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The study explores Legendrian fillings and augmentations, providing methods to compute induced augmentations.
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 …
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.
Study uses Newton polytopes to distinguish Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian submanifolds.
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 method fills cluster seeds with exact Lagrangian structures.
Torsion found in knot homology, challenging augmentation theories.
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 …
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New augmentations of twist knots found that can't be filled.
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…
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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 …
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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…
The paper connects Legendrian links to cluster theory and exact Lagrangian fillings.
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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…
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 algorithm solves stochastic optimization problems with unknown gradients.
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 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.
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…
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Functor connects sheaf categories of Legendrian submanifolds.
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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 …