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The present note is a result of an on-going investigation into the logarithmic Brunn-Minkowski inequality. We obtain lower estimates on the volume product for convex bodies in not necessarily symmetric with respect to the origin from a modified logarithmic Brunn-Minkowski inequality.
Adaptive gradient methods have become recently very popular, in particular as they have been shown to be useful in the training of deep neural networks. In this paper we have analyzed RMSProp, originally proposed for the training of deep neural networks, in the context of online convex optimization and show -…
We study convexity and monotonicity properties for prices of bonds and bond options when the short rate is modeled by a diffusion process. We provide conditions under which convexity of the price in the short rate is guaranteed. Under these conditions the price is decreasing in the drift and increasing in the volatilit…
Paper generalizes VB-FTRL for online learning of quantum states with logarithmic loss.
New uncertainty principle for Schrödinger equations on hyperbolic manifolds.
Develops a parameter-free SGD algorithm with optimal convergence rate.
New bounds on adaptivity cost in stochastic optimization.
We consider strictly convex hypersurfaces which are evolving by the non-parametric logarithmic Gauss curvature flow subject to a Neumann boundary condition. Solutions are shown to converge smoothly to hypersurfaces moving by translation. In particular, for bounded domains we prove that convex functions with prescribed …
New algorithm exploits curvature of feasible sets for fast online convex optimization.
Paper connects Fenchel-Willmore and Sobolev inequalities for submanifolds in curved spaces.
New algorithm tackles heterogeneous curvature in online convex optimization.
A new algorithm solves semidefinite programs using Langevin diffusion.
LMC algorithm converges to target in Chi-squared and Renyi divergence.
Paper solves minimax optimization gap with near-optimal algorithms.
The conformal Codazzi structure is an intrinsic geometric structure on strictly convex hypersufaces in a locally flat projective manifold. We construct the GJMS operators and the Q-curvature for conformal Codazzi structures by using the ambient metric. We relate the total Q-curvature to the logarithmic coefficient in t…
We consider the volume expansion of the Blaschke metric, which is a projectively invariant metric on a strictly convex domain in a locally flat projective manifold. When the boundary is even dimensional, we express the logarithmic coefficient L as the integral of affine invariants over the boundary. We also formulate a…
We investigate the -relative entropy, which stems from the Bregman divergence, on weighted Riemannian and Finsler manifolds. We prove that the displacement -convexity of the -relative entropy is equivalent to the combination of the nonnegativity of the weighted Ricci curvature and the -convexity of the weig…
We introduce a class of generalized relative entropies (inspired by the Bregman divergence in information theory) on the Wasserstein space over a weighted Riemannian or Finsler manifold. We prove that the convexity of all the entropies in this class is equivalent to the combination of the nonnegative weighted Ricci cur…
We prove the Fundamental Gap Conjecture, which states that the difference between the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues (the spectral gap) of a Schrödinger operator with convex potential and Dirichlet boundary data on a convex domain is bounded below by the spectral gap on an interval of the same diameter with zero poten…
New Finsler metrics describe trace function growth rates in convex projective surfaces.
A parameter-free PGD algorithm for convex optimization.
The Adam algorithm has become extremely popular for large-scale machine learning. Under convexity condition, it has been proved to enjoy a data-dependant regret bound where is the time horizon. However, whether strong convexity can be utilized to further improve the performance remains an open problem…
Two-stage nonconvex algorithm and convex relaxation both achieve optimal accuracy in noisy blind deconvolution.
Unified analysis of online optimization with self-concordant barriers, improving regret bounds.
The dueling bandit is a learning framework wherein the feedback information in the learning process is restricted to a noisy comparison between a pair of actions. In this research, we address a dueling bandit problem based on a cost function over a continuous space. We propose a stochastic mirror descent algorithm and …
New algorithm optimizes convex functions with noisy evaluations in one dimension.
Let be a pinched negatively curved Riemannian manifold, whose unit tangent bundle is endowed with a Gibbs measure associated to a potential . We compute the Hausdorff dimension of the conditional measures of . We study the -almost sure asymptotic penetration behaviour of locally geodesic lines of…
Least Squares Estimators are suboptimal for 5D convex functions.
The online meta-learning framework is designed for the continual lifelong learning setting. It bridges two fields: meta-learning which tries to extract prior knowledge from past tasks for fast learning of future tasks, and online-learning which deals with the sequential setting where problems are revealed one by one. I…
Algorithm achieves optimal regret for unknown Lipschitz convex losses.
Optimizes privacy-preserving optimization for heavy-tailed data.
Optimizes private learning with differential privacy for LASSO problems.
Stochastic gradient descent is the method of choice for large scale optimization of machine learning objective functions. Yet, its performance is greatly variable and heavily depends on the choice of the stepsizes. This has motivated a large body of research on adaptive stepsizes. However, there is currently a gap in o…
The reach of a submanifold is a crucial regularity parameter for manifold learning and geometric inference from point clouds. This paper relates the reach of a submanifold to its convexity defect function. Using the stability properties of convexity defect functions, along with some new bounds and the recent submanifol…
In this paper, we study the optimal convergence rate for distributed convex optimization problems in networks. We model the communication restrictions imposed by the network as a set of affine constraints and provide optimal complexity bounds for four different setups, namely: the function $F(\xb) \triangleq \sum_{i=1}…
We study an optimal consumption and investment problem in a possibly incomplete market with general, not necessarily convex, stochastic constraints. We give explicit solutions for investors with exponential, logarithmic and power utility. Our approach is based on martingale methods which rely on recent results on the e…
Paper presents a new framework for covariance matrix estimation with geometric insights.
Paper shows linear convergence of ISTA and FISTA for ill-conditioned images.
Study on lengths and curvatures of harmonic functions on smooth and singular surfaces.
Paper proposes efficient cost functions for automated market makers in DeFi.
We introduce a temperature into the exponential function and replace the softmax output layer of neural nets by a high temperature generalization. Similarly, the logarithm in the log loss we use for training is replaced by a low temperature logarithm. By tuning the two temperatures we create loss functions that are non…
Standard results in stochastic convex optimization bound the number of samples that an algorithm needs to generate a point with small function value in expectation. More nuanced high probability guarantees are rare, and typically either rely on "light-tail" noise assumptions or exhibit worse sample complexity. In this …
In this paper, we provide near-optimal accelerated first-order methods for minimizing a broad class of smooth nonconvex functions that are strictly unimodal on all lines through a minimizer. This function class, which we call the class of smooth quasar-convex functions, is parameterized by a constant , wher…
The paper studies the convex hull of random points in a triangle, focusing on the asymptotic behavior and phase transitions.
Geometrically convex return risk measures on AM-algebras
Optimal switching regret for all segmentations in online convex optimisation.
New bounds for online portfolio selection without smoothness assumptions.