4 papers
2024 NSF CSSI-Cybertraining-SCIPE PI Meeting August 12 to 13, 2024, Charlotte, NC
Abani Patra, Mary Thomas, Elias Bou-Harb +31
The second annual NSF, OAC CSSI, CyberTraining and related programs PI meeting was held August 12 to 13 in Charlotte, NC, with participation from PIs or representatives of all majo…
Scientific Applications Leveraging Randomized Linear Algebra
Vivak Patel, D. Adrian Maldonado, Maksim Melnichenko +5
This report showcases the role of, and future directions for, the field of Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RNLA) in a selection of scientific applications. These applications…
A Novel First-order Method with Event-driven Objective Evaluations
Christian Varner, Vivak Patel
Arising in semi-parametric statistics, control applications, and as sub-problems in global optimization methods, certain optimization problems can have objective functions requirin…
Recent Advances in Non-convex Smoothness Conditions and Applicability to Deep Linear Neural Networks
Vivak Patel, Christian Varner
The presence of non-convexity in smooth optimization problems arising from deep learning have sparked new smoothness conditions in the literature and corresponding convergence anal…