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Lake Tahoe in Winter

Optimization@NIPS

We welcome you to participate in the 6th NIPS Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning, to be held at:
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, Dec 9th, 2013


Harvey's or Harrah's
Time Speaker Title Links
07:30-07:40 Organizers Opening remarks
07:40-08:40 Adrian Lewis IDENTIFIABILITY, NONCONVEXITY, AND SPARSE OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS
08:40-09:00 Dhruv Mahajan A Parallel SGD method with Strong Convergence
09:00-09:30 Coffee Break + POSTERS
09:30-10:10 POSTERS
10:10-10:30 Aaditya Ramdas Unifying Stochastic Convex Optimization and Active Learning
10:30-15:30 Break (POSTERS)
15:30-16:30 John Wright Learning Sparsifying Dictionaries by Convex Optimization
16:30-16:50 Praneeth Netrapalli Recovering sparsely used overcomplete dictionaries via alternating minimization
16:50-17:30 Coffee Break + POSTERS
17:30-18:30 Peter Richtarik Parallel Coordinate Descent Methods for Big Data Optimization
18:30-20:00 Posters Continue