Zhaosong Lu - RankMe

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	A first-order method for nonconvex-strongly-concave constrained minimax optimization. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2026	J	`jnl`	Variance-Reduced First-Order Methods for Deterministically Constrained Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization with Strong Convergence Guarantees. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei, Yifeng Xiao
2025	J	`jnl`	A first-order augmented Lagrangian method for constrained minimax optimization. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2025	J	`jnl`	A first-order method for nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems under a local Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz condition. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Xiangyuan Wang
2025	J	`jnl`	A first-order method for nonconvex-strongly-concave constrained minimax optimization. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2025	J	`jnl`	Accelerated stochastic first-order method for convex optimization under heavy-tailed noise. CoRR Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu
2025	J	`jnl`	Complexity of normalized stochastic first-order methods with momentum under heavy-tailed noise. CoRR Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu, Defeng Sun, Zhanwang Deng
2025	J	`jnl`	First-order methods for stochastic and finite-sum convex optimization with deterministic constraints. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Yifeng Xiao
2025	J	`jnl`	Low-rank Orthogonalization for Large-scale Matrix Optimization with Applications to Foundation Model Training. CoRR Chuan He, Zhanwang Deng, Zhaosong Lu
2025	J	`jnl`	Nested Stochastic Gradient Descent for (Generalized) Sinkhorn Distance-Regularized Distributionally Robust Optimization. CoRR Yufeng Yang, Yi Zhou, Zhaosong Lu
2025	J	`jnl`	Primal-Dual Extrapolation Methods for Monotone Inclusions Under Local Lipschitz Continuity. Math. Oper. Res. Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2025	J	`jnl`	Solving bilevel optimization via sequential minimax optimization. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2024	J	`jnl`	A Newton-CG based barrier-augmented Lagrangian method for general nonconvex conic optimization. Comput. Optim. Appl. Chuan He, Heng Huang, Zhaosong Lu
2024	J	`jnl`	Augmented Lagrangian method for tensor low-rank and sparsity models in multi-dimensional image recovery. Adv. Comput. Math. Hong Zhu, Xiaoxia Liu, Lin Huang, Zhaosong Lu, Jian Lu, Michael K. Ng
2024	J	`jnl`	Exactly Uncorrelated Sparse Principal Component Analysis. J. Comput. Graph. Stat. Oh-Ran Kwon, Zhaosong Lu, Hui Zou
2024	J	`jnl`	First-Order Penalty Methods for Bilevel Optimization. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2024	A*	`conf`	Single-Loop Stochastic Algorithms for Difference of Max-Structured Weakly Convex Functions. NeurIPS Quanqi Hu, Qi Qi, Zhaosong Lu, Tianbao Yang
2024	J	`jnl`	Single-loop Stochastic Algorithms for Difference of Max-Structured Weakly Convex Functions. CoRR Quanqi Hu, Qi Qi, Zhaosong Lu, Tianbao Yang
2024	J	`jnl`	Variance-reduced first-order methods for deterministically constrained stochastic nonconvex optimization with strong convergence guarantees. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei, Yifeng Xiao
2023	J	`jnl`	A Newton-CG Based Augmented Lagrangian Method for Finding a Second-Order Stationary Point of Nonconvex Equality Constrained Optimization with Complexity Guarantees. SIAM J. Optim. Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu, Ting Kei Pong
2023	J	`jnl`	A Newton-CG Based Barrier Method for Finding a Second-Order Stationary Point of Nonconvex Conic Optimization with Complexity Guarantees. SIAM J. Optim. Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu
2023	J	`jnl`	A Newton-CG based augmented Lagrangian method for finding a second-order stationary point of nonconvex equality constrained optimization with complexity guarantees. CoRR Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu, Ting Kei Pong
2023	J	`jnl`	A Newton-CG based barrier-augmented Lagrangian method for general nonconvex conic optimization. CoRR Chuan He, Heng Huang, Zhaosong Lu
2023	J	`jnl`	A Parameter-Free Conditional Gradient Method for Composite Minimization under Hölder Condition. J. Mach. Learn. Res. Masaru Ito, Zhaosong Lu, Chuan He
2023	J	`jnl`	A first-order augmented Lagrangian method for constrained minimax optimization. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2023	J	`jnl`	Accelerated First-Order Methods for Convex Optimization with Locally Lipschitz Continuous Gradient. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2023	J	`jnl`	Exact penalization for cardinality and rank-constrained optimization problems via partial regularization. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu, Xiaorui Li, Shuhuang Xiang
2023	J	`jnl`	FastPicker: Adaptive independent two-stage video-to-video summarization for efficient action recognition. Neurocomputing Saghir Alfasly, Jian Lu, Chen Xu, Zaid Al-Huda, Qingtang Jiang, Zhaosong Lu, Charles K. Chui
2023	J	`jnl`	First-order penalty methods for bilevel optimization. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2023	A*	`conf`	Generalized-Smooth Nonconvex Optimization is As Efficient As Smooth Nonconvex Optimization. ICML Ziyi Chen, Yi Zhou, Yingbin Liang, Zhaosong Lu
2023	J	`jnl`	Iteration-Complexity of First-Order Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Convex Conic Programming. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Zirui Zhou
2023	J	`jnl`	Newton-CG methods for nonconvex unconstrained optimization with Hölder continuous Hessian. CoRR Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu
2022	J	`jnl`	A Newton-CG based barrier method for finding a second-order stationary point of nonconvex conic optimization with complexity guarantees. CoRR Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu
2022	J	`jnl`	Accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2022	J	`jnl`	Penalty and Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Constrained DC Programming. Math. Oper. Res. Zhaosong Lu, Zhe Sun, Zirui Zhou
2022	J	`jnl`	Primal-dual extrapolation methods for monotone inclusions under local Lipschitz continuity with applications to variational inequality, conic constrained saddle point, and convex conic optimization problems. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
2021	J	`jnl`	Convergence Rate Analysis of a Sequential Convex Programming Method with Line Search for a Class of Constrained Difference-of-Convex Optimization Problems. SIAM J. Optim. Peiran Yu, Ting Kei Pong, Zhaosong Lu
2019	J	`jnl`	Enhanced proximal DC algorithms with extrapolation for a class of structured nonsmooth DC minimization. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Zirui Zhou, Zhe Sun
2019	J	`jnl`	Nonmonotone Enhanced Proximal DC Algorithms for a Class of Structured Nonsmooth DC Programming. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Zirui Zhou
2018	J	`jnl`	Generalized Conjugate Gradient Methods for Math. Oper. Res. Zhaosong Lu, Xiaojun Chen
2018	J	`jnl`	Sparse Recovery via Partial Regularization: Models, Theory, and Algorithms. Math. Oper. Res. Zhaosong Lu, Xiaorui Li
2017	J	`jnl`	A Randomized Nonmonotone Block Proximal Gradient Method for a Class of Structured Nonlinear Programming. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao
2017	J	`jnl`	An Augmented Lagrangian Method for Non-Lipschitz Nonconvex Programming. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. Xiaojun Chen, Lei Guo, Zhaosong Lu, Jane J. Ye
2017	J	`jnl`	Randomized Block Proximal Damped Newton Method for Composite Self-Concordant Minimization. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu
2017	J	`jnl`	$\ell _p$ Regularized low-rank approximation via iterative reweighted singular value minimization. Comput. Optim. Appl. Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang, Jian Lu
2016	J	`jnl`	An efficient optimization approach for a cardinality-constrained index tracking problem. Optim. Methods Softw. Fengmin Xu, Zhaosong Lu, Zongben Xu
2016	J	`jnl`	Penalty Methods for a Class of Non-Lipschitz Optimization Problems. SIAM J. Optim. Xiaojun Chen, Zhaosong Lu, Ting Kei Pong
2016	J	`jnl`	Randomized block proximal damped Newton method for composite self-concordant minimization. CoRR Zhaosong Lu
2015	J	`jnl`	A Nonmonotone Projected Gradient Method for Optimization over Sparse Symmetric Sets. CoRR Zhaosong Lu
2015	J	`jnl`	A Proximal Gradient Method for Ensemble Density Functional Theory. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. Michael Ulbrich, Zaiwen Wen, Chao Yang, Dennis Klöckner, Zhaosong Lu
2015	J	`jnl`	An Accelerated Randomized Proximal Coordinate Gradient Method and its Application to Regularized Empirical Risk Minimization. SIAM J. Optim. Qihang Lin, Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao
2015	J	`jnl`	Fused Multiple Graphical Lasso. SIAM J. Optim. Sen Yang, Zhaosong Lu, Xiaotong Shen, Peter Wonka, Jieping Ye
2015	J	`jnl`	Generalized Conjugate Gradient Methods for ℓ CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Xiaojun Chen
2015	J	`jnl`	On the complexity analysis of randomized block-coordinate descent methods. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao
2015	J	`jnl`	Orthogonal Rank-One Matrix Pursuit for Low Rank Matrix Completion. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. Zheng Wang, Ming-Jun Lai, Zhaosong Lu, Wei Fan, Hasan Davulcu, Jieping Ye
2015	J	`jnl`	Penalty decomposition methods for rank minimization. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang, Xiaorui Li
2015	J	`jnl`	Sparse Recovery via Partial Regularization: Models, Theory and Algorithms. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Xiaorui Li
2014	—	`conf`	An Accelerated Proximal Coordinate Gradient Method. NIPS Qihang Lin, Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao
2014	J	`jnl`	Iterative hard thresholding methods for l Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu
2014	J	`jnl`	Iterative reweighted minimization methods for l Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu
2014	J	`jnl`	Orthogonal Rank-One Matrix Pursuit for Low Rank Matrix Completion. CoRR Zheng Wang, Ming-Jun Lai, Zhaosong Lu, Wei Fan, Hasan Davulcu, Jieping Ye
2014	A*	`conf`	Rank-One Matrix Pursuit for Matrix Completion. ICML Zheng Wang, Ming-Jun Lai, Zhaosong Lu, Wei Fan, Hasan Davulcu, Jieping Ye
2013	J	`jnl`	A General Iterative Shrinkage and Thresholding Algorithm for Non-convex Regularized Optimization Problems CoRR Pinghua Gong, Changshui Zhang, Zhaosong Lu, Jianhua Huang, Jieping Ye
2013	—	`conf`	A General Iterative Shrinkage and Thresholding Algorithm for Non-convex Regularized Optimization Problems. ICML (2) Pinghua Gong, Changshui Zhang, Zhaosong Lu, Jianhua Huang, Jieping Ye
2013	J	`jnl`	Assessing the Value of Dynamic Pricing in Network Revenue Management. INFORMS J. Comput. Dan Zhang, Zhaosong Lu
2013	J	`jnl`	Computing Optimal Experimental Designs via Interior Point Method. SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. Zhaosong Lu, Ting Kei Pong
2013	A*	`conf`	FeaFiner: biomarker identification from medical data through feature generalization and selection. KDD Jiayu Zhou, Zhaosong Lu, Jimeng Sun, Lei Yuan, Fei Wang, Jieping Ye
2013	J	`jnl`	On the Complexity Analysis of Randomized Block-Coordinate Descent Methods CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao
2013	J	`jnl`	Primal-dual first-order methods for a class of cone programming. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu
2013	J	`jnl`	Randomized Block Coordinate Non-Monotone Gradient Method for a Class of Nonlinear Programming. CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao
2013	J	`jnl`	Sparse Approximation via Penalty Decomposition Methods. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang
2013	J	`jnl`	ℓ Math. Comput. Yong Zhang, Bin Dong, Zhaosong Lu
2012	J	`jnl`	An alternating direction method for finding Dantzig selectors. Comput. Stat. Data Anal. Zhaosong Lu, Ting Kei Pong, Yong Zhang
2012	J	`jnl`	An augmented Lagrangian approach for sparse principal component analysis. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang
2012	J	`jnl`	Convex optimization methods for dimension reduction and coefficient estimation in multivariate linear regression. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Ming Yuan
2012	J	`jnl`	Iterative Hard Thresholding Methods for $l_0$ Regularized Convex Cone Programming CoRR Zhaosong Lu
2012	J	`jnl`	Iterative Reweighted Minimization Methods for $l_p$ Regularized Unconstrained Nonlinear Programming CoRR Zhaosong Lu
2012	J	`jnl`	Sparse Approximation via Penalty Decomposition Methods CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang
2011	J	`jnl`	A computational study on robust portfolio selection based on a joint ellipsoidal uncertainty set. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu
2011	J	`jnl`	Minimizing Condition Number via Convex Programming. SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. Zhaosong Lu, Ting Kei Pong
2011	—	`conf`	Penalty Decomposition Methods for Rank Minimization. NIPS Yong Zhang, Zhaosong Lu
2011	J	`jnl`	Primal-dual first-order methods with Math. Program. Guanghui Lan, Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro
2011	J	`jnl`	Robust portfolio selection based on a joint ellipsoidal uncertainty set. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu
2011	J	`jnl`	ℓ CoRR Yong Zhang, Bin Dong, Zhaosong Lu
2010	J	`jnl`	Adaptive First-Order Methods for General Sparse Inverse Covariance Selection. SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. Zhaosong Lu
2009	J	`jnl`	An Augmented Lagrangian Approach for Sparse Principal Component Analysis CoRR Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang
2009	J	`jnl`	An iterative solver-based long-step infeasible primal-dual path-following algorithm for convex QP based on a class of preconditioners. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Jerome W. O'Neal
2009	J	`jnl`	Smooth Optimization Approach for Sparse Covariance Selection. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu
2007	J	`jnl`	A modified nearly exact method for solving low-rank trust region subproblem. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro
2007	J	`jnl`	Large-scale semidefinite programming via a saddle point Mirror-Prox algorithm. Math. Program. Zhaosong Lu, Arkadi Nemirovski, Renato D. C. Monteiro
2007	J	`jnl`	Limiting behavior of the Alizadeh-Haeberly-Overton weighted paths in semidefinite programming. Optim. Methods Softw. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro
2006	J	`jnl`	An Iterative Solver-Based Infeasible Primal-Dual Path-Following Algorithm for Convex Quadratic Programming. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Jerome W. O'Neal
2005	J	`jnl`	A Note on the Local Convergence of a Predictor-Corrector Interior-Point Algorithm for the Semidefinite Linear Complementarity Problem Based on the Alizadeh--Haeberly--Overton Search Direction. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro
2005	—	`—`	Algorithm Design and Analysis for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming and Nonlinear Programming. Zhaosong Lu
2005	J	`jnl`	Error Bounds and Limiting Behavior of Weighted Paths Associated with the SDP Map X1/2SX1/2. SIAM J. Optim. Zhaosong Lu, Renato D. C. Monteiro
2004	J	`jnl`	Optimal Solutions for the Closest-String Problem via Integer Programming. INFORMS J. Comput. Cláudio Nogueira de Meneses, Zhaosong Lu, Carlos A. S. Oliveira, Panos M. Pardalos

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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