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# Large-scale randomized-coordinate descent methods with non-separable linear constraints

@inproceedings{Reddi2015LargescaleRD,
title={Large-scale randomized-coordinate descent methods with non-separable linear constraints},
author={Sashank J. Reddi and Ahmed S. Hefny and Carlton Downey and Kumar Avinava Dubey and Suvrit Sra},
booktitle={UAI},
year={2015}
}
• Published in UAI 9 September 2014
• Computer Science, Mathematics
We develop randomized (block) coordinate descent (CD) methods for linearly constrained convex optimization. Unlike most CD methods, we do not assume the constraints to be separable, but let them be coupled linearly. To our knowledge, ours is the first CD method that allows linear coupling constraints, without making the global iteration complexity have an exponential dependence on the number of constraints. We present algorithms and analysis for four key problem scenarios: (i) smooth; (ii…
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