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most citedTheoretical properties of the global optimizer of two layer neural network

26 citations · 61 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

math.OC2025

Regularized Operator Extrapolation Method For Stochastic Bilevel Variational Inequality Problems

Mohammad Khalafi, Digvijay Boob

The bilevel variational inequality (BVI) problem is a general model that captures various optimization problems, including VI-constrained optimization and equilibrium problems with…

math.OC2024

Optimal Primal-Dual Algorithm with Last iterate Convergence Guarantees for Stochastic Convex Optimization Problems

Digvijay Boob, Mohammad Khalafi

This paper proposes a novel first-order algorithm that solves composite nonsmooth and stochastic convex optimization problem with function constraints. Most of the works in the lit…

math.OC2023

First-order methods for Stochastic Variational Inequality problems with Function Constraints

Digvijay Boob, Qi Deng, Mohammad Khalafi

The monotone Variational Inequality (VI) is a general model with important applications in various engineering and scientific domains. In numerous instances, the VI problems are ac…

math.OC2022★ 5 cited

Accelerated Primal-Dual Methods for Convex-Strongly-Concave Saddle Point Problems

Mohammad Khalafi, Digvijay Boob

We investigate a primal-dual (PD) method for the saddle point problem (SPP) that uses a linear approximation of the primal function instead of the standard proximal step, resulting…

math.OC2022★ 1 cited

Level Constrained First Order Methods for Function Constrained Optimization

Digvijay Boob, Qi Deng, Guanghui Lan

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly n…

math.OC2021

Optimal Algorithms for Differentially Private Stochastic Monotone Variational Inequalities and Saddle-Point Problems

Digvijay Boob, Cristóbal Guzmán

In this work, we conduct the first systematic study of stochastic variational inequality (SVI) and stochastic saddle point (SSP) problems under the constraint of differential priva…

math.OC2020★ 3 cited

A Feasible Level Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex Sparse Constrained Optimization

Digvijay Boob, Qi Deng, Guanghui Lan +1

Nonconvex sparse models have received significant attention in high-dimensional machine learning. In this paper, we study a new model consisting of a general convex or nonconvex ob…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Differentially Private Synthetic Mixed-Type Data Generation For Unsupervised Learning

Uthaipon Tantipongpipat, Chris Waites, Digvijay Boob +2

We introduce the DP-auto-GAN framework for synthetic data generation, which combines the low dimensional representation of autoencoders with the flexibility of Generative Adversari…

cs.DS2019★ 2 cited

Flowless: Extracting Densest Subgraphs Without Flow Computations

Digvijay Boob, Yu Gao, Richard Peng +4

We propose a simple and computationally efficient method for dense subgraph discovery, which is a classic problem both in theory and in practice. It is well known that dense subgra…

math.OC2019★ 2 cited

Faster width-dependent algorithm for mixed packing and covering LPs

Digvijay Boob, Saurabh Sawlani, Di Wang

In this paper, we give a faster width-dependent algorithm for mixed packing-covering LPs. Mixed packing-covering LPs are fundamental to combinatorial optimization in computer scien…

math.OC2019★ 3 cited

Stochastic First-order Methods for Convex and Nonconvex Functional Constrained Optimization

Digvijay Boob, Qi Deng, Guanghui Lan

Functional constrained optimization is becoming more and more important in machine learning and operations research. Such problems have potential applications in risk-averse machin…

cs.CC2018★ 18 cited

Complexity of Training ReLU Neural Network

Digvijay Boob, Santanu S. Dey, Guanghui Lan

In this paper, we explore some basic questions on the complexity of training neural networks with ReLU activation function. We show that it is NP-hard to train a two-hidden layer f…

cs.LG2017★ 26 cited

Theoretical properties of the global optimizer of two layer neural network

Digvijay Boob, Guanghui Lan

In this paper, we study the problem of optimizing a two-layer artificial neural network that best fits a training dataset. We look at this problem in the setting where the number o…