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Yi-Ting Ma

2 accepted papers

2025

Beyond Self-Repellent Kernels: History-Driven Target Towards Efficient Nonlinear MCMC on General Graphs

ICML 2025oral

We propose a *history-driven target (HDT)* framework in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to improve any random walk algorithm on discrete state spaces, such as general undirected graphs, for efficient sampling from target distribution $\\boldsymbol{\\mu}$. With broad applications in network science a…

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2024

Does Worst-Performing Agent Lead the Pack? Analyzing Agent Dynamics in Unified Distributed SGD

NeurIPS 2024poster

Distributed learning is essential to train machine learning algorithms across *heterogeneous* agents while maintaining data privacy. We conduct an asymptotic analysis of Unified Distributed SGD (UD-SGD), exploring a variety of communication patterns, including decentralized SGD and local SGD within…

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