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Title: Nonconvex Statistical Optimization: Algorithm and Model-based Optimization Theory Abstract: Nonconvex regularized M-estimators have been widely applied to high dimensional data analysis. Existing statisticaltheory has established their statistical properties in high dimensions only when the global optimum or certain local optimum can be obtained. Though[...]

Speaker: Aravind Srinivasan Affiliation: University of Maryland Title: Properties and Generalizations of the Moser-Tardos Process Abstract: Moser and Tardos have developed an elegant and powerful algorithmic version of the Lovasz Local Lemma. Since the publication[...]

Title: Fault Resilient Graph Structures Speaker: Merav Parter (MIT) Abstract: A fault-tolerant (FT) structure for a network is required to continue functioning following the failure of some of the network’s edges or vertices. Fault-resilience can[...]