Theory
Chinese translated lecture notes for MATH 6366 @ UH
[Chinese] 私译课堂笔记 MATH 6366: 优化论 (Optimization Theory)，主要参考教程为Boyd的《Convex optimization》
Special Notes on May 15, 2019
A deduction for the basic form of the training phase and testing phases in sparse coding and dictionary learning.
Notes on May 05, 2019
Comments on two SEG-2018 expanded abstracts. In this article, the theories of those two papers would be doubted.
Special Notes on Feb. 28, 2019
A derivation for the non-negative constrained least length problem. Here we only discuss the simplified form $\lVert \mathbf{x} \rVert_2^2,~\mathrm{s.t.}~\mathbf{Hx} \succeq \mathbf{h}$.
Notes on Feb. 23, 2019
The note for weekly report on Feb 23, 2018.
Stochastic optimization I: from Monte-Carlo methods to Gibbs sampling
Here are special notes on Feb. 15, 2019. This is the first topic about stochastic optimization. In this topic, we will discuss the introductory theory about Monte-Carlo methods, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and Gibbs sampling.
Special Notes on Aug. 24, 2018
A short discussion about the derivation of LMA from the function expansion view.