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Langqi Liu
dblp:384/4243
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—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 · 67% Information theory · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information theory › probability theory
heavy-tailed distributions |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | High-Probability Bound for Non-Smooth Non-Convex Stochastic Optimization with Heavy Tails · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization
nonconvex optimization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | High-Probability Bound for Non-Smooth Non-Convex Stochastic Optimization with Heavy Tails · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization
stochastic optimization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | High-Probability Bound for Non-Smooth Non-Convex Stochastic Optimization with Heavy Tails · ICML 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
online-to-non-convex framework · 0.8gradient clipping · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | High-Probability Bound for Non-Smooth Non-Convex Stochastic Optimization with Heavy TailsabstractRecently, Cutkosky et al. introduce the online-to-non-convex framework, which utilizes online learning methods to solve non-smooth non-convex optimization problems, and achieves an $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-3}\delta^{-1})$ gradient complexity for finding $(\delta,\epsilon)$-stationary points. However, their results rely on the bounded variance assumption of stochastic gradients and only hold in expectation. To address these limitations, we investigate the case that stochastic gradients obey heavy-tailed distributions with finite $\mathfrak{p}$-th moments for some $\mathfrak{p}\in(1,2]$, and propose a novel algorithm which is able to identify a $(\delta,\epsilon)$-stationary point with high probability, after consuming $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-\frac{2\mathfrak{p}-1}{\mathfrak{p}-1}}\delta^{-1})$ stochastic gradients. The key idea is first incorporating the gradient clipping technique into the online-to-non-convex framework to produce a sequence of points, the averaged gradient norms of which is no greater than $\epsilon$. Then, we propose a validation method to select one $(\delta,\epsilon)$-stationary point among the candidates. When gradient distributions have bounded variance, i.e., $\mathfrak{p}=2$, our result turns into $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-3}\delta^{-1})$, which improves the existing $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-4}\delta^{-1})$ high-probability bound. When the objective is smooth, our algorithm can also find an $\epsilon$-stationary point with $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-\frac{3\mathfrak{p}-2}{\mathfrak{p}-1}})$ gradient queries. Langqi Liu, Yibo Wang 0005, Lijun Zhang 0005 |
ICML | 1 |