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Mher Safaryan

About Mher Safaryan

Mher Safaryan

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

optimization machine learning

Mher Safaryan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Professor Peter Richtarik at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Mher received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yerevan State University, Armenia under the supervision of Prof. Grigori Karagulyan. Before joining KAUST, he was a Junior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences, Real Analysis Department in Armenia. After that, he joined the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE)

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Sep 4 - Sep 10, 2022

  • Communication-Efficient Distributed Newton-type Algorithms for Federated Learning

    Mher Safaryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
    Sep 5, 12:00 - 13:00

    B9 L2 R2322 H1

    machine learning

    In this talk, I will discuss communication compression and aggregation mechanisms for curvature information in order to reduce these costs while preserving theoretically superior local convergence guarantees.

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