With the nicest help of Prof. Gilbert Strang, I'm releasing a new version of Matrix World.

It was great presenting solid lab’s most recent research findings on Federated #DeepLearning for Heterogeneous Mobile Robots at SEDSI’22, led by my PhD student Mamunahmed33 in collaboration with PhD Candidate Ahmed Imteaj! We will have more interesting results published soon.

1/2 Congrats to solid lab’s Ph.D. Candidate Leila Zahedi and Director Prof. Hadi Amini for publishing the journal paper in collaboration with UGA, on "A2BCF: An Automated ABC-Based Feature Selection Algorithm for Classification Models in an Education Application"!

How to (optimally) design a fair/robust syllabus for optimization classes: Below is the polyhedron of all rubrics I find reasonable, which I then maximize for each student. As a result, evaluation focuses on their individual areas of excellence. Details: ams.jhu.edu/~grimmer/Gradi…

Congratulation to solid lab PhD students advised by Dr. Hadi Amini for receiving the Student Life Award from Division of Academic and Student Affairs at FIU! Ahmed Imteaj: the Graduate Scholar of the Year Award; Leila Zahedi: the Graduate Leader of the Year Award. Knight School of Computing

Congratulations to FIU solid lab's Ph.D. Candidates Ahmed Imteaj and Leila Zahedi who successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertations under the supervision of Prof. Hadi Amini! More details: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #research #computerscience #machinelearning #PhD Knight School of Computing

The work co-authored by solid lab Ph.D. student, Luiz Manella Pereira, myself, and our collaborator from FIU Math and Stats Department has received the Best #Journal Paper Award from Springer Nature Operations Research Forum! More information: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Congratulations to solid lab Ph.D. Fellow, Luiz Manella Pereira, Prof. Amini, and their collaborator from FIU Mathematics and Statistics Department, for receiving the Best Journal Paper Award for their work entitled “Topological Data Analysis for Network Resilience Quantification

1/3 Two solid lab Ph.D. students have received the following awards in the Graduate category at CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference. Congratulations to Dr. Leila Zahedi and Yasaman Saadati for this recognition!

Please RT Are you a *PhD* student conducting research on generative models? Are you excited about #ResponsibleAI aspects of generation? We are looking to host a student researcher/#internship in 2023. Please get in touch via *email*. P.S. I'll be at #NeurIPS2022 and #emnlp2022

Congratulations to solid lab's Ph.D. Candidate, Khandakar Mamun Ahmed for receiving the “2022 Best Graduate Student in Research Award” from the School of Computing and Information Sciences" at FIU in recognition of his research on federated deep learning and its applications!

According to icml.cc/Conferences/20… — Using LLMs to edit papers seems to be a new trend and it is now officially allowed 🙂 #ICML2023

Multiple Fully-funded Ph.D. positions are available at solid lab on federated learning/quantum machine learning and their application in the cybersecurity of Cyber-Physcial-Societal systems. More information: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #PhDposition #federatedlearning #research

Inspiring final 18.06 lecture by Gil Strang after 66 years of being at MIT! His unique way of teaching linear algebra concepts has impacted many learners and researchers, including myself. Thanks, Prof. Strang! youtube.com/watch?v=lUUte2… #linearalgebra

I've proven the strangest result of my career.. The classic idea that gradient descent's rate is best with constant stepsizes 1/L is wrong. The idea that we need stepsizes in (0,2/L) for convergence is wrong. Periodic long steps are better, provably. arxiv.org/abs/2307.06324

📚 My mini-book on amortized optimization is officially published! Via the Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning journal (nowpublishers.com/MAL) Buy a physical copy: a.co/d/4IlD3oo Free online version: arxiv.org/abs/2202.00665 Source code: github.com/facebookresear…

Brand new CS285: Deep RL lecture on RL for sequence models and language models: youtu.be/egJgDbe5oaM?fe… Figured it was about time to add this lecture to the course🙂

Slides on Optimization of Random Cost Functions (29th Solvay Conference of Physics). Tried to summarize what did we learn in the last 40 years about the fundamental complexity of random optimization, using Fu-Anderson 1986 as a starting point: web.stanford.edu/~montanar/OTHE……

Depending on which late-model #vehicle you own, your car might be watching you. Knight School of Computing professor M. Hadi Amini explains that your car uses this #data to make your ride safe, but is a potential #privacy nightmare in The Conversation U.S.. Read more: go.fiu.edu/car-privacy

Missed the chance to register for the Princeton University Workshop on Optimization, Learning, and Control? Don't worry, you can still join us! 🎉 We'll be live streaming the event on June 27-28, 2024. 📅 🔗 Tune in here: stellato.io/olc/live #OLC24 #Optimization #Learning #Control