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ArticleMathematical programming2014

MM Algorithms for Geometric and Signomial Programming.

Kenneth Lange, Hua Zhou

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Article in Mathematical programming, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A Cornucopia of Maximum Likelihood Algorithms.The American statistician · 2025
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  2. MM Algorithms For Variance Components Models.Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America · 2019
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  3. Path Following in the Exact Penalty Method of Convex Programming.Computational optimization and applications · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Kenneth LangeDepartments of Biomathematics, Human Genetics, and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1766, USA. klange@ucla.edu.
Hua ZhouDepartment of Statistics, North Carolina State University, 2311 Stinson Drive, Campus Box 8203, Raleigh, NC 27695-8203, USA. hua_zhou@ncsu.edu.

Funding

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR GENE MAPPINGR01GM053275 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LANGE, KENNETH L · 1995 to 2019
$9.3M
Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping in Human PedigreesR37MH059490 · NIMH · TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 2001 to 2010
$6.8M
Genomics, GPUs, and Next Generation Computational StatisticsR01HG006139 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SOBEL, ERIC · 2011 to 2023
$5.1M
QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING IN HUMAN PEDIGREESR01MH059490 · NIMH · SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 1998 to 2000
$426k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006139NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM053275NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH059490NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH059490
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper derives new algorithms for signomial programming, a generalization of geometric programming. The algorithms are based on a generic principle for optimization called the MM algorithm. In this setting, one can apply the geometric-arithmetic mean inequality and a supporting hyperplane inequality to create a surrogate function with parameters separated. Thus, unconstrained signomial programming reduces to a sequence of one-dimensional minimization problems. Simple examples demonstrate that the MM algorithm derived can converge to a boundary point or to one point of a continuum of minimum points. Conditions under which the minimum point is unique or occurs in the interior of parameter space are proved for geometric programming. Convergence to an interior point occurs at a linear rate. Finally, the MM framework easily accommodates equality and inequality constraints of signomial type. For the most important special case, constrained quadratic programming, the MM algorithm involves very simple updates.

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arithmetic-geometric mean inequalitygeometric programmingglobal convergencelinearly constrained quadratic program-mingMM algorithmparameter separationpenalty methodsignomial programming

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PMID24634545
PMCPMC3950732

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