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Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext 33038
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 — 4:00 PM EST
Title: How to Escape Saddle Points Efficiently
| Speaker: | Matthew Slavin |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 5479 |
Abstract: We will discuss the 2017 paper named in the title of the talk, by Jin et al.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 — 4:00 PM EST
Title: Stochastic subgradient method converges on tame functions
| Speaker: | Shenghao Yang |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 5479 |
Abstract: In this talk, I will present a paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07795) on the convergence of stochastic subgradient method in a nonconvex and nonsmooth setting.