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20162026
most citedOnline Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Outliers

45 citations · 103 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

math.OC2026

On the Convergence Rate of the Duality Gap in the Generalized Frank-Wolfe Method Under the Weak Growth Condition

Renbo Zhao

We analyze the convergence rate of certain sequence of the duality gaps in the generalized Frank-Wolfe method, under certain regime of the weak growth condition proposed in Peña (2…

math.OC2023

An Away-Step Frank-Wolfe Method for Minimizing Logarithmically-Homogeneous Barriers

Renbo Zhao

We present and analyze an away-step Frank-Wolfe method for the convex optimization problem , where is a …

math.OC2022

The Generalized Multiplicative Gradient Method for A Class of Convex Optimization Problems Over Symmetric Cones

Renbo Zhao

We develop and analyze the Generalized Multiplicative Gradient (GMG) method for solving a class of convex optimization problems over symmetric cones, where the objective function d…

math.OC2021

Convergence Rate Analysis of the Multiplicative Gradient Method for PET-Type Problems

Renbo Zhao

We analyze the convergence rate of the multiplicative gradient (MG) method for PET-type problems with component functions and an -dimensional optimization variable. We show…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

A Generalized Frank-Wolfe Method With "Dual Averaging" for Strongly Convex Composite Optimization

Renbo Zhao, Qiuyun Zhu

We propose a simple variant of the generalized Frank-Wolfe method for solving strongly convex composite optimization problems, by introducing an additional averaging step on the du…

math.OC2020

Analysis of the Frank-Wolfe Method for Convex Composite Optimization involving a Logarithmically-Homogeneous Barrier

Renbo Zhao, Robert M. Freund

We present and analyze a new generalized Frank-Wolfe method for the composite optimization problem , where is a -loga…

math.OC2020★ 8 cited

A Primal-Dual Smoothing Framework for Max-Structured Non-Convex Optimization

Renbo Zhao

We propose a primal-dual smoothing framework for finding a near-stationary point of a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with max-structure. We analyze the primal…

math.OC2019

Accelerated Stochastic Algorithms for Convex-Concave Saddle-Point Problems

Renbo Zhao

We develop stochastic first-order primal-dual algorithms to solve a class of convex-concave saddle-point problems. When the saddle function is strongly convex in the primal variabl…

math.OC2017★ 2 cited

An Inexact Primal-Dual Smoothing Framework for Large-Scale Non-Bilinear Saddle Point Problems

Le Thi Khanh Hien, Renbo Zhao, William B. Haskell

We develop an inexact primal-dual first-order smoothing framework to solve a class of non-bilinear saddle point problems with primal strong convexity. Compared with existing method…

stat.ML2017

A Unified Framework for Stochastic Matrix Factorization via Variance Reduction

Renbo Zhao, William B. Haskell, Jiashi Feng

We propose a unified framework to speed up the existing stochastic matrix factorization (SMF) algorithms via variance reduction. Our framework is general and it subsumes several we…

math.OC2017★ 39 cited

Stochastic L-BFGS: Improved Convergence Rates and Practical Acceleration Strategies

Renbo Zhao, William B. Haskell, Vincent Y. F. Tan

We revisit the stochastic limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS) algorithm. By proposing a new framework for the convergence analysis, we prove improved convergence rates and computational c…

math.OC2016★ 2 cited

A Unified Convergence Analysis of the Multiplicative Update Algorithm for Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Renbo Zhao, Vincent Y. F. Tan

The multiplicative update (MU) algorithm has been extensively used to estimate the basis and coefficient matrices in nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) problems under a wide ra…

stat.ML2016★ 5 cited

Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with General Divergences

Renbo Zhao, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Huan Xu

We develop a unified and systematic framework for performing online nonnegative matrix factorization under a wide variety of important divergences. The online nature of our algorit…

stat.ML2016★ 45 cited

Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Outliers

Renbo Zhao, Vincent Y. F. Tan

We propose a unified and systematic framework for performing online nonnegative matrix factorization in the presence of outliers. Our framework is particularly suited to large-scal…

cs.IR2016★ 1 cited

Adversarial Top- Ranking

Changho Suh, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Renbo Zhao

We study the top- ranking problem where the goal is to recover the set of top- ranked items out of a large collection of items based on partially revealed preferences. We con…