Publications

Published

Distributionally Robust Optimization with Bias and Variance Reduction.
Ronak Mehta, Vincent Roulet, Krishna Pillutla, Zaid Harchaoui.
International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR), 2024.
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On the Interplay Between Stepsize Tuning and Progressive Sharpening.
Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Fabian Pedregosa.
NeurIPS OPT 2023: Optimization for Machine Learning, 2023.
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Modified Gauss-Newton Algorithms under Noise.
Krishna Pillutla, Vincent Roulet, Sham Kakade, Zaid Harchaoui.
2023 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2023.
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Stochastic Optimization for Spectral Risk Measures.
Ronak Mehta, Vincent Roulet, Krishna Pillutla, Lang Liu, Zaid Harchaoui.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2023.
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Target Propagation via Regularized Inversion for Recurrent Neural Networks.
Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
Transactions in Machine Learning Research, 2023.
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Revisiting Convolutional Neural Networks from the Viewpoint of Kernel-Based Methods.
Corinne Jones, Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2022.
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A Representation-Focused Training Algorithm for Deep Networks.
Vincent Roulet, Corinne Jones, Zaid Harchaoui.
2022 IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW), 2022.
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Differentiable Programming à la Moreau.
Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022.
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Discriminative Clustering with Representation Learning with any Ratio of Labeled to Unlabeled Data.
Corinne Jones, Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
Statistics and Computing, 2022.
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On the Smoothing of Deep Networks.
Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2021.
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On the Convergence to Stationary Points of the Iterative Linear Exponential Quadratic Gaussian Algorithm.
Vincent Roulet, Maryam Fazel, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Zaid Harchaoui.
In Proceedings of the 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 2020.
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End-to-End Learning, with or without Labels.
Corinne Jones, Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
Short version in Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), 2020.
Winner of the 2020 ASA Computing/Graphics Student Paper Award.
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Sharpness, Restart and Acceleration.
Vincent Roulet, Alexandre d’Aspremont.
(Journal version) SIAM Journal of Optimization, 2020.
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An Elementary Approach to Convergence Guarantees of Optimization Algorithms for Deep Networks.
Vincent Roulet, Zaid Harchaoui.
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2019.
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Iterative Linearized Control: Stable Algorithms and Complexity Guarantees.
Vincent Roulet, Siddharta Srinivasa, Dmitry Drusvyatskiy, Zaid Harchaoui.
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019.
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Computational Complexity versus Statistical Performance on Sparse Recovery Problems.
Vincent Roulet, Nicolas Boumal, Alexandre d’Aspremont.
Information and Inference: a Journal of the IMA, 2019.
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A Smoother Way to Train Structured Prediction Models.
Krishna Pillutla, Vincent Roulet, Sham Kakade, Zaid Harchaoui.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS), 2018.
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Sharpness, Restart and Acceleration.
Vincent Roulet, Alexandre d’Aspremont.
(Conference version) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NeurIPS), 2017.
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Integration Methods and Accelerated Optimization Algorithms.
Damien Scieur, Vincent Roulet, Francis Bach, Alexandre d’Aspremont.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NeurIPS), 2017.
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Working papers

Dual Gauss-Newton Directions for Deep Learning.
Vincent Roulet, Mathieu Blondel
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Distributionally Robust Optimization with Bias and Variance Reduction.
Ronak Mehta, Vincent Roulet, Krishna Pillutla, Zaid Harchaoui
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Complexity Bounds of Iterative Linear Quadratic Optimization Algorithms for Discrete Time Nonlinear Control.
Vincent Roulet, Siddharta Srinivasa, Maryam Fazel, Zaid Harchaoui.
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Iterative Linear Quadratic Optimization for Nonlinear Control: Differentiable Programming Algorithmic Templates.
Vincent Roulet, Siddharta Srinivasa, Maryam Fazel, Zaid Harchaoui.
Companion report to Complexity Bounds of Iterative Linear Quadratic Optimization Algorithms for Discrete Time Nonlinear Control.
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PhD Thesis

On the Geometry of Optimization Problems and their Structure.
Vincent Roulet.
PhD Thesis.
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