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SUMMARY:IFDS All-Hands: Rina Foygel Barber
DESCRIPTION:Convergence for nonconvex ADMM\, with applications to CT imaging\nThe alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is a powerful and flexible tool for complex optimization problems of the form min{f(x)+g(y):Ax+By=c}. ADMM exhibits robust empirical performance across a range of challenging settings including nonsmoothness and nonconvexity of the objective functions f and g\, and provides a simple and natural approach to the inverse problem of image reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) imaging. From the theoretical point of view\, existing results for convergence in the nonconvex setting generally assume smoothness in at least one of the component functions in the objective. In this work\, our new theoretical results provide convergence guarantees under a restricted strong convexity assumption without requiring smoothness or differentiability\, while still allowing differentiable terms to be treated approximately if needed. We validate these theoretical results empirically\, with a simulated example where both f and g are nondifferentiable (and thus outside the scope of existing theory)\, as well as a simulated CT image reconstruction problem. \n\n\nBio: Rina Foygel Barber is a Louis Block Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. She was a NSF postdoctoral fellow during 2012-13 in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University\, supervised by Emmanuel Candès. She received her PhD in Statistics at the University of Chicago in 2012\, advised by Mathias Drton and Nati Srebro\, and a MS in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 2009. Prior to graduate school\, she was a mathematics teacher at the Park School of Baltimore from 2005 to 2007.
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