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Sufficient conditions for instability of the subgradient method with constant step size

Optimization and Control 2023-06-30 v2

Abstract

We provide sufficient conditions for instability of the subgradient method with constant step size around a local minimum of a locally Lipschitz semi-algebraic function. They are satisfied by several spurious local minima arising in robust principal component analysis and neural networks.

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@article{arxiv.2211.14852,
  title  = {Sufficient conditions for instability of the subgradient method with constant step size},
  author = {Cédric Josz and Lexiao Lai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14852},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

18 pages, 5 figures

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