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math.OC2018★ 3 cited
On the Landscape of Synchronization Networks: A Perspective from Nonconvex Optimization
Shuyang Ling, Ruitu Xu, Afonso S. Bandeira
Studying the landscape of nonconvex cost function is key towards a better understanding of optimization algorithms widely used in signal processing, statistics, and machine learnin…
stat.ML2018★ 1 cited
Certifying Global Optimality of Graph Cuts via Semidefinite Relaxation: A Performance Guarantee for Spectral Clustering
Shuyang Ling, Thomas Strohmer
Spectral clustering has become one of the most widely used clustering techniques when the structure of the individual clusters is non-convex or highly anisotropic. Yet, despite its…