Richard Y. Zhang
Associate Professor
Studies nonconvex optimization for machine learning and power systems, including low-rank matrix recovery.
Richard Y. Zhang's lab at UIUC works on learning theory & optimization. 13 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly ICLR and ICML. 4 PhD students. 2 alumni, most often to Meta. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 54%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 2
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 1
- 2 papers2024 · T1 2
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, ICML, AISTATS, JMLR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- low-rank5 papers
- nonconvex4 papers
- Learning theory & optimization2 papers
- nonconvex optimization0 papers
- power systems0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Affine-Image Propagation for Tight and Scalable ℓ2 Neural Network Verification
- Optimization LettersNonnegative Low-rank Matrix Recovery Can Have Spurious Local Minima (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Scalable Second-order Riemannian Optimization for K-means Clustering (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- Mathematical ProgrammingComplexity of Sparse Semidefinite Programs with Small Treewidth (opens in a new tab)
- Mathematical ProgrammingImproved Global Guarantees for the Nonconvex Burer--Monteiro Factorization via Rank Overparameterization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsPower System State Estimation by Phase Synchronization and Eigenvectors (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)SDP-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation for Neural Network Verification with Tightness of Semidefinite Programming (opens in a new tab)
- SIAM Journal on OptimizationSharp Global Guarantees for Nonconvex Low-Rank Recovery in the Noisy Overparameterized Regime (opens in a new tab)
- SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data ScienceSimple Alternating Minimization Provably Solves Complete Dictionary Learning (opens in a new tab)
20242 papers
20232 papers
Where alumni went2 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 1Academia 1
Most often to
- Meta
Also to
- UIUC
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UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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