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most citedOn the R-superlinear convergence of the KKT residues generated by the augmented Lagrangian method for convex composite conic programming

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math.OC2018

A Unified Algorithmic Framework of Symmetric Gauss-Seidel Decomposition based Proximal ADMMs for Convex Composite Programming

Liang Chen, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh +1

This paper aims to present a fairly accessible generalization of several symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition based multi-block proximal alternating direction methods of multiplier…

math.OC2018

Best Nonnegative Rank-One Approximations of Tensors

Shenglong Hu, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper, we study the polynomial optimization problem of multi-forms over the intersection of the multi-spheres and the nonnegative orthants. This class of problems is NP-har…

math.OC2018

Spectral operators of matrices: semismoothness and characterizations of the generalized Jacobian

Chao Ding, Defeng Sun, Jie Sun +1

Spectral operators of matrices proposed recently in [C. Ding, D.F. Sun, J. Sun, and K.C. Toh, Math. Program. {\bf 168}, 509--531 (2018)] are a class of matrix valued functions, whi…

cs.LG2018

Convex Clustering: Model, Theoretical Guarantee and Efficient Algorithm

Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh, Yancheng Yuan

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning. Popular methods like K-means, may suffer from poor performance as they are prone to get stuck in its local minima. Rec…

math.OC2018

A Fast Globally Linearly Convergent Algorithm for the Computation of Wasserstein Barycenters

Lei Yang, Jia Li, Defeng Sun +1

We consider the problem of computing a Wasserstein barycenter for a set of discrete probability distributions with finite supports, which finds many applications in areas such as s…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

Unravelling the mechanism of the semiconducting-like behavior and its relation to superconductivity in (CaFePtAs)PtAs

Run Yang, Yaomin Dai, Jia Yu +6

The temperature-dependence of the in-plane optical properties of (CaFePtAs)PtAs have been investigated for the undoped (0) parent compound, and…