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Shiqian Ma

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shiqianma.bsky.social
Two papers on bilevel optimization are published in JMLR. “Efficiently Escaping Saddle Points in Bilevel Optimization” and “Riemannian Bilevel Optimization” www.jmlr.org/papers/v26/2... www.jmlr.org/papers/v26/2...
Efficiently Escaping Saddle Points in Bilevel Optimization
www.jmlr.org

Reposted by: Shiqian Ma

krizna.bsky.social
We implement these oracles using heat-kernel truncation & Varadhan's asymptotics, linking our method to entropy-regularized proximal point method on Wasserstein spaces, in the latter case.

Joint work with Yunrui Guan and @shiqianma.bsky.social

Reposted by: Shiqian Ma

krizna.bsky.social
New work on Riemannian Proximal Sampler, to sample on Riemannian manifolds:

arxiv.org/abs/2502.07265

Comes with high-accuracy (i.e., log(1/eps), where eps is tolerance) guarantees with exact and inexact oracles for Manifold Brownian Increments and Riemannian Heat-kernels
Riemannian Proximal Sampler for High-accuracy Sampling on Manifolds
We introduce the Riemannian Proximal Sampler, a method for sampling from densities defined on Riemannian manifolds. The performance of this sampler critically depends on two key oracles: the Manifold ...
arxiv.org

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