NIPS: Spotlight Session 1 – Optimization Spotlights

  • Vivek Srikumer, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Weijie Su, Adarsh Prasad, Moritz Hardt, and Jie Wang

W. Su, S. Boyd, E. Candes
A Differential Equation for Modeling Nesterov’s Accelerated Gradient Method: Theory and Insights

V. Srikumar, C. Manning
Learning Distributed Representations for Structured Output Prediction

J. Hernández-Lobato, M. Hoffman, Z. Ghahramani
Predictive Entropy Search for Efficient Global Optimization of Black-box Functions

A. Prasad, S. Jegelka, D. Batra
Submodular meets Structured: Finding Diverse Subsets in Exponentially-Large Structured Item Sets

M. Hardt, E. Price
The Noisy Power Method: A Meta Algorithm with Applications

J. Wang, J. Ye
Two-Layer Feature Reduction for Sparse-Group Lasso via Decomposition of Convex Sets