VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Shaozhe Tao
dblp:165/3136
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
0since 2021 · last 2017
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 first-authorGraphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 2 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
2 papers |
Mathematical optimization · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Optimization for machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization › statistical estimation › covariance estimation
inverse covariance estimation |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured Groups · IJCAI 2017 |
Mathematical optimization › regularization
l1-regularized least squares |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares · IJCAI 2015 |
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization › convex optimization
proximal methods |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares · IJCAI 2015 |
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization › convex optimization › first-order methods
conditional gradient method |
0.1 | 1 | 2017 | Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured Groups · IJCAI 2017 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › regularized risk minimization
regularized regression |
0.1 | 1 | 2015 | Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares · IJCAI 2015 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
proximal gradient method · 0.4conditional gradient method · 0.3chordal decomposition · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured GroupsabstractEstimating the inverse covariance matrix of p variables from n observations is challenging when n is much less than p, since the sample covariance matrix is singular and cannot be inverted. A popular solution is to optimize for the L1 penalized estimator; however, this does not incorporate structure domain knowledge and can be expensive to optimize. We consider finding inverse covariance matrices with group structure, defined as potentially overlapping principal submatrices, determined from domain knowledge (e.g. categories or graph cliques). We propose a new estimator for this problem setting that can be derived efficiently via the conditional gradient method, leveraging chordal decomposition theory for scalability. Simulation results show significant improvement in sample complexity when the correct group structure is known. We also apply these estimators to 14,910 stock closing prices, with noticeable improvement when group sparsity is exploited. Shaozhe Tao, Daniel Boley |
IJCAI | 1 |
| 2015 | Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares
Shaozhe Tao, Daniel Boley, Shuzhong Zhang |
IJCAI | 1 |