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For a Legendrian torus knot or link with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number, Ekholm, Honda, and Kálmán constructed exact Lagrangian fillings, where is the -th Catalan number. We show that these exact Lagrangian fillings are pairwise non-isotopic through exact Lagrangian isotopy. To do that, we com…
To a Legendrian knot, one can associate an category, the augmentation category. An exact Lagrangian cobordism between two Legendrian knots gives a functor of the augmentation categories of the two knots. We study the functor and establish a long exact sequence relating the corresponding cohomolog…
Study of Legendrian links using Floer theory and cluster varieties.
A new method tackles nonconvex optimization with penalties and proximal terms.
Study uses Newton polytopes to distinguish Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian submanifolds.
Stochastic approach improves neural network training for kinetic simulations.
The study explores Legendrian fillings and augmentations, providing methods to compute induced augmentations.
Torsion found in knot homology, challenging augmentation theories.
A new method solves distributed optimization problems over networks.
New method solves constrained optimization problems efficiently.
New augmentations of twist knots found that can't be filled.
Efficiently solves Elastic Net in high dimensions with Newton method.
The paper connects Legendrian links to cluster theory and exact Lagrangian fillings.
In this paper we study decomposition methods based on separable approximations for minimizing the augmented Lagrangian. In particular, we study and compare the Diagonal Quadratic Approximation Method (DQAM) of Mulvey and Ruszczyński and the Parallel Coordinate Descent Method (PCDM) of Richtárik and Takáč. We show that …
We analyze the convergence behaviour of a recently proposed algorithm for regularized estimation called Dual Augmented Lagrangian (DAL). Our analysis is based on a new interpretation of DAL as a proximal minimization algorithm. We theoretically show under some conditions that DAL converges super-linearly in a non-asymp…
New method fills cluster seeds with exact Lagrangian structures.
We introduce a notion of cardinality for the augmentation category associated to a Legendrian knot or link in standard contact R^3. This `homotopy cardinality' is an invariant of the category and allows for a weighted count of augmentations, which we prove to be determined by the ruling polynomial of the link. We prese…
We provide an explicit example of a non trivial Legendrian knot such that there exists a Lagrangian concordance from to where is the trivial Legendrian knot. We then use the map induced in Legendrian contact homology by a concordance and the augmentation category of to show that no Lagrangian co…
The paper studies how Lagrangian cobordisms affect DGAs of Legendrian ends.
We propose an efficient algorithm for sparse signal reconstruction problems. The proposed algorithm is an augmented Lagrangian method based on the dual sparse reconstruction problem. It is efficient when the number of unknown variables is much larger than the number of observations because of the dual formulation. More…
New algorithm reduces regret in CMDPs without cancellation of errors.
We study the connection between topological strings and contact homology recently proposed in the context of knot invariants. In particular, we establish the proposed relation between the Gromov-Witten disk amplitudes of a Lagrangian associated to a knot and augmentations of its contact homology algebra. This also impl…
Clean intersections of Lagrangian knots in 3D are impossible.
Paper proposes distributed optimization for federated learning with theoretical guarantees.
We provide in this note two relevant examples of Lagrangian cobordisms. The first one gives an example of two exact Lagrangian submanifolds which cannot be composed in an exact fashion. The second one is an example of an exact Lagrangian cobordism on which all primitive of the Liouville form is not constant on the nega…
A new decentralized algorithm DESTINY solves optimization over Stiefel manifold with single communication round.
Paper proposes ASCCA for sparse CCA with trace Lasso regularization.
The paper develops methods for time-varying constrained online convex optimization.
New offline RL algorithms tackle partial data coverage with optimal performance and practicality.
Minimizing a function over an intersection of convex sets is an important task in optimization that is often much more challenging than minimizing it over each individual constraint set. While traditional methods such as Frank-Wolfe (FW) or proximal gradient descent assume access to a linear or quadratic oracle on the …
Method solves nonconvex constrained optimization problems with a new augmented Lagrangian approach.
Variable selection is one of the most important tasks in statistics and machine learning. To incorporate more prior information about the regression coefficients, the constrained Lasso model has been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we present an inexact augmented Lagrangian method to solve the Lasso problem …
Support vector machines (SVMs) are successful modeling and prediction tools with a variety of applications. Previous work has demonstrated the superiority of the SVMs in dealing with the high dimensional, low sample size problems. However, the numerical difficulties of the SVMs will become severe with the increase of t…
In this paper, we propose a novel approach in order to recover a quantized matrix with missing information. We propose a regularized convex cost function composed of a log-likelihood term and a Trace norm term. The Bi-factorization approach and the Augmented Lagrangian Method (ALM) are applied to find the global minimi…
A new method solves large-scale sparse group square-root Lasso problems efficiently.
Functor connects sheaf categories of Legendrian submanifolds.
New algorithm solves stochastic optimization problems with unknown gradients.
We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot of attention in the Big Data context. Although it has been invented decades ago…
The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method that solves convex optimization problems with linear constraints has drawn more attention recently in imaging applications due to its decomposable structure for composite cost functions and empirical fast convergence rate under weak conditions. However, for problems such as X-ray co…
The paper studies knot types of clean intersections in a 3D space.
An augmented Lagrangian (AL) can convert a constrained optimization problem into a sequence of simpler (e.g., unconstrained) problems, which are then usually solved with local solvers. Recently, surrogate-based Bayesian optimization (BO) sub-solvers have been successfully deployed in the AL framework for a more global …
Homotopy cardinality counts augmentations of Legendrian knots.
Worldsheet skein D-module for Hopf link conormal uniquely determines partition functions.
The paper develops spectral networks in symplectic topology and their relation to Lagrangian fillings.
If a Legendrian knot in the standard contact 3-sphere bounds an orientable exact Lagrangian surface in the standard symplectic 4-ball, then the genus of is equal to the slice genus of (the smooth knot underlying) , the sum of the Thurston-Bennequin number of L and the Euler characteristic of is zero …
In this paper we construct an -category associated to a Legendrian submanifold of jet spaces. Objects of the category are augmentations of the Chekanov algebra and the homology of the morphism spaces forms a new set of invariants of Legendrian submanifolds called the bilinearised Le…
In this article we study the differential graded algebra (DGA) invariant associated to Legendrian knots in tight lens spaces. Given a grid number one diagram for a knot in L(p, q), we show how to construct a special Lagrangian diagram suitable for computing the DGA invariant for the Legendrian knot specified by the dia…