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Overview

Amir Beck is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. Their research spans a range of subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Physics, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, such as Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques, Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research, Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques, Numerical Methods in Inverse Problems, Optimization and Variational Analysis, Face and Expression Recognition, and Quantum Information and Cryptography.

Amir Beck has published multiple papers in notable venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • On the Convergence to Stationary Points of Deterministic and Randomized Feasible Descent Directions Methods (2020), SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Towards supersensitive optical phase measurement using a deterministic source of entangled multiphoton states (2020), Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • An Accelerated Coordinate Gradient Descent Algorithm for Non-separable Composite Optimization (2021), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
  • A Dynamic Smoothing Technique for a Class of Nonsmooth Optimization Problems on Manifolds (2023), SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Dual Randomized Coordinate Descent Method for Solving a Class of Nonconvex Problems (2021), SIAM Journal on Optimization

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Amir Beck include Nadav Hallak, Marc Teboulle, Raz Sharon, Giora Peniakov, and Zu-En Su.

The primary publication venues for Amir Beck's work feature the SIAM Journal on Optimization, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Physical review. B./Physical review. B, and Optimization Methods & Software.

In addition to journal papers, Amir Beck has contributed to academic books published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Titles include Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications with Python and MATLAB, Second Edition (2023), and A First Course in Linear Optimization (2025).

Best Publications

  • A Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm for Linear Inverse Problems

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • Fast Gradient-Based Algorithms for Constrained Total Variation Image Denoising and Deblurring Problems

    A. Beck;M. Teboulle

  • First-Order Methods in Optimization

    Amir Beck

  • Mirror descent and nonlinear projected subgradient methods for convex optimization

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • Exact and Approximate Solutions of Source Localization Problems

    A. Beck;P. Stoica;Jian Li

  • On the Convergence of Block Coordinate Descent Type Methods

    Amir Beck;Luba Tetruashvili

  • A sequential parametric convex approximation method with applications to nonconvex truss topology design problems

    Amir Beck;Aharon Ben-Tal;Luba Tetruashvili

  • GESPAR: Efficient Phase Retrieval of Sparse Signals

    Yoav Shechtman;Amir Beck;Yonina C. Eldar

  • Gradient-based algorithms with applications to signal-recovery problems.

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • Sparsity Constrained Nonlinear Optimization: Optimality Conditions and Algorithms

    Amir Beck;Yonina C. Eldar

  • Smoothing and First Order Methods: A Unified Framework

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • Strong Duality in Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization with Two Quadratic Constraints

    Amir Beck;Yonina C. Eldar

  • A fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm with application to wavelet-based image deblurring

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • On the Convergence of Alternating Minimization for Convex Programming with Applications to Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares and Decomposition Schemes

    Amir Beck

  • Duality in robust optimization: Primal worst equals dual best

    Amir Beck;Aharon Ben-Tal

  • An $O(1/k)$ Gradient Method for Network Resource Allocation Problems

    Amir Beck;Angelia Nedic;Asuman Ozdaglar;Marc Teboulle

  • Introduction To Nonlinear Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, And Applications With Matlab

    Amir Beck

  • A fast dual proximal gradient algorithm for convex minimization and applications

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • Global Optimality Conditions for Quadratic Optimization Problems with Binary Constraints

    Amir Beck;Marc Teboulle

  • On the Solution of the Tikhonov Regularization of the Total Least Squares Problem

    Amir Beck;Aharon Ben-Tal

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Teboulle
Marc Teboulle Tel Aviv University
Yonina C. Eldar
Yonina C. Eldar Weizmann Institute of Science
Aharon Ben-Tal
Aharon Ben-Tal Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Arye Nehorai
Arye Nehorai Washington University in St. Louis
Petre Stoica
Petre Stoica Uppsala University
Angelia Nedic
Angelia Nedic Arizona State University
Yoash Levron
Yoash Levron Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Christian Kanzow
Christian Kanzow University of Würzburg
Michael Elad
Michael Elad Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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