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Machine Learning Group Seminar (FALL 2019)
Time: 9:00AM - 11:00AM CST, Friday, Aug 30 - Nov 1, 2019; 1:00PM - 3:00PM CST, Friday, Nov 8 - Dec 13, 2019
Location: B11, MacLean Hall (B13 on Sept 20, 2019): Aug 30 - Nov 1, 2019; Room S326, PBB: Nov 8 - Dec 13, 2019
Organizer: Qihang Lin and Tianbao Yang
Maintained by: Yan Yan
| Week | Date | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | August 30, 2019 | | None |
| 2 | September 6, 2019 | Global Convergence of ADMM in Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization | Qi Qi |
| 3 | September 13, 2019 | | None |
| 3 | September 20, 2019 | Algorithms of Robust Stochastic Optimization Based on Mirror Descent Method | Zhishuai Guo |
| 4 | September 27, 2019 | A Universal Algorithm for Variational Inequalities Adaptive to Smoothness and Noise | Xin Man |
| 5 | October 4, 2019 | Polylogarithmic width suffices for gradient descent to achieve arbitrarily small test error with shallow ReLU networks | Mingrui Liu |
| 6 | October 11, 2019 | Empirical Bernstein Bounds and Sample Variance Penalization | Dixian Zhu |
| 7 | October 18, 2019 | Robust stochastic optimization with the proximal point method | Yan Yan |
| 8 | October 25, 2019 | Loss Minimization and Parameter Estimation with Heavy Tails | Zhishuai Guo |
| 9 | November 1, 2019 | Sharper bounds for uniformly stable algorithms | Qi Qi |
| 10 | November 8, 2019 | Momentum-Based Variance Reduction in Non-Convex SGD | Zhuoning Yuan |
| 11 | November 15, 2019 | On the convergence of single-call stochastic extra-gradient methods | Xin Man |
| 12 | November 22, 2019 | An exponential learning rate schedule for deep learning | Yan Yan |
| 13 | November 29, 2019 | Thanksgiving Break | None |
| 14 | December 6, 2019 | Batched Multi-armed Bandits Problem | Dixian Zhu |
| 15 | December 13, 2019 | | Mingrui Liu
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