VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Connor W. Magoon
dblp:390/1231
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
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
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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
differentiable optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming Solvers · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization › nonlinear optimization
quadratic programming |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming Solvers · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization
bilevel optimization |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Differentiation Through Black-Box Quadratic Programming SolversabstractDifferentiable 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 |
NeurIPS | 1 |