Baoyu Zhou – Publications

2026

  • On the Complexity of BFGS Method for Smooth Convex Optimization [pdf]
    Lijun Ding, Jinwen Yang, and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2026

  • Optimal Two-Step Stepsize Schedule for Stochastic Gradient Methods [pdf]
    Luwei Bai and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2026

  • The Last Human-Written Paper: Agent-Native Research Artifacts [pdf]
    Jiachen Liu, Jiaxin Pei, Jintao Huang, Chenglei Si, Ao Qu, Xiangru Tang, Runyu Lu, Lichang Chen, Xiaoyan Bai, Haizhong Zheng, Carl Chen, Zhiyang Chen, Haojie Ye, Yujuan Fu, Zexue He, Zijian Jin, Zhenyu Zhang, Shangquan Sun, Maestro Harmon, Dianzhuo Wang, Jianqiao Zeng, Jiachen Sun, Mingyuan Wu, Baoyu Zhou, Chenyu You, Shijian Lu, Yiming Qiu, Fan Lai, Yuan Yuan, Yao Li, Junyuan Hong, Ruihao Zhu, Beidi Chen, Alex Pentland, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, and Zechen Zhang
    arXiv preprint, 2026

2025

  • Generalization of Silver Stepsize Schedule to Stochastic Optimization [pdf]
    Luwei Bai, Yang Zeng, and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2025

  • Sequential Quadratic Optimization for Solving Expectation Equality Constrained Stochastic Optimization Problems [pdf]
    Haoming Shen, Yang Zeng, and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2025

  • Optimistic Noise-Aware Sequential Quadratic Programming for Equality Constrained Optimization with Rank-Deficient Jacobians [pdf]
    Albert S. Berahas, Jiahao Shi, and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2025

  • A Sequential Quadratic Programming Method with High Probability Complexity Bounds for Nonlinear Equality-Constrained Stochastic Optimization [pdf]
    Albert S. Berahas, Miaolan Xie, and Baoyu Zhou
    SIAM Journal on Optimization, 35(1): 240-269, 2025

2024

  • Sequential Quadratic Optimization for Stochastic Optimization with Deterministic Nonlinear Inequality and Equality Constraints [pdf]
    Frank E. Curtis, Daniel P. Robinson, and Baoyu Zhou
    SIAM Journal on Optimization, 34(4): 3592-3622, 2024

  • A Stochastic Inexact Sequential Quadratic Optimization Algorithm for Nonlinear Equality-Constrained Optimization [pdf]
    Frank E. Curtis, Daniel P. Robinson, and Baoyu Zhou
    INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 6(3-4): 173-195, 2024

2023

  • On the Convergence of L-shaped Algorithms for Two-Stage Stochastic Programming [pdf]
    John R. Birge, Haihao Lu, and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2023

  • Online Ad Procurement in Non-stationary Autobidding Worlds [pdf]
    Jason C. N. Liang, Haihao Lu, and Baoyu Zhou
    NeurIPS Conference, 2023

  • Accelerating Stochastic Sequential Quadratic Programming for Equality Constrained Optimization using Predictive Variance Reduction [pdf]
    Albert S. Berahas, Jiahao Shi, Zihong Yi, and Baoyu Zhou
    Computational Optimization and Applications, 86:79–116, 2023

2022

  • Limited-memory BFGS with displacement aggregation [pdf]
    Albert S. Berahas, Frank E. Curtis, and Baoyu Zhou
    Mathematical Programming, 194(1):121-157, 2022

  • Grad-GradaGrad? A Non-Monotone Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Method [pdf]
    Aaron Defazio, Baoyu Zhou, and Lin Xiao
    arXiv preprint, 2022

  • An Adaptive Sampling Sequential Quadratic Programming Method for Equality Constrained Stochastic Optimization [pdf]
    Albert S. Berahas, Raghu Bollapragada, and Baoyu Zhou
    arXiv preprint, 2022

2021

  • Manifold sampling for optimizing nonsmooth nonconvex compositions [pdf]
    Jeffrey Larson, Matt Menickelly, and Baoyu Zhou
    SIAM Journal on Optimization, 31(4):2638-2664, 2021

  • Sequential quadratic optimization for nonlinear equality constrained stochastic optimization [pdf]
    Albert S. Berahas, Frank E. Curtis, Daniel P. Robinson, and Baoyu Zhou
    SIAM Journal on Optimization, 31(2):1352-1379, 2021

2020

  • A self-correcting variable-metric algorithm framework for nonsmooth optimization [pdf]
    Frank E. Curtis, Daniel P. Robinson, and Baoyu Zhou
    IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 40(2):1154-1187, 2020