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Online Learning, Stability, and Stochastic Gradient Descent

Machine Learning 2015-03-19 v3

Abstract

In batch learning, stability together with existence and uniqueness of the solution corresponds to well-posedness of Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) methods; recently, it was proved that CV_loo stability is necessary and sufficient for generalization and consistency of ERM. In this note, we introduce CV_on stability, which plays a similar note in online learning. We show that stochastic gradient descent (SDG) with the usual hypotheses is CVon stable and we then discuss the implications of CV_on stability for convergence of SGD.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4701,
  title  = {Online Learning, Stability, and Stochastic Gradient Descent},
  author = {Tomaso Poggio and Stephen Voinea and Lorenzo Rosasco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4701},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages

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