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Stochastic descent methods (of the gradient and mirror varieties) have become increasingly popular in optimization. In fact, it is now widely recognized that the success of deep learning is not only due to the special deep architecture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Navid Azizan , Babak Hassibi

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been found to be surprisingly effective in training a variety of deep neural networks. However, there is still a lack of understanding on how and why SGD can train these complex networks towards a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Yi Zhou , Junjie Yang , Huishuai Zhang , Yingbin Liang , Vahid Tarokh

In distributed and federated learning algorithms, communication overhead is often reduced by performing multiple local updates between communication rounds. However, due to data heterogeneity across nodes and the local gradient noise within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yan Huang , Jinming Xu , Jiming Chen , Karl Henrik Johansson

The adaptive moment estimation (Adam) optimizer proposed by Kingma & Ba (2014) is presumably the most popular stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method for the training of deep neural networks (DNNs) in artificial intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Steffen Dereich , Thang Do , Arnulf Jentzen

Generative graph self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to learn node representations by reconstructing the input graph data. However, most existing methods focus on unsupervised learning tasks only and very few work has shown its superiority…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiang Li , Tiandi Ye , Caihua Shan , Dongsheng Li , Ming Gao

Autonomous driving has attracted much attention over the years but turns out to be harder than expected, probably due to the difficulty of labeled data collection for model training. Self-supervised learning (SSL), which leverages unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Kai Chen , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung

The generalization mystery of overparametrized deep nets has motivated efforts to understand how gradient descent (GD) converges to low-loss solutions that generalize well. Real-life neural networks are initialized from small random values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Kaifeng Lyu , Zhiyuan Li , Runzhe Wang , Sanjeev Arora

We study optimization algorithms based on variance reduction for stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Remarkable recent progress has been made in this direction through development of algorithms like SAG, SVRG, SAGA. These algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Sashank J. Reddi , Ahmed Hefny , Suvrit Sra , Barnabás Póczos , Alex Smola

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is a recent optimization framework aiming to improve the deep neural network generalization, through obtaining flatter (i.e. less sharp) solutions. As SAM has been numerically successful, recent papers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-22 Kayhan Behdin , Rahul Mazumder

The effectiveness of contrastive learning methods has been widely recognized in the field of graph learning, especially in contexts where graph data often lack labels or are difficult to label. However, the application of these methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Qiang Yu , Xinran Cheng , Shiqiang Xu , Chuanyi Liu

Despite the success of deep neural networks in medical image classification, the problem remains challenging as data annotation is time-consuming, and the class distribution is imbalanced due to the relative scarcity of diseases. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Tao Wang , Zuoyong Li , Anastasia Ioannou

Adaptive gradient methods such as Adam have gained increasing popularity in deep learning optimization. However, it has been observed that compared with (stochastic) gradient descent, Adam can converge to a different solution with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Difan Zou , Yuan Cao , Yuanzhi Li , Quanquan Gu

Stochastic graph neural networks (SGNNs) are information processing architectures that learn representations from data over random graphs. SGNNs are trained with respect to the expected performance, which comes with no guarantee about…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi

With the wide proliferation of Deep Neural Networks in high-stake applications, there is a growing demand for explainability behind their decision-making process. Concept learning models attempt to learn high-level 'concepts' - abstract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision; however, training DNNs for satisfactory performance remains challenging and suffers from sensitivity to empirical selections of an optimization algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Bing Wei , Xuesong Tang

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) is quite a challenging problem requiring methods to overcome both 1) overfitting towards poorly annotated data and 2) distribution shift across domains. Unfortunately, a simple combination of domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Can Qin , Lichen Wang , Qianqian Ma , Yu Yin , Huan Wang , Yun Fu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a widely adopted iterative method for optimizing differentiable objective functions. In this paper, we propose and discuss a novel approach to scale up SGD in applications involving non-convex functions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Saad Mohamad , Hamad Alamri , Abdelhamid Bouchachia

We propose a neural network-based approach that computes a stable and generalizing metric (LSiM) to compare data from a variety of numerical simulation sources. We focus on scalar time-dependent 2D data that commonly arises from motion and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Georg Kohl , Kiwon Um , Nils Thuerey

In this paper we tackle the problem of estimating the 3D pose of object instances, using convolutional neural networks. State of the art methods usually solve the challenging problem of regression in angle space indirectly, focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Andreas Doumanoglou , Vassileios Balntas , Rigas Kouskouridas , Tae-Kyun Kim

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a standard optimization method to minimize a training error with respect to network parameters in modern neural network learning. However, it typically suffers from proliferation of saddle points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Haiping Huang , Taro Toyoizumi