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Published in arXiv, 2020
A simpler model for optimization on Grassmannian manifolds. A follow-up paper deals with the flag manifolds.
Recommended citation: Lai, Zehua, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simpler Grassmannian optimization." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13502 (2020). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13502.pdf
Published in ICML, 2020
The noncommutative arithmetic-geometric mean inequality is false.
Recommended citation: 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. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/lai20a/lai20a.pdf
Published in arXiv, 2022
A generalization of Haagerup method to Grothendieck Inequality for quaternions.
Recommended citation: Shmuel Friedland, Zehua Lai, and Lek-Heng Lim. "Haagerup Bound for Quaternionic Grothendieck Inequality." arXiv e-prints (2021): arXiv-2212.00208. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00208
Published in arXiv, 2022
An extension of previous simpler Grassmannian optimization paper.
Recommended citation: Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simpler Flag Optimization." arXiv e-prints (2021): arXiv-2212.00212. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.00212.pdf
Published in preprint, 2022
Statistical inference for contextual bandits.
Recommended citation: Chen, Xi, Zehua Lai, He Li, and Yichen Zhang. "Online Statistical Inference for Contextual Bandits via Stochastic Gradient Descent." preprints (2022). http://laizehua.github.io/files/bandit.pdf
Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2023
Statistical inference in gradient free methods.
Recommended citation: 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2023.2296703
Published in Computational Optimization and Applications, 2024
A stochastic generalization of Steffensen method.
Recommended citation: 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-024-00583-7
Published in arXiv, 2025
Splines are important in transformers.
Recommended citation: Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Yucong Liu. "Attention is a smoothed cubic spline." arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2408.09624. https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2408.09624
Published in arXiv, 2025
Compute EDD of important manifolds.
Recommended citation: Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Euclidean distance degree in manifold optimization." arXiv e-prints (2025): arXiv-2502.10336. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.10336
Published in arXiv, 2025
Compute differential geometry quantity in the Grassmannian.
Recommended citation: Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Simple matrix expressions for the curvatures of Grassmannian." arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2406.11821. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11821
Published in arXiv (accepted by SIOPT), 2025
NP-hardness of quadratic optimization over Grassmannian
Recommended citation: Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, and Ke Ye. "Grassmannian optimization is NP-hard." arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2406.19377. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.19377
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graduate course, University of Chicago, 2019
Spring 2022, STAT 28000 Optimization, Teaching Assistant
graduate course, University of Texas at Austin, 2023
Spring 2024, Probability I 53860, Instructor