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Chung-Yiu Yau

6 accepted papers

2025

A Two-timescale Primal-dual Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization with Compression

ICASSP 2025accepted

This paper proposes a two-timescale compressed primal-dual (TiCoPD) algorithm for decentralized optimization with improved communication efficiency over prior works on primal-dual decentralized optimization. The algorithm is built upon the primal-dual optimization framework and utilizes a majorizati…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

RoSTE: An Efficient Quantization-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning Approach for Large Language Models

ICML 2025poster

Supervised fine-tuning is a standard method for adapting pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. Quantization has been recently studied as a post-training technique for efficient LLM deployment. To obtain quantized fine-tuned LLMs, conventional pipelines would first fine-tune t…

2024

EMC$^2$: Efficient MCMC Negative Sampling for Contrastive Learning with Global Convergence

ICML 2024poster

A key challenge in contrastive learning is to generate negative samples from a large sample set to contrast with positive samples, for learning better encoding of the data. These negative samples often follow a softmax distribution which are dynamically updated during the training process. However,…

2022

Distributed Optimization for Overparameterized Problems: Achieving Optimal Dimension Independent Communication Complexity

NeurIPS 2022accept

Decentralized optimization are playing an important role in applications such as training large machine learning models, among others. Despite its superior practical performance, there has been some lack of fundamental understanding about its theoretical properties. In this work, we address the foll…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2022

Multi-agent Performative Prediction with Greedy Deployment and Consensus Seeking Agents

NeurIPS 2022accept

We consider a scenario where multiple agents are learning a common decision vector from data which can be influenced by the agents’ decisions. This leads to the problem of multi-agent performative prediction (Multi-PfD). In this paper, we formulate Multi-PfD as a decentralized optimization problem t…

Cited by 27SourcePDFScholar