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Continuous Algorithms (Invited Paper)
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38th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2018)
Series: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)
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- Publication Date: 2018-12-05
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Santosh Vempala. Continuous Algorithms (Invited Paper). In 38th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 122, p. 4:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.4
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.4
Abstract
While the design of algorithms is traditionally a discrete endeavour, in recent years many advances have come from continuous perspectives. Typically, a continuous process, deterministic or randomized, is designed and shown to have desirable properties, such as approaching an optimal solution or a target distribution, and an algorithm is derived from this by appropriate discretization. We will discuss examples of this for optimization (gradient descent, interior-point method) and sampling (Brownian motion, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo), with applications to learning. In some interesting and rather general settings, the current fastest methods have been obtained via this approach.
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- Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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- Algorithms
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