Simpler Grassmannian optimization
Lai, Zehua, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simpler Grassmannian optimization." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13502 (2020).
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Lai, Zehua, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simpler Grassmannian optimization." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13502 (2020).
Lai, Zehua, and Lek-Heng Lim. "Recht-Ré noncommutative arithmetic-geometric mean conjecture is false." In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 5608-5617. PMLR, 2020.
Shmuel Friedland, Zehua Lai, and Lek-Heng Lim. "Haagerup Bound for Quaternionic Grothendieck Inequality." arXiv e-prints (2021): arXiv-2212.00208.
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simpler Flag Optimization." arXiv e-prints (2021): arXiv-2212.00212.
Chen, Xi, Zehua Lai, He Li, and Yichen Zhang. "Online Statistical Inference for Contextual Bandits via Stochastic Gradient Descent." preprints (2022).
Chen, Xi, Zehua Lai, He Li, and Yichen Zhang. "Online Statistical Inference for Stochastic Optimization via Kiefer-Wolfowitz Methods." Journal of the American Statistical Association,(2023),https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2023.2296703.
Minda Zhao, Zehua Lai, and Lek-Heng Lim. "Stochastic Steffensen Method." Computational Optimization and Applications, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-024-00583-7.
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Yucong Liu. "Attention is a smoothed cubic spline." arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2408.09624.
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Euclidean distance degree in manifold optimization." arXiv e-prints (2025): arXiv-2502.10336.
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simple matrix expressions for the curvatures of Grassmannian." arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2406.11821.
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Grassmannian optimization is NP-hard." arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2406.19377.
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