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Stochastic Cubic Regularization for Fast Nonconvex Optimization
Nilesh Tripuraneni, Mitchell Stern, Chi Jin +2
This paper proposes a stochastic variant of a classic algorithm---the cubic-regularized Newton method [Nesterov and Polyak 2006]. The proposed algorithm efficiently escapes saddle…
stat.ML2017
Lost Relatives of the Gumbel Trick
Matej Balog, Nilesh Tripuraneni, Zoubin Ghahramani +1
The Gumbel trick is a method to sample from a discrete probability distribution, or to estimate its normalizing partition function. The method relies on repeatedly applying a rando…