@InProceedings{wang_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.50, author = {Wang, Di and Rao, Satish and Mahoney, Michael W.}, title = {{Unified Acceleration Method for Packing and Covering Problems via Diameter Reduction}}, booktitle = {43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)}, pages = {50:1--50:13}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-013-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {55}, editor = {Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.50}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-63308}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.50}, annote = {Keywords: Convex optimization, Accelerated gradient descent, Linear program, Approximation algorithm, Packing and covering} }