I presented our recent work on federated multi-objective optimization at the following venues:
Jan 2025: BIRS Workshop on "Machine Learning and Statistics: From Theory to Practice" held at CMI Chennai
Nov 2024: Federated Learning One World (FLOW) Seminar. Thanks, Samuel Horvath and Eduard Gorbunov, for hosting me. See the talk video and my slides.
Oct-Nov 2024: I taught three guest lectures in the course 18-667: Algorithms for Large-scale Distributed Machine Learning and Optimization offered this semester by my advisor Prof. Gauri Joshi. Check out the slides and lecture videos below:
Dec 2023-April 2024: Computation and Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning
School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
EE, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (CMInDS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (see slides)
ECE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
IEOR, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2023
Nov: Invited talk at the Google FL seminar at Google Research, Mountain View. Thanks, Zheng Xu for the invite.
Oct II: Presented our recent work on minimax optimization and cyclic federated learning at the Missouri S&T CS Department seminar. Thanks, Sid Nadendla for the invite. Check out the slides here.
Oct I: Presented our recent work on minimax optimization at the AI-EDGE SPARKS seminar. Check out the slides here.
July: Co-presented (with Yae-Jee Cho), our poster based on the paper On the Convergence of Federated Averaging with Cyclic Client Participation at ICML'23 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
June: Presented our recent work on minimax optimization at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) in Seattle. (session on Recent Advancements in Optimization Methods for Machine Learning).
2023
March-April: Presented our recent work on minimax optimization and cyclic federated learning at the following places. I thank all the host faculty and institutions for the opportunity.
April 13: Dept of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, Kanpur. (Hosted by Prof. Ketan Rajawat)
March 29: Centre for Networked Intelligence (CNI) at IISc Bengaluru. (Hosted by Prof. Parimal Parag). The talk was live-streamed by CNI on YouTube.
March 31: Dept of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, Chennai. (Hosted by Prof. Avhishek Chatterjee)
March 28: Dept of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, Mumbai. (Hosted by Prof. Jayakrishnan U Nair)
March 20: Prof. Mingyi Hong's (ECE, University of Minnesota) research group.
2022
Nov: Presented our work on Minimax Optimization at the 57th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (held in Pacific Grove, CA from October 29th to November 1st). Check out the 15-minute version of the talk.
Oct: Presented our work on Minimax Optimization at the 2022 Informs Annual Meeting. See the slides here.
July: Attended ICML 2022. Presented our work "Federated Minimax Optimization: Improved Convergence Analyses and Algorithms." Check out the 5-min video uploaded for ICML here.
2021
Oct: Presented our work "On Distributed Online Convex Optimization with Sublinear Dynamic Regret and Fit," in Asilomar 2021. Check out the 15-min version of the talk.