most citedDecentralized Bilevel Optimization: A Perspective from Transient Iteration Complexity

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cs.LG2026

Curvature-Conditioned Multiscale Momentum with Sphere Constraints for LLM Pretraining

Shuchen Zhu, Yuxin Fang, Mingze Wang +1

Pretraining accounts for a large fraction of the total computational cost in LLM training. However, noise-dominant gradients and the highly ill-conditioned loss landscape bring sev…

cs.AI2026

ReasFlow: Assisting Reasoning-Centric Scientific Discovery in Applied Mathematics via a Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent System

Yutong He, Daibo Li, Guohong Li +15

Recent advances in Large Language Models have fueled autonomous AI agents capable of tackling complex scientific tasks, yet existing automated research systems remain predominantly…

cs.LG2026

Negligible in Size, Significant in Effect: On Scale Vectors in Large Language Models

Mingze Wang, Shuchen Zhu, Yuxin Fang +3

Normalization layers in modern large language models (LLMs) consist of a deterministic normalization operation and a learnable scale vector. While the normalization operation has b…

cs.LG2026

Subspace Optimization for Efficient Federated Learning under Heterogeneous Data

Shuchen Zhu, Zhengyang Huang, Yuqi Xu +1

Federated learning increasingly operates in a large-model regime where communication, memory, and computation are all scarce. Typically, non-IID client data induce drift that degra…

cs.LG2026

Accelerating LLM Pre-Training through Flat-Direction Dynamics Enhancement

Shuchen Zhu, Rizhen Hu, Mingze Wang +4

Pre-training Large Language Models requires immense computational resources, making optimizer efficiency essential. The optimization landscape is highly anisotropic, with loss redu…

math.OC2024

SPARKLE: A Unified Single-Loop Primal-Dual Framework for Decentralized Bilevel Optimization

Shuchen Zhu, Boao Kong, Songtao Lu +2

This paper studies decentralized bilevel optimization, in which multiple agents collaborate to solve problems involving nested optimization structures with neighborhood communicati…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

Decentralized Bilevel Optimization: A Perspective from Transient Iteration Complexity

Boao Kong, Shuchen Zhu, Songtao Lu +2

Stochastic bilevel optimization (SBO) is becoming increasingly essential in machine learning due to its versatility in handling nested structures. To address large-scale SBO, decen…