Upcoming
[March 20-22, 2026]: I will organize a session on "Recent Advances in Stochastic and Large-Scale Optimization" at INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 2026), Georgia Tech, United States.
[Jun 2-5, 2025]: I will give a talk on "Exploring low-rank structure in Muon" at SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26), Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Past
[Oct 1, 2025]: Our paper "DeMuon: A decentralized Muon for matrix optimization over graphs" (with Shuyi Ren, Jingwei Mao, and Erik G. Larsson) is available on arXiv.
[Sep 15, 2025]: Our paper "Low-rank orthogonalization for large-scale matrix optimization with applications to foundation model training" (with Zhanwang Deng and Zhaosong Lu) is available on arXiv.
[Sep 2-5, 2025]: I gave a talk on "Stochastic first-order methods can leverage arbitrarily order smoothness for acceleration" at International Conference on Operations Research 2025 (OR 2025), Bielefeld University, Germany.
[July 17, 2025]: Our paper "Exact reformulation and optimization for direct metric optimization in binary imbalanced classification" (with Le Peng, Yash Travadi, Ying Cui, Ju Sun) is available on arXiv.
[July 17, 2025]: Our paper "Faster stochastic cubic regularized Newton methods with momentum" (with Yiming Yang, Xiao Wang and Zheng Peng) is available on arXiv.
[Jun 29-July 2, 2025]: I organized a session on "Recent Advances in Stochastic Optimization" and gave a talk titled "Complexity of normalized stochastic first-order methods with momentum under heavy-tailed noise" at the 22nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2025), University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Huge thanks to all the amazing speakers!
[Jun 16-19, 2025]: I presented a poster on "Complexity of normalized stochastic first-order methods with momentum under heavy-tailed noise" at LION 19, Prague, Czech Republic.
[Jun 12, 2025]: Our paper "Complexity of normalized stochastic first-order methods with momentum under heavy-tailed noise" (with Zhaosong Lu, Defeng Sun and Zhanwang Deng) is available on arXiv.
[Apr 19, 2025]: Our paper "Newton-CG methods for nonconvex unconstrained optimization with Hölder continuous Hessian" (with Heng Huang and Zhaosong Lu) is accepted by Mathematics of Operations Research.
[Jan 16, 2025]: I gave a talk on "Optimization for Machine Learning" at the WASP Winter Conference in Norrköping.
[Dec 17, 2024]: Our paper "Stochastic interior-point methods for smooth conic optimization with applications" (with Zhanwang Deng) is available on arXiv.