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Gary Becigneul

8 accepted papers

2021

Computationally Tractable Riemannian Manifolds for Graph Embeddings

AAAI 2021technical

Representing graphs as sets of node embeddings in certain curved Riemannian manifolds has recently gained momentum in machine learning due to their desirable geometric inductive biases (e.g., hierarchical structures benefit from hyperbolic geometry). However, going beyond embedding spaces of constan…

2021

Momentum Improves Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds

AISTATS 2021poster

We develop a new Riemannian descent algorithm that relies on momentum to improve over existing first-order methods for geodesically convex optimization. In contrast, accelerated convergence rates proved in prior work have only been shown to hold for geodesically strongly-convex objective functions.…

2020

A Continuous-time Perspective for Modeling Acceleration in Riemannian Optimization

AISTATS 2020poster

We propose a novel second-order ODE as the continuous-time limit of a Riemannian accelerated gradient-based method on a manifold with curvature bounded from below. This ODE can be seen as a generalization of the ODE derived for Euclidean spaces, and can also serve as an analysis tool. We analyze th…

2019

Breaking the Softmax Bottleneck via Learnable Monotonic Pointwise Non-linearities

ICML 2019oral

The Softmax function on top of a final linear layer is the de facto method to output probability distributions in neural networks. In many applications such as language models or text generation, this model has to produce distributions over large output vocabularies. Recently, this has been shown to…

2018

Hyperbolic Entailment Cones for Learning Hierarchical Embeddings

ICML 2018oral

Learning graph representations via low-dimensional embeddings that preserve relevant network properties is an important class of problems in machine learning. We here present a novel method to embed directed acyclic graphs. Following prior work, we first advocate for using hyperbolic spaces which pr…