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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, January 17, 2018 9:30 AM EST
Title: Stochastic algorithms for distributed optimization and machine learning
Speaker: Yi Zhou Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology Room: MC 5501Abstract:
In the big data era, machine learning acts as a powerful tool to transform data into knowledge that helps us make predictions and decisions. It has strong ties to the field of optimization, in the way the latter provides methods and theory.