Distributed optimization algorithms are widely used in many industrial machine learning applications. However choosing the appropriate algorithm and cluster size is often difficult for users as the performance and convergence rate of optimization algorithms vary with the size of the cluster. In this paper we make the case for an ML-optimizer that can select the appropriate algorithm and cluster...

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Thank you Dean Zollman, for your kind remarks. I am honored to speak to you today, and I hope that I will be able to say something of interest to each of you. When I attended school here, it was called Kansas State College. 1) Agriculture and agronomy were strong and I am pleased to introduce my friend during those years here, who later became a professor in Agronomy here at K‐State: Dr Warren ...

The importance of performance in the strategy literature is widely accepted among scholars and practitioners. However, the proxies for performance and diversification that have been employed in past strategy research has not been unanimously agreed upon. Given the current state of confusion that exists with regard to the topic of diversification, performance and its relationship within an inter...