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Continuous Optimization Seminar - Ryan Kinnear
2017-11-01 16:00 (America/Toronto) | MC - Mathematics & Computer Building 200 University Avenue West 5479 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
TITLE: A Stochastic Gradient Method with an Exponential Convergence
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Speaker:
Ryan Kinnear

Affiliation:
University of Waterloo

Room:
MC 5479

ABSTRACT:

We will be discussing the paper (having the same title) by Roux,
Schmidt, and Bach. The authors propose a new stochastic gradient
method for optimizing the sum of  a finite set of smooth functions,
where the sum is strongly convex.
