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Fast Iterative Methods in Optimization

Iterative methods have been greatly influential in continuous optimization. In fact, almost all algorithms in that field are iterative in nature. Recently, a confluence of ideas from optimization and theoretical computer science has led to...

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Will Vanishing Gradients Ever Vanish from Deep Learning?

Moritz Hardt, UC Berkeley
https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/moritz-hardt-10-05-17
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From Minimum Cut to Submodular Minimization: Leveraging the Decomposable Structure

Alina Ene, Boston University
https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/alina-ene-10-06-17
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Natasha 2: Faster Non-convex Optimization Than SGD

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Microsoft Research
https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/zeyuan-allen-zhu-10-06-17
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