Selected Papers

Semidefinite Programming:

• An Optimal-Storage Approach to Semidefinite Programming using Approximate Complementarity [arxiv] [slides]

     Ding, Yurtsever, Cevher, Tropp, and Udell

• • Winner of Student Paper Prize 2019 of INFORMS Optimization Society 

  • SIAM Journal On Optimization (2021)

• On the simplicity and conditioning of low rank semidefinite programs [arxiv] 

      Ding and Udell                                                                                                

• SIAM Journal On Optimization (2021)

Statistical nonconvex optimization: 

• Leave-one-out Approach for Matrix Completion: Primal and Dual Analysis [arxiv] [slides]. 

     Ding and Chen                                                                                                   

• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2020)

• Low-rank matrix recovery with composite optimization: good conditioning and rapid convergence [arxiv] 

     Charisopoulos, Chen, Davis, Diaz, Ding, and Drusvyatskiy

• Foundations of Computational Mathematics (2021)

Overparametrization:

• Flat minima generalize for low-rank matrix recovery [arxiv] [slides]

     Ding, Drusvyatskiy, Fazel, and Harchaoui 

• Submitted (2022)

• Algorithmic Regularization in Model-free Overparametrized Asymmetric Matrix Factorization [arxiv] [slides]

     Jiang, Chen, and Ding

• SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (2023)