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On Stochastic Mirror Descent: Convergence Analysis and Adaptive Variants
On Stochastic Mirror Descent: Convergence Analysis and Adaptive Variants
We investigate the convergence of stochastic mirror descent (SMD) under interpolation in relatively smooth and smooth convex …
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR),  2023.
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Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Converge Faster: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence
Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Converge Faster: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence
Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods are widely used for large-scale numerical optimization because of their cheap iteration costs, …
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),  2023.
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DAG Learning on the Permutahedron
DAG Learning on the Permutahedron

We propose a continuous optimization framework for discovering a latent directed acyclic graph (DAG) from observational data. Our …

International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR),  2023.
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Deep Hyperbolic Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control
Deep Hyperbolic Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control
Integrating hyperbolic representations with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has recently been proposed as a promising approach for …
ICLR, Tiny Papers,  2023.
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