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Loss functions engineering and the assessment of forecasting performances are two crucial and intertwined aspects of supervised machine learning. This paper focuses on binary classification to introduce a class of loss functions that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Francesco Marchetti , Sabrina Guastavino , Michele Piana , Cristina Campi

We consider the problem of unconstrained minimization of finite sums of functions. We propose a simple, yet, practical way to incorporate variance reduction techniques into SignSGD, guaranteeing convergence that is similar to the full sign…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Evgenii Chzhen , Sholom Schechtman

We introduce a new surrogate loss function called orbit loss in the structured prediction framework, which has good theoretical and practical advantages. While the orbit loss is not convex, it has a simple analytical gradient and a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Danny Karmon , Joseph Keshet

To obtain fast solutions for governing physical equations in solid mechanics, we introduce a method that integrates the core ideas of the finite element method with physics-informed neural networks and concept of neural operators. This…

Recent developments in set optimization are surveyed and extended including various set relations as well as fundamental constructions of a convex analysis for set- and vector-valued functions, and duality for set optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Andreas H. Hamel , Frank Heyde , Andreas Löhne , Birgit Rudloff , Carola Schrage

In this work, the notions of normal cones at infinity to unbounded sets and limiting and singular subdifferentials at infinity for extended real value functions are introduced. Various calculus rules for these notions objects are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Do Sang Kim , Minh Tung Nguyen , Tien Son Pham

We consider the problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth, nonconvex function for which derivatives are unavailable, and a convex, nonsmooth function with easy-to-evaluate proximal operator. Of particular focus is the case where the smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yanjun Liu , Kevin H. Lam , Lindon Roberts

We study the asymptotic shape of the trajectory of the stochastic gradient descent algorithm applied to a convex objective function. Under mild regularity assumptions, we prove a functional central limit theorem for the properly rescaled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Kessang Flamand , Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

We prove that every nonnegative continuous real-valued function on a given compact metric space is the uniform limit of some increasing sequence of nonnegative simple functions being linear combinations of indicators of open sets; here the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Yu-Lin Chou

We consider optimization algorithms that successively minimize simple Taylor-like models of the objective function. Methods of Gauss-Newton type for minimizing the composition of a convex function and a smooth map are common examples. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Alexander D. Ioffe , Adrian S. Lewis

It has been observed that certain loss functions can render deep-learning pipelines robust against flaws in the data. In this paper, we support these empirical findings with statistical theory. We especially show that empirical-risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Johannes Lederer

This article offers a comprehensive treatment of polynomial functional regression, culminating in the establishment of a novel finite sample bound. This bound encompasses various aspects, including general smoothness conditions, capacity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Markus Holzleitner , Sergei Pereverzyev

We study the performance of a family of randomized parallel coordinate descent methods for minimizing the sum of a nonsmooth and separable convex functions. The problem class includes as a special case L1-regularized L1 regression and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Olivier Fercoq , Peter Richtárik

The generalization performance of deep neural networks in classification tasks is a major concern in machine learning research. Despite widespread techniques used to diminish the over-fitting issue such as data augmentation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Mohammad Lashkari , Amin Gheibi

We consider infinitely dimensional classes of functions and instead of the relative error setting, which was used in previous papers on the integral norm discretization, we consider the absolute error setting. We demonstrate how known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-15 V. N. Temlyakov

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a smooth function, given as finite sum of black-box functions, over a convex set. In order to advantageously exploit the structure of the problem, for instance when the terms of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Francesco Cecere , Matteo Lapucci , Davide Pucci , Marco Sciandrone

We present a stochastic optimization method that uses a fourth-order regularized model to find local minima of smooth and potentially non-convex objective functions with a finite-sum structure. This algorithm uses sub-sampled derivatives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Aurelien Lucchi , Jonas Kohler

We study convex empirical risk minimization for high-dimensional inference in binary models. Our first result sharply predicts the statistical performance of such estimators in the linear asymptotic regime under isotropic Gaussian features.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Hossein Taheri , Ramtin Pedarsani , Christos Thrampoulidis

Multi-objective optimization problems require simultaneously optimizing two or more objective functions. Many studies have reported that the solution set of an M-objective optimization problem often forms an (M-1)-dimensional topological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Ken Kobayashi , Naoki Hamada , Akiyoshi Sannai , Akinori Tanaka , Kenichi Bannai , Masashi Sugiyama

A new algorithm for one-dimensional minimization is described in detail and the results of some tests on practical cases are reported and illustrated. The method requires only punctual computation of the function, and is suitable to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Glauco Masotti