Position
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Phone
Email
Assistant
Office
C332 Engineering Quadrangle
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
- B.Sc., Physics, Peking University, 2012
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Bio/Description
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Selected Publications
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What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization? [arXiv]
Chi Jin, Praneeth Netrapalli, Michael I. Jordan
ArXiv Preprint -
Is Q-learning Provably Efficient? [arXiv]
Chi Jin*, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu*, Sebastien Bubeck, Michael I. Jordan
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2018. Best Paper in ICML 2018 workshop "Exploration in RL" -
Accelerated Gradient Descent Escapes Saddle Points Faster than Gradient Descent [arXiv]
Chi Jin, Praneeth Netrapalli, Michael I. Jordan
Conference of Learning Theory (COLT) 2018 -
How to Escape Saddle Points Efficiently [arXiv] [blog]
Chi Jin, Rong Ge, Praneeth Netrapalli, Sham M. Kakade, Michael I. Jordan
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2017.
Research Areas
Data & Information Science