Prof. Medard will give a lecture at the RPI Mercer Lecture series on November 18th at 4pm [link].
RPI Mercer Lecture
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MIT-Harvard CINCS / Hamilton Institute Seminar – Tara Javidi
Title: Black-box Zeroth Order Optimization (in Theory and in Practice) Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the problem of maximizing a black-box function via noisy and costly queries from a theoretical perspective (a lot of it) as well as applications (an...
MIT-Harvard CINCS / Hamilton Institute Seminar – Sean Meyn
Speaker: Sean Meyn, University of Florida Title: Accelerating Optimization and Reinforcement Learning with Quasi-Stochastic Approximation Abstract: The ODE method has been a workhorse for algorithm design and analysis since the introduction of the stochastic...