Peter Richtarik
richtarik.bsky.social
Peter Richtarik
@richtarik.bsky.social
Professor of CS and Math @ KAUST. Interested in Optimization for Machine Learning. Federated learning guru. Likes 🏓🏋️‍♂️🎾🏐⛷️⛸️🧘‍♂️🤿🎹🎸✈️🏔️📷☀️🐈🍅🥚☕️
Top 100 NeurIPS 2024 authors in terms of # of accepted papers (kind of):

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Place 8.-14. for my Optimization and Machine Learning Lab at KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Super proud of my brilliant and hard-working team!

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February 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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December 12, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I am not attending NeurIPS this year but many of my students are!

Here are our papers; check them out!

Want to join my lab as an intern, MS/PhD student, PhD student or a postdoc? Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/105097
Plus read this, too: richtarik.org/i_join.html
December 11, 2024 at 9:46 AM
When 4 out of 5 reviews are "borderline reject", the authors are on the verge of withdrawing the paper, but then, against all odds, the only "accept" reviewer decides to champion the paper.
December 7, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
My talk on computation and communication optimal asynchronous SGD at Peking University starts in 30 minutes.
November 26, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Enjoying quality dinner at Yer-Shori (耶里夏丽), Shanghai's People Square, a couple days before my talk at the Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS).
November 26, 2024 at 2:50 AM
stopping in Nanjing at the moment...
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 AM