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SUMMARY:Scalable Methods for Nonsmooth Optimization Problems
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DESCRIPTION:Ahmet Alacaoglu\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. Ma
 rtin Jaggi\nThesis advisor: Prof. Volkan Cevher\nCo-examiner: Prof. Michel
  Bierlaire\n\nAbstract\n\nBackground papers\nEfficiency of coordinate desc
 ent methods on huge-scale optimization problems\, by Y. Nesterov\, SIAM J.
  Optim.\, 2012.\nAccelerated\, parallel\, and proximal coordinate descent\
 , by O. Fercoq and P. Richtarik\, SIAM J. Optim.\, 2015.\nFederated Optimi
 zation: Distributed Machine Learning for On-Device Intelligence\, by J. Ko
 necny\, H. Brendan McMahan\, D. Ramage and P. Richtarik\, arXiv preprint\,
  2016.\n 
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