arXiv:2504.09409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we study nonconvex constrained stochastic zeroth-order optimization problems with exact constraints and stochastic objective e...
arXiv:2504. 09409v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we study nonconvex constrained stochastic zeroth-order optimization problems, for which we have access to exact information of constraints and noisy function values of the objective.
arXiv:2607. 21975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) optimizes $J(B,A)=\mathcal L(W_\mathrm{base}+sBA)$ over two adapters $B \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times r}$ and $A \in \mathbb{R}^{r \times n}$ that form a low-rank update to a frozen pretrained weight matrix $W_\mathrm{base} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$.
In this work, we study the oracle complexity of finding an $ε$-stationary point for nonconvex-strongly-convex (NC-SC) bilevel optimization using only first-order oracles. Existing methods achieving th...
arXiv:2608. 04324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies generalized low-rank matrix bandits with multiple prioritized objectives.
arXiv:2606. 27298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the fundamental problem of learning a high-dimensional Gaussian truncated to an unknown halfspace.
arXiv:2602. 20376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a complex-valued quadratic form over the $K^{\text{th}}$ roots of unity.
arXiv:2609.08277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study zeroth-order optimization of non-convex functions with the aid of directional hints, which are cheap but potentially inaccurate approximations...
arXiv:2605. 18528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A growing lesson from neural network optimization is that optimizer design should respect how the model is parametrized.
arXiv:2606. 15679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic trace estimation is a standard tool for approximating the trace of a large-scale matrix available only through matrix-vector products.
arXiv:2507.19290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of learning a structured approximation (low-rank, sparse, banded, etc.) to an unknown matrix $A$ given access to matrix-...
arXiv:2609.39855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the width required for a randomly initialized hidden layer of a neural network to achieve rank lifting. Namely, given a dataset $X \in \mathbb...