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In the era of foundation models, fine-tuning pre-trained models for specific downstream tasks has become crucial. This drives the need for robust fine-tuning methods to address challenges such as model overfitting and sparse labeling.…

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Many machine learning models involve solving optimization problems. Thus, it is important to deal with a large-scale optimization problem in big data applications. Recently, subsampled Newton methods have emerged to attract much attention…

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High-dimensional linear regression under heavy-tailed noise or outlier corruption is challenging, both computationally and statistically. Convex approaches have been proven statistically optimal but suffer from high computational costs,…

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Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

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We generalize the monotone local search approach of Fomin, Gaspers, Lokshtanov and Saurabh [J. ACM 2019], by establishing a connection between parameterized approximation and exponential-time approximation algorithms for monotone subset…

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We propose a strategy for computing the isotonic least-squares estimate of a monotone function in a general regression setting where the data are distributed across different servers and the observations across servers, though independent,…

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