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  Convex Perturbations for Scalable Semidefinite Programming

Kulis, B., Sra, S., & Dhillon, I. (2009). Convex Perturbations for Scalable Semidefinite Programming. In D. van Dyk, & M. Welling (Eds.), Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2009) (pp. 296-303). Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.

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Kulis, B, Author
Sra, S1, 2, Author           
Dhillon, I, Author
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1Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497795              
2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, DE, ou_1497794              

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 Abstract: Many important machine learning problems are modeled and solved via semidefinite programs; examples include metric learning, nonlinear embedding, and certain clustering problems. Often, off-the-shelf software is invoked for the associated optimization, which can be inappropriate due to excessive computational and storage requirements. In this paper, we introduce the use of convex perturbations for solving semidefinite programs (SDPs), and for a specific perturbation we derive an algorithm that has several advantages over existing techniques: a) it is simple, requiring only a few lines of Matlab, b) it is a first-order method, and thereby scalable, and c) it can easily exploit the structure of a given SDP (e.g., when the constraint matrices are low-rank, a situation common to several machine learning SDPs). A pleasant byproduct of our method is a fast, kernelized version of the large-margin nearest neighbor metric learning algorithm. We demonstrate that our algorithm is effective in finding fast approximations to large-scale SDPs arising in some machine learning applications.

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 Dates: 2009-04
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Title: Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2009)
Place of Event: Clearwater Beach, FL, USA
Start-/End Date: 2009-04-16 - 2009-04-18

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