Yifeng Xiao
Continuous Optimization, Complexity Theory
I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where I am advised by Professor Zhaosong Lu. I completed both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Education
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2024 - present.
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Xi'an Jiaotong University M.S. in Mathematics, 2021 - 2024.
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Xi'an Jiaotong University B.S. in Mathematics, 2021 - 2024.
Research Interests
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Stochastic optimization with constraints
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Applications for data science and machine learning
Publications
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An inexact stochastic variance-reduced gradient method for constrained convex finite-sum optimization (with Zhaosong Lu), submitted.
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First-order methods for stochastic and finite-sum convex optimization with deterministic constraints (with Zhaosong Lu), submitted. [DOI]
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Variance-reduced first-order methods for deterministically constrained stochastic nonconvex optimization with strong convergence guarantees (with Zhaosong Lu and Sanyou Mei), accepted by SIAM Journal on Optimization. [DOI]