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<div class="gmail_default"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Tuesday, March 10th at 11:00 am</font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> Kevin Lai, GA Tech<br></font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <br></font></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Title:
</b>Understanding Convergence in Min-Max Optimization<b><br><br><b>Abstract:</b> </b>Many
exciting recent developments in machine learning, such as Generative
Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Deepmind's AlphaStar, rely on finding an
equilibrium of a game as part of training. This process can be
described as a min-max optimization problem. While min-max optimization
has a long history of study, the difficulty of training systems such as
GANs has revealed important gaps in our understanding of convergence in
games. In this talk, we will cover several recent results that help fill
some of these gaps. We cover results on fast convergence of fictitious
play, last-iterate convergence, and new higher-order methods for min-max
problems. This talk is based on joint work with Jacob Abernethy, Brian
Bullins, and Andre Wibisono.
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<b>Bio:</b> </b>Kevin A. Lai is a 5th year
Ph.D. student in the Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program
at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Jacob Abernethy. He
received his B.S. at Yale and his M.S.E. at Princeton. His research
interests include optimization, convergence of game dynamics, and online
learning.
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