1. Open Terminal (or Command Prompt in Windows);

2. Download this repository by running the command,

git clone https://github.com/IssamLaradji/BlockCoordinateDescent.git

3. Go into the code's directory,

cd BlockCoordinateDescent

4. Run the command for a figure number as shown in the sections below.

Below we show how to generate each of the 4-13 Figures in the paper.

python main.py -e fig4

python main.py -e fig5

python main.py -e fig6a fig6b

python main.py -e fig7

python main.py -e fig8

python main.py -e fig9

python main.py -e fig10

python main.py -e fig11

python main.py -e fig12

python main.py -e fig13

If you find the code useful for your research, please cite:

@Article{nutini2017let,
  title={Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Go Fast: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence},
  author={Nutini, Julie and Laradji, Issam and Schmidt, Mark},
  journal={arXiv},
  year={2017}
}