First order methods, acceleration techniques, convergence rates interpretations and techniques, continual learning, structural optimization, Frank-Wolfe method, etc
Baojian Zhou, Yifan Sun, Reza Babanezhad Harikandeh. Fast Online Node Labeling for Very Large Graphs. (ICML 2023)
Xueying Bai, Jinghuan Shang, Yifan Sun, Niranjan Balasubramanian. Learning for Expressive Task-Related Sentence Representations (arxiv)
Zhaoyue Chen, Yifan Sun.Reducing Discretization Error in the Frank-Wolfe method. (AISTATS 2023)
Baojian Zhou, Yifan Sun. Approximate Frank-Wolfe Algorithms over Graph-structured Support Sets. ICML 2022. (arxiv)
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Mok Hwa Lee (PhD)
Xueying Bai (PhD, co-advised with Prof. Niranjan Balasubramanian)
Uyen Le (PhD, co-advised with Prof. Pawel Polak)
Yushen Huang (PhD, co-advised with Prof. Michael Bender and Stanley Bak)
Baojian Zhou (Collaboating PostDoc, now at Fudan University)
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