Lecture 6

Readings:

Deep learning with Elastic Averaging SGD Links to an external site., Sixin Zhang, Anna Choromanska, Yann LeCun, NIPS 2015.

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by Zihao Zhang

 

Asymptotically exact, embarrassingly parallel MCMC Links to an external site., W. Neiswanger, C. Wang, and E. Xing, UAI, 2014.

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by Bichen Wu

 

Asynchronous Distributed ADMM for Consensus Optimization Links to an external site. Ruiliang Zhang, James T. Kwok, JMLR 2014.

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by Francois Belletti

 

Recommended:

On the importance of initialization and momentum in deep learning Links to an external site., Ilya Sutskever, James Martens, George Dahl, Geoffrey Hinton, JMLR 2013