@article{avoidingsynchronizationinfirstorder,
  title = {Avoiding Synchronization in First-Order Methods for Sparse Convex Optimization},
  author = {Aditya Devarakonda and Kimon Fountoulakis and James Demmel and Michael W. Mahoney},
  year = {2017},
  eprint = {1712.06047},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06047v1},
}