Shaozhe Tao

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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
0since 2021 · last 2017
—ORCID · none

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Mathematical optimization › statistical estimation › covariance estimation
inverse covariance estimation
0.312017
Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured Groups · IJCAI 2017
Mathematical optimization › regularization
l1-regularized least squares
0.212015
Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares · IJCAI 2015
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization › convex optimization
proximal methods
0.212015
Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares · IJCAI 2015
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization › convex optimization › first-order methods
conditional gradient method
0.112017
Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured Groups · IJCAI 2017
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › regularized risk minimization
regularized regression
0.112015
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2017 Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured Groups
abstract
Estimating 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
IJCAI1
2015 Convergence of Common Proximal Methods for L1-Regularized Least Squares
Shaozhe Tao, Daniel Boley, Shuzhong Zhang
IJCAI1