Program

2024

May 7th - P.L. Cauvin

TBA

April 30th - Tianjiao Li

A simple uniformly optimal method without line search for convex optimization 

March 19th - Tam Le, Waïss Azizian

The interplay between geometry and convergence in Bregman proximal methods, Waïss Azizian

Nonsmoothness in Wasserstein distributionally robust models, Tam Le

February 20th - Florian Vincent

Robustify your model with SkWDRO

February 13th - Krishna Pillutla

Correlated Noise Provably Beats Independent Noise for DP Learning

February 8th - Vincent Beck

Fonction sous-modulaire : une brève introduction, quelques exemples et une application à la théorie des groupes.

January 16th - Michel Volle

Celebrating Moreau Heritage, Ep. 2: Moreau conjugacy and the extended S-procedure

January 9th - Gilles Bareilles

Stratifications of nonsmooth (nonconvex) functions

2023

December 12th - Tam Le

Nonsmooth nonconvex subgradient method: the differential inclusion approach.

November 29th - Hamza Ennaji

Stochastic Monotone Inclusion with Closed Loop Distributions

November 24th - Mathieu Besançon

Constrained Nonlinear Optimization with Frank-Wolfe

November 14th - Jérôme Malick

Celebrating Moreau Heritage, Ep. 1: non-convex stopping criteria and convergence.

October 24th - Yu-Guan Hsieh

Decision-Making in multi-agent systems: delays, adaptivity, and learning in games

October 17th - Yu-Guan Hsieh

Beyond Training's End: A Deep Dive into Stable Diffusion's Extended Journey

September 22nd - Yassine Laguel

A robust perspective on stochastic first-order methods.

September 14th - Yanis Bekri

On robust counterpart of linear inverse problems

June 29th - Michael Overton

Crouzeix’s Conjecture

June 6th - Pierre Louis Cauvin

The robustness of game dynamics under random perturbations

May 30th - Waïss Azizian

Statistical properties of Wasserstein distributionally Robust models

May 23rd - Charles Dapogny

Shape and topology optimization via a level-set based mesh evolution method

April 25th - Michael Arbel

Bilevel Optimization in Machine Learning: Beyond Strong Convexity

April 4th (3pm) - Anatole Gallouet

Strong c-concavity and staiblity in optimal transport

March 28th (3pm) - Gabriel Peyré

Scaling optimal transport with entropic regularization

March 21st (3pm) - Yu-Guan Hsieh

Score-based diffusion models, meta-learning for bandits, and Stable Diffusion

March 16th (3:30 pm) - Anton Rodomanov

Stochastic Gradient Methods for Minimization in Relative Scale

March 15th (10:30 am) - Yurii Nesterov

Primal subgradient methods with predefined stepsizes.

February 28th (10 am) - Tam Ngoc

Subgradient sampling for nonsmooth nonconvex minimization

February 23th (3:30 pm) - Hadrien Hendrikx 

Principled Approaches for Practical Distributed Learning.

2022

December 7th - Victor Mercklé

Reformulation convexe d'un réseau de neurones ReLU

November 27th - Radu Dragomir

Quartic condition number

November 23rd - G. Bareilles

Newton methods for structured nonsmooth optimization


July 12th - Interns presentations

Antoine Obled - Calcul efficace des deux premières dérivées du logarithme matriciel dans les cas complexe, réel et symétrique
Ieva Petrulionyte - Estimation and prediction for "generalized" GLM's
Julien Prando - Distributionally Robust Optimization Problem

July 7th - Pierre Maréchal (with EDP seminar)

Forme variationnelle de la mollification: un tour d'horizon

July 1st - Y.G. Hsieh

Anticipating the future for better performance: Optimistic gradient algorithms for learning in games

June 9th - G. Bareilles

Conjuguer Newton et gradient-proximal pour l'optimisation non-lisse

May 19th - F. Bouchard

Comment dériver une fonction matricielle ? Une facon simple et efficace.

May 5th - Y.G. Hsieh

Robbins-Siegmund and Almost Sure Last-iterate Convergence

April 14th - Y. Nesterov

Cubic regularization of Newton's method

April 7th - N. Laurent

Mode Retrieval Based on Linear Chirp Approximation of Multicomponent Signals

March 31th - G. Bareilles

Proximity operator and structure detection for almost-prox-simple functions

March 24th - J. Malick

News on the newsvendor

March 17th - F. Iutzeler

Jérôme's choice: linear convergence and spectral radius


2021


December 10rd - J. Malick

Math Matshup

December 3rd - G. Bareilles

Newton acceleration on manifolds identified by proximal-gradient methods

November 26th - F. Iutzeler

An introduction to bundle methods

November 12nd - G. Bareilles

Some aspects of "An algorithm for nonsmooth composite optimization problems"

October 22nd - Y. Laguel

Fooling Deep Neural Networks via Carlini-Wagner type methods

October 15th - A. Delcourt

GPU-Accelerated CZT Detector Simulation with Charge build-up effects.

October 8th - D. Zhemchuzhnikov

6DCNN with roto-translational convolution filters for volumetric data processing.

October 1st - K. Olechnovič

Analyzing macromolecular structures using the Voronoi tessellation of atomic balls.

September 17th - M. Benlahsen

Sequential Quadratic Programming with the Julia language.

June 24th - A. Judistsky

Sparse recovery by reduced variance stochastic approximation.

June 17th - G. Bareilles

Characterizations of optimality of points for non-smooth functions.

June 10th - S. Grudinin

Deep learning entering the post-protein structure prediction era: new horizons for structural biology.

June 3rd - W. Azizian

Graph Neural Networks and Approximation.

May 28th - Y. Laguel

Variance Reduction via the method of control variates.

May 20th -Y-G. Hsieh

Decentralized (sub)gradients-based methods.

May 6th - B. Thibert

An introduction to semi-discrete optimal transport.

April 23th - P. Mertikopoulos

A powerful application of mirror descent.

April 16th - R. Hildebrand

Semi-definite representability of convex sets - Part II.

April 9th - R. Hildebrand

Semi-definite representability of convex sets - Part I.

April 2nd - F. Iutzeler

I gave a 6h-course on optimization for ML!

March 26th - Y. Laguel

Good practices for numerical experiments in learning and optimization.

March 19th - J. Malick

Smooth(ing) Criminals 

March 12th - G. Bareilles

Solutions of sparse recovery problems with l1 norm

March 5th -P. Mertikopoulos

Stochastic approximation for the working mathematician (Part. II)

February 26th -P. Mertikopoulos

Stochastic approximation for the working mathematician

February 10th -R. Hildebrand

Self-associated cones

January 22th -Y-G. Hsieh

Optimistic mirror descent with adaptative learning rate

January 15th -Y. Laguel

Learning Fairness for Fairness Learning


2020


December 18th -A. Ivanova

Numerical methods for allocation in Networks

December 11th - M. Danilova

Stochastic Optimization wih Heavy-Tailed Noise via Accelerated Gradient Clipping

November 27th - S. Tanji

Unified analysis of optimization algorithms using Lyapunov functions

November 20th - F. Iutzeler

Nonsmooth regularizations in Machine Learning: structure of the solutions, identification, and applications

November 13th - G. Bareilles

Proximity operator of nonsmooth, non-convex functions

October 16th - R. Hildebrand

A tutorial on Interior Point Methods

October 9th - Y. Laguel

Devices Heterogeneity in Federated Learning : a superquantile approach

October 2nd - F. Iutzeler

Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz inequality for the convergence and rate of optimization methods

September 29th - D. Grischenko:

Proximal optimization with automatic dimension reduction for large scale learning

September 18th - Y-G. Hsieh:

Dual averaging for online optimization, delay, and perturbed iterate analysis

September 11th - P. Mertikopoulos:

  Introduction to game theory and online learning

September 4th - [Special Session]:

Preparation of Smai-Mode talks

July 17th - W. Azizian:

Convergence of the last iterates of proximal methods for strongly monotone variational inequalities

July 10th - Y. Laguel:

Fast Smoothing Procedures for a class of Support functions

July 3rd - G. Bareilles:

Introduction to Partial Smoothness

February 28th - G. Bareilles:

Smooth strongly convex interpolation and exact worst-case performance of first-order methods

February 14th - J. Malick:

Operational Intelligence

February 7th - R. Hildebrand:

Optimal Control, Methods and Applications (Part. II)

January 24th - R. Hildebrand:

Optimal Control, Methods and Applications

January 17th - K. Antonakopoulos:

A descent lemma beyond Lipschitz gradient continuity: First-order methods revisited and applications

January 10th - Y-G. Hsieh:

Saddle-point problems, Variational inequality, and Extra-gradient


2019


December 7th - Y. Laguel:

Convergence proof for local SGD in the non-IID setting

November 29th - F. Iutzeler:

A tutorial on splitting methods

November 22th - G. Bareilles:

Newton methods for optimization over unconstrained spaces and manifolds

November 15th - Y. Laguel:

Penalty methods, bilevel problems and their connection with chance constrained problems

November 8th - J. Malick:

Genericity in optimization : beauties and craps said on its behalf

October 17th - D. Grischenko:

Developments on personal research projects

October 11th - Y-G. Hsieh:  

Constant step-size stochastic gradient descent for strongly convex functions

September 20th - Y. Laguel:  

An analysis of Nesterov accelerated gradient with ODE theory