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CORR
2011
Springer
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Parallel Coordinate Descent for L1-Regularized Loss Minimization
We propose Shotgun, a parallel coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing L1regularized losses. Though coordinate descent seems inherently sequential, we prove convergence bounds...
Joseph K. Bradley, Aapo Kyrola, Danny Bickson, Car...
BMCBI
2010
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An algorithm for automated closure during assembly
Background: Finishing is the process of improving the quality and utility of draft genome sequences generated by shotgun sequencing and computational assembly. Finishing can invol...
Sergey Koren, Jason R. Miller, Brian Walenz, Grang...