Ernest Ryu
ernestryu.bsky.social
Ernest Ryu
@ernestryu.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Mathematics at UCLA. Interested in deep learning and optimization.
Your optimization algorithm is a circuit!

In our NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight paper with Stephen Boyd, Tetiana Parshakova, Jaewook Suh, we present a framework for designing optimization algorithms using (electric) circuit theory.

(Video and paper links in reply)
February 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Yesterday, Kevin Shu (Caltech) visited UCLA and gave a wonderful talk at the Mathematics Colloquium titled Algebraic Methods in Convex Optimization!

You can check out the recording here:
youtu.be/e10y8fJdZ2Y
February 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Ernest Ryu
Optimization Algorithm Design via Electric Circuits @StephenPBoyd1
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Shuvomoy Das Gupta (Columbia) and I (UCLA) are starting an optimization seminar series! Our first speaker, Aaron Defazio (Meta), presented Schedules & Schedule-Free Learning.

Aaron will give his NeurIPS 2024 Oral work next week. This is a longer version. (Video link in reply)
December 7, 2024 at 8:09 PM