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We propose a new paradigm for designing efficient p-adaptive arbitrary high order methods. We consider arbitrary high order iterative schemes that gain one order of accuracy at each iteration and we modify them in order to match the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Lorenzo Micalizzi , Davide Torlo , Walter Boscheri

Highly distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on future compute platforms (offering 100 of TeraOps/s of computational capacity) is expected to be severely communication constrained. To overcome this limitation, new gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Chia-Yu Chen , Jungwook Choi , Daniel Brand , Ankur Agrawal , Wei Zhang , Kailash Gopalakrishnan

Robust federated learning aims to maintain reliable performance despite the presence of adversarial or misbehaving workers. While state-of-the-art (SOTA) robust distributed gradient descent (Robust-DGD) methods were proven theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Ahmed Jellouli , Geovani Rizk , John Stephan

In recent works, both sparsity-based methods as well as learning-based methods have proven to be successful in solving several challenging linear inverse problems. However, sparsity priors for natural signals and images suffer from poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-26 Viraj Shah , Chinmay Hegde

This paper presents an accelerated composite gradient (ACG) variant, referred to as the AC-ACG method, for solving nonconvex smooth composite minimization problems. As opposed to well-known ACG variants that are either based on a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Jiaming Liang , Renato D. C. Monteiro

We introduce Generalized Integrated Gradients (GIG), a formal extension of the Integrated Gradients (IG) (Sundararajan et al., 2017) method for attributing credit to the input variables of a predictive model. GIG improves IG by explaining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 John Merrill , Geoff Ward , Sean Kamkar , Jay Budzik , Douglas Merrill

Successful modern generalized gradient approximations (GGA) are biased toward atomic energies. Restoration of the first-principles gradient expansion for the exchange energy over a wide range of density gradients eliminates this bias. We…

The tensor train (TT) format enjoys appealing advantages in handling structural high-order tensors. The recent decade has witnessed the wide applications of TT-format tensors from diverse disciplines, among which tensor completion has drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jian-Feng Cai , Jingyang Li , Dong Xia

Efforts to achieve better accuracy in numerical relativity have so far focused either on implementing second order accurate adaptive mesh refinement or on defining higher order accurate differences and update schemes. Here, we argue for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Oscar Reula

One way to study an hypergraph is to attach to it a tensor. Tensors are a generalization of matrices, and they are an efficient way to encode information in a compact form. In this paper we study how properties of weighted hypergraphs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Francesco Galuppi , Raffaella Mulas , Lorenzo Venturello

Gaussian processes (GPs) are powerful non-parametric function estimators. However, their applications are largely limited by the expensive computational cost of the inference procedures. Existing stochastic or distributed synchronous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-14 Hao Peng , Shandian Zhe , Yuan Qi

Adaptive optimization methods such as AdaGrad, RMSprop and Adam have been proposed to achieve a rapid training process with an element-wise scaling term on learning rates. Though prevailing, they are observed to generalize poorly compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Liangchen Luo , Yuanhao Xiong , Yan Liu , Xu Sun

This paper investigates the point convergence of accelerated gradient methods for multiobjective optimization, in both continuous and discrete settings. We address the open problems of whether the solution trajectory of the multiobjective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Yingdong Yin

Federated learning allows loads of edge computing devices to collaboratively learn a global model without data sharing. The analysis with partial device participation under non-IID and unbalanced data reflects more reality. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Qianqian Tong , Guannan Liang , Jinbo Bi

Under the strongly convex assumption, several recent works studied the global linear convergence rate of the proximal incremental aggregated gradient (PIAG) method for minimizing the sum of a large number of smooth component functions and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Hui Zhang

Accelerated gradient-based methods are being extensively used for solving non-convex machine learning problems, especially when the data points are abundant or the available data is distributed across several agents. Two of the prominent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nikhil Chopra

To stabilize the training of Large Language Models (LLMs), gradient clipping is a nearly ubiquitous heuristic used to alleviate exploding gradients. However, traditional global norm clipping erroneously presupposes gradient homogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhiyuan Li , Yuan Wu , Yi Chang

Due to the high communication cost in distributed and federated learning problems, methods relying on compression of communicated messages are becoming increasingly popular. While in other contexts the best performing gradient-type methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Zhize Li , Dmitry Kovalev , Xun Qian , Peter Richtárik

In 1998 the Adapted Ordering Method was developed for the representation theory of the superconformal algebras. This method, which proves to be very powerful, can be applied to most algebras and superalgebras, however. It allows: to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Beatriz Gato-Rivera

We consider Bayesian inference problems with computationally intensive likelihood functions. We propose a Gaussian process (GP) based method to approximate the joint distribution of the unknown parameters and the data. In particular, we…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-15 Hongqiao Wang , Jinglai Li