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Laurent El Ghaoui

7 accepted papers

2022

Recurrent Neural Network Controllers Synthesis with Stability Guarantees for Partially Observed Systems

AAAI 2022technical

Neural network controllers have become popular in control tasks thanks to their flexibility and expressivity. Stability is a crucial property for safety-critical dynamical systems, while stabilization of partially observed systems, in many cases, requires controllers to retain and process long-term…

2020

Fenchel Lifted Networks: A Lagrange Relaxation of Neural Network Training

AISTATS 2020poster

Despite the recent successes of deep neural networks, the corresponding training problem remains highly non-convex and difficult to optimize. Classes of models have been proposed that introduce greater structure to the objective function at the cost of lifting the dimension of the problem. However,…

2020

Naive Feature Selection: Sparsity in Naive Bayes

AISTATS 2020poster

Due to its linear complexity, naive Bayes classification remains an attractive supervised learning method, especially in very large-scale settings. We propose a sparse version of naive Bayes, which can be used for feature selection. This leads to a combinatorial maximum-likelihood problem, for which…

2020

Stochastic Frank-Wolfe for Constrained Finite-Sum Minimization

ICML 2020poster

We propose a novel Stochastic Frank-Wolfe (a. k. a. conditional gradient) algorithm for constrained smooth finite-sum minimization with a generalized linear prediction/structure. This class of problems includes empirical risk minimization with sparse, low-rank, or other structured constraints. The p…

2019

Theoretically Principled Trade-off between Robustness and Accuracy

ICML 2019oral

We identify a trade-off between robustness and accuracy that serves as a guiding principle in the design of defenses against adversarial examples. Although this problem has been widely studied empirically, much remains unknown concerning the theory underlying this trade-off. In this work, we decompo…