Robert M. Gower (Preferred)
Robert Mansel Gower
Robert M. Gower
Researcher, Flatiron Institute
Joined
July 2019
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Emails
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Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
Flatiron Institute (simonsfoundation.org)
2021 – Present
Assistant Professor
Télécom ParisTech (telecom-paristech.fr)
2017 – 2021
Visiting Researcher
Facebook (facebook.com)
2020 – 2020
Postdoc
INRIA (inria.fr)
2016 – 2017
PhD student
University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)
2012 – 2016
MS student
Instituto de Fisica (unicamp.br)
2009 – 2011
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Spectral methods
, Muon
, polar factor
, momentum
2024 – Present
adaptive gradient methods;
2020 – Present
learning rate schedules
2020 – Present
Policy Gradient methods;
2021 – 2023
stochastic optimization; variance reduced methods; stochastic gradient descent; quasi-Newton methods; second order methods
2014 – 2022
numerical linear algebra; sketching
2013 – 2020
Publications
Co-Authors
- Aaron Defazio
- Aaron Mishkin
- Ahmed Khaled
- Alberto Bietti
- Alessandro Lazaric
- Alexander Rogozin
- Alibek Sailanbayev
- Antonio Orvieto
- Artur L. Gower
- Bo Zhao
- Brahim Khalil Abid
- Charles Margossian
- Chirag Modi
- Christopher Musco
- David Blei
- David Persson
- Deanna Needell
- Denali Molitor
- Diana Cai
- Dimitris Oikonomou
- Dmitry Kamzolov
- Dmitry Kovalev
- Donald Goldfarb
- Egor Shulgin
- Fabian Schaipp