Lai TIAN

Lai Tian Photo 

Lai Tian Chinese Name
Ph.D. student in Operations Research

Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Office: ERB 905
Email: tianlai.cs [a-t] gmail

About me

I am currently a fourth-year graduate student at CUHK, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Anthony Man-Cho So. Prior to this, I obtained my B.E. and M.E. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Research interests

My main research interests are generally in mathematical optimization theory and its applications in modern machine learning. Recently, I am especially interested in nonsmooth analysis, metric regularity theory, and approximation algorithms.

What's new?

  • [Oct, 2023] One paper is accepted for publication in Mathematical Programming.

  • [Oct, 2023] One paper is accepted for NeurIPS OPT 2023 workshop.

  • [Oct, 2023] I attended the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix.

  • [May, 2022] One paper is accepted for ICML 2022.

  • [Jan, 2022] Two papers are accepted for AISTATS 2022.

Selected works [Google Scholar]

  • Testing Approximate Stationarity Concepts for Piecewise Affine Functions and Extensions
    Lai Tian, Anthony Man-Cho So
    NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2023). [extended abstract]

  • No Dimension-Free Deterministic Algorithm Computes Approximate Stationarities of Lipschitzians
    Lai Tian, Anthony Man-Cho So
    Mathematical Programming, Series A, 2024. [paper]

  • On the Finite-Time Complexity and Practical Computation of Approximate Stationarity Concepts of Lipschitz Functions
    Lai Tian, Kaiwen Zhou, Anthony Man-Cho So
    ICML 2022. [paper]

  • Computing D-Stationary Points of \(\rho\)-Margin Loss SVM
    Lai Tian, Anthony Man-Cho So
    AISTATS 2022. [paper], [code]

  • Learning Feature Sparse Principal Subspace
    Lai Tian, Feiping Nie, Rong Wang, Xuelong Li
    NeurIPS 2020. [paper], [code]