2024 COLT COLT 2024

Open Problem: Black-Box Reductions and Adaptive Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization

Abstract

We describe an open problem: reduce offline nonconvex stochastic optimization to regret minimization in online convex optimization. The conjectured reduction aims to make progress on explaining the success of adaptive gradient methods for deep learning. A prize of 500 dollars is offered to the winner.

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