step-sizes and separated convergence rates

261 citations · 503 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

Communication-Efficient Topologies for Decentralized Learning with Consensus Rate

Zhuoqing Song, Weijian Li, Kexin Jin +4

Decentralized optimization is an emerging paradigm in distributed learning in which agents achieve network-wide solutions by peer-to-peer communication without the central server.…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

Optimal Gradient Tracking for Decentralized Optimization

Zhuoqing Song, Lei Shi, Shi Pu +1

In this paper, we focus on solving the decentralized optimization problem of minimizing the sum of objective functions over a multi-agent network. The agents are embedded in an…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Decentralized Composite Optimization with Compression

Yao Li, Xiaorui Liu, Jiliang Tang +2

Decentralized optimization and communication compression have exhibited their great potential in accelerating distributed machine learning by mitigating the communication bottlenec…

math.OC2021★ 2 cited

Provably Accelerated Decentralized Gradient Method Over Unbalanced Directed Graphs

Zhuoqing Song, Lei Shi, Shi Pu +1

We consider the decentralized optimization problem, where a network of agents aims to collaboratively minimize the average of their individual smooth and convex objective funct…

math.NA2020★ 3 cited

Fast algorithms for robust principal component analysis with an upper bound on the rank

Ningyu Sha, Lei Shi, Ming Yan

The robust principal component analysis (RPCA) decomposes a data matrix into a low-rank part and a sparse part. There are mainly two types of algorithms for RPCA. The first type of…

math.NA2020★ 32 cited

A Novel Regularization Based on the Error Function for Sparse Recovery

Weihong Guo, Yifei Lou, Jing Qin +1

Regularization plays an important role in solving ill-posed problems by adding extra information about the desired solution, such as sparsity. Many regularization terms usually inv…

math.NA2020★ 1 cited

Variational Asymptotic Preserving Scheme for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck System

Jose A. Carrillo, Li Wang, Wuzhe Xu +1

We design a variational asymptotic preserving scheme for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system with the high field scaling, which describes the Brownian motion of a large system…

cs.LG2020★ 12 cited

Linear Convergent Decentralized Optimization with Compression

Xiaorui Liu, Yao Li, Rongrong Wang +2

Communication compression has become a key strategy to speed up distributed optimization. However, existing decentralized algorithms with compression mainly focus on compressing DG…

math.OC2020

A Multi-Agent Primal-Dual Strategy for Composite Optimization over Distributed Features

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ming Yan, Ali H. Sayed

This work studies multi-agent sharing optimization problems with the objective function being the sum of smooth local functions plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) function couplin…

eess.SP2019★ 2 cited

Decentralized Frequency Alignment for Collaborative Beamforming in Distributed Phased Arrays

Hassna Ouassal, Ming Yan, Jeffrey A. Nanzer

A new approach to distributed syntonization (frequency alignment) for the coordination of nodes in open loop coherent distributed antenna arrays to enable distributed beamforming i…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

Manifold Denoising by Nonlinear Robust Principal Component Analysis

He Lyu, Ningyu Sha, Shuyang Qin +3

This paper extends robust principal component analysis (RPCA) to nonlinear manifolds. Suppose that the observed data matrix is the sum of a sparse component and a component drawn f…

cs.LG2019★ 29 cited

A Double Residual Compression Algorithm for Efficient Distributed Learning

Xiaorui Liu, Yao Li, Jiliang Tang +1

Large-scale machine learning models are often trained by parallel stochastic gradient descent algorithms. However, the communication cost of gradient aggregation and model synchron…

math.OC2019★ 1 cited

On linear convergence of two decentralized algorithms

Yao Li, Ming Yan

Decentralized algorithms solve multi-agent problems over a connected network, where the information can only be exchanged with the accessible neighbors. Though there exist several…

math.NA2019★ 77 cited

Accelerated Schemes for the Minimization

Chao Wang, Ming Yan, Yaghoub Rahimi +1

In this paper, we consider the minimization for sparse recovery and study its relationship with the - model. Based on this relationship, we propose three nu…

math.OC2017★ 9 cited

New convergence analysis of a primal-dual algorithm with large stepsizes

Zhi Li, Ming Yan

We consider a primal-dual algorithm for minimizing with Fréchet differentiable and . This primal-dual algorithm has two names in literature: Primal-D…

math.OC2017★ 261 cited

A decentralized proximal-gradient method with network independent step-sizes and separated convergence rates

Zhi Li, Wei Shi, Ming Yan

This paper proposes a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for a decentralized optimization problem with a composite objective containing smooth and non-smooth terms. Specifically, th…

math.OC2016★ 10 cited

On the Convergence of Asynchronous Parallel Iteration with Unbounded Delays

Zhimin Peng, Yangyang Xu, Ming Yan +1

Recent years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous parallel (async-parallel) iterative algorithms due to problems involving very large-scale data and a large number of decision…

cs.MM2014

Fast Adaptive Algorithm for Robust Evaluation of Quality of Experience

Qianqian Xu, Ming Yan, Yuan Yao

Outlier detection is an integral part of robust evaluation for crowdsourceable Quality of Experience (QoE) and has attracted much attention in recent years. In QoE for multimedia,…

math.OC2014★ 48 cited

Self Equivalence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Ming Yan, Wotao Yin

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADM or ADMM) breaks a complex optimization problem into much simpler subproblems. The ADM algorithms are typically short and easy t…