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Publications

Ph.D. Thesis #

  • Complexity, conditioning, and saddle avoidance in nonsmooth optimization
    PhD Thesis, Cornell University, 2021. PDF

In the pipeline #

  • Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Subspace Selection
    (with V. Chandrasekaran) Submitted, 2024. PDF

  • Robust, randomized preconditioning for kernel ridge regression
    (with E. N. Epperly, Z. Frangella, J. A. Tropp, R. J. Webber) Submitted, 2023. PDF

  • Clustering a Mixture of Gaussians with Unknown Covariance
    (with D. Davis and K. Wang) Submitted, 2021. PDF

Published #

  • Stochastic approximation with decision-dependent distributions: asymptotic normality and optimality
    (with J. Cutler and D. Drusvyatskiy) Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024 (In press). PDF

  • Any-dimensional equivariant neural networks
    (with E. Levin) AISTATS, 2024. PDF

  • Infeasibility detection with primal-dual hybrid gradient for large-scale linear programming
    (with D. Applegate, H. Lu, and M. Lubin) SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2024. PDF

  • Optimal Convergence Rates for the Proximal Bundle Method
    (with B. Grimmer) SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2023. PDF

  • Escaping strict saddle points of the Moreau envelope in nonsmooth optimization
    (with D. Davis and D. Drusvyatskiy) SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2022. PDF

  • Optimization of vaccination for COVID-19 in the midst of a pandemic
    (with Q. Luo, R. Weightman, S. T. McQuade, E. Trélat, W. Barbour, D. Work, S. Samanaranayake, B. Piccoli) Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2022. PDF

  • Practical Large-Scale Linear Programming using Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient
    (with D. Applegate, O. Hinder, H. Lu, M. Lubin, B. O’Donoghue, and W. Schudy) NeurIPS, 2021. PDF

  • Low-rank matrix recovery with composite optimization: good conditioning and rapid convergence
    (with V. Charisopoulos, Y. Chen, D. Davis, L. Ding, D. Drusvyatskiy) Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2021. PDF

  • Efficient Clustering for Stretched Mixtures: Landscape and Optimality
    (with K. Wang and Y. Yan) NeurIPS, 2020. PDF

  • Composite optimization for robust rank one bilinear sensing
    (with V. Charisopoulos, D. Davis, and D. Drusvyatskiy) Information and Inference, 2020. PDF

  • Local angles and dimension estimation from data on manifolds
    (with A. Quiroz, M. Velasco) Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2019. PDF

  • The nonsmooth landscape of blind deconvolution
    Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning, 2019. PDF

  • Compressed sensing of data with a known distribution
    (with M. Junca, F. Rincón and M. Velasco) Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 2018. PDF

  • In Search of Balance: The Challenge of Generating Balanced Latin Rectangles
    (with C. Gomes, R. Le Bras) CPAIOR 2017. PDF