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Dachuan Xu

5 accepted papers

2026

Efficient Submodular Maximization for Sums of Concave over Modular Functions

ICLR 2026poster

Submodular maximization has broad applications in machine learning, network design, and data mining. However, classical algorithms often suffer from prohibitively high computational costs, which severely limit their scalability in practice. In this work, we focus on maximizing Sums of Concave over M…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for Sum of Radii Clustering and Variants

AAAI 2024technical

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, we follow one of the recent mainstream topics of clustering, Sum of Radii (SoR), which naturally arises as a balance between the folklore k-center and k-median. SoR aims to d…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

SPABA: A Single-Loop and Probabilistic Stochastic Bilevel Algorithm Achieving Optimal Sample Complexity

ICML 2024poster

While stochastic bilevel optimization methods have been extensively studied for addressing large-scale nested optimization problems in machine learning, it remains an open question whether the optimal complexity bounds for solving bilevel optimization are the same as those in single-level optimizati…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2021

A Trace-restricted Kronecker-Factored Approximation to Natural Gradient

AAAI 2021technical

Second-order optimization methods have the ability to accelerate convergence by modifying the gradient through the curvature matrix. There have been many attempts to use second-order optimization methods for training deep neural networks. In this work, inspired by diagonal approximations and factore…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2021

THOR, Trace-based Hardware-driven Layer-Oriented Natural Gradient Descent Computation

AAAI 2021technical

It is well-known that second-order optimizer can accelerate the training of deep neural networks, however, the huge computation cost of second-order optimization makes it impractical to apply in real practice. In order to reduce the cost, many methods have been proposed to approximate a second-order…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar