2 papers
cs.MA2020
Objective Social Choice: Using Auxiliary Information to Improve Voting Outcomes
Silviu Pitis, Michael R. Zhang
How should one combine noisy information from diverse sources to make an inference about an objective ground truth? This frequently recurring, normative question lies at the core o…
cs.LG2019
Lookahead Optimizer: k steps forward, 1 step back
Michael R. Zhang, James Lucas, Geoffrey Hinton +1
The vast majority of successful deep neural networks are trained using variants of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms. Recent attempts to improve SGD can be broadly categ…