Connor W. Magoon

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 100%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Optimization for machine learning · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
differentiable optimization
0.912025
Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming Solvers · NeurIPS 2025
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization › nonlinear optimization
quadratic programming
0.912025
Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming Solvers · NeurIPS 2025
Mathematical optimization
bilevel optimization
0.312025
Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming Solvers · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

implicit differentiation · 1.7active set identification · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming Solvers
abstract
Differentiable optimization has attracted significant research interest, particularly for quadratic programming (QP). Existing approaches for differentiating the solution of a QP with respect to its defining parameters often rely on specific integrated solvers. This integration limits their applicability, including their use in neural network architectures and bi-level optimization tasks, restricting users to a narrow selection of solver choices. To address this limitation, we introduce **dQP**, a modular and solver-agnostic framework for plug-and-play differentiation of virtually any QP solver. A key insight we leverage to achieve modularity is that, once the active set of inequality constraints is known, both the solution and its derivative can be expressed using simplified linear systems that share the same matrix. This formulation fully decouples the computation of the QP solution from its differentiation. Building on this result, we provide a minimal-overhead, open-source implementation (<https://github.com/cwmagoon/dQP>) that seamlessly integrates with over 15 state-of-the-art solvers. Comprehensive benchmark experiments demonstrate dQP’s robustness and scalability, particularly highlighting its advantages in large-scale sparse problems.
Connor W. Magoon, Noam Aigerman, Shahar Z. Kovalsky
NeurIPS1