YUAN GAO
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​Welcome to Yuan's site! I am a PhD student in Operations Research at Columbia University advised by Prof. Christian Kroer. I also work with Prof. Don Goldfarb. I study optimization models and methods for game theory, market design and machine learning. Previously, I studied at NUS as an undergraduate student and was fortunate enough to work on an honors thesis advised by Prof. Kim-Chuan Toh and Prof. Melvyn Sim. 
Email: lastname.firstname@columbia.edu
Research
  • Online Market Equilibrium with Application to Fair Division, with Christian Kroer and Alex Peysakhovich. Under Review.​​​
    • A distributed, interpretable mechanism for dividing sequentially arriving goods among agents with heterogeneous valuations, arising from solving the Eisenberg-Gale dual using a stochastic optimization algorithm.
  • Increasing Iterate Averaging for Solving Saddle-Point Problems, with Christian Kroer and Don Goldfarb. AAAI 2021.​​​
    • A simple, highly effective numerical technique for solving zero-sum game and other saddle-point problems, with theoretical guarantees and extensive numerical experiments demonstrating the significant speedup.
  • Infinite-Dimensional Fisher Markets and Tractable Fair Division, with Christian Kroer. A short version accepted in AAAI 2021.
    • ​A generalization of the Eisenberg-Gale framework for Fisher market equilibria to a continuum of goods, which leads to a scalable optimization-based method for large-scale fair division.
  • First-Order Methods for Large-Scale Market Equilibrium Computation, with Christian Kroer. NeurIPS 2020.
    • Convex optimization characterizations and efficient first-order methods for computing Fisher market equilibria, with application to Internet ad auction, resource allocation and fair recommender systems.
  • An Improved Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum, with Yanli Liu and Wotao Yin. NeurIPS 2020.
    • ​Analysis of a multi-stage version of SGD with momentum, a widely used heuristic in deep learning training, with experiments demonstrating its advantage.
  • Stochastic Flows and Geometric Optimization on the Orthogonal Group, with Krzysztof Choromanski et al., based on a course project. ICML 2020.
  • Accurate Protein Structure Prediction by Embeddings and Deep Learning Representations, with Iddo Drori et al., based on a course project. MLCB 2019.
  • A Homogeneous Interior-Point Method for Conic Programming Involving Exponential Cone Constraints. NUS Honors Thesis.​
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