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Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) is known to be difficult, especially for financial time series. This paper first analyzes the well-posedness problem in GANs minimax games and the convexity issue in GANs objective functions.…

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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) form a generative modeling approach known for producing appealing samples, but they are notably difficult to train. One common way to tackle this issue has been to propose new formulations of the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Gauthier Gidel , Hugo Berard , Gaëtan Vignoud , Pascal Vincent , Simon Lacoste-Julien

A central challenge to using first-order methods for optimizing nonconvex problems is the presence of saddle points. First-order methods often get stuck at saddle points, greatly deteriorating their performance. Typically, to escape from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sashank J Reddi , Manzil Zaheer , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Francis Bach , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alexander J Smola

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

Inspired by the Optimistic Gradient Ascent-Proximal Point Algorithm (OGAProx) proposed by Bo{\c{t}}, Csetnek, and Sedlmayer for solving a saddle-point problem associated with a convex-concave function with a nonsmooth coupling function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Hui Ouyang

Stochastic gradient descent (\textsc{Sgd}) methods are the most powerful optimization tools in training machine learning and deep learning models. Moreover, acceleration (a.k.a. momentum) methods and diagonal scaling (a.k.a. adaptive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-02 Qi Deng , Yi Cheng , Guanghui Lan

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with adaptive steps is widely used to train deep neural networks and generative models. Most theoretical results assume that it is possible to obtain unbiased gradient estimators, which is not the case in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-17 Sobihan Surendran , Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Adeline Fermanian , Sylvain Le Corff

The article is devoted to the development of algorithmic methods ensuring efficient complexity bounds for strongly convex-concave saddle point problems in the case when one of the groups of variables is high-dimensional, and the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Egor Gladin , Ilya Kuruzov , Fedor Stonyakin , Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov

The saddle-point problems (SPPs) with nonlinear coupling operators frequently arise in various control systems, such as dynamic programming optimization, H-infinity control, and Lyapunov stability analysis. However, traditional primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Sai Wang , Yi Gong

In several recently proposed stochastic optimization methods (e.g. RMSProp, Adam, Adadelta), parameter updates are scaled by the inverse square roots of exponential moving averages of squared past gradients. Maintaining these per-parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Noam Shazeer , Mitchell Stern

A central challenge to many fields of science and engineering involves minimizing non-convex error functions over continuous, high dimensional spaces. Gradient descent or quasi-Newton methods are almost ubiquitously used to perform such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Razvan Pascanu , Yann N. Dauphin , Surya Ganguli , Yoshua Bengio

Adam-type optimizers, as a class of adaptive moment estimation methods with the exponential moving average scheme, have been successfully used in many applications of deep learning. Such methods are appealing due to the capability on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Bingxin Zhou , Xuebin Zheng , Junbin Gao

Recently, in (M. Masoudi, D.K. Salkuyeh, An extension of positive-definite and skew-Hermitian splitting method for preconditioning of generalized saddle point problems, Computers \& Mathematics with Application,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Mohsen Masoudi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization methods such as the plain vanilla SGD method and the popular Adam optimizer are nowadays the method of choice in the training of artificial neural networks (ANNs). Despite the remarkable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Arnulf Jentzen , Adrian Riekert

Adaptive gradient methods such as Adam have gained extreme popularity due to their success in training complex neural networks and less sensitivity to hyperparameter tuning compared to SGD. However, it has been recently shown that Adam can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Pedro Savarese

Deep learning algorithms - typically consisting of a class of deep neural networks trained by a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method - are nowadays the key ingredients in many artificial intelligence (AI) systems and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Steffen Dereich , Robin Graeber , Arnulf Jentzen

The problem of computing saddle points is important in certain problems in numerical partial differential equations and computational chemistry, and is often solved numerically by a minimization problem over a set of mountain passes. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-20 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

Adaptive gradient algorithms perform gradient-based updates using the history of gradients and are ubiquitous in training deep neural networks. While adaptive gradient methods theory is well understood for minimization problems, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Mingrui Liu , Youssef Mroueh , Jerret Ross , Wei Zhang , Xiaodong Cui , Payel Das , Tianbao Yang

We study a class of misspecified saddle point (SP) problems, where the optimization objective depends on an unknown parameter that must be learned concurrently from data. Unlike existing studies that assume parameters are fully known or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

In the paper, we generalize the approach Gasnikov et. al, 2017, which allows to solve (stochastic) convex optimization problems with an inexact gradient-free oracle, to the convex-concave saddle-point problem. The proposed approach works,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov