Publications related to Monotone convergence theorem

Learning to Align Sequential Actions in the Wild

State-of-the-art methods for self-supervised sequential action alignment rely on deep networks that find correspon- dences across videos in time. They either learn frame-to- frame mapping across sequences, which does not leverage temporal information, or a ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

On the Double Descent of Random Features Models Trained with SGD

Volkan Cevher, Fanghui Liu

We study generalization properties of random features (RF) regression in high dimensions optimized by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in under-/overparameterized regime. In this work, we derive precise non-asymptotic error bounds of RF regression under b ...

2022

Decentralized Proximal Gradient Algorithms With Linear Convergence Rates

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Sulaiman A S A E Alghunaim

This article studies a class of nonsmooth decentralized multiagent optimization problems where the agents aim at minimizing a sum of local strongly-convex smooth components plus a common nonsmooth term. We propose a general primal-dual algorithmic framewor ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Over-the-Air Computation via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

Yuning Jiang, Wei Chen

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a disruptive technique for fast wireless data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks via exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. However, the performance of AirComp is bott ...

2021

Analytical and Machine Learning Methods for the Complete Safe Coordination of Astrobot Swarms

Matin Macktoobian

The recent generations of massive spectroscopic surveys aim at the ray collection from a multitude of cosmological targets in the course of observations. For this purpose, astrobots are used to change the configuration of optical fibers from one observatio ...

EPFL2021

Variance-Reduced Stochastic Learning Under Random Reshuffling

Ali H. Sayed, Bicheng Ying, Kun Yuan

Several useful variance-reduced stochastic gradient algorithms, such as SVRG, SAGA, Finito, and SAG, have been proposed to minimize empirical risks with linear convergence properties to the exact minimizer. The existing convergence results assume uniform d ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Convergent momentum-space OPE and bootstrap equations in conformal field theory

Marc Gillioz

General principles of quantum field theory imply that there exists an operator product expansion (OPE) for Wightman functions in Minkowski momentum space that converges for arbitrary kinematics. This convergence is guaranteed to hold in the sense of a dist ...

Springer Nature2020

On Maintaining Linear Convergence of Distributed Learning and Optimization Under Limited Communication

Na Li, Hossein Shokri Ghadikolaei

In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The communication tim ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

A local discontinuous Galerkin gradient discretization method for linear and quasilinear elliptic equations

Assyr Abdulle, Giacomo Rosilho De Souza

A local weighted discontinuous Galerkin gradient discretization method for solving elliptic equations is introduced. The local scheme is based on a coarse grid and successively improves the solution solving a sequence of local elliptic problems in high gra ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2019

Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Large-Scale Systems: A Scalable Plug & Play Approach

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Marcello Farina

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed fault detection method to monitor the state of a-possibly large scale-linear system, partitioned into interconnected subsystems. The approach hinges on the definition of a partition-based distributed Luenberger ...

2019

Penalization and Bayesian numerical methods for multiscale inverse problems

Andrea Di Blasio

In this thesis we consider inverse problems involving multiscale elliptic partial differential equations. The name multiscale indicates that these models are characterized by the presence of parameters which vary on different spatial scales (macroscopic, m ...

EPFL2019

The asymmetric multitype contact process

Thomas Mountford, Daniel Rodrigues Valesin

We study the multitype contact process on Z(d) under the assumption that one of the types has a birth rate that is larger than that of the other type, and larger than the critical value of the standard contact process. We prove that, if initially present, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Convergence Of Variance-Reduced Learning Under Random Reshuffling

Ali H. Sayed, Bicheng Ying, Kun Yuan

Several useful variance-reduced stochastic gradient algorithms, such as SVRG, SAGA, Finito, and SAG, have been proposed to minimize empirical risks with linear convergence properties to the exact minimizers. The existing convergence results assume uniform ...

IEEE2018

On the Soil-Structure Interaction of Surface Strip Footings at Ultimate Limit State

Lyesse Laloui, Cristiano Garbellini

Theoretical methods for estimating the bearing capacity of surface strip footings usually do not consider soil-structure interaction. A few publications deal with the subject, but all of these either do not apply rigorous methods or do not consider the gen ...

ISSMGE2018

Convergence of the Exponentiated Gradient Method with Armijo Line Search

Volkan Cevher, Yen-Huan Li

Consider the problem of minimizing a convex differentiable function on the probability simplex, spectrahedron, or set of quantum density matrices. We prove that the expo-nentiated gradient method with Armijo line search always converges to the optimum, if ...

2019

Fréchet means in Wasserstein space : theory and algorithms

Yoav Zemel

This work studies the problem of statistical inference for Fréchet means in the Wasserstein space of measures on Euclidean spaces,

\mathcal W_2 ( \mathbb R^d )

. This question arises naturally from the problem of separating amplitude and phase variation i ...

EPFL2017

Real-Time Optimization Based on Adaptation of Surrogate Models

Dominique Bonvin, Timm Faulwasser, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Martand Singhal

Recently, different real-time optimization (RTO) schemes that guarantee feasibility of all RTO iterates and monotonic convergence to the optimal plant operating point have been proposed. However, simulations reveal that these schemes converge very slowly t ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Nonequilibrium localization and the interplay between disorder and interactions

Eduardo Carlo Mascarenhas Moraes

We study the nonequilibrium interplay between disorder and interactions in a closed quantum system. We base our analysis on the notion of dynamical state-space localization, calculated via the Loschmidt echo. Although real-space and state-space localizatio ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Two subtle convex nonlocal approximations of the BV-norm

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

Inspired by the BBM formula and by work of G. Leoni and D. Spector, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of two sequences of convex nonlocal functionals (Psi(n)(u)) and (Phi(n)(u)) which converge formally to the BV-norm of u. We show that pointwise convergen ...

Elsevier2016

Accurate, Stable and Efficient Modal Calculations of Photoelectrically Useful Absorption in Lamellar Metallic and Semiconductor Diffraction Gratings

David Isaak Gablinger

Solar energy has seen tremendous advances in the past years. For thin film photovoltaics, which use less of the expensive semiconductor materials, insufficient light absorption can be a limiting factor. It is hoped that by using diffractive optics to impro ...

EPFL2016