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William Joseph Swartworth

5 accepted papers

2025

Understanding the Kronecker Matrix-Vector Complexity of Linear Algebra

ICML 2025poster

We study the computational model where we can access a matrix $\mathbf{A}$ only by computing matrix-vector products $\mathbf{A}\mathrm{x}$ for vectors of the form $\mathrm{x} = \mathrm{x}_1 \otimes \cdots \otimes \mathrm{x}_q$. We prove exponential lower bounds on the number of queries needed to…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Cyclic Forgetting

NeurIPS 2023poster

We provide theoretical bounds on the forgetting quantity in the continual learning setting for linear tasks, where each round of learning corresponds to projecting onto a linear subspace. For a cyclic task ordering on $T$ tasks repeated $m$ times each, we prove the best known upper bound of $O(T^2/m…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

SP2 : A Second Order Stochastic Polyak Method

ICLR 2023poster

Recently the SP (Stochastic Polyak step size) method has emerged as a competitive adaptive method for setting the step sizes of SGD. SP can be interpreted as a method specialized to interpolated models, since it solves the interpolation equations. SP solves these equation by using local linearizati…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

Training shallow ReLU networks on noisy data using hinge loss: when do we overfit and is it benign?

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

We study benign overfitting in two-layer ReLU networks trained using gradient descent and hinge loss on noisy data for binary classification. In particular, we consider linearly separable data for which a relatively small proportion of labels are corrupted or flipped. We identify conditions on the m…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar