3 papers
cs.LG2026
DOME: Improving Signal-to-Noise in Stochastic Gradient Descent via Sharp-Direction Subspace Filtering
Julien Nicolas, Mohamed Maouche, Sonia Ben Mokhtar +1
Stochastic gradients for deep neural networks exhibit strong correlations along the optimization trajectory, and are often aligned with a small set of Hessian eigenvectors associat…
cs.LG2025
Differentially private and decentralized randomized power method
Julien Nicolas, César Sabater, Mohamed Maouche +2
The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its app…
cs.IR2025
Secure Federated Graph-Filtering for Recommender Systems
Julien Nicolas, César Sabater, Mohamed Maouche +2
Recommender systems often rely on graph-based filters, such as normalized item-item adjacency matrices and low-pass filters. While effective, the centralized computation of these c…