Publications by Saber Salehkaleybar

A Unified Experiment Design Approach for Cyclic and Acyclic Causal Models

Negar Kiyavash, Ehsan Mokhtarian, Saber Salehkaleybar

We study experiment design for unique identification of the causal graph of a system where the graph may contain cycles. The presence of cycles in the structure introduces major challenges for experiment design as, unlike acyclic graphs, learning the skele ...

2023

Momentum-Based Policy Gradient with Second-Order Information

Patrick Thiran, Negar Kiyavash, Mohammadsadegh Khorasani, Saber Salehkaleybar

Variance-reduced gradient estimators for policy gradient methods have been one of the main focus of research in the reinforcement learning in recent years as they allow acceleration of the estimation process. We propose a variance-reduced policy-gradient m ...

2022

Stochastic Second-Order Methods Improve Best-Known Sample Complexity of SGD for Gradient-Dominated Function

Patrick Thiran, Negar Kiyavash, Saber Salehkaleybar

We study the performance of Stochastic Cubic Regularized Newton (SCRN) on a class of functions satisfying gradient dominance property with

1\le\alpha\le2

which holds in a wide range of applications in machine learning and signal processing. This conditio ...

NeurIPS2022

Learning Linear Non-Gaussian Causal Models in the Presence of Latent Variables

Negar Kiyavash, Saber Salehkaleybar, Kun Zhang

We consider the problem of learning causal models from observational data generated by linear non-Gaussian acyclic causal models with latent variables. Without considering the effect of latent variables, the inferred causal relationships among the observed ...

Microtome Publishing2020