Ya-xiang Yuan

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Ya-xiang Yuan is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ya-xiang Yuan has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Numerical Analysis, 49 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 36 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Ya-xiang Yuan's work include Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (66 papers), Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (34 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (29 papers). Ya-xiang Yuan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (66 papers), Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (34 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (29 papers). Ya-xiang Yuan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Brazil. Ya-xiang Yuan's co-authors include Wenyu Sun, Jinyan Fan, Yu‐Hong Dai, Jorge Nocedal, Richard H. Byrd, Zaiwen Wen, Jinyun Yuan, Xinwei Liu, Xin Liu and Jiang Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Mathematics of Computation and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

In The Last Decade

Ya-xiang Yuan

85 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Optimization Theory and Methods: Nonlinear Programming

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ya-xiang Yuan China	28	2.1k	1.5k	1.2k	597	447	89	3.8k
Renato D. C. Monteiro United States	32	2.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	739 1.2×	428 1.0×	107	4.2k
Hongchao Zhang United States	22	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	581 1.0×	276 0.6×	61	3.5k
Stefano Lucidi Italy	34	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	824 0.7×	712 1.2×	678 1.5×	117	3.9k
Katya Scheinberg United States	26	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 2.2×	443 1.0×	55	3.5k
J. Frédéric Bonnans France	26	2.1k 1.0×	2.6k 1.8×	1.0k 0.9×	303 0.5×	995 2.2×	119	4.9k
Yu‐Hong Dai China	29	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	412 0.7×	179 0.4×	129	3.3k
Marcos Raydan Venezuela	22	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	384 0.6×	239 0.5×	80	3.3k
Defeng Sun Singapore	43	3.5k 1.6×	3.0k 2.1×	2.6k 2.2×	380 0.6×	531 1.2×	125	5.7k
James V. Burke United States	34	1.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	812 0.7×	334 0.6×	964 2.2×	90	3.5k
Jonathan Eckstein United States	22	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	314 0.5×	227 0.5×	58	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ya-xiang Yuan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ya-xiang Yuan

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Gao, Bin, et al.. (2025). Low-rank optimization on Tucker tensor varieties. Mathematical Programming. 214(1-2). 357–407. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Jiang, Xin Liu, Zaiwen Wen, & Ya-xiang Yuan. (2020). A Brief Introduction to Manifold Optimization. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China. 8(2). 199–248. 114 indexed citations

Wang, Xiao, et al.. (2018). Stochastic proximal quasi-Newton methods for non-convex composite optimization. Optimization methods & software. 34(5). 922–948. 18 indexed citations

Hu, Jiang, et al.. (2018). Adaptive Quadratically Regularized Newton Method for Riemannian Optimization. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 39(3). 1181–1207. 36 indexed citations

Burdakov, Oleg, et al.. (2016). Shape-Changing L-SR1 Trust-Region Methods. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

Grapiglia, Geovani Nunes, et al.. (2016). Nonlinear Stepsize Control Algorithms: Complexity Bounds for First- and Second-Order Optimality. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 171(3). 980–997. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Zaiwen Wen, Xiao Wang, Michael Ulbrich, & Ya-xiang Yuan. (2015). On the Analysis of the Discretized Kohn--Sham Density Functional Theory. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 53(4). 1758–1785. 26 indexed citations

Wen, Zaiwen, et al.. (2014). On the Convergence of the Self-Consistent Field Iteration in Kohn--Sham Density Functional Theory. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 35(2). 546–558. 28 indexed citations

Yuan, Ya-xiang. (2013). A Counter-Example to a Conjecture of Ben-Tal, Nemirovski and Roos. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China. 1(1). 155–157. 1 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ya-xiang, et al.. (2012). Low complexity interference alignment algorithms for desired signal power maximization problem of MIMO channels. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2012(1). 17 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ya-xiang. (2011). Recent advances in numerical methods for nonlinear equations andnonlinear least squares. Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization. 1(1). 15–34. 65 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ya-xiang, et al.. (2006). Optimization Theory and Methods. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 410 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanfei & Ya-xiang Yuan. (2005). Convergence and regularity of trust region methods for nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems. Inverse Problems. 21(3). 821–838. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanfei, Ya-xiang Yuan, & Hongchao Zhang. (2002). A trust region-CG algorithm for deblurring problem in atmospheric image reconstruction. Science China Mathematics. 45(6). 731–740. 8 indexed citations

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Dai, Yu‐Hong, Jinyun Yuan, & Ya-xiang Yuan. (2002). Modified Two-Point Stepsize Gradient Methods for Unconstrained Optimization. Computational Optimization and Applications. 22(1). 103–109. 91 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenyu & Ya-xiang Yuan. (2001). A Conic Trust-Region Method for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization. Annals of Operations Research. 103(1-4). 175–191. 26 indexed citations

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Dai, Yu‐Hong & Ya-xiang Yuan. (1999). Global convergence of the method of shortest residuals. Numerische Mathematik. 83(4). 581–598. 13 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ya-xiang, et al.. (1998). A stronger extension of the hardy inequality. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 270(1-3). 275–286. 2 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ya-xiang. (1993). Analysis on the conjugate gradient method. Optimization methods & software. 2(1). 19–29. 39 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ya-xiang. (1992). On self-dual update formulae in the Broyden family. Optimization methods & software. 1(2). 117–127. 1 indexed citations

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