Brendan O’Donoghue

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
20 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Brendan O’Donoghue is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Brendan O’Donoghue has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Numerical Analysis, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Brendan O’Donoghue's work include Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (6 papers), Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (4 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (4 papers). Brendan O’Donoghue is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (6 papers), Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (4 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (4 papers). Brendan O’Donoghue collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Brendan O’Donoghue's co-authors include Emmanuel J. Candès, Stephen Boyd, Richard G. Baraniuk, Tom Goldstein, Simon Setzer, Eric Chu, Yuanming Shi, Khaled B. Letaief, Jun Zhang and Yan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and SIAM Journal on Optimization.

In The Last Decade

Brendan O’Donoghue

20 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Fast Alternating Direction Optimization Methods 2013 2026 2017 2021 2014 2013 2016 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Fast Alternating Direction Optimization Methods
    2014 503 citations Tom Goldstein, Brendan O’Donoghue et al. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences profile →
  2. Adaptive Restart for Accelerated Gradient Schemes
    2013 396 citations Brendan O’Donoghue, Emmanuel J. Candès Foundations of Computational Mathematics profile →
  3. Conic Optimization via Operator Splitting and Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding
    2016 298 citations Brendan O’Donoghue, Eric Chu et al. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brendan O’Donoghue United States 12 549 397 312 298 283 20 1.6k
P. Tseng United States 12 712 1.3× 592 1.5× 311 1.0× 159 0.5× 342 1.2× 15 2.3k
Jinshan Zeng China 18 608 1.1× 372 0.9× 200 0.6× 86 0.3× 155 0.5× 72 1.7k
H. Hindi United States 14 691 1.3× 205 0.5× 353 1.1× 761 2.6× 174 0.6× 49 2.0k
Zhi-Quan Luo United States 13 717 1.3× 566 1.4× 860 2.8× 145 0.5× 294 1.0× 22 2.3k
François Glineur Belgium 20 467 0.9× 383 1.0× 129 0.4× 111 0.4× 335 1.2× 68 1.2k
Wei Bian China 25 502 0.9× 709 1.8× 129 0.4× 165 0.6× 184 0.7× 100 2.0k
Stephen A. Vavasis United States 29 710 1.3× 392 1.0× 335 1.1× 207 0.7× 584 2.1× 72 2.8k
Zhaosong Lu Canada 26 1.1k 1.9× 500 1.3× 90 0.3× 120 0.4× 481 1.7× 69 2.0k
Yangyang Xu United States 18 1.4k 2.5× 506 1.3× 250 0.8× 77 0.3× 355 1.3× 72 2.5k
Li‐Zhi Liao Hong Kong 25 667 1.2× 504 1.3× 120 0.4× 382 1.3× 1.1k 3.8× 88 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Brendan O’Donoghue

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brendan O’Donoghue

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brendan O’Donoghue

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brendan O’Donoghue. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brendan O’Donoghue based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brendan O’Donoghue. Brendan O’Donoghue is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, Tor Lattimore, & Ian Osband. (2021). Matrix games with bandit feedback. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Jongho, et al.. (2021). Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning with REINFORCE. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 35(12). 10887–10895. 46 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, Ian Osband, & Catalin Ionescu. (2020). Making Sense of Reinforcement Learning and Probabilistic Inference. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2020). Globally Convergent Type-I Anderson Acceleration for Nonsmooth Fixed-Point Iterations. SIAM Journal on Optimization. 30(4). 3170–3197. 46 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan. (2019). Splitting Conic Solver [R package scs version 1.3-2]. 2 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, Ian Osband, Rémi Munos, & Volodymyr Mnih. (2018). The Uncertainty Bellman Equation and Exploration.. International Conference on Machine Learning. 3839–3848. 13 indexed citations
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Uesato, Jonathan, Brendan O’Donoghue, Aäron van den Oord, & Pushmeet Kohli. (2018). Adversarial Risk and the Dangers of Evaluating Against Weak Attacks.. International Conference on Machine Learning. 5025–5034. 31 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, Rémi Munos, Koray Kavukcuoglu, & Volodymyr Mnih. (2017). Combining policy gradient and Q-learning. International Conference on Learning Representations. 9 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2016). Conic Optimization via Operator Splitting and Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 169(3). 1042–1068. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shi, Yuanming, Jun Zhang, Brendan O’Donoghue, & Khaled B. Letaief. (2015). Large-Scale Convex Optimization for Dense Wireless Cooperative Networks. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 63(18). 4729–4743. 85 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2014). A SPREAD-RETURN MEAN-REVERTING MODEL FOR CREDIT SPREAD DYNAMICS. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance. 17(3). 1450017–1450017. 5 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Tom, Brendan O’Donoghue, Simon Setzer, & Richard G. Baraniuk. (2014). Fast Alternating Direction Optimization Methods. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 7(3). 1588–1623. 503 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Yan, Brendan O’Donoghue, & Stephen Boyd. (2014). Approximate dynamic programming via iterated Bellman inequalities. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 25(10). 1472–1496. 38 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2014). A Spread-Return Mean-Reverting Model for Credit Spread Dynamics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2013). Operator Splitting for Conic Optimization via Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, Yang Wang, & Stephen Boyd. (2013). Iterated approximate value functions. 3882–3888. 3 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan & Emmanuel J. Candès. (2013). Adaptive Restart for Accelerated Gradient Schemes. Foundations of Computational Mathematics. 15(3). 715–732. 396 indexed citations breakdown →
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2013). A Splitting Method for Optimal Control. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 21(6). 2432–2442. 124 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2011). Min-max approximate dynamic programming. 51. 424–431. 13 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan. (2011). A Poetics of Homecoming: Heidegger, Homelessness and the Homecoming Venture. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations

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