Liwei Jiang

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Ph.D. Thesis

Saddle Avoidance, Asymptotic Normality, and Exponential Acceleration in Nonsmooth Optimization

Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 2024 [pdf]

Preprints

Gradient descent with adaptive stepsize converges (nearly) linearly under fourth-order growth

Damek Davis*, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy*, Liwei Jiang*

preprint [arxiv]

A validation approach to over-parameterized matrix and image recovery

Lijun Ding, Zhen Qin, Liwei Jiang, Jinxin Zhou, Zhihui Zhu

preprint [arxiv]

Journal Publications

Active manifolds, stratifications, and convergence to local minima in nonsmooth optimization

Damek Davis*, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy*, Liwei Jiang*

Foundations of Computational Mathematics, to appear [arxiv]

Asymptotic normality and optimality in nonsmooth stochastic approximation

Damek Davis*, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy*, Liwei Jiang*

The Annals of Statistics, 2024 [arxiv][journal]

INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize, Second Place[link]

A local nearly linearly convergent first-order method for nonsmooth functions with quadratic growth

Damek Davis*, Liwei Jiang*

Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2024 [arxiv][journal]

Algorithmic regularization in model-free overparametrized asymmetric matrix factorization

Liwei Jiang, Yudong Chen, Lijun Ding

SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS), 2023 [arxiv][journal]

On the translates of general dyadic systems on R

Theresa C Anderson*, Bingyang Hu*, Liwei Jiang*, Connor Olson*, Zeyu Wei*

Mathematische Annalen, 2020 [arxiv][journal]

Conference Publications

Rank overspecified robust matrix recovery: subgradient method and exact recovery

Lijun Ding*, Liwei Jiang*, Yudong Chen, Qing Qu, Zhihui Zhu

Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NeurIPS), 2021 [arxiv][conference]

* above indicates alphabetical ordering.