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Adaptive Hierarchical Hyper-gradient Descent

Machine Learning 2021-05-12 v3 Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

In this study, we investigate learning rate adaption at different levels based on the hyper-gradient descent framework and propose a method that adaptively learns the optimizer parameters by combining multiple levels of learning rates with hierarchical structures. Meanwhile, we show the relationship between regularizing over-parameterized learning rates and building combinations of adaptive learning rates at different levels. The experiments on several network architectures, including feed-forward networks, LeNet-5 and ResNet-18/34, show that the proposed multi-level adaptive approach can outperform baseline adaptive methods in a variety of circumstances.

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@article{arxiv.2008.07277,
  title  = {Adaptive Hierarchical Hyper-gradient Descent},
  author = {Renlong Jie and Junbin Gao and Andrey Vasnev and Minh-Ngoc Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07277},
  year   = {2021}
}
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