Wenbo Gao

Publications

• Wenbo Gao*, Laura Graesser*, Krzysztof Choromanski*, Xingyou Song, Nevena Lazic, Pannag Sanketi, Vikas Sindhwani, and Navdeep Jaitly. Robotic Table Tennis with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning. [pdf][arXiv]
  To appear in IROS 2020.
  
• Xingyou Song, Yuxiang Yang, Krzysztof Choromanski, Ken Caluwaerts, Wenbo Gao, Chelsea Finn, and Jie Tan. Rapidly Adaptable Legged Robots via Evolutionary Meta-Learning. [arXiv]
  To appear in IROS 2020.
  
• Wenbo Gao, Donald Goldfarb, and Frank E. Curtis. ADMM for Multiaffine Constrained Optimization. [pdf][arXiv]
  Optimization Methods and Software, 35-2 (2020), pp. 257-303.
• Xingyou Song*, Wenbo Gao*, Yuxiang Yang, Krzysztof Choromanski, Aldo Pacchiano, and Yunhao Tang. ES-MAML: Simple Hessian-Free Meta Learning. [arXiv][OpenReview]
  ICLR 2020.
  Short version accepted as a spotlight in NeurIPS Workshop on Meta-Learning 2019.
• Yunfei Teng*, Wenbo Gao*, Francois Chalus, Anna Choromanska, Donald Goldfarb, and Adrian Weller. Leader Stochastic Gradient Descent for Distributed Training of Deep Learning Models. [pdf][arXiv][nips.cc]
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, 2019.
• Wenbo Gao and Donald Goldfarb. Block BFGS Methods. [pdf][arXiv][code]
  SIAM Journal on Optimization 28-2 (2018), pp. 1205-1231.
• Wenbo Gao and Donald Goldfarb. Quasi-Newton Methods: Superlinear Convergence Without Line Searches for Self-Concordant Functions. [pdf][arXiv][code]
  Optimization Methods and Software, 34-1 (2018), pp.194-217.
• Chaoxu Zhou*, Wenbo Gao*, and Donald Goldfarb. Stochastic Adaptive Quasi-Newton Methods for Minimizing Expected Values. [pdf][supplementary][PMLR]
  Proceedings of the 34th ICML, PMLR 70:4150-4159, 2017.

Submitted

• Wenbo Gao and Luke Postle. On the Minimum Edge Density of $K_4$-Free 6-Critical Graphs. [pdf][appendix][arXiv]
• Xingyou Song, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jack Parker-Holder, Yunhao Tang, Wenbo Gao, Aldo Pacchiano, Tamas Sarlos, Deepali Jain, Yuxiang Yang. Reinforcement Learning with Chromatic Networks. [arXiv]

Preprints

• Wenbo Gao and David Wagner. Highly symmetric matroids, the strong Rayleigh property, and sums of squares. [arXiv]

Miscellaneous

• Dishonest Stopping, or: Bayesians and Bad Experiments [pdf]
  A discussion of a Bayesian inference problem discussed by David Speyer here. Mostly for self-edification.
• A Complicated Solution to an Easy Problem [pdf]
  Why everyone should learn combinatorics /sarc.
• Equivalent Simplicial Polytopes with Integer Vertices [pdf]
  A proof of a folklore result in polytope theory.
• Cycles in Random Permutations [pdf]
  Some double counting proofs of identities from this post of Terry Tao.
• Understanding the Primal and Dual Simplex Method [pdf]
  Expository note for IEOR students learning about linear programming.