Suvrit Sra

@optiML

Currently @MIT. Interested in Optimization, ML, and Math 🙃 On the non-professional side: Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) language, music, and culture. ⬛️

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Suvrit Sra
@optiML
Jun 12, 2020
Question: Does it make sense to rename the @WhiteHouse? (This might be naive thinking but it seems like it may send a strong symbolic message if implemented.) #BLM
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Suvrit Sra
@optiML
May 26, 2020
Finally, after several years of searching, we have found a provable (and implementable) analog of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for Riemannian manifolds. Amazing effort by @KwangjunA, appearing in COLT 2020. arxiv.org/abs/2001.08876
Kwangjun Ahn and Suvrit Sra
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Suvrit Sra
@optiML
May 20, 2020
Check out the simplest derivation of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method in my student Kwangjun's work: arxiv.org/abs/2005.08304 -- it provides an intuitive way to obtain Nesterov's AGD (so it's not just about analyzing the AGD iteration, but discovering it in the first place!)
arxiv.org
Understanding Nesterov's Acceleration via Proximal Point Method
The proximal point method (PPM) is a fundamental method in optimization that is often used as a building block for designing optimization algorithms. In this work, we use the PPM method to provide...
Suvrit Sra
@optiML
May 5, 2020
Hi, any advice on how to deal with @HomeDepot making it a nightmare to have Washer/Dryer installed (maybe #COVID19 making it harder). HD keeps promising to "call back" but nvr does! should've used @Lowes! #regret Is @HomeDepot well-known to be so unfriendly, esp. these days?
Suvrit Sra
@optiML
Mar 11, 2020
Decided not to AC for @NeurIPSConf this year -- ACing burnout from doing this for too many confs per year....on top, #COVID19 is disrupting too many things right now....
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