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Chuwen Zhang

2 accepted papers

2024

A Homogenization Approach for Gradient-Dominated Stochastic Optimization

UAI 2024poster

Gradient dominance property is a condition weaker than strong convexity, yet sufficiently ensures global convergence even in non-convex optimization. This property finds wide applications in machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL), and operations management. In this paper, we propose the stoch…

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2024

Trust Region Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization beyond Lipschitz Smoothness

AAAI 2024technical

In many important machine learning applications, the standard assumption of having a globally Lipschitz continuous gradient may fail to hold. This paper delves into a more general (L0, L1)-smoothness setting, which gains particular significance within the realms of deep neural networks and distribut…