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In this paper, we propose Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient (NASG), a new algorithm for the convex finite-sum minimization problems. Our method integrates the traditional Nesterov's acceleration momentum with different shuffling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Trang H. Tran , Katya Scheinberg , Lam M. Nguyen

We investigate the integration of Nesterov-type acceleration into primal-dual methods for structured convex optimization. While proximal splitting algorithms efficiently handle composite problems of the form $\min_x f(x)+g(x)+h(Kx)$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Laurent Condat , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtárik

Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) is a popular technique to optimize objective functions comprising two components: a convex loss and a penalty function. While AG methods perform well for convex penalties, such as the LASSO, convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Kai Yang , Masoud Asgharian , Sahir Bhatnagar

Following the same routine as [SSJ20], we continue to present the theoretical analysis for stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGD with momentum) in this paper. Differently, for SGD with momentum, we demonstrate it is the two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Bin Shi

Gradient-based optimization algorithms can be studied from the perspective of limiting ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Motivated by the fact that existing ODEs do not distinguish between two fundamentally different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Bin Shi , Simon S. Du , Michael I. Jordan , Weijie J. Su

This work proposes an accelerated first-order algorithm we call the Robust Momentum Method for optimizing smooth strongly convex functions. The algorithm has a single scalar parameter that can be tuned to trade off robustness to gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Saman Cyrus , Bin Hu , Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Distributed optimization advances centralized machine learning methods by enabling parallel and decentralized learning processes over a network of computing nodes. This work provides an accelerated consensus-based distributed algorithm for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

In this work, we study the computational complexity of reducing the squared gradient magnitude for smooth minimax optimization problems. First, we present algorithms with accelerated $\mathcal{O}(1/k^2)$ last-iterate rates, faster than the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 TaeHo Yoon , Ernest K. Ryu

We study Nesterov's accelerated gradient method with constant step-size and momentum parameters in the stochastic approximation setting (unbiased gradients with bounded variance) and the finite-sum setting (where randomness is due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Mahmoud Assran , Michael Rabbat

Gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent are central to modern machine learning, yet their behavior under large step sizes remains theoretically unclear. Recent work suggests that acceleration often arises near the edge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sacchit Kale , Piyushi Manupriya , Pierre Marion , Francis Bach , Anant Raj

We examine gradient descent on unregularized logistic regression problems, with homogeneous linear predictors on linearly separable datasets. We show the predictor converges to the direction of the max-margin (hard margin SVM) solution. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-29 Daniel Soudry , Elad Hoffer , Mor Shpigel Nacson , Suriya Gunasekar , Nathan Srebro

We reconsider the stochastic (sub)gradient approach to the unconstrained primal L1-SVM optimization. We observe that if the learning rate is inversely proportional to the number of steps, i.e., the number of times any training pattern is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Constantinos Panagiotakopoulos , Petroula Tsampouka

In this work, based on the continuous time approach, we propose an accelerated gradient method with adaptive residual restart for convex multiobjective optimization problems. For the first, we derive rigorously the continuous limit of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Hao Luo , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

There is widespread sentiment that it is not possible to effectively utilize fast gradient methods (e.g. Nesterov's acceleration, conjugate gradient, heavy ball) for the purposes of stochastic optimization due to their instability and error…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Prateek Jain , Sham M. Kakade , Rahul Kidambi , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford

Differentially private (stochastic) gradient descent is the workhorse of DP private machine learning in both the convex and non-convex settings. Without privacy constraints, second-order methods, like Newton's method, converge faster than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arun Ganesh , Mahdi Haghifam , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Nesterov's accelerated gradient algorithm is derived from first principles. The first principles are founded on the recently-developed optimal control theory for optimization. This theory frames an optimization problem as an optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 I. M. Ross

The optimized gradient method (OGM) provides a factor-$\sqrt{2}$ speedup upon Nesterov's celebrated accelerated gradient method in the convex (but non-strongly convex) setup. However, this improved acceleration mechanism has not been well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Chanwoo Park , Jisun Park , Ernest K. Ryu

Nonnegative matrix factorization has been widely applied in face recognition, text mining, as well as spectral analysis. This paper proposes an alternating proximal gradient method for solving this problem. With a uniformly positive lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Yangyang Xu

The training of modern machine learning models often consists in solving high-dimensional non-convex optimisation problems that are subject to large-scale data. In this context, momentum-based stochastic optimisation algorithms have become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Kexin Jin , Jonas Latz , Chenguang Liu , Alessandro Scagliotti

In this paper, we introduce an accelerated distributed stochastic gradient method with momentum for solving the distributed optimization problem, where a group of $n$ agents collaboratively minimize the average of the local objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Kun Huang , Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić