Publications by Van Quang Nguyen

Chemical machine learning with kernels: The impact of loss functions

Volkan Cevher, Quoc Tran Dinh, Sandip De, Junhong Lin, Van Quang Nguyen

Machine learning promises to accelerate materials discovery by allowing computational efficient property predictions from a small number of reference calculations. As a result, the literature has spent a considerable effort in designing representations tha ...

2019

Chemical machine learning with kernels: The key impact of loss functions

Volkan Cevher, Sandip De, Junhong Lin, Van Quang Nguyen

Machine learning promises to accelerate materials discovery by allowing computational efficient property predictions from a small number of reference calculations. As a result, the literature spent a considerable effort in designing representations that ca ...

2018

Smoothing technique for nonsmooth composite minimization with linear operator

Volkan Cevher, Van Quang Nguyen

We introduce and analyze an algorithm for the minimization of convex functions that are the sum of differentiable terms and proximable terms composed with linear operators. The method builds upon the recently developed smoothed gap technique. In addition t ...

2017

General Proximal Gradient Method: A Case for Non-Euclidean Norms

Volkan Cevher, Ya-Ping Hsieh, Marwa El Halabi, Cong Bang Vu, Van Quang Nguyen

In this paper, we consider composite convex minimization problems. We advocate the merit of considering Generalized Proximal gradient Methods (GPM) where the norm employed is not Euclidean. To that end, we show the tractability of the general proximity ope ...

2017