Mathematical Optimization & Why Convexity Is the Watershed
1:20:32Stanford EE364a Lecture 2: Affine Sets, Convex Sets, Cones & Hyperplanes
1:16:51Stanford EE364a Lecture 3: Convex Functions — First/Second-Order Conditions & Epigraphs
1:17:14Stanford EE364a Lecture 4: Convex Optimization Problems — LP, QP, SOCP & SDP
1:13:38Stanford EE364a Lecture 5: The Lagrangian, Dual Function & Slater's Condition
1:16:10Stanford EE364a Lecture 6: Saddle-Point Interpretation, KKT Conditions & Perturbation
1:09:19Lecture 7 | Convex Optimization I
1:14:37Lecture 8 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)
1:16:30Lecture 9: Duality Theory (EE364a)
1:16:36Lecture 10: Approximation and Fitting (EE364a)
1:17:55Lecture 11: Statistical Estimation (EE364a)
1:17:03Lecture 12: Geometric Problems (EE364a)
1:16:05Lecture 13: Geometric Problems Continued (EE364a)
1:15:17Lecture 14: Numerical Linear Algebra Background (EE364a)
1:10:12Lecture 15: Unconstrained Minimization (EE364a)
1:16:45Lecture 16: Equality Constrained Minimization (EE364a)
1:13:59Lecture 17: Equality Constrained Minimization Continued (EE364a)
1:19:25Lecture 18: Interior-Point Methods (EE364a)
1:16:53Lecture 19: Advanced Topics and Applications (EE364a)
1:15:02Lecture 1: Subgradients (EE364B)
1:01:37Lecture 2: Subgradients Continued (EE364B)
1:07:27Lecture 3: Subgradient Methods (EE364B)
1:14:45Lecture 3: Subgradient Methods (EE364B)
This lecture introduces the fundamental subgradient methods for minimizing non-differentiable convex functions, including convergence analysis and practical implementation challenges. Emphasis is placed on their iterative nature.
Lecture by Professor Stephen Boyd for Convex Optimization II (EE 364B) in the Stanford Electrical Engineering department. Professor Boyd covers subgradient methods.
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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