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Lecture 2: Subgradients Continued (EE364B)

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1:07:27·2008·graduate level

This session continues the exploration of subgradients, examining their calculus rules, optimality conditions, and applications in extending gradient-based methods. It provides a deeper understanding of handling non-smoothness.

Lecture by Professor Stephen Boyd for Convex Optimization II (EE 364B) in the Stanford Electrical Engineering department. Professor Boyd continues subgradients.

This course introduces topics such as subgradient, cutting-plane, and ellipsoid methods. Decentralized convex optimization via primal and dual decomposition. Alternating projections. Exploiting problem structure in implementation. Convex relaxations of hard problems, and global optimization via branch & bound. Robust optimization. Selected applications in areas such as control, circuit design, signal processing, and communications.

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