Anima Anandkumar • Jan 25, 2016 • 12 minute read While convex analysis has received much attention by the machine learning community, theoretical analysis of non-convex optimization is still nascent. This blog as well as the recent NIPS 2015 workshop on non-convex optimization aim to accelerate research in this area. Along with Kamalika Chaudhuri, Percy Liang, Niranjan U Naresh, and Sewoong Oh,