Publications 2019 Similarity preserving representation learning for time series analysis (pdf , software ) Q. Lei, J. Yi, R. Vaculin, L. Wu, I. Dhillon. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , pp. 2845-2851, August 2019.Discrete adversarial attacks and submodular optimization with applications to text classification (pdf , software ) Q. Lei, L. Wu, P. Chen, A. Dimakis, I. Dhillon, M. Witbrock. In The Conference on Systems and Machine Learning (SysML) , April 2019. (Oral )Inverting Deep Generative models, One layer at a time (pdf , software ) Q. Lei, A. Jalal, I. Dhillon, A. Dimakis. To appear in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2019.Primal-Dual Block Frank-Wolfe (pdf , software ) Q. Lei, J. Zhuo, I. Dhillon, C. Caramanis, A. Dimakis. To appear in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2019.2018 2017 A Greedy Approach for Budgeted Maximum Inner Product Search (pdf , software ) H. Yu, C. Hsieh, Q. Lei, I. Dhillon. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , December 2017.Doubly Greedy Primal-Dual Coordinate Methods for Sparse Empirical Risk Minimization (pdf , software ) Q. Lei, I. Yen, C. Wu, P. Ravikumar, I. Dhillon. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , pp. 8, August 2017.2016 Coordinate-wise Power Method (pdf , software , code ) Q. Lei, K. Zhong, I. Dhillon. To appear in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , December 2016.Efficient and Non-Convex Coordinate Descent for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (pdf , software , code ) A. Vandaele, N. Gillis, Q. Lei, K. Zhong, I. Dhillon.IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 64(21), pp. 5571 – 5584, 2016.