Machine Learning

I am interested in algorithms and software for machine learning. In the past we have developed some popular machine learning packages. An important one is LIBSVM, which may be the most widely used SVM (support vector machines) package. Another popular package developed in my group is LIBLINEAR for large-scale linear classification. We continue to create new and useful open-source machine learning software.

The major computational task behind machine learning methods is to solve optimization problems. I am interested in large-scale numerical optimization and its applications.