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most citedLower Complexity Bounds of Finite-Sum Optimization Problems: The Results and Construction

13 citations · 43 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.DS2021★ 1 cited

Complex contraction on trees without proof of correlation decay

Liang Li, Guangzeng Xie

We prove complex contraction for zero-free regions of counting weighted set cover problem in which an element can appear in an unbounded number of sets, thus obtaining fully polyno…

math.OC2021★ 3 cited

Near Optimal Stochastic Algorithms for Finite-Sum Unbalanced Convex-Concave Minimax Optimization

Luo Luo, Guangzeng Xie, Tong Zhang +1

This paper considers stochastic first-order algorithms for convex-concave minimax problems of the form , where can be presented by the…

cs.LG2021

Meta-Regularization: An Approach to Adaptive Choice of the Learning Rate in Gradient Descent

Guangzeng Xie, Hao Jin, Dachao Lin +1

We propose \textit{Meta-Regularization}, a novel approach for the adaptive choice of the learning rate in first-order gradient descent methods. Our approach modifies the objective…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

DIPPA: An improved Method for Bilinear Saddle Point Problems

Guangzeng Xie, Yuze Han, Zhihua Zhang

This paper studies bilinear saddle point problems , where the functions are smooth and stron…

math.OC2021★ 13 cited

Lower Complexity Bounds of Finite-Sum Optimization Problems: The Results and Construction

Yuze Han, Guangzeng Xie, Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we study the lower complexity bounds for finite-sum optimization problems, where the objective is the average of individual component functions. We consider Prox…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Finding the Near Optimal Policy via Adaptive Reduced Regularization in MDPs

Wenhao Yang, Xiang Li, Guangzeng Xie +1

Regularized MDPs serve as a smooth version of original MDPs. However, biased optimal policy always exists for regularized MDPs. Instead of making the coefficientλof regularized ter…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Revisiting Co-Occurring Directions: Sharper Analysis and Efficient Algorithm for Sparse Matrices

Luo Luo, Cheng Chen, Guangzeng Xie +1

We study the streaming model for approximate matrix multiplication (AMM). We are interested in the scenario that the algorithm can only take one pass over the data with limited mem…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Optimal Quantization for Batch Normalization in Neural Network Deployments and Beyond

Dachao Lin, Peiqin Sun, Guangzeng Xie +2

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) use low bit-width fixed-point numbers for representing weight parameters and activations, and are often used in real-world applications due to thei…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

A Stochastic Proximal Point Algorithm for Saddle-Point Problems

Luo Luo, Cheng Chen, Yujun Li +2

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction m…

math.OC2019★ 3 cited

A General Analysis Framework of Lower Complexity Bounds for Finite-Sum Optimization

Guangzeng Xie, Luo Luo, Zhihua Zhang

This paper studies the lower bound complexity for the optimization problem whose objective function is the average of individual smooth convex functions. We consider the algori…

stat.ML2018★ 3 cited

Interpolatron: Interpolation or Extrapolation Schemes to Accelerate Optimization for Deep Neural Networks

Guangzeng Xie, Yitan Wang, Shuchang Zhou +1

In this paper we explore acceleration techniques for large scale nonconvex optimization problems with special focuses on deep neural networks. The extrapolation scheme is a classic…