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Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its variants underpin modern machine learning by enabling efficient optimization of large-scale models. However, their local search nature limits exploration in complex landscapes. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Sirui Peng , Shengminjie Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Hongyi Zhou

Gradient-based optimizers have been proposed for training variational quantum circuits in settings such as quantum neural networks (QNNs). The task of gradient estimation, however, has proven to be challenging, primarily due to distinctive…

We present an algebraic method for constructing a highly effective coarse grid correction to accelerate domain decomposition. The coarse problem is constructed from the original matrix and a small set of input vectors that span a low-degree…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Essex Edwards , Robert Bridson

The problem of stopping stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in an online manner, based solely on the observed trajectory, is a challenging theoretical problem with significant consequences for applications. While SGD is routinely monitored as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Liviu Aolaritei , Michael I. Jordan

We introduce a novel and efficient algorithm called the stochastic approximate gradient descent (SAGD), as an alternative to the stochastic gradient descent for cases where unbiased stochastic gradients cannot be trivially obtained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

Entanglement forging based variational algorithms leverage the bi-partition of quantum systems for addressing ground state problems. The primary limitation of these approaches lies in the exponential summation required over the numerous…

Stochastic gradient methods for machine learning and optimization problems are usually analyzed assuming data points are sampled \emph{with} replacement. In practice, however, sampling \emph{without} replacement is very common, easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Ohad Shamir

Graph clustering discovers groups or communities within networks. Deep learning methods such as autoencoders (AE) extract effective clustering and downstream representations but cannot incorporate rich structural information. While Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Marius Portmann , Shekhar S. Chandra

In this paper, we study the self-normalized Cram\'er-type moderate deviation of the empirical measure of the stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD). Consequently, we also derive the Berry-Esseen bound for SGLD. Our approach is by…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Hongsheng Dai , Xiequan Fan , Jianya Lu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a ubiquitous algorithm for a variety of machine learning problems. Researchers and industry have developed several techniques to optimize SGD's runtime performance, including asynchronous execution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Christopher De Sa , Ce Zhang , Kunle Olukotun , Christopher Ré

In this work, we propose a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) framework to design data-driven policy gradient descent algorithms for the linear quadratic regulator problem. Two alternative schemes are considered to estimate the policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Bowen Song , Simon Weissmann , Mathias Staudigl , Andrea Iannelli

The randomized singular value decomposition (SVD) is a popular and effective algorithm for computing a near-best rank $k$ approximation of a matrix $A$ using matrix-vector products with standard Gaussian vectors. Here, we generalize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Nicolas Boullé , Alex Townsend

Inspired by the structure of spherical harmonics, we propose the truncated kernel stochastic gradient descent (T-kernel SGD) algorithm with a least-square loss function for spherical data fitting. T-kernel SGD introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jinhui Bai , Lei Shi

Eigendecomposition of symmetric matrices is at the heart of many computer vision algorithms. However, the derivatives of the eigenvectors tend to be numerically unstable, whether using the SVD to compute them analytically or using the Power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Wei Wang , Zheng Dang , Yinlin Hu , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

Matrix completion, where we wish to recover a low rank matrix by observing a few entries from it, is a widely studied problem in both theory and practice with wide applications. Most of the provable algorithms so far on this problem have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Chi Jin , Sham M. Kakade , Praneeth Netrapalli

We investigate entangled Schr\"odinger cat-like states (SCLSs) in degenerate and non-degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) with a fully quantized, depleted pump. Our fully quantum treatment, visualized via Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Ranjit Singh , Alexander E. Teretenkov

Stochastic gradient algorithms have been the main focus of large-scale learning problems and they led to important successes in machine learning. The convergence of SGD depends on the careful choice of learning rate and the amount of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Caglar Gulcehre , Marcin Moczulski , Yoshua Bengio

From characterizing the speed of a thermal system's response to computing natural modes of vibration, eigenvalue analysis is ubiquitous in engineering. In spite of this, eigenvalue problems have received relatively little treatment compared…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Conor Rowan , John Evans , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

The Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) algorithm is a deterministic particle method for sampling. However, a mean-field analysis reveals that the gradient flow corresponding to the SVGD algorithm (i.e., the Stein Variational Gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-10 Ye He , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Jianfeng Lu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a foundational algorithm for large-scale statistical learning and stochastic optimization. However, statistical inference based on SGD iterates remains challenging when stochastic gradients have infinite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn , Wenhao Yang