How Many Samples is a Good Initial Point Worth? - Gavin Zhang; Richard Y. Zhang (CoRR, 2020)

Accelerating SGD for Highly Ill-Conditioned Huge-Scale Online Matrix Completion. - Gavin Zhang; Hong-Ming Chiu; Richard Y. Zhang (CoRR, 2022)

Fast and Minimax Optimal Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices via Non-Convex Gradient Descent. - Gavin Zhang; Hong-Ming Chiu; Richard Y. Zhang (CoRR, 2023)

Preconditioned Gradient Descent for Overparameterized Nonconvex Burer-Monteiro Factorization with Global Optimality Certification. - Gavin Zhang; Salar Fattahi; Richard Y. Zhang (J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023)

Simple Alternating Minimization Provably Solves Complete Dictionary Learning. - Geyu Liang; Gavin Zhang; Salar Fattahi; Richard Y. Zhang (SIAM J. Math. Data Sci., 2025)

Preconditioned Gradient Descent for Over-Parameterized Nonconvex Matrix Factorization. - Gavin Zhang; Salar Fattahi; Richard Y. Zhang (CoRR, 2025)