This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Newton's method applied to a quadratic polynomial converges rapidly to a root for almost all starting points and almost all coefficients. This ...

This is a graduate topics course on learning in networks, focusing in particular on fundamental statistical and computational limits. Topics include the planted clique problem, community detection, ...

The Robbins-Monro procedure (1951) for stochastic root-finding is a nonparametric approach. Wu (1985, 1986) has shown that the convergence of the sequential procedure can be greatly improved if we ...

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