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most citedImproved Zeroth-Order Variance Reduced Algorithms and Analysis for Nonconvex Optimization

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cs.LG2020

Bilevel Optimization: Convergence Analysis and Enhanced Design

Kaiyi Ji, Junjie Yang, Yingbin Liang

Bilevel optimization has arisen as a powerful tool for many machine learning problems such as meta-learning, hyperparameter optimization, and reinforcement learning. In this paper,…

cs.LG2020

Boosting One-Point Derivative-Free Online Optimization via Residual Feedback

Yan Zhang, Yi Zhou, Kaiyi Ji +1

Zeroth-order optimization (ZO) typically relies on two-point feedback to estimate the unknown gradient of the objective function. Nevertheless, two-point feedback can not be used f…

cs.LG2020

Convergence of Meta-Learning with Task-Specific Adaptation over Partial Parameters

Kaiyi Ji, Jason D. Lee, Yingbin Liang +1

Although model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) is a very successful algorithm in meta-learning practice, it can have high computational cost because it updates all model parameters o…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Robust Stochastic Bandit Algorithms under Probabilistic Unbounded Adversarial Attack

Ziwei Guan, Kaiyi Ji, Donald J Bucci +4

The multi-armed bandit formalism has been extensively studied under various attack models, in which an adversary can modify the reward revealed to the player. Previous studies focu…

math.OC2020

Proximal Gradient Algorithm with Momentum and Flexible Parameter Restart for Nonconvex Optimization

Yi Zhou, Zhe Wang, Kaiyi Ji +2

Various types of parameter restart schemes have been proposed for accelerated gradient algorithms to facilitate their practical convergence in convex optimization. However, the con…

cs.LG2020

Theoretical Convergence of Multi-Step Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning

Kaiyi Ji, Junjie Yang, Yingbin Liang

As a popular meta-learning approach, the model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm has been widely used due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, the convergence of the…