Random topics in optimization, probability, and statistics. By Sébastien Bubeck I just came back from NIPS 2015 which was a clear success in terms of numbers (note that this growth is not all because of deep learning, only about 10% of the papers were on this topic, which is about double of those on convex optimization for example): In this post I want to talk about some of the new emerging direct
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