Invited Talks

  • New Discoveries of Old Wisdoms for Faster Optimization

    • NeurIPS 2020 Nairobi Meetup, December 10, 2020. [Video]

  • Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning with REINFORCE

  • Learning Mean-Field Games

    • Xpo Research Symposium, NeurIPS 2019 Highlights, Stanford University, CA, May 28, 2020.

    • ByteDance AI Lab, Beijing, June 13, 2019. [Slides (50min)]

  • Connecting Quasi-Newton with Extrapolation: Black-box, Memory Efficient and Line-search Free Acceleration via Stabilized Anderson Mixing

    • Linear Algebra and Optimization Seminar, Stanford University, CA, November 7, 2019. [Slides (50min)]

  • From Extrapolation to Quasi-Newton: Stabilizing Type-I Anderson Mixing for Memory-Efficient, Line-Search Free and Black-Box Acceleration

    • Operations Research Seminar, BICMR, Beijing, June 14, 2019. [Slides (60min)]

    • ICME Departmental Seminar, Stanford University, January 28, 2019.

    • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 7, 2018.

  • a2dr: Open-sourced Python Solver for Prox-Affine Distributed Convex Optimization

  • Robust Bayesian Level Set Estimation via Gaussian Processes

    • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 6, 2018. [Slides (25min)]

    • Operations Research Seminar, BICMR, Beijing, December 20, 2017.