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Proximal Gradient methods with Adaptive Subspace Sampling

Optimization and Control 2020-04-29 v1

Abstract

Many applications in machine learning or signal processing involve nonsmooth optimization problems. This nonsmoothness brings a low-dimensional structure to the optimal solutions. In this paper, we propose a randomized proximal gradient method harnessing this underlying structure. We introduce two key components: i) a random subspace proximal gradient algorithm; ii) an identification-based sampling of the subspaces. Their interplay brings a significant performance improvement on typical learning problems in terms of dimensions explored.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13356,
  title  = {Proximal Gradient methods with Adaptive Subspace Sampling},
  author = {Dmitry Grishchenko and Franck Iutzeler and Jérôme Malick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13356},
  year   = {2020}
}