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Michael Grant

Austin, TX

http://cvxr.com

I am a consultant and researcher focusing on optimization and computational mathematics. I am the author of CVX, a popular MATLAB-based optimization modeling framework for convex optimization.

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What does “curly (curved) less than” sign $\succcurlyeq$ mean?
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create anaconda python environment with all packages
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Optimal step size in gradient descent
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Does this $3\times 3$ matrix exist?
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Derivative of the nuclear norm with respect to its argument
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Prove that the nuclear norm is convex
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Confusion about compressed sensing problem
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Understanding weighted inner product and weighted norms
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Why is the constraint $\|w\| = 1$ non-convex?
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Least squares Problem with Non Negativity Constraints
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About the strictly convexity of log-sum-exp function
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Log-Determinant Concavity Proof
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Linear Programming: More variables or more constraints; which one is better?
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Why does the non-negative matrix factorization problem non-convex?
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Is there a name for this optimization algorithm?
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Which is easier to solve, regularized minimization, or constrained minimization?
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Astoundingly large difference when evaulating trigonometric identity with NumPy
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Solving a linear system with matrix arguments
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Minimizing $\mathrm{trace}(S)+\mathrm{trace}(S^{-2})$ using CVX
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Confusion related to P and NP problems
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How to decompose a matrix into the outer product of two vectors?
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About the slack variable for hinge-loss SVM
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Does every strongly convex function has a stationary point?
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Show that the dual norm of the spectral norm is the nuclear norm
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Sub-gradient of the “$\ell_0$ norm”
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how to check an optimization function is convex or not
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Solution to a Quadratic Minimization with Norm Constraint
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What is a vector programming problem?
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SDP formulation of noisy low rank matrix completion
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What is a skew symmetric matrix?
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