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We propose a new per-layer adaptive step-size procedure for stochastic first-order optimization methods for minimizing empirical loss functions in deep learning, eliminating the need for the user to tune the learning rate (LR). The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Achraf Bahamou , Donald Goldfarb

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

The delta-bar-delta algorithm is recognized as a learning rate adaptation technique that enhances the convergence speed of the training process in optimization by dynamically scheduling the learning rate based on the difference between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zhao Song , Chiwun Yang

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Recursive least squares (RLS) algorithms were once widely used for training small-scale neural networks, due to their fast convergence. However, previous RLS algorithms are unsuitable for training deep neural networks (DNNs), since they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Chunyuan Zhang , Qi Song , Hui Zhou , Yigui Ou , Hongyao Deng , Laurence Tianruo Yang

Learning rate schedulers have shown great success in speeding up the convergence of learning algorithms in practice. However, their convergence to a minimum has not been proven theoretically. This difficulty mainly arises from the fact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Dahlia Devapriya , Thulasi Tholeti , Janani Suresh , Sheetal Kalyani

Training neural networks can be challenging, especially as the complexity of the problem increases. Despite using wider or deeper networks, training them can be a tedious process, especially if a wrong choice of the hyperparameter is made.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-30 D. Veerababu , Ashwin A. Raikar , Prasanta K. Ghosh

Learning rate scheduling plays a critical role in the optimization of deep neural networks, directly influencing convergence speed, stability, and generalization. While existing schedulers such as cosine annealing, cyclical learning rates,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ayush K. Varshney , Šarūnas Girdzijauskas , Konstantinos Vandikas , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan

The multinomial logistic regression (MLR) model is widely used in statistics and machine learning. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the most common approach for determining the parameters of a MLR model in big data scenarios. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Borja Sánchez-López , Jesus Cerquides

In this paper, we describe a phenomenon, which we named "super-convergence", where neural networks can be trained an order of magnitude faster than with standard training methods. The existence of super-convergence is relevant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Leslie N. Smith , Nicholay Topin

Despite their impressive performance, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) typically underperform Gradient Boosting Trees (GBTs) on many tabular-dataset learning tasks. We propose that applying a different regularization coefficient to each weight…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-25 Ira Shavitt , Eran Segal

We consider distributed optimization under communication constraints for training deep learning models. We propose a new algorithm, whose parameter updates rely on two forces: a regular gradient step, and a corrective direction dictated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yunfei Teng , Wenbo Gao , Francois Chalus , Anna Choromanska , Donald Goldfarb , Adrian Weller

Purpose: This work aims at developing a generalizable MRI reconstruction model in the meta-learning framework. The standard benchmarks in meta-learning are challenged by learning on diverse task distributions. The proposed network learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Wanyu Bian , Yunmei Chen , Xiaojing Ye , Qingchao Zhang

Despite deep neural networks' powerful representation learning capabilities, theoretical understanding of how networks can simultaneously achieve meaningful feature learning and global convergence remains elusive. Existing approaches like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zixiang Chen , Greg Yang , Qingyue Zhao , Quanquan Gu

We propose an online learning algorithm for a class of machine learning models under a separable stochastic approximation framework. The essence of our idea lies in the observation that certain parameters in the models are easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Min Gan , Xiang-xiang Su , Guang-yong Chen , Jing Chen

Increased complexity and heterogeneity of emerging 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks will require a paradigm shift from traditional resource allocation mechanisms. Deep learning (DL) is a powerful tool where a multi-layer neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-03 K. I. Ahmed , H. Tabassum , E. Hossain

With the rapid development of Deep Learning, more and more applications on the cloud and edge tend to utilize large DNN (Deep Neural Network) models for improved task execution efficiency as well as decision-making quality. Due to memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jingran Shen , Nikos Tziritas , Georgios Theodoropoulos

Large neural networks are typically trained for a fixed computational budget, creating a rigid trade-off between performance and efficiency that is ill-suited for deployment in resource-constrained or dynamic environments. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Paulius Rauba , Mihaela van der Schaar

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been successfully used to perform classification and regression tasks, particularly in computer vision based applications. Recently, owing to the widespread deployment of Internet of Things (IoT), we identify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Arijit Ukil , Antonio Jara , Leandro Marin

How can local-search methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) avoid bad local minima in training multi-layer neural networks? Why can they fit random labels even given non-convex and non-smooth architectures? Most existing theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Zhao Song