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Measuring Cluster Stability for Bayesian Nonparametrics Using the Linear Bootstrap
Ryan Giordano, Runjing Liu, Nelle Varoquaux +2
Clustering procedures typically estimate which data points are clustered together, a quantity of primary importance in many analyses. Often used as a preliminary step for dimension…
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First-order Methods Almost Always Avoid Saddle Points
Jason D. Lee, Ioannis Panageas, Georgios Piliouras +3
We establish that first-order methods avoid saddle points for almost all initializations. Our results apply to a wide variety of first-order methods, including gradient descent, bl…