Search Results for author: Quan Xiao

Found 7 papers, 3 papers with code

A Generalized Alternating Method for Bilevel Learning under the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Condition

no code implementations4 Jun 2023 Quan Xiao, Songtao Lu, Tianyi Chen

Bilevel optimization has recently regained interest owing to its applications in emerging machine learning fields such as hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, and reinforcement learning.

Bilevel Optimization Hyperparameter Optimization +1

On Penalty-based Bilevel Gradient Descent Method

1 code implementation10 Feb 2023 Han Shen, Quan Xiao, Tianyi Chen

Bilevel optimization enjoys a wide range of applications in hyper-parameter optimization, meta-learning and reinforcement learning.

Bilevel Optimization Meta-Learning +2

Alternating Implicit Projected SGD and Its Efficient Variants for Equality-constrained Bilevel Optimization

1 code implementation14 Nov 2022 Quan Xiao, Han Shen, Wotao Yin, Tianyi Chen

By leveraging the special structure of the equality constraints problem, the paper first presents an alternating implicit projected SGD approach and establishes the $\tilde{\cal O}(\epsilon^{-2})$ sample complexity that matches the state-of-the-art complexity of ALSET \citep{chen2021closing} for unconstrained bilevel problems.

Bilevel Optimization

Lazy Queries Can Reduce Variance in Zeroth-order Optimization

no code implementations14 Jun 2022 Quan Xiao, Qing Ling, Tianyi Chen

A major challenge of applying zeroth-order (ZO) methods is the high query complexity, especially when queries are costly.

Sharp-MAML: Sharpness-Aware Model-Agnostic Meta Learning

1 code implementation8 Jun 2022 Momin Abbas, Quan Xiao, Lisha Chen, Pin-Yu Chen, Tianyi Chen

Model-agnostic meta learning (MAML) is currently one of the dominating approaches for few-shot meta-learning.

Meta-Learning

A Single-Timescale Method for Stochastic Bilevel Optimization

no code implementations9 Feb 2021 Tianyi Chen, Yuejiao Sun, Quan Xiao, Wotao Yin

This paper develops a new optimization method for a class of stochastic bilevel problems that we term Single-Timescale stochAstic BiLevEl optimization (STABLE) method.

Bilevel Optimization Meta-Learning +1

Image denoising via K-SVD with primal-dual active set algorithm

no code implementations19 Jan 2020 Quan Xiao, Canhong Wen, Zirui Yan

K-SVD algorithm has been successfully applied to image denoising tasks dozens of years but the big bottleneck in speed and accuracy still needs attention to break.

Image Denoising

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