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ICML and isotropic position of a convex body | I’m a bandit

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[latexpage] ICML 2013 just finished a few days ago. The presentation that inspired me the most was the invited talk by Santosh Vempala. He talked about the relations between sampling, optimization,…

ICML 2013 just finished a few days ago. The presentation that inspired me the most was the invited talk by Santosh Vempala. He talked about the relations between sampling, optimization, integration, learning, and rounding. I strongly recommend Vempala’s short survey on these topics, it is an excellent read. I also would like to point out two papers by Vempala on optimization that are very interesting and exceptionally well written: the first paper (with Bertsimas) presents an optimal (in terms of oracle complexity) algorithm for convex optimization with a much better computational complexity…

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