Dmitry Kovalev

MS/Phd Student

KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

About

I’m a student at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where I’m currently studying Computer Science and doing research in the Visual Computing Center under the supervision of Peter Richtárik. Prior to this I got my BSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Interests

  • Optimization
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • MS/PhD in Computer Science
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • BS in Applied Mathematics and Physics, 2018
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Recent Papers

Stochastic Distributed Learning with Gradient Quantization and Variance Reduction

Samuel Horváth, Dmitry Kovalev, Konstantin Mishchenko, Peter Richtárik, Sebastian U. Stich

Don't Jump Through Hoops and Remove Those Loops: SVRG and Katyusha are Better Without the Outer Loop

Dmitry Kovalev, Samuel Horváth, Peter Richtárik

A hypothesis about the rate of global convergence for optimal methods (Newton's type) in smooth convex optimization

Alexander Gasnikov, Dmitry Kovalev

Stochastic Spectral and Conjugate Descent Methods

Dmitry Kovalev, Eduard Gorbunov, Elnur Gasanov, Peter Richtárik

Recent Posts

Talk: Stochastic Spectral and Conjugate Descent Methods

Today I gave a talk at the "Automatic control and Optimization Theory" seminar at the Institute for Control Problems, Moscow. The talk is based on my NeurIPS 2018 paper.

26 Mar. 2019, 17:00

Moscow visit

I’m staying in Moscow from 18 March to 2 April. I'm going to give 2 talks and have a rest from work.

18 Mar. 2019, 20:00

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