Optimization
Predictive Approximate Bayesian Computation via Saddle Points
Yingxiang Yang, Bo Dai, Negar Kiyavash, Niao He
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is an important methodology for Bayesian inference when the likelihood function is intractable.
Reinforcement Learning for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem
MohammadReza Nazari, Afshin Oroojlooy, Lawrence Snyder, Martin Takac
We present an end-to-end framework for solving the V ehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using reinforcement learning.
Global Convergence of Langevin Dynamics Based Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization
Pan Xu, Jinghui Chen, Difan Zou, Quanquan Gu
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An Efficient Pruning Algorithm for Robust Isotonic Regression
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Adaptive Methods for Nonconvex Optimization
Manzil Zaheer, Sashank Reddi, Devendra Sachan, Satyen Kale, Sanjiv Kumar
Equal Contribution 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018), Montrรฉal, Canada. is often attributed to the rapid decay in the learning rate when gradients are dense, which is often the case in many machine learning applications.
Optimal Algorithms for Non-Smooth Distributed Optimization in Networks
Kevin Scaman, Francis Bach, Sebastien Bubeck, Laurent Massouliรฉ, Yin Tat Lee
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Learning to Optimize Tensor Programs
Tianqi Chen, Lianmin Zheng, Eddie Yan, Ziheng Jiang, Thierry Moreau, Luis Ceze, Carlos Guestrin, Arvind Krishnamurthy
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$\ell_1$-regression with Heavy-tailed Distributions
Linear regression used to be a mainstay of statistics, and remains one of our most important tools for data analysis [Hastie et al., 2009].
Multi-objective Maximization of Monotone Submodular Functions with Cardinality Constraint
In fact, Krause et al. (2008) showed that when the number of objectives
Non-Ergodic Alternating Proximal Augmented Lagrangian Algorithms with Optimal Rates
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