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most citedAlgorithmic thresholds for tensor PCA

68 citations · 133 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ML2025

Universality of high-dimensional scaling limits of stochastic gradient descent

Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath

We consider statistical tasks in high dimensions whose loss depends on the data only through its projection into a fixed-dimensional subspace spanned by the parameter vectors and c…

math.ST2025

Local geometry of high-dimensional mixture models: Effective spectral theory and dynamical transitions

Gerard Ben Arous, Reza Gheissari, Jiaoyang Huang +1

We study the local geometry of empirical risks in high dimensions via the spectral theory of their Hessian and information matrices. We focus on settings where the data, $(Y_\ell)_…

cs.DS2023★ 2 cited

Finding planted cliques using gradient descent

Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath, Yiming Xu

The planted clique problem is a paradigmatic model of statistical-to-computational gaps: the planted clique is information-theoretically detectable if its size but…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Spectral alignment of stochastic gradient descent for high-dimensional classification tasks

Gerard Ben Arous, Reza Gheissari, Jiaoyang Huang +1

We rigorously study the relation between the training dynamics via stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and the spectra of empirical Hessian and gradient matrices. We prove that in tw…

stat.ML2022★ 7 cited

High-dimensional limit theorems for SGD: Effective dynamics and critical scaling

Gerard Ben Arous, Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath

We study the scaling limits of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with constant step-size in the high-dimensional regime. We prove limit theorems for the trajectories of summary sta…

stat.ML2020★ 13 cited

Online stochastic gradient descent on non-convex losses from high-dimensional inference

Gerard Ben Arous, Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a popular algorithm for optimization problems arising in high-dimensional inference tasks. Here one produces an estimator of an unknown paramet…

math.PR2018★ 19 cited

Bounding flows for spherical spin glass dynamics

Gerard Ben Arous, Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath

We introduce a new approach to studying spherical spin glass dynamics based on differential inequalities for one-time observables. Using this approach, we obtain an approximate pha…

math.PR2018★ 68 cited

Algorithmic thresholds for tensor PCA

Gerard Ben Arous, Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath

We study the algorithmic thresholds for principal component analysis of Gaussian -tensors with a planted rank-one spike, via Langevin dynamics and gradient descent. In order to…

math.PR2016★ 22 cited

On the Spectral Gap of Spherical Spin Glass Dynamics

Reza Gheissari, Aukosh Jagannath

We consider the time to equilibrium for the Langevin dynamics of the spherical -spin glass model of system size . We show that the log-Sobolev constant and spectral gap are o…