Dear all, Join us for our upcoming talk in the STAR seminar<https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/storm/events/seminars/star-online-seminars/> series on Wednesday, February 25th, from 11:00 to 12:00 (Oslo time). As always, the talk will take place in a hybrid format: participants in Oslo can attend the talk in Room 723 in Niels Henrik Abels hus, whereas the international audience will be able to follow the talk via Zoom<https://uio.zoom.us/j/61698784374>. The speaker is Yi Feng (Aarhus University) with the talk: Title: Continuous-Time Analysis of Heavy Ball Momentum in Min-Max Games Abstract: Since Polyak's pioneering work, heavy ball momentum has been widely studied in minimization problems. However, its role in min-max games remains largely unexplored. As a key component of practical min-max algorithms like Adam, this gap limits their effectiveness. In this talk, I will present a continuous-time analysis for heavy ball momentum in min-max games. I will focus on two aspects: convergence to equilibrium and implicit gradient regularization, which describe how momentum shapes the interaction between algorithmic trajectories and the geometry of the min-max loss landscape. We will see that the behavior of heavy ball momentum in min-max games is significantly different from that in minimization. Bio: Yi Feng is a Postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University. His research focuses on understanding the learning dynamics in games and their applications in machine learning. His research is supported by a Danish Data Science Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. This seminar is jointly organised in collaboration with Trung Tuyen Truong<https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/people/aca/tuyentt/> from the Several Complex Variables, Logic and Operator algebras group<https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/?vrtx=unit-view&areacode=151365> at UiO. We are looking forward to seeing you! Best regards, Giulia, Leonardo, Pere, and David