ECE Seminar: Srinadh Bhojanapalli

ECE Seminar: Srinadh BhojanapalliTuesday, February 13, 2018Srinadh BhojanapalliResearch Assistant ProfessorToyota Technological Institute at ChicagoPhotonics Center, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Room 339Refreshments will be available at 1:45pm outside of PHO 339Title: Effectiveness of Local Search in Machine LearningAbstract: Many modern machine learning problems are solved using complex over-parametrized models on large datasets and require scalable algorithms with low computation and memory complexity. This often leads to use of non-convex methods which do not necessarily come with computational/ statistical guarantees. In this talk, we will explore the role of simple algorithms, such as stochastic gradient descent, in optimizing non-convex functions, and leverage this to design efficient algorithms for a large and important class of machine learning problems: those involving the fitting of low-rank matrices to data. Later we will discuss a surprising role the local search methods play in implicitly regularizing the complexity of the over-parametrized models in problems involving both low rank matrices and deep neural networks.Bio:Srinadh Bhojanapalli is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His research is primarily focused on designing algorithms for large scale machine learning problems with rigorous statistical guarantees. He is interested in matrix and tensor factorization, non-convex optimization, neural networks and sublinear time algorithms.

When 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Location Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Room 339