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20202026
most citedApproximate Gradient Coding with Optimal Decoding

15 citations · 30 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

stat.ML2026

Uniform-in-Time Weak Propagation-of-Chaos in Shallow Neural Networks

Margalit Glasgow, Joan Bruna

We consider one-hidden layer neural networks trained in the feature-learning regime using gradient descent, and relate the output of the finite-width network to its…

stat.ML2025

Propagation of Chaos in One-hidden-layer Neural Networks beyond Logarithmic Time

Margalit Glasgow, Denny Wu, Joan Bruna

We study the approximation gap between the dynamics of a polynomial-width neural network and its infinite-width counterpart, both trained using projected gradient descent in the me…

cs.LG2024

Convergence of Distributed Adaptive Optimization with Local Updates

Ziheng Cheng, Margalit Glasgow

We study distributed adaptive algorithms with local updates (intermittent communication). Despite the great empirical success of adaptive methods in distributed training of modern…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

The Limits and Potentials of Local SGD for Distributed Heterogeneous Learning with Intermittent Communication

Kumar Kshitij Patel, Margalit Glasgow, Ali Zindari +5

Local SGD is a popular optimization method in distributed learning, often outperforming other algorithms in practice, including mini-batch SGD. Despite this success, theoretically…

math.CO2024

A central limit theorem for the matching number of a sparse random graph

Margalit Glasgow, Matthew Kwan, Ashwin Sah +1

In 1981, Karp and Sipser proved a law of large numbers for the matching number of a sparse Erdős-Rényi random graph, in an influential paper pioneering the so-called differential e…

cs.LG2023

SGD Finds then Tunes Features in Two-Layer Neural Networks with near-Optimal Sample Complexity: A Case Study in the XOR problem

Margalit Glasgow

In this work, we consider the optimization process of minibatch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on a 2-layer neural network with data separated by a quadratic ground truth functi…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Beyond NTK with Vanilla Gradient Descent: A Mean-Field Analysis of Neural Networks with Polynomial Width, Samples, and Time

Arvind Mahankali, Jeff Z. Haochen, Kefan Dong +2

Despite recent theoretical progress on the non-convex optimization of two-layer neural networks, it is still an open question whether gradient descent on neural networks without un…

math.CO2023

The Exact Rank of Sparse Random Graphs

Margalit Glasgow, Matthew Kwan, Ashwin Sah +1

Two landmark results in combinatorial random matrix theory, due to Komlós and Costello-Tao-Vu, show that discrete random matrices and symmetric discrete random matrices are typical…

cs.LG2023

Tight Bounds for -Regret via the Decision-Estimation Coefficient

Margalit Glasgow, Alexander Rakhlin

In this work, we give a statistical characterization of the -regret for arbitrary structured bandit problems, the regret which arises when comparing against a benchmark that is…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Feature Dropout: Revisiting the Role of Augmentations in Contrastive Learning

Alex Tamkin, Margalit Glasgow, Xiluo He +1

What role do augmentations play in contrastive learning? Recent work suggests that good augmentations are label-preserving with respect to a specific downstream task. We complicate…

cs.LG2022

Max-Margin Works while Large Margin Fails: Generalization without Uniform Convergence

Margalit Glasgow, Colin Wei, Mary Wootters +1

A major challenge in modern machine learning is theoretically understanding the generalization properties of overparameterized models. Many existing tools rely on uniform convergen…

cs.LG2021★ 10 cited

Sharp Bounds for Federated Averaging (Local SGD) and Continuous Perspective

Margalit Glasgow, Honglin Yuan, Tengyu Ma

Federated Averaging (FedAvg), also known as Local SGD, is one of the most popular algorithms in Federated Learning (FL). Despite its simplicity and popularity, the convergence rate…

math.CO2021★ 1 cited

Invertibility of the 3-core of Erdos Renyi Graphs with Growing Degree

Margalit Glasgow

Let be the adjacency matrix of an Erdős Rényi graph for and . We show that as goes to infinity, with pro…

math.CO2021

On the Rank, Kernel, and Core of Sparse Random Graphs

Patrick DeMichele, Margalit Glasgow, Alexander Moreira

We study the rank of the adjacency matrix of a random Erdos Renyi graph . It is well known that when , with high probability, …

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Asynchronous Distributed Optimization with Stochastic Delays

Margalit Glasgow, Mary Wootters

We study asynchronous finite sum minimization in a distributed-data setting with a central parameter server. While asynchrony is well understood in parallel settings where the data…

stat.ML2020★ 15 cited

Approximate Gradient Coding with Optimal Decoding

Margalit Glasgow, Mary Wootters

In distributed optimization problems, a technique called gradient coding, which involves replicating data points, has been used to mitigate the effect of straggling machines. Recen…