SoftBank has turned to quantum computing in a bid to improve radio access network (RAN) performance by optimizing its base station settings. During tests in Tokyo, the Japanese giant employed an Ising ...

Great progress has been made in the past few years in our understanding of nonconvex optimizations. In this talk, I will share with you three of our works in this direction. In one, we study low-rank ...

Optimization problems can be tricky, but they make the world work better. These kinds of questions, which strive for the best way of doing something, are absolutely everywhere. Your phone’s GPS ...