2026 03 Informs Pretraining

Created on March 01, 2026

2026

Together with Dr. Jiaxiang Li, M. organized three sessions at the INFORMS Optimization Society Annual Meeting (March 2026): two on optimizer design and benchmarking for LLM pretraining, and one on bilevel optimization.

  • Session 1: Meisam Razaviyayn (USC), Weijie Su (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania), Aaron Defazio (Meta), Athanasios Glentis (University of Minnesota).
  • Session 2: Kaan Ozkara (Amazon), Kaiyue Wen (Stanford University), Hao-Jun Michael Shi (Meta), Maria-Eleni Sfyraki (UC San Diego), Tuo Zhao (Georgia Tech).
  • Session 3 (Bilevel Optimization): Yuchen Lou (Northwestern University), Sanyou Mei (HKUST), Xiaotian Jiang (University of Minnesota), Jie Wang (CUHK-Shenzhen).