What 2-layer neural nets can we optimize?【IIIS-Haihua Distinguished Seminar Series in Artificial Intelligence】

演讲人: Rong Ge the computer science department at Duke University
时间: 2019-11-28 14:00-2019-11-28 15:00
地点:FIT Lecture Hall
内容:

Optimizing neural networks is a highly nonconvex problem, and even optimizing a 2-layer neural network can be challenging. In the recent years many different approaches were proposed to learn 2-layer neural networks under different assumptions. This talk will give a brief survey on these approaches, and discuss some new results using spectral methods and optimization landscape.

个人简介:

Rong Ge is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science and machine learning. His research focuses on designing algorithms with provable guarantees for machine learning problems, using techniques including tensor decompositions and non-convex optimization. The research has received NSF CAREER Award and Sloan Fellowship.