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Nov 23, 2024 I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Apple MLR seminar, thanks to an invitation from Samy Bengio. It was an amazing opportunity to share our work on MindFlayer. Feel free to check out the talk slides here.
Oct 17, 2024 I will be giving a talk at the International Conference on Algebra, Logic, and their Applications on October 18, on our paper, MindFlayer: Efficient Asynchronous Parallel SGD in the Presence of Heterogeneous and Random Worker Compute Times.
Oct 17, 2024 I am reviewing for SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS).
Oct 10, 2024 Three papers are accepted to Optimization for Machine Learning Workshop (NeurIPS 2024):
  • MindFlayer: Efficient Asynchronous Parallel SGD in the Presence of Heterogeneous and Random Worker Compute Times
  • Differentially Private Random Block Coordinate Descent
  • LoCoDL: Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning with Local Training and Compression
Oct 08, 2024 New paper out; we have MindFlayer, Vecna, and other Stranger Things: MindFlayer: Efficient Asynchronous Parallel SGD in the Presence of Heterogeneous and Random Worker Compute Times
Sep 11, 2024 I am reviewing for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
Sep 08, 2024 I am reviewing for The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). drawing
Oct 06, 2023 I am invited to give a talk at the Algorithms & Computationally Intensive Inference seminars at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England.