Semesters
Fall 2024 (current)
1. Introduction to Convex Analysis
2. Introduction to Convex Analysis pt.2
3. Subgradient Method and Dual Averaging
4. Nesterov's Acceleration
5. Adaptivity: Line-search, backtracking, Polyak Step Size
6. Projected and Proximal Gradient Method
7. Bregman divergence and Mirror Descent
8. Introduction to Higher-Order Methods
9. Constrained Optimization Lagrangian
10. Surrogate Optimization
Winter 2024
1. Basic concepts, convexity, gradient descent
2. Subgradient Descent, Dual averaging
3. Convergence proof: gradient, subgradient descent
4. Acceleration: Nesterov, heavy ball
5. Stochastic gradient descent
6. Adaptive methods: line search, Polyak step
7. RMSProp and ADAM
8. Automated proof techniques
9. New adaptive techniques for deep learning
Convergence proof of gradient and subgradient descent Part 2
|Date: 02-28-2024 |Lecturer: Quentin Bertrand
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