Research

Publications (Google Scholar)

Generalization Bounds of Nonconvex-(Strongly)-Concave Stochastic Minimax Optimization

Siqi Zhang*, Yifan Hu*, Liang Zhang, Niao He.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2024  [arXiv]  [OPT2022 Workshop]

Communication-Efficient Gradient Descent-Accent Methods for Distributed Variational Inequalities: Unified Analysis and Local Updates

Siqi Zhang*, Sayantan Choudhury*, Sebastian U Stich, Nicolas Loizou.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024  [arXiv]  [OPT2022 Workshop]

The Complexity of Nonconvex-Strongly-Concave Minimax Optimization

Siqi Zhang*, Junchi Yang*, Cristobal Guzman, Negar Kiyavash and Niao He.
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2021  [arXiv]  [UAI]

Biased Stochastic First-Order Methods for Conditional Stochastic Optimization and Applications in Meta Learning

Yifan Hu*, Siqi Zhang*, Xin Chen, Niao He.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020  [arXiv]  [NeurIPS]

A Catalyst Framework for Minimax Optimization

Junchi Yang, Siqi Zhang, Negar Kiyavash, Niao He.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020  [NeurIPS]

Workshop Papers and Preprints

First-Order Optimization Inspired from Finite-Time Convergent Flows

Siqi Zhang, Mouhacine Benosman, Orlando Romero, Anoop Cherian. 2021  [arXiv]

On the Convergence Rate of Stochastic Mirror Descent for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization

Siqi Zhang, Niao He. 2018  [arXiv]

(* denotes equal contributions)

Selected Talks

Generalization in Nonconvex Minimax Optimization: A Comprehensive Study

INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Houston, USA, 2024.03
CAMDA Conference, College Station, USA, 2023.05

Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Algorithms for Variational Inequalities

SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23), Seattle, USA, 2023.06
Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2023), Baltimore, USA, 2023.03

Nonconvex Minimax Optimization: Fundamental Limits, Efficient Algorithms and Generalization

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, USA, 2022.10
MINDS & CIS Seminar, JHU, Baltimore, USA, 2022.10
International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Bethlehem, USA, 2022.07