Warren Hare

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...

Derivative-free algorithms seek the minimum of a given function based only on function values queried at appropriate points. Their performance is known to worsen as the problem dimension increases. Recent advances in developing randomized derivative...