Aaron Sidford; Faster Algorithms for Computing the Stationary Distribution
CORE Series Tuesday, May 8, 2018 SAV 264, 4:00PM Aaron Sidford, Stanford University (Management Science and Engineering) TITLE: Faster Algorithms for Computing the Stationary Distribution ABSTRACT:...
View ArticleYurii Nesterov; Relative smoothness condition and its application to...
CORE Series Monday, May 21, 2018 SMI 205, 4:00PM Yurii Nesterov (CORE/INMA, UCL, Belgium) TITLE: Relative smoothness condition and its application to third-order methods ABSTRACT: In this talk, we...
View ArticleFrancis Bach; Can machine learning survive the artificial intelligence...
CORE Series Francis Bach, Inria and Ecole Normale Supérieure Thursday, November 8, 2018 Electrical Engineering Building (EEB) 105, 11:00am Poster PDF TITLE: Can machine learning survive the artificial...
View ArticleJesus De Loera; Variations on a theme by G. Dantzig: Revisiting the...
CORE Series Jesus De Loera, UC Davis Friday, November 30, 2018 Smith Hall 102, 3:30pm TITLE: Variations on a theme by G. Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Algorithm ABSTRACT: Linear...
View ArticleRainer Sinn and Daniel Plaumann; From conic programming to real algebraic...
Rainer Sinn, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin Daniel Plaumann, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität Dortmund Tuesday May 14, 2019, More Hall 234, 4pm-5:30pm...
View ArticleAmir Ali Ahmadi; Nonnegative polynomials: from optimization to control and...
CORE Series Amir Ali Ahmadi, ORFE, Princeton University Friday, May 17, 2019 ECE 037, 2:30-3:30pm Poster PDF *Title: Nonnegative polynomials: from optimization to control and learning *Speaker: Amir...
View ArticleCynthia Vinzant; Determinants, polynomials, and matroids
Cynthia Vinzant, Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University Tuesday Oct 8, 2019, CSE2 (Gates) G04, 4-5pm Title: Determinants, polynomials, and matroids Abstract: The determinant of a...
View ArticleMarco Cuturi; Computational Optimal Transport
Marco Cuturi, Google Brain, Paris Tuesday Nov 19, 2019, CSE2 (Gates) G04, 4-5pm Title: Computational Optimal Transport Abstract: I will give in this talk a short introduction to optimal transport...
View ArticleAlekh Agarwal; Optimality and Approximation with Policy Gradient Methods in...
Alekh Agarwal, Microsoft Research AI Tuesday Nov 12, 2019, CSE2 (Gates) G04, 4-5pm Title: Optimality and Approximation with Policy Gradient Methods in Markov Decision Processes Abstract: Policy...
View ArticleBernd Sturmfels; 3264 Conics in A Second
Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley Tuesday February 18, 2020, BAG 154, 4-5pm TITLE: 3264 Conics in A Second ABSTRACT: This lecture spans a bridge from 19th century geometry to 21st century...
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