Christoph Waltz’s Monster Mash: From Battling ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ to the Process That Won Him Two Oscars — and What Method Actors Are Doing Wrong

There are parallels to be found between Waltz and his scary movies. While Dr. Frankenstein is analytical and ambitious, ...
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Global Convergence and Asymptotic Optimality of the Heavy Ball Method for a Class of Nonconvex Optimization Problems

Abstract: In this letter we revisit the famous heavy ball method and study its global convergence for a class of non-convex problems with sector-bounded gradient. We characterize the parameters that ...