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Some methods for heterogeneous treatment effect estimation in high-dimensions
Scott Powers, Junyang Qian, Kenneth Jung +4
When devising a course of treatment for a patient, doctors often have little quantitative evidence on which to base their decisions, beyond their medical education and published cl…
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On the diffusion approximation of nonconvex stochastic gradient descent
Wenqing Hu, Chris Junchi Li, Lei Li +1
We study the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) method in nonconvex optimization problems from the point of view of approximating diffusion processes. We prove rigorously that the d…