Optimization

Content

• Unconstrained problems

  • Gradient descent
  • Newton’s method

• Convexity

  • Properties
  • Lagrange function
  • Wolfe dual

• Batch methods

  • Distributed subgradient
  • Bundle methods

• Online methods

  • Unconstrained subgradient

Videos

Slides

Slides in Keynote and PDF are here. If you want to extract the equations from the slides you can do so by using LaTeXit, simply by dragging the equation images into it. ## Supplementary material

• Boyd and Vandenberghe book (the default reference for convex optimization)
• Submodular optimization and applications site
• Nesterov and Vial paper on expected convergence
• Bartlett, Hazan, Rakhlin paper which uses strong convexity.
• TAO (Toolkit for advanced optimization) site
• Ratliff, Bagnell, Zinkevich regret proof
• Shalev-Shwartz, Srebro, Singer Pegasos
• Langford, Smola, Zinkevich proof of multicore convergence
• Recht, Wright, Re proof of asynchronous updates in Hogwild