Exact optimality achieved in distributed mean estimation with shared randomness.
problem Achieving optimal communication, privacy, and utility tradeoffs in distributed mean estimation.
method Utilization of a rotationally symmetric shared random codebook and a k-closest encoding mechanism. result Proposed mechanism achieves exact optimality for randomly rotated simplex codebook.
Exact second-order optimization for deep learning reduces computational cost and improves performance.
problem Inadequate use of second-order optimization methods in deep learning due to high computational cost and non-convexity.
method Developed an exact stochastic second-order Newton method that addresses the non-convexity issue and provides an expression for the stochastic Hessian.
result Exact second-order Newton direction formula and its application in deep learning datasets.
New conditions ensure Dantzig-Wolfe relaxation matches rank-constrained optimization problems.
problem Rank-constrained optimization problems with linear matrix inequalities.
method Investigates Dantzig-Wolfe relaxation and develops conditions for exactness.
result Conditions for extreme point, convex hull, and objective exactness.
Exact partitioning of high-order planted models achieved through convex optimization.
problem Efficiently partitioning hypergraphs generated by high-order planted models.
method Solving a computationally efficient convex optimization problem with a tensor nuclear norm constraint.
result Exact recovery of true underlying cluster structures with high probability.
Paper tackles imbalanced binary classification by optimizing precision and recall directly.
problem Imbalanced binary classification where standard accuracy is misleading.
method Exact constrained reformulations for precision and recall optimization.
result ERO framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets.
A model-based optimal experiment design (OED) of nonlinear systems is studied. OED represents a methodology for optimizing the geometry of the parametric joint-confidence regions (CRs), which are obtained in an a posteriori analysis of the least-squares parameter estimates. The optimal design is achieved by using the a…
Exact minibatch MH method improves scalability for large datasets.
problem Inexactness in minibatch MH methods causes inference errors.
method TunaMH proposes an exact minibatch MH method with a tunable batch size.
result TunaMH is asymptotically optimal in terms of batch size.
We propose two methods to obtain exact solutions for the Almgren-Chriss model about optimal execution of portfolio transactions. In the first method we rewrite the Almgren-Chriss equation and find two exact solutions. In the second method, employing a general reparametrized time, we show that the Almgren-Chriss equatio…
A new method for optimal filtration learning in time-series data analysis.
problem Finding an optimal filtration for analyzing topological properties of discrete data.
method Formulated an optimization problem and proposed an algorithm for solving it.
result Derivation of the exact formula of the gradient of the loss function with respect to filtration parameters.
In many machine learning applications, crowdsourcing has become the primary means for label collection. In this paper, we study the optimal error rate for aggregating labels provided by a set of non-expert workers. Under the classic Dawid-Skene model, we establish matching upper and lower bounds with an exact exponent …
In this paper, we propose exact passive-aggressive (PA) online algorithms for learning to rank. The proposed algorithms can be used even when we have interval labels instead of actual labels for examples. The proposed algorithms solve a convex optimization problem at every trial. We find exact solution to those optimiz…
Develops exact convex optimization formulations for neural networks.
problem Training two-layer neural networks with rectified linear units.
method Uses semi-infinite duality and minimum norm regularization to develop exact convex optimization formulations.
result Shows equivalence of ReLU networks trained with weight decay to block ℓ1 penalized convex models. Various bias-correction methods such as EXTRA, gradient tracking methods, and exact diffusion have been proposed recently to solve distributed {\em deterministic} optimization problems. These methods employ constant step-sizes and converge linearly to the {\em exact} solution under proper conditions. However, their per…
Sharp threshold for exact recovery in non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model.
problem Community detection in random hypergraphs with non-uniform hyperedge probabilities.
method Sharp threshold established; two efficient algorithms for exact recovery.
result Sharp threshold for exact recovery; information-theoretic lower bound on misclassification.
For optimization on large-scale data, exactly calculating its solution may be computationally difficulty because of the large size of the data. In this paper we consider subsampled optimization for fast approximating the exact solution. In this approach, one gets a surrogate dataset by sampling from the full data, and …
Exact recovery method for community detection in Gaussian mixtures with dependent noise.
problem Community detection in Gaussian mixtures with dependent and heterogeneous noise.
method Maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for constrained quadratic optimization problem, using Σ-whitened separation and local inequalities. result Sharp exact-recovery threshold and no-gap mechanism in the unknown-size setting.
Proposes a partitioned least squares model for feature grouping.
problem Modeling with feature groups to assess variable importance.
method Two methods: alternating least squares and exact reformulation.
result Exact method provides better results in less time.
Exact pairwise ranking is achievable but not possible under noisy comparisons.
problem Recovering the exact rank of items from noisy pairwise comparisons.
method Information-theoretic upper and lower bounds using the SST model and combinatorial arguments.
result Sharp information-theoretic bounds match in the parametric limit and outperform previous methods.
New method solves constrained optimization problems efficiently.
problem Equality-constrained nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems.
method Adaptive inexact Newton method with randomized iterative sketching.
result Global almost sure convergence and local linear/superlinear convergence.
This paper proposes a mechanism to produce equivalent Lipschitz surrogates for zero-norm and rank optimization problems by means of the global exact penalty for their equivalent mathematical programs with an equilibrium constraint (MPECs). Specifically, we reformulate these combinatorial problems as equivalent MPECs by…
Exact risk and learning rate curves derived for adaptive SGD on high-dimensional problems.
problem Analyzing risk and learning rate dynamics in high-dimensional optimization problems.
method Developed a framework to give exact expressions for risk and learning rate curves using ODEs.
result Exact expressions for risk and learning rate curves, with detailed analysis of two adaptive learning rates.
Unified framework for decentralized bilevel optimization with various heterogeneity-correction strategies.
problem Decentralized bilevel optimization with neighborhood communications and data heterogeneity.
method SPARKLE: Single-loop Primal-dual Algorithm for decentralized bilevel optimization, incorporating various heterogeneity-correction techniques.
result Unified convergence analysis for SPARKLE with state-of-the-art convergence rates compared to existing algorithms.
EGN optimizes deep neural networks with exact Gauss-Newton for large-scale problems.
problem Training deep neural networks efficiently and accurately.
method Stochastic second-order optimization using low-rank linear algebra and matrix factorization.
result Converges to stationary points of the objective function under mild assumptions.
A new parallel BO method with exact gradients for multi-objective optimization.
problem Efficiently optimizing multiple objectives in a sample-efficient manner.
method Derive q-Expected Hypervolume Improvement (qEHVI) for parallel, constrained evaluation.
result qEHVI is computationally tractable and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Paper proposes a new method for exact recovery in robust tensor principal component analysis.
problem Exact recovery of low-rank and sparse components in tensors.
method Proposes a new method based on tensor-tensor product and t-SVD to solve a convex optimization problem.
result Exact recovery achieved in a deterministic fashion without randomness assumptions.
In this paper we propose an algorithm for exact partitioning of high-order models. We define a general class of m-degree Homogeneous Polynomial Models, which subsumes several examples motivated from prior literature. Exact partitioning can be formulated as a tensor optimization problem. We relax this high-order combi…
Optimizes ranking of top-k players from partial comparison data.
problem Identifying the top-k players from incomplete pairwise comparisons.
method Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) and Spectral Method.
result MLE achieves optimal partial and exact recovery, while Spectral Method is sub-optimal.
We analyze how an observer synchronizes to the internal state of a finite-state information source, using the epsilon-machine causal representation. Here, we treat the case of exact synchronization, when it is possible for the observer to synchronize completely after a finite number of observations. The more difficult …
We prove an exact relationship between the optimal denoising function and the data distribution in the case of additive Gaussian noise, showing that denoising implicitly models the structure of data allowing it to be exploited in the unsupervised learning of representations. This result generalizes a known relationship…
New algorithms improve GP inference without approximations, achieving better results.
problem Inexact stochastic optimization methods in Gaussian Processes leading to biased results.
method Exact stochastic inference for GPs with finite dimensional RKHS, extending to infinite dimensions.
result Achieves better experimental results than existing methods in constrained resource settings.
Optimizes financial auditor schedules to reduce time and costs.
problem Efficiently scheduling financial auditors with multiple constraints.
method Used Integer Linear Programming and compared two exact formulations.
result Multi-commodity network flow formulation is 24 times faster.
Paper optimizes PCA for fairness using MMD and Stiefel manifold optimization.
problem Fair principal component analysis (PCA) to minimize MMD between protected classes.
method Formulates fair PCA as non-convex optimization over Stiefel manifold, solves using REPMS with theoretical guarantees.
result Our approach outperforms prior work in fairness, explained variance, and runtime.
FLASH-MAX predicts electromagnetic fields from sparse data in seconds.
problem Predicting homogeneous electromagnetic fields from sparse pointwise observations.
method Exact-by-construction neural network architecture that satisfies Maxwell's equations symbolically.
result FLASH-MAX achieves sub-1% relative validation error from 1K sparse observations in seconds.
The celebrated Monte Carlo method estimates an expensive-to-compute quantity by random sampling. Bandit-based Monte Carlo optimization is a general technique for computing the minimum of many such expensive-to-compute quantities by adaptive random sampling. The technique converts an optimization problem into a statisti…
Bilevel optimization has been recently revisited for designing and analyzing algorithms in hyperparameter tuning and meta learning tasks. However, due to its nested structure, evaluating exact gradients for high-dimensional problems is computationally challenging. One heuristic to circumvent this difficulty is to use t…
New method uses diffusion models for unsupervised combinatorial optimization.
problem Learning to sample from intractable discrete distributions without training data.
method Lifts the restriction of generative models needing exact sample likelihoods using a loss that bounds reverse KL divergence.
result Achieves new state-of-the-art results in data-free Combinatorial Optimization.
We study a class of nonlinear pricing models which involves the feedback effect from the dynamic hedging strategies on the price of asset introduced by Sircar and Papanicolaou. We are first to study the case of a nonlinear demand function involved in the model. Using a Lie group analysis we investigate the symmetry pro…
This paper calculates the exact probability distribution of hypervolume improvement for bi-objective problems.
problem Calculating the exact probability distribution of hypervolume improvement in bi-objective problems.
method Cell partition-based method to derive the probability distribution of hypervolume improvement from a bi-variate Gaussian random variable.
result The proposed ε-PoHVI acquisition function outperforms other related functions in Bayesian optimization. Improved causal discovery methods for large graphs without strict assumptions.
problem Sub-optimal solutions due to faithfulness assumption violations.
method Super-structure estimation and local search strategies.
result The proposed method scales to hundreds of nodes with high accuracy.
In multi-objective Bayesian optimization and surrogate-based evolutionary algorithms, Expected HyperVolume Improvement (EHVI) is widely used as the acquisition function to guide the search approaching the Pareto front. This paper focuses on the exact calculation of EHVI given a nondominated set, for which the existing …
We study statistical inference and distributionally robust solution methods for stochastic optimization problems, focusing on confidence intervals for optimal values and solutions that achieve exact coverage asymptotically. We develop a generalized empirical likelihood framework---based on distributional uncertainty se…
PSO improves G-optimal designs for up to 5 factors, reducing computation time.
problem Computing highly G-optimal designs for response surface models is computationally expensive. method Extended Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for optimal design problems.
result PSO generates improved G-optimal designs for up to 5 factors with comparable computational cost. ITSPACE improves covariance alignment faster than other methods.
problem Optimizing covariance matrices for machine learning tasks.
method Proximal majorization-minimization method that directly optimizes the Bures-Wasserstein objective.
result ITSPACE achieves lower BW gap solutions faster than other methods.
New MIP framework solves high-dimensional ℓ0ℓ2-regularized regression problems.
problem Exact computation of ℓ0ℓ2-regularized regression estimators is challenging for large p. method Specialized nonlinear branch-and-bound (BnB) framework with first-order optimization.
result Achieves speedups of at least 5000x compared to state-of-the-art exact methods.
Exact causal network discovery is polynomial for sparse networks.
problem Finding the optimal causal Bayesian network from data is computationally hard.
method Pruning the search space using network properties, combined with dynamic programming and shortest-path searches.
result Exact discovery is polynomial for sparse causal Bayesian networks.
Bayesian optimization is a powerful global optimization technique for expensive black-box functions. One of its shortcomings is that it requires auxiliary optimization of an acquisition function at each iteration. This auxiliary optimization can be costly and very hard to carry out in practice. Moreover, it creates ser…
We propose an algorithm to calculate the exact solution for utility optimization problems on finite state spaces under a class of non-differentiable preferences. We prove that optimal strategies must lie on a discrete grid in the plane, and this allows us to reduce the dimension of the problem and define a very efficie…
New algorithm solves optimization problems without submodularity.
problem Finding efficient solutions for optimization problems when submodularity does not hold.
method Parallel quasi-concave set optimization algorithm.
result Efficient globally optimal solution to maxi-min problems.