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cs.LG2020
Boosting First-Order Methods by Shifting Objective: New Schemes with Faster Worst-Case Rates
Kaiwen Zhou, Anthony Man-Cho So, James Cheng
We propose a new methodology to design first-order methods for unconstrained strongly convex problems. Specifically, instead of tackling the original objective directly, we constru…
cs.DB2020★ 27 cited
Convolutional Embedding for Edit Distance
Xinyan Dai, Xiao Yan, Kaiwen Zhou +3
Edit-distance-based string similarity search has many applications such as spell correction, data de-duplication, and sequence alignment. However, computing edit distance is known…