Research and photography · based in Hong Kong

Work in optimization, scientific computing, and photography.

Notes on research, a few papers, and photographs from the road.

02 research notes
06 gallery regions
24 place entries

Optimization

Optimization problems in finance, machine learning, and operations research.

Scientific computing

Sparse linear systems, matrix reordering, and parallel computing.

Imaging

Work on focus, stabilization, and selective AI-assisted photo editing.
Travel footprint

Places I've been

Static world map showing Xiwen's travel footprint with marked visited places.
Research

Selected papers

Isotone optimization

Efficient Algorithms for General Isotone Optimization

Algorithmic work on general order-constrained optimization, focused on efficient methods that scale beyond the narrowest special cases.

AAAI · 2022

High-order portfolios

Efficient and Scalable Parametric High-Order Portfolios Design via the Skew-t Distribution

A portfolio-optimization formulation that brings higher-order moments into a scalable parametric model instead of treating them as a purely theoretical extension.

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 2023

Graph learning

Learning Large-Scale MTP2 Gaussian Graphical Models via Bridge-Block Decomposition

A decomposition-based route for learning large-scale structured graphical models while keeping the computation practical at nontrivial problem sizes.

NeurIPS · 2023

Method keywords

Algorithmic vocabulary

Techniques that show up across papers and projects.

  • Active Set Methods
  • ADMM
  • Block Coordinate Descent
  • Fixed Point Acceleration
  • Majorization-Minimization
  • Projected Gradient Methods
  • Quasi-Newton Methods
  • Successive Convex Approximation

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