2 papers
math.OC2025
First-order methods almost always avoid saddle points: the case of vanishing step-sizes
Ioannis Panageas, Georgios Piliouras, Xiao Wang
In a series of papers \cite{LSJR16, PP17, LPP}, it was established that some of the most commonly used first order methods almost surely (under random initializations) and with ste…
cs.LG2025
Global Convergence of Multi-Agent Policy Gradient in Markov Potential Games
Stefanos Leonardos, Will Overman, Ioannis Panageas +1
Potential games are arguably one of the most important and widely studied classes of normal form games. They define the archetypal setting of multi-agent coordination as all agent…