Courtney Paquette

This short workshop is being hosted at the University of Washington and is in honor of Prof Adrian Lewis in recognition of his fundamental contributions to nonsmooth optimization Schedule: Aug 9: 9 am -- 5pm & Invited talks at the University of...

Modern machine learning (ML) applications grapple with the challenges posed by high-dimensional datasets and high-dimensional parameter spaces. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants have emerged as the go-to algorithms for optimizing in...