Chang He ( 何畅 )

Hi, welcome to my homepage! I received my PhD in Management at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics under the supervision of Professor Bo Jiang. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from East China Normal University in 2021. During 2025, I was a visiting student at University of Minnesota, working with Professor Shuzhong Zhang.

My research interests lie in continuous optimization, with applications in machine learning and operations research. Recently, I have mainly worked on zeroth-order (derivative-free) optimization and manifold optimization.

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Publications

(* denotes equal contribution, α–β denotes alphabetical order)
New Results on the Polyak Stepsize: Tight Convergence Analysis and Universal Function Classes
Chang He*, Wenzhi Gao*, Bo Jiang, Madeleine Udell, Shuzhong Zhang
Accepted by SIAM Journal on Optimization [link]
On Approximation Algorithms for Commutative Quaternion Polynomial Optimization
Chang He, Bo Jiang, Hongye Wang, Xihua Zhu (α–β)
Journal of Global Optimization, 2025 [link]
Beyond Nonconvexity: A Universal Trust-Region Method with New Analyses
Yuntian Jiang*, Chang He*, Chuwen Zhang*, Dongdong Ge, Bo Jiang, Yinyu Ye
Journal of Scientific Computing, 2025 [link]
A Homogeneous Second-Order Descent Method for Nonconvex Optimization
Chuwen Zhang, Chang He, Yuntian Jiang, Chenyu Xue, Bo Jiang, Dongdong Ge, Yinyu Ye
Mathematics of Operations Research, 2025 [link]
Homogeneous Second-Order Descent Framework: A Fast Alternative to Newton-Type Methods
Chang He*, Yuntian Jiang*, Chuwen Zhang*, Dongdong Ge, Bo Jiang, Yinyu Ye
Mathematical Programming, 2025 [link][slides]
2025 iSoGO Student Paper Award [link]
Quaternion Matrix Decomposition and its Theoretical Implications
Chang He, Bo Jiang, Xihua Zhu (α–β)
Journal of Global Optimization, 2023 [link]

Papers Under Revision/Review

Federated Learning on Riemannian Manifolds: A Gradient-Free Projection-Based Approach
Hongye Wang*, Zhaoye Pan*, Chang He*, Jiaxiang Li, Bo Jiang
Revision under IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [link]
On Relatively Smooth Optimization over Riemannian Manifolds
Chang He, Jiaxiang Li, Bo Jiang, Shiqian Ma, Shuzhong Zhang
Revision under Mathematics of Operations Research [link]
History-Aware Adaptive High-Order Tensor Regularization
Chang He, Bo Jiang, Yuntian Jiang, Chuwen Zhang, Shuzhong Zhang (α–β)
Submitted [link]
The Second-Order Tâtonnement: Decentralized Interior-Point Methods for Market Equilibrium
Chuwen Zhang, Chang He, Bo Jiang, Yinyu Ye
Revision under Operations Research [link][slides]
Non-Stationary Bandit Convex Optimization: An Optimal Algorithm with Two-Point Feedback
Chang He, Bo Jiang, Shuzhong Zhang
Submitted [link]
Adaptive Single-Loop Methods for Stochastic Minimax Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds
Hongye Wang, Chang He, Bo Jiang
Submitted [link]

Technical Notes

On the Nature of Regularity Assumptions in Bilevel Optimization with Constrained Lower-level Problem
Xiaotian Jiang, Chang He, Mingyi Hong, Shuzhong Zhang
Preprint [link]
Small Gradient Norm Regret for Online Convex Optimization
Wenzhi Gao, Chang He, Madeleine Udell (α–β)
Preprint [link]
DRSOM: A Dimension Reduced Second-Order Method
Chuwen Zhang, Dongdong Ge, Chang He, Bo Jiang, Yuntian Jiang, Yinyu Ye
Preprint [link]

Services

  • Referee for Journal of Global Optimization
  • Referee for Linear Algebra and Its Applications
  • Referee for Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Referee for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Referee for SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Referee for Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Referee for AISTATS 2026, NeurIPS 2026

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