[Colloquium] [TTIC Talks] REMINDER: 4/6 Mher Safaryan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

[Brandie Jones]

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> *When:*        Wednesday, April 6th at *9:30am CT*
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> *Where:*       *Zoom Virtual Talk* (*register in advance here*
> <https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdu-prD0tEtElhXgGda0xkL6_lCApz2jD>
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> *Who: *         Mher Safaryan, King Abdullah University of Science and
> Technology
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> *Title:*           Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization for
> Machine Learning
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> *Abstract:    *In the quest for high accuracy machine learning models,
> both the size of the model and consequently the amount of data necessary to
> train the model have been hugely increased over time. Because of this,
> performing the learning process on a single machine is often infeasible. In
> a typical scenario of distributed learning, the training data is spread
> across different machines, and thus the process of training is done in a
> distributed manner. Another scenario, most common to federated learning, is
> when training data is inherently distributed across a large number of
> mobile edge devices due to data privacy concerns. Therefore, large-scale
> distributed optimization has become the default tool for the training of
> supervised machine learning models with a large number of parameters and
> training data.
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> *Bio:  *Mher Safaryan is a postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah
> University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, working on
> Optimization for Machine Learning in the group supervised by Prof. Peter
> Richtárik. Previously, he worked with Prof. Diogo Gomes as a research
> technician at KAUST on Computer Algebra for Differential Equations. He did
> his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Yerevan State University (YSU) in Armenia,
> under the supervision of Prof. Grigori Karagulyan. His interests includes
> optimization, machine learning, and compressed communication
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> *H**ost: Nathan Srebro <nati at ttic.edu>*
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> *Brandie Jones *
> *Administrative Assistant*
> Toyota Technological Institute
> 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
> Chicago, IL  60637
> www.ttic.edu
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