Zhongruo Wang

About me

I am a Phd candidate in (GGAM) at UC Davis. I am lucky working with Shiqian Ma and Krishnakumar Balasubramanian.

Research

My research interests include

• Stochastic optimization, especially zeroth order optimization with variance reduction

• Zeroth order min-max optimization in deterministic case and stochastic case

• Policy optimization, policy gradient methods

Publications

1. Improved Zeroth-Order Algorithms for Nonconvex Saddle-Point Optimization (with Shiqian Ma and Zhongruo Wang)(Arxiv)

2. Manifold Proximal Linear Methods for Sparse Spectral Clustering with Application to Single-Cell Data Analysis(with Binyuan Liu, Shiqian Ma, Linzhou Xue)(Arxiv)

Must Read

1. Optimization for Machine Learning (link)

2. Accelerated Optimization for Machine Learning (link)

3. Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms (link)