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Second-order optimization has been developed to accelerate the training of deep neural networks and it is being applied to increasingly larger-scale models. In this study, towards training on further larger scales, we identify a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Satoki Ishikawa , Ryo Karakida

Optimization in machine learning, both theoretical and applied, is presently dominated by first-order gradient methods such as stochastic gradient descent. Second-order optimization methods, that involve second derivatives and/or second…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Rohan Anil , Vineet Gupta , Tomer Koren , Kevin Regan , Yoram Singer

Atomistic foundation models constitute a paradigm shift in computational materials science by providing universal machine-learned interatomic potentials with broad transferability across chemical spaces. Although fine-tuning is essential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Xiaoqing Liu , Yangshuai Wang , Teng Zhao

We introduce Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, based on adaptive estimates of lower-order moments. The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally efficient, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Diederik P. Kingma , Jimmy Ba

We introduce Velocity-Regularized Adam (VRAdam), a physics-inspired optimizer for training deep neural networks that draws on ideas from quartic terms for kinetic energy with its stabilizing effects on various system dynamics. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pranav Vaidhyanathan , Lucas Schorling , Natalia Ares , Michael A. Osborne

In this paper, we consider both first- and second-order techniques to address continuous optimization problems arising in machine learning. In the first-order case, we propose a framework of transition from deterministic or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Sanae Lotfi , Tiphaine Bonniot de Ruisselet , Dominique Orban , Andrea Lodi

Modern deep learning heavily depends on adaptive optimizers such as Adam and its variants, which are renowned for their capacity to handle model scaling and streamline hyperparameter tuning. However, these algorithms typically experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Son Nguyen , Lizhang Chen , Bo Liu , Qiang Liu

Modern adaptive optimization methods, such as Adam and its variants, have emerged as the most widely used tools in deep learning over recent years. These algorithms offer automatic mechanisms for dynamically adjusting the update step based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Son Nguyen , Bo Liu , Lizhang Chen , Qiang Liu

We investigate the role of the optimizer in determining the quality of the model fit for neural networks with a small to medium number of parameters. We study the performance of Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 John Taylor , Wenyi Wang , Biswajit Bala , Tomasz Bednarz

Adam is a widely used stochastic optimization method for deep learning applications. While practitioners prefer Adam because it requires less parameter tuning, its use is problematic from a theoretical point of view since it may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Mingrui Liu , Wei Zhang , Francesco Orabona , Tianbao Yang

Gradient descent based optimization methods are the methods of choice to train deep neural networks in machine learning. Beyond the standard gradient descent method, also suitable modified variants of standard gradient descent involving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Steffen Dereich , Arnulf Jentzen , Adrian Riekert

While Adam is one of the most effective optimizer for training large-scale machine learning models, a theoretical understanding of how to optimally set its momentum factors, $\beta_1$ and $\beta_2$, remains largely incomplete. Prior works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Quan Nguyen

High-dimensional and incomplete (HDI) data, characterized by massive node interactions, have become ubiquitous across various real-world applications. Second-order latent factor models have shown promising performance in modeling this type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jialiang Wang , Junzhou Wang , Xin Liao

Deep learning methods - usually consisting of a class of deep neural networks (DNNs) trained by a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method - are nowadays omnipresent in data-driven learning problems as well as in scientific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Steffen Dereich , Arnulf Jentzen , Adrian Riekert

Kronecker-factored Approximate Curvature (K-FAC) method is a high efficiency second order optimizer for the deep learning. Its training time is less than SGD(or other first-order method) with same accuracy in many large-scale problems. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yingshi Chen

Second-order optimization methods have the ability to accelerate convergence by modifying the gradient through the curvature matrix. There have been many attempts to use second-order optimization methods for training deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kai-Xin Gao , Xiao-Lei Liu , Zheng-Hai Huang , Min Wang , Zidong Wang , Dachuan Xu , Fan Yu

This paper studies a class of adaptive gradient based momentum algorithms that update the search directions and learning rates simultaneously using past gradients. This class, which we refer to as the "Adam-type", includes the popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Xiangyi Chen , Sijia Liu , Ruoyu Sun , Mingyi Hong

Adam-type algorithms have become a preferred choice for optimisation in the deep learning setting, however, despite success, their convergence is still not well understood. To this end, we introduce a unified framework for Adam-type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yiming Jiang , Jinlan Liu , Dongpo Xu , Danilo P. Mandic

Second-order methods are emerging as promising alternatives to standard first-order optimizers such as gradient descent and ADAM for training neural networks. Though the advantages of including curvature information in computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Conor Rowan

Training deep neural networks is a challenging task. In order to speed up training and enhance the performance of deep neural networks, we rectify the vanilla conjugate gradient as conjugate-gradient-like and incorporate it into the generic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jiawu Tian , Liwei Xu , Xiaowei Zhang , Yongqi Li