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Optimal Lockdown for Pandemic Control
Qianqian Ma, Yang-Yu Liu, Alex Olshevsky
As a common strategy of contagious disease containment, lockdowns will inevitably weaken the economy. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underscores the trade-off arising from public he…
math.OC2020★ 12 cited
Local SGD With a Communication Overhead Depending Only on the Number of Workers
Artin Spiridonoff, Alex Olshevsky, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
We consider speeding up stochastic gradient descent (SGD) by parallelizing it across multiple workers. We assume the same data set is shared among workers, who can take SGD ste…
math.OC2020
Asymptotic Network Independence and Step-Size for A Distributed Subgradient Method
Alex Olshevsky
We consider whether distributed subgradient methods can achieve a linear speedup over a centralized subgradient method. While it might be hoped that distributed network of node…