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cs.DS2019★ 4 cited

Estimating Normalizing Constants for Log-Concave Distributions: Algorithms and Lower Bounds

Rong Ge, Holden Lee, Jianfeng Lu

Estimating the normalizing constant of an unnormalized probability distribution has important applications in computer science, statistical physics, machine learning, and statistic…

cs.DS2017

Online Service with Delay

Yossi Azar, Arun Ganesh, Rong Ge +1

In this paper, we introduce the online service with delay problem. In this problem, there are points in a metric space that issue service requests over time, and a server that…

cs.DS2015★ 33 cited

Decomposing Overcomplete 3rd Order Tensors using Sum-of-Squares Algorithms

Rong Ge, Tengyu Ma

Tensor rank and low-rank tensor decompositions have many applications in learning and complexity theory. Most known algorithms use unfoldings of tensors and can only handle rank up…

cs.DS2014★ 38 cited

More Algorithms for Provable Dictionary Learning

Sanjeev Arora, Aditya Bhaskara, Rong Ge +1

In dictionary learning, also known as sparse coding, the algorithm is given samples of the form where is an unknown random sparse vector and is an…

cs.DS2013★ 73 cited

New Algorithms for Learning Incoherent and Overcomplete Dictionaries

Sanjeev Arora, Rong Ge, Ankur Moitra

In sparse recovery we are given a matrix (the dictionary) and a vector of the form where is sparse, and the goal is to recover . This is a central notion in signal…

cs.DS2013

Towards a better approximation for sparsest cut?

Sanjeev Arora, Rong Ge, Ali Kemal Sinop

We give a new -approximation for sparsest cut problem on graphs where small sets expand significantly more than the sparsest cut (sets of size expand by a factor $\sqr…