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We study the convergence of the shuffling gradient method, a popular algorithm employed to minimize the finite-sum function with regularization, in which functions are passed to apply (Proximal) Gradient Descent (GD) one by one whose order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Zijian Liu , Zhengyuan Zhou

Random Reshuffling (RR) is an algorithm for minimizing finite-sum functions that utilizes iterative gradient descent steps in conjunction with data reshuffling. Often contrasted with its sibling Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), RR is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Konstantin Mishchenko , Ahmed Khaled , Peter Richtárik

Incremental gradient and incremental proximal methods are a fundamental class of optimization algorithms used for solving finite sum problems, broadly studied in the literature. Yet, without strong convexity, their convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Xufeng Cai , Jelena Diakonikolas

While SGD, which samples from the data with replacement is widely studied in theory, a variant called Random Reshuffling (RR) is more common in practice. RR iterates through random permutations of the dataset and has been shown to converge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Sebastian Stich , Martin Jaggi

We study the convergence of the last iterate in subgradient methods applied to the minimization of a nonsmooth convex function with bounded subgradients. We first introduce a proof technique that generalizes the standard analysis of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Moslem Zamani , François Glineur

In this paper, we propose a unified convergence analysis for a class of generic shuffling-type gradient methods for solving finite-sum optimization problems. Our analysis works with any sampling without replacement strategy and covers many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Lam M. Nguyen , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Dzung T. Phan , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Marten van Dijk

Shuffling-type gradient methods are favored in practice for their simplicity and rapid empirical performance. Despite extensive development of convergence guarantees under various assumptions in recent years, most require the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qi He , Peiran Yu , Ziyi Chen , Heng Huang

Stochastic optimization algorithms are widely used for machine learning with large-scale data. However, their convergence often suffers from non-vanishing variance. Variance Reduction (VR) methods, such as SVRG and SARAH, address this issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Daniil Medyakov , Gleb Molodtsov , Savelii Chezhegov , Alexey Rebrikov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

We analyze the last-iterate convergence of the Anchored Gradient Descent Ascent algorithm for smooth convex-concave min-max problems. While previous work established a last-iterate rate of $\mathcal{O}(1/t^{2-2p})$ for the squared gradient…

In the past several years, the last-iterate convergence of the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm has triggered people's interest due to its good performance in practice but lack of theoretical understanding. For Lipschitz convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zijian Liu , Zhengyuan Zhou

We analyze the convergence rate of the random reshuffling (RR) method, which is a randomized first-order incremental algorithm for minimizing a finite sum of convex component functions. RR proceeds in cycles, picking a uniformly random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo Parrilo

Adaptive gradient methods have attracted much attention of machine learning communities due to the high efficiency. However their acceleration effect in practice, especially in neural network training, is hard to analyze, theoretically. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Xunpeng Huang , Hao Zhou , Runxin Xu , Zhe Wang , Lei Li

The incremental gradient method is a prominent algorithm for minimizing a finite sum of smooth convex functions, used in many contexts including large-scale data processing applications and distributed optimization over networks. It is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo Parrilo

We combine two advanced ideas widely used in optimization for machine learning: shuffling strategy and momentum technique to develop a novel shuffling gradient-based method with momentum, coined Shuffling Momentum Gradient (SMG), for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Trang H. Tran , Lam M. Nguyen , Quoc Tran-Dinh

This paper is devoted to first-order algorithms for smooth convex optimization with inexact gradients. Unlike the majority of the literature on this topic, we consider the setting of relative rather than absolute inexactness. More…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Nikita Kornilov , Eduard Gorbunov , Mohammad Alkousa , Fedor Stonyakin , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We analyze two classical algorithms for solving additively composite convex optimization problems where the objective is the sum of a smooth term and a nonsmooth regularizer: proximal stochastic gradient method for a single regularizer; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Kevin Kurian Thomas Vaidyan , Michael P. Friedlander , Ahmet Alacaoglu

In machine learning and neural network optimization, algorithms like incremental gradient, and shuffle SGD are popular due to minimizing the number of cache misses and good practical convergence behavior. However, their optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Anastasia Koloskova , Nikita Doikov , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

We analyze the convergence rates of stochastic gradient algorithms for smooth finite-sum minimax optimization and show that, for many such algorithms, sampling the data points without replacement leads to faster convergence compared to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Aniket Das , Bernhard Schölkopf , Michael Muehlebach

Distributed stochastic gradient methods are widely used to preserve data privacy and ensure scalability in large-scale learning tasks. While existing theory on distributed momentum Stochastic Gradient Descent (mSGD) mainly focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Difei Cheng , Ruinan Jin , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang

The Stochastic Gradient Descent method (SGD) and its stochastic variants have become methods of choice for solving finite-sum optimization problems arising from machine learning and data science thanks to their ability to handle large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Trang H. Tran , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Lam M. Nguyen
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