Multi-arm BanditsDiscusses algorithms for balancing exploration and exploitation in decision-making processes.
Solving Parity Games in PracticeExplores practical aspects of solving parity games, including winning strategies, algorithms, complexity, determinism, and heuristic approaches.
Legendre TransformExplores the Legendre transform, duality in convex analysis, and optimization problems.
Approximation AlgorithmsCovers approximation algorithms for optimization problems, LP relaxation, and randomized rounding techniques.
Nonlinear OptimizationCovers line search, Newton's method, BFGS, and conjugate gradient in nonlinear optimization.