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Spring 2022

Computationally Efficient Alternatives to Nonconvex-Nonconcave Min-Max Optimization

Thursday, February 24th, 2022, 9:00 am9:45 am

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Speaker: 

Nisheeth Vishnoi (Yale University)

Location: 

Calvin Lab Auditorium

While there has been incredible progress in convex and nonconvex minimization, many problems in machine learning are in need of efficient algorithms to solve min-max optimization problems. However, unlike minimization, where algorithms can always be shown to converge to some local minimum, there is no notion of local equilibrium in min-max optimization that exists for general nonconvex-nonconcave functions. We will present new notions of local equilibria that are guaranteed to exist, efficient algorithms to compute it, and implications to GANs.