arXiv:2601. 15363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Functional bilevel optimization (FBO) provides a powerful framework for hierarchical learning in function spaces, yet current methods are limited to static offline settings and perform suboptimally in online, non-stationary scenarios.
By Jason Bohne, Ieva Petrulionyte, Michael Arbel, Julien Mairal, Pawe{\l} Polak
arXiv:2603. 05774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper addresses the distributed stochastic minimax optimization problem subject to stochastic constraints.
By Zhankun Luo, Antesh Upadhyay, Sang Bin Moon, Abolfazl Hashemi
arXiv:2608. 12108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping data local.
By Mirko Konstantin, Stefan Zachow, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
arXiv:2606. 31331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative inference can improve predictive performance by integrating complementary information across agents, but applying collaborative fusion to every sample can incur unnecessary communication and computational overhead.
By Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Vincent Corlay
arXiv:2608. 06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning and optimization have advanced together, with practical demands motivating new theory and theoretical breakthroughs enabling new applications.
By Grigory Malinovsky
arXiv:2604. 24012v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory costs in heterogeneous, resource-constrained environments.
By Yutong He, Zhengyang Huang, Jiahe Geng, Kun Yuan
arXiv:2608. 12704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-objective bilevel optimization has wide applications in the AI area such as automated learning and multi-task meta-learning.
By Yicong Jiang, Feihu Huang
arXiv:2405. 11667v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Local SGD is a popular optimization method in distributed learning, often outperforming other algorithms in practice, including mini-batch SGD.
By Kumar Kshitij Patel, Margalit Glasgow, Ali Zindari, Lingxiao Wang, Sebastian U. Stich, Ziheng Cheng, Nirmit Joshi, Nathan Srebro
arXiv:2409. 03682v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning new tasks by leveraging prior experience is a fundamental trait of intelligent systems.
By El Mahdi Chayti, Martin Jaggi
arXiv:2606. 01081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains predictive models by optimizing downstream decision quality rather than standalone prediction accuracy.
By Wyame Benslimane, Tinghan Ye, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Paul Grigas
arXiv:2608. 09523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) training with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants achieves strong empirical performance, yet classical optimization theory does not fully explain this success.
By Binchuan Qi
arXiv:2606. 14416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) often struggles with generalization due to heterogeneous client data.
By Dongwon Kim, Donghee Kim, Sung Kuk Shyn, Kwangsu Kim