Hoomaan Maskan

2 accepted papers

2025

Revisiting Frank-Wolfe for Structured Nonconvex Optimization

Hoomaan Maskan, Yikun Hou, Suvrit Sra, Alp Yurtsever

NeurIPS 2025poster

We introduce a new projection-free (Frank-Wolfe) method for optimizing structured nonconvex functions that are expressed as a difference of two convex functions. This problem class subsumes smooth nonconvex minimization, positioning our method as a promising alternative to the classical Frank-Wolfe…

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2023

A Variational Perspective on High-Resolution ODEs

Hoomaan Maskan, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis, Alp Yurtsever

NeurIPS 2023poster

We consider unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions. We propose a novel variational perspective using forced Euler-Lagrange equation that allows for studying high-resolution ODEs. Through this, we obtain a faster convergence rate for gradient norm minimization using Nesterov's accelera…

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