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Rapidly Mixing Gibbs Sampling for a Class of Factor Graphs Using Hierarchy Width
Christopher De Sa, Ce Zhang, Kunle Olukotun +1
Gibbs sampling on factor graphs is a widely used inference technique, which often produces good empirical results. Theoretical guarantees for its performance are weak: even for tre…
cs.LG2015★ 109 cited
Taming the Wild: A Unified Analysis of Hogwild!-Style Algorithms
Christopher De Sa, Ce Zhang, Kunle Olukotun +1
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a ubiquitous algorithm for a variety of machine learning problems. Researchers and industry have developed several techniques to optimize SGD's…