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Lagrangian Dual Sections: A Topological Perspective on Hidden Convexity
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Timothy Duff, Jose Israel Rodriguez +1
Hidden convexity is a powerful idea in optimization: under the right transformations, nonconvex problems that are seemingly intractable can be solved efficiently using convex optim…
stat.CO2025
Method of moments for Gaussian mixtures: Implementation and benchmarks
Haley Colgate Kottler, Julia Lindberg, Jose Israel Rodriguez
Gaussian mixture models are universal approximators in the sense that any smooth density can be approximated arbitrarily well with a Gaussian mixture model with enough components.…