Zhaosong Lu

An Augmented Lagrangian Approach for Sparse Principal Component Analysis (2009)

Lu, Zhaosong, Zhang, Yong

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique for data analysis and dimension reduction with numerous applications in science and engineering. However, the standard PCA suffers from...

Smooth Optimization Approach for Sparse Covariance Selection (2009)

Lu, Zhaosong

In this paper we first study a smooth optimization approach for solving a class of nonsmooth strictly concave maximization problems whose objective functions admit smooth convex minimization...

Adaptive First-Order Methods for General Sparse Inverse Covariance Selection (2009)

Lu, Zhaosong

In this paper, we consider estimating sparse inverse covariance of a Gaussian graphical model whose conditional independence is assumed to be partially known. Similarly as in [5], we formulate it as...

Convex Optimization Methods for Dimension Reduction and Coefficient Estimation in Multivariate Linear Regression (2009)

Lu, Zhaosong, Monteiro, Renato D. C., Yuan, Ming

In this paper, we study convex optimization methods for computing the trace norm regularized least squares estimate in multivariate linear regression. The so-called factor estimation and selection...

Algorithm Design and Analysis for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming and Nonlinear Programming (2005)

Lu, Zhaosong

The limiting behavior of weighted paths associated with the semidefinite program (SDP) map $X^{1/2}SX^{1/2}$ was studied and some applications to error bound analysis and superlinear convergence of a...

Algorithm Design and Analysis for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming and Nonlinear Programming (2005)

Lu, Zhaosong

The limiting behavior of weighted paths associated with the semidefinite program (SDP) map $X^{1/2}SX^{1/2}$ was studied and some applications to error bound analysis and superlinear convergence of a...

Algorithm Design and Analysis for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming and Nonlinear Programming (2005)

Lu, Zhaosong

The limiting behavior of weighted paths associated with the semidefinite program (SDP) map $X^{1/2}SX^{1/2}$ was studied and some applications to error bound analysis and superlinear convergence of a...

Algorithm Design and Analysis for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming and Nonlinear Programming (2005)

Lu, Zhaosong

The limiting behavior of weighted paths associated with the semidefinite program (SDP) map $X^{1/2}SX^{1/2}$ was studied and some applications to error bound analysis and superlinear convergence of a...

Algorithm design and analysis for large-scale semidefinite programming and nonlinear programming (2005)

Lu, Zhaosong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.

Optimal Solutions for the Closest-String Problem via Integer Programming (2004)

Claudio N. Meneses, Zhaosong Lu, Panos M. Pardalos

this paper we study the closest-string problem (CSP), which can be defined as follows: given a finite set of strings, each string with length m, find a center string t of length m minimizing d, such...

Optimal solutions for the closest-string problem via integer programming (2004)

Cláudio N. Meneses, Zhaosong Lu, Panos M. Pardalos

informs ® doi 10.1287/ijoc.1040.0090 © 2004 INFORMS In this paper we study the closest-string problem (CSP), which can be defined as follows: Given a finite set � = �s1�s2�����sn...

Dimension reduction and coefficient estimation in multivariate linear regression

Ming Yuan, Ali Ekici, Zhaosong Lu, Renato Monteiro

We introduce a general formulation for dimension reduction and coefficient estimation in the multivariate linear model. We argue that many of the existing methods that are commonly used in practice...