Jinming (Jimmy) Xu

Jinming Xu [CV, Google Scholar, 中文主页] Professor College of Control Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Contact Email: jimmyxu AT zju.edu.cn No. 38 Zheda Road, Yuquan Campus Hangzhou 310027, China

ZJU-SDG Global SUMMER SCHOOL on Networked Autonomous Systems (July 22 - August 4, 2024) is coming up!
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What's New!

• Sep. 2024: Our paper on “Achieving Near-Optimal Convergence for Distributed Minimax Optimization with Adaptive Stepsizes” has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (with Yan Huang, Xiang Li, Yipeng Shen and Niao He).

• Aug. 2024: We are organizing the ZJU-SDG Global Summer School on Networked Autonomous Systems (July 22 - August 4, 2024); Click here for more information.

• Jul. 2024: Our paper on “R-FAST: Robust Fully-Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Tracking over General Topology” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (with Zehan Zhu, Ye Tian, Yan Huang and Shibo He).

• Jun. 2024: Two of my PhD students successfully defended their doctoral thesis. Congrats to Yan Huang and Weiyang Sun!

• Apr. 2024: Our paper on “PrivSGP-VR: Differentially Private Variance-Reduced Stochastic Gradient Push with Tight Utility Bounds” has been accepted by IJCAI 2024 (with Zehan Zhu, Yan Huang and Xin Wang).

• Mar. 2024: Three of my Master students successfully defended their master thesis. Congrats to Zemin Liu, Changzhi Yan and Yuyang Sheng!

• Mar. 2024: Our paper on “Distributed Optimization With Personalization: A Flexible Algorithmic Framework” has been accepted by IEEE TAC as a regular paper for publication (with Yan Huang, Wenchao Meng, Hoi-To Wai and Li Chai).

• Feb. 2024：We are organizing an invited session for CDC 2024 this December in Milan, Italy (with Shi Pu, Hoi To Wai and Angelia Nedich).

• Dec. 2023: Our paper on “Distributed Stochastic Bilevel Optimization: Improved Complexity and Heterogeneity Analysis” has been online availabel (with Youcheng Niu, Ying Sun, Yan Huang and Li Chai).

• Aug. 2023: We are organizing the ZJU-SDG Global Summer School on Networked Autonomous Systems (July 31 - August 14, 2023); Click here for more information.

• Jul. 2023: Four Papers are accepted by CDC2023, Singapore!

• Feb. 2023：We are organizing an invited session for CDC 2023 this December, Singapore (with Shi Pu, Hoi To Wai and Angelia Nedich).

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• Apr. 2020: I gave a talk (in Chinese) on “When do distributed optimization algorithms meet centralized counterparts and beyond”, Online.

  • In this talk, I introduce two new kinds of distributed optimization algorithms (i.e., distributed gradient-tracking methods and primal-dual methods) we recently developed that can converge much fast than other existing ones, and show their close connections; After that, I also show how these proposed algorithms can be unified in a proper way and that under what conditions they will have comparable performance with centralized counterparts. Click the video link for more details; Slides.

• Mar. 2020: We are organizing an invited session for CDC 2020 this December in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea (with Shi Pu and Hoi To Wai).

• Feb. 2020: We are organizing an invited session for ICCA 2020 this July in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (with Xianwei Li and Huaqing Li).

• Feb. 2020: Our paper on “Push-Pull Gradient Methods for Distributed Optimization in Networks” has been accepted by IEEE TAC as a regular paper for publication (with Shi Pu, Wei Shi and Angelia Nedich).

• Jan. 2020: Our paper on “Accelerated Primal-Dual Algorithms for Distributed Optimization over Networks” has been accepted by AISTATS for publication (with Ye Tian, Ying Sun and Gesualdo Scutari).

• Nov. 2019: I will give a talk on “Distributed Optimization over networks: From Algorithms to Complexity Bounds” at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.

• Oct. 2019: Our paper on “A Unified Contraction Analysis of a Class of Distributed Algorithms for Composite Optimization” has been accepted by CAMSAP for publication (with Ye Tian, Ying Sun and Gesualdo Scutari).

• Sep. 2019: I will join Zhejiang University as an assistant professor, Hangzhou, China.

• Oct. 2018: I will give a talk on “Distributed Optimization over networks: From Algorithms to Applications” at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL USA.

• Sep. 2018: I will join Purdue University as a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof Gesualdo Scutari, West Lafayette, USA.

• Apr. 2018: Our paper on “A Dual Splitting Approach for Distributed Resource Allocation with Regularization” has been accepted by IEEE TCNS for publication (with Shanying Zhu, Lihua Xie and Yeng Chai Soh).

• Mar. 2018: I will attend the INFORMS workshop on optimization, Denver, USA.

• Jan. 2018: Our paper on “A Bregman Splitting Scheme for Distributed Optimization Problems over Networks” has been accepted by IEEE TAC as a regular paper for publication (with Shanying Zhu, Lihua Xie and Yeng Chai Soh).

• Oct. 2017: I will join Arizona State University as a Postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Angelia Nedich and Prof. Anna Scaglione, Phoniex, USA.

• Jun. 2017: Our paper on “Convergence of Asynchronous Distributed Gradient Methods over Stochastic Networks” has been accepted by IEEE TAC as a regular paper for publication (with Shanying Zhu, Lihua Xie and Yeng Chai Soh).

• Aug. 2016: I will join the Internet of Things Lab, EEE NTU, as a research fellow working with Prof. Lihua Xie and Prof. Yeng Chai Soh.

• May. 2016: Our paper on “A Distributed Simultaneous Perturbation Approach for Large-scale Dynamic Optimization Problems” has been accepted by Automatica as a regular paper for publication.