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A Separator Theorem for Planar Graphs

by Richard J. Lipton, Robert E. Tarjan , 1977
"... Let G be any n-vertex planar graph. We prove that the vertices of G can be partitioned into three sets A, B, C such that no edge joins a vertex in A with a vertex in B, neither A nor B contains more than 2n/3 vertices, and C contains no more than 2& & vertices. We exhibit an algorithm which ..."
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Let G be any n-vertex planar graph. We prove that the vertices of G can be partitioned into three sets A, B, C such that no edge joins a vertex in A with a vertex in B, neither A nor B contains more than 2n/3 vertices, and C contains no more than 2& & vertices. We exhibit an algorithm which

Robust convex optimization

by A. Ben-tal, A. Nemirovski - Mathematics of Operations Research , 1998
"... We study convex optimization problems for which the data is not specified exactly and it is only known to belong to a given uncertainty set U, yet the constraints must hold for all possible values of the data from U. The ensuing optimization problem is called robust optimization. In this paper we la ..."
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We study convex optimization problems for which the data is not specified exactly and it is only known to belong to a given uncertainty set U, yet the constraints must hold for all possible values of the data from U. The ensuing optimization problem is called robust optimization. In this paper we

Interior-point Methods

by Florian A. Potra, Stephen J. Wright , 2000
"... The modern era of interior-point methods dates to 1984, when Karmarkar proposed his algorithm for linear programming. In the years since then, algorithms and software for linear programming have become quite sophisticated, while extensions to more general classes of problems, such as convex quadrati ..."
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, monotone linear complementarity, and convex programming over sets that can be characterized by self-concordant barrier functions.

Global Optimization with Polynomials and the Problem of Moments

by Jean B. Lasserre - SIAM JOURNAL ON OPTIMIZATION , 2001
"... We consider the problem of finding the unconstrained global minimum of a real-valued polynomial p(x) : R R, as well as the global minimum of p(x), in a compact set K defined by polynomial inequalities. It is shown that this problem reduces to solving an (often finite) sequence of convex linear ma ..."
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We consider the problem of finding the unconstrained global minimum of a real-valued polynomial p(x) : R R, as well as the global minimum of p(x), in a compact set K defined by polynomial inequalities. It is shown that this problem reduces to solving an (often finite) sequence of convex linear

The Extended Linear Complementarity Problem

by O. L. Mangasarian, Jong-Shi Pang , 1993
"... We consider an extension of the horizontal linear complementarity problem, which we call the extended linear complementarity problem (XLCP). With the aid of a natural bilinear program, we establish various properties of this extended complementarity problem; these include the convexity of the biline ..."
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We consider an extension of the horizontal linear complementarity problem, which we call the extended linear complementarity problem (XLCP). With the aid of a natural bilinear program, we establish various properties of this extended complementarity problem; these include the convexity

Convergence Properties of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method in Low Dimensions

by Jeffrey C. Lagarias, James A. Reeds, Margaret H. Wright, Paul E. Wright - SIAM Journal of Optimization , 1998
"... Abstract. The Nelder–Mead simplex algorithm, first published in 1965, is an enormously popular direct search method for multidimensional unconstrained minimization. Despite its widespread use, essentially no theoretical results have been proved explicitly for the Nelder–Mead algorithm. This paper pr ..."
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in two dimensions and a set of initial conditions for which the Nelder–Mead algorithm converges to a nonminimizer. It is not yet known whether the Nelder–Mead method can be proved to converge to a minimizer for a more specialized class of convex functions in two dimensions. Key words. direct search

Lambertian Reflectance and Linear Subspaces

by Ronen Basri, David Jacobs , 2000
"... We prove that the set of all reflectance functions (the mapping from surface normals to intensities) produced by Lambertian objects under distant, isotropic lighting lies close to a 9D linear subspace. This implies that, in general, the set of images of a convex Lambertian object obtained under a wi ..."
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We prove that the set of all reflectance functions (the mapping from surface normals to intensities) produced by Lambertian objects under distant, isotropic lighting lies close to a 9D linear subspace. This implies that, in general, the set of images of a convex Lambertian object obtained under a

A Singular Value Thresholding Algorithm for Matrix Completion

by Jian-Feng Cai, Emmanuel J. Candès, Zuowei Shen , 2008
"... This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood as the convex relaxation of a rank minimization problem, and arises in many important applications as in the task of reco ..."
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This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood as the convex relaxation of a rank minimization problem, and arises in many important applications as in the task

Amortized Efficiency of List Update and Paging Rules

by Daniel D. Sleator, Robert E. Tarjan , 1985
"... In this article we study the amortized efficiency of the “move-to-front” and similar rules for dynamically maintaining a linear list. Under the assumption that accessing the ith element from the front of the list takes 0(i) time, we show that move-to-front is within a constant factor of optimum amo ..."
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paging, a setting in which the access cost is not convex. The paging rule corresponding to move-to-front is the “least recently used” (LRU) replacement rule. We analyze the amortized complexity of LRU, showing that its efficiency differs from that of the offline paging rule (Belady’s MIN algorithm) by a

Distance metric learning for large margin nearest neighbor classification

by Kilian Q. Weinberger, John Blitzer, Lawrence K. Saul - In NIPS , 2006
"... We show how to learn a Mahanalobis distance metric for k-nearest neighbor (kNN) classification by semidefinite programming. The metric is trained with the goal that the k-nearest neighbors always belong to the same class while examples from different classes are separated by a large margin. On seven ..."
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. On seven data sets of varying size and difficulty, we find that metrics trained in this way lead to significant improvements in kNN classification—for example, achieving a test error rate of 1.3 % on the MNIST handwritten digits. As in support vector machines (SVMs), the learning problem reduces to a
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