Xiaopeng Li

Xiaopeng Li
Position: Fourth Year Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Columbia University
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Research

Advisor: Professor Cédric Josz

My research interest lies in nonconvex optimization, differential equations, semi-algebraic geometry, with applications in low rank matrix recovery and neural networks.

Publications

Journals

Cédric Josz, Xiaopeng Li, Certifying the absence of spurious local minima at infinity.
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 33(3), 1416–1439. Preprint on ArXiv: 2303.03536.
Cédric Josz, Lexiao Lai, Xiaopeng Li, Convergence of the momentum method for semi-algebraic functions with locally Lipschitz gradients.
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 33(4), 3012–3037. Preprint on ArXiv: 2307.03331.