Preprints, Journal papers, Conference proceedings

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Preprints

  1. A Fast and Adaptive SVD-free Algorithm for General Weighted Low-rank Recovery
    A. Dutta, J. Liang and X. Li  
  2. Geometry of First-order Methods and Adaptive Acceleration
    C. Poon and J. Liang  

Journal papers

  1. Screening for Sparse Online Learning
      J. Liang and C. Poon, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2022.
  2. Improving “Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm”: Faster, Smarter and Greedier
      J. Liang, T. Luo and C. Schönlieb, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 44(3), A1069-A1091, 2022. (code)
  3. Partial Smoothness and Constant Rank
      A. Lewis, J. Liang and T. Tian, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 32(1):276-291, 2022.
  4. TFPnP: Tuning-free Plug-and-Play Proximal Algorithms with Applications to Inverse Imaging Problems
      K. Wei, A. Aviles-Rivero, J. Liang, Y. Fu, H. Huang and C. Schönlieb, Journal of Machine Learning and Research, 23:1-48, 2022.
  5. On the Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Stochastic Gradient Methods
      D. Driggs, J. Liang and C. Schönlieb, Journal of Machine Learning and Research, 23:1-43, 2022.
  6. The Fun is Finite: Douglas--Rachford and Sudoku Puzzle --- Finite Termination and Local Linear Convergence
      R. Tovey and J. Liang, Journal of Applied and Numerical Optimization, 3(3):435-456, 2021.
  7. SPRING: A Fast Stochastic Proximal Alternating Method for Non-smooth Non-convex Optimization
      D. Driggs, J. Tang, J. Liang, M. Davies and C. Schönlieb, SIAM Journal on Imaging Science, 14(04):1932-1970, 2021.
  8. A Stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Non-smooth and Non-convex Optimization
      F. Bian, J. Liang and X. Zhang, Inverse Problems, 37(7), 2021. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ac0966)
  9. Best Pair Formulation & Accelerated Scheme for Non-convex Principal Component Pursuit
      A. Dutta, F. Hanzely, J. Liang and P. Richtárik, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 68:6128-6141, 2020.
  10. Convergence Rates of Forward–Douglas–Rachford Splitting Method
      C. Molinari, J. Liang and J. Fadili, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 182(2):606-639, 2019. (code)
  11. Local Linear Convergence Analysis of Primal–Dual Splitting Methods
      J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, Optimization, 67(6):821-853, 2018.
  12. Activity Identification and Local Linear Convergence of Forward-Backward-type methods
      J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 27(1):408-437, 2017.
  13. Local Convergence Properties of Douglas–Rachford and Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
      J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 172(3):874-913, 2017. (More details on ADMM can be found at arXiv)
  14. Convergence Rates with Inexact Nonexpansive Operators
      J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, Mathematical Programming, 59(1):403-434, 2016.
  15. Retinex by Higher order Total Variation \(L^1\) Decomposition
      J. Liang, X. Zhang, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 52(3):345-355, 2015.
  16. Seismic Data Restoration via Data-driven Framelet
      J. Liang, J. Ma and X. Zhang, Geophysics, 79(3):65-74, 2014.
  17. Wavelet Frame based Color Image Demosaicing
      J. Liang, J. Li, Z. Shen and X. Zhang, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 7(3):777-794, 2013.

Conference proceedings

  1. Tuning-free Plug-and-Play Proximal Algorithm for Inverse Imaging Problems
     K. Wei, A. Aviles-Rivero, J. Liang, Y. Fu, C. Schönlieb and H. Huang, ICML, 2020. (Outstanding paper award, code)
  2. Trajectory of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers and Adaptive Acceleration
     C. Poon, J. Liang, NeurIPS, 2019. (Oral, code)
  3. Faster FISTA
     J. Liang, C. Schönlieb, EUSIPCO, 2018. (code)
  4. Local Convergence Properties of SAGA/Prox-SVRG and Acceleration
     C. Poon, J. Liang and C. Schönlieb, ICML, 2018. (code)
  5. A Multi-step Inertial Forward-Backward Splitting Method for Non-convex Optimization
     J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, NeurIPS, 2016.
  6. Activity Identification and Local Linear Convergence of Douglas-Rachford\/ADMM under Partial Smoothness
     J. Liang, J. Fadili, G. Peyré and R. Luke, SSVM, 2015. (Oral)
  7. Local Linear Convergence of Forward-Backward under Partial Smoothness
     J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, NeurIPS, 2014.
  8. On the Convergence Rates of Proximal Splitting Algorithms
     J. Liang, J. Fadili and G. Peyré, ICIP, 2014. (Top 10% Papers)

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