Slides & Notes

Notes

• The Solution to a Special Upper-Triangular Toeplitz System
  A side result in my research on robust V-learning.
• Freedmans Inequality for Arbitrary Dependent Data
  A side result in my research on dependent data optimization.
• Semi-Cyclic Gradient Descent Outperforms Federated Averaging with Sufficiently Small Learning Rate
  Course Project.
• Notes on Financial Modeling
  Course Notes.
• Notes on Reinforcement Learning
  Course Notes.
• Statistical Theory Notes
  Course Notes.
• Notes on Dynamical Systems
  Course Notes.
• Defense Slides: Efficient and Resilient Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization \& Reinforcement Learning
  PhD Defense Slides.

Slides

• Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
  Group Presentation.
• LoRA (DoRA and HydraLoRA)
  Group Presentation.
• Interview Presentation (ICLR 2025 Spotlight Paper)
  Interview Presentation.
• Notes on Zero-Order Optimization
  UMD Course Slides.
• Notes on Actuarial Statistics
  UCSB TA Course Slides. PSTAT 172A.
• Survival Analysis
  UCSB TA Course Slides. PSTAT 175.
• Introduction to XGBoost
  Sichuan University Undergraduate Course Slides.