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Publications (6)

cs.LG2017

Parallel Streaming Wasserstein Barycenters

Matthew Staib, Sebastian Claici, Justin Solomon +1

Efficiently aggregating data from different sources is a challenging problem, particularly when samples from each source are distributed differently. These differences can be inher…

cs.LG2017

Robust Budget Allocation via Continuous Submodular Functions

Matthew Staib, Stefanie Jegelka

The optimal allocation of resources for maximizing influence, spread of information or coverage, has gained attention in the past years, in particular in machine learning and data…

cs.LG2020

Escaping Saddle Points with Adaptive Gradient Methods

Matthew Staib, Sashank J. Reddi, Satyen Kale +2

Adaptive methods such as Adam and RMSProp are widely used in deep learning but are not well understood. In this paper, we seek a crisp, clean and precise characterization of their…

cs.LG2019

Distributionally Robust Optimization and Generalization in Kernel Methods

Matthew Staib, Stefanie Jegelka

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has attracted attention in machine learning due to its connections to regularization, generalization, and robustness. Existing work has c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Inorganic Materials Synthesis Planning with Literature-Trained Neural Networks

Edward Kim, Zach Jensen, Alexander van Grootel +8

Leveraging new data sources is a key step in accelerating the pace of materials design and discovery. To complement the strides in synthesis planning driven by historical, experime…

cs.LG2018

Distributionally Robust Submodular Maximization

Matthew Staib, Bryan Wilder, Stefanie Jegelka

Submodular functions have applications throughout machine learning, but in many settings, we do not have direct access to the underlying function . We focus on stochastic functi…