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In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where $n$ agents, each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the local cost functions over a connected network. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek , Shi Pu , Junwen Qiu

The stochastic momentum method is a commonly used acceleration technique for solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems in artificial neural networks. Current convergence results of stochastic momentum methods under non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Dongpo Xu , Jinlan Liu , Yinghua Lu , Jun Kong , Danilo Mandic

Stochastic gradient descent-ascent (SGDA) is one of the main workhorses for solving finite-sum minimax optimization problems. Most practical implementations of SGDA randomly reshuffle components and sequentially use them (i.e.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Hanseul Cho , Chulhee Yun

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

In recent years, random subspace methods have been actively studied for large-dimensional nonconvex problems. Recent subspace methods have improved theoretical guarantees such as iteration complexity and local convergence rate while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Rei Higuchi , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the average of a large number of nonsmooth and convex functions. Such problems often arise in typical machine learning problems as empirical risk minimization, but are computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-21 Wenjie Huang

Momentum is a popular technique to accelerate the convergence in practical training, and its impact on convergence guarantee has been well-studied for first-order algorithms. However, such a successful acceleration technique has not yet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Zhe Wang , Yi Zhou , Yingbin Liang , Guanghui Lan

We study nonconvex finite-sum problems and analyze stochastic variance reduced gradient (SVRG) methods for them. SVRG and related methods have recently surged into prominence for convex optimization given their edge over stochastic gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Sashank J. Reddi , Ahmed Hefny , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

Modern machine learning models are often over-parameterized and as a result they can interpolate the training data. Under such a scenario, we study the convergence properties of a sampling-without-replacement variant of stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chen Fan , Christos Thrampoulidis , Mark Schmidt

Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) methods have become fundamental optimization tools in machine learning, combining the computational efficiency of stochastic gradients with the acceleration benefits of momentum. Despite…

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We provide an improved analysis of normalized SGD showing that adding momentum provably removes the need for large batch sizes on non-convex objectives. Then, we consider the case of objectives with bounded second derivative and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ashok Cutkosky , Harsh Mehta

In this paper, we consider a class of finite-sum convex optimization problems defined over a distributed multiagent network with $m$ agents connected to a central server. In particular, the objective function consists of the average of $m$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Guanghui Lan , Yi Zhou

For many applications in signal processing and machine learning, we are tasked with minimizing a large sum of convex functions subject to a large number of convex constraints. In this paper, we devise a new random projection method (RPM) to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Zhichun Yang , Fu-quan Xia , Kai Tu , Man-Chung Yue

Randomized iterative methods have gained recent interest in machine learning and signal processing for solving large-scale linear systems. One such example is the randomized Douglas-Rachford (RDR) method, which updates the iterate by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Liqi Guo , Ruike Xiang , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

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

Shuffling gradient methods are widely used in modern machine learning tasks and include three popular implementations: Random Reshuffle (RR), Shuffle Once (SO), and Incremental Gradient (IG). Compared to the empirical success, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zijian Liu , Zhengyuan Zhou

Large-scale machine learning models are trained on clusters of machines that exhibit heterogeneous performance due to hardware variability, network delays, and system-level instabilities. In such environments, time complexity rather than…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Zhirayr Tovmasyan , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

The use of momentum in stochastic gradient methods has become a widespread practice in machine learning. Different variants of momentum, including heavy-ball momentum, Nesterov's accelerated gradient (NAG), and quasi-hyperbolic momentum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Igor Gitman , Hunter Lang , Pengchuan Zhang , Lin Xiao

The random reshuffling Kaczmarz (RRK) method enjoys the simplicity and efficiency in solving linear systems as a Kaczmarz-type method, whereas it also inherits the practical improvements of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

We consider the problem of minimizing a strongly convex smooth function where the gradients are subject to additive worst-case deterministic errors that are square-summable. We study the trade-offs between the convergence rate and…

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