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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method is popular for solving non-convex optimization problems in machine learning. This work investigates SGD from a viewpoint of graduated optimization, which is a widely applied approach for non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Da Li , Jingjing Wu , Qingrun Zhang

Stochastic optimization algorithms using exponential moving averages of the past gradients, such as ADAM, RMSProp and AdaGrad, have been having great successes in many applications, especially in training deep neural networks. ADAM in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ruiqi Wang , Diego Klabjan

The asymptotic behavior of the stochastic gradient algorithm with a biased gradient estimator is analyzed. Relying on arguments based on the dynamic system theory (chain-recurrence) and the differential geometry (Yomdin theorem and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Vladislav B. Tadic , Arnaud Doucet

In deep learning, it is common to use more network parameters than training points. In such scenarioof over-parameterization, there are usually multiple networks that achieve zero training error so that thetraining algorithm induces an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hung-Hsu Chou , Carsten Gieshoff , Johannes Maly , Holger Rauhut

This work is a part of ICLR Reproducibility Challenge 2019, we try to reproduce the results in the conference submission PADAM: Closing The Generalization Gap of Adaptive Gradient Methods In Training Deep Neural Networks. Adaptive gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Harshal Mittal , Kartikey Pandey , Yash Kant

The notion of implicit bias, or implicit regularization, has been suggested as a means to explain the surprising generalization ability of modern-days overparameterized learning algorithms. This notion refers to the tendency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Assaf Dauber , Meir Feder , Tomer Koren , Roi Livni

Deep learning has become the standard approach for most machine learning tasks. While its impact is undeniable, interpreting the predictions of deep learning models from a human perspective remains a challenge. In contrast to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Kyriakos Axiotis , Sami Abu-al-haija , Lin Chen , Matthew Fahrbach , Gang Fu

Derivative-based algorithms are ubiquitous in statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. Automatic differentiation offers an algorithmic way to efficiently evaluate these derivatives from computer programs that execute relevant…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-01 Charles C. Margossian , Michael Betancourt

Adaptive gradient methods have been widely adopted in training large-scale deep neural networks, especially large foundation models. Despite the huge success in practice, their theoretical advantages over classical gradient methods with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yuxing Liu , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang

We propose an algorithm for the adaptation of the learning rate for stochastic gradient descent (SGD) that avoids the need for validation set use. The idea for the adaptiveness comes from the technique of extrapolation: to get an estimate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-28 Antti Koskela , Antti Honkela

Implicit bias describes the phenomenon where optimization-based training algorithms, without explicit regularization, show a preference for simple estimators even when more complex estimators have equal objective values. Multiple works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Hrithik Ravi , Clayton Scott , Daniel Soudry , Yutong Wang

The classical AdaGrad method adapts the learning rate by dividing by the square root of a sum of squared gradients. Because this sum on the denominator is increasing, the method can only decrease step sizes over time, and requires a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Aaron Defazio , Baoyu Zhou , Lin Xiao

We study the implicit bias of generic optimization methods, such as mirror descent, natural gradient descent, and steepest descent with respect to different potentials and norms, when optimizing underdetermined linear regression or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Suriya Gunasekar , Jason Lee , Daniel Soudry , Nathan Srebro

Understanding the algorithmic bias of \emph{stochastic gradient descent} (SGD) is one of the key challenges in modern machine learning and deep learning theory. Most of the existing works, however, focus on \emph{very small or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jingfeng Wu , Difan Zou , Vladimir Braverman , Quanquan Gu

Solving sequential decision prediction problems, including those in imitation learning settings, requires mitigating the problem of covariate shift. The standard approach, DAgger, relies on capturing expert behaviour in all states that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Paul Budnarain , Renato Ferreira Pinto Junior , Ilan Kogan

When scaling distributed training, the communication overhead is often the bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a novel SGD variant with reduced communication and adaptive learning rates. We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta , Haibin Lin

Adaptive gradient methods, such as AdaGrad, have become fundamental tools in deep learning. Despite their widespread use, the asymptotic convergence of AdaGrad remains poorly understood in non-convex scenarios. In this work, we present the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Ruinan Jin , Xiaoyu Wang

We introduce a novel semi-supervised version of the least squares classifier. This implicitly constrained least squares (ICLS) classifier minimizes the squared loss on the labeled data among the set of parameters implied by all possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-27 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm designed for nonlinear least-squares problems. The method is derived by preconditioning the gradient descent direction using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the Jacobian. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Zhipeng Chang , Wenrui Hao , Nian Liu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a pillar of modern machine learning, serving as the go-to optimization algorithm for a diverse array of problems. While the empirical success of SGD is often attributed to its computational efficiency…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Courtney Paquette , Elliot Paquette , Ben Adlam , Jeffrey Pennington