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Second-order optimizers are thought to hold the potential to speed up neural network training, but due to the enormous size of the curvature matrix, they typically require approximations to be computationally tractable. The most successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Frederik Benzing

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

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) used in modern machine learning is computationally expensive. Machine learning scientists, therefore, rely on stochastic first-order methods for training, coupled with significant hand-tuning, to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Eric Silk , Swarnita Chakraborty , Nairanjana Dasgupta , Anand D. Sarwate , Andrew Lumsdaine , Tony Chiang

Pruning remains an effective strategy for reducing both the costs and environmental impact associated with deploying large neural networks (NNs) while maintaining performance. Classical methods, such as OBD (LeCun et al., 1989) and OBS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ivo Gollini Navarrete , Nicolás Mauricio Cuadrado Ávila , Martin Takáč , Samuel Horváth

We investigate the use of regularized Newton methods with adaptive norms for optimizing neural networks. This approach can be seen as a second-order counterpart of adaptive gradient methods, which we here show to be interpretable as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jonas Kohler , Leonard Adolphs , Aurelien Lucchi

Adam is applied widely to train neural networks. Different kinds of Adam methods with different features pop out. Recently two new adam optimizers, AdaBelief and Padam are introduced among the community. We analyze these two adam optimizers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Zhaoyang Zhu , Haozhe Sun , Chi Zhang

Sharpness aware minimization (SAM) optimizer has been extensively explored as it can generalize better for training deep neural networks via introducing extra perturbation steps to flatten the landscape of deep learning models. Integrating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Hao Sun , Li Shen , Qihuang Zhong , Liang Ding , Shixiang Chen , Jingwei Sun , Jing Li , Guangzhong Sun , Dacheng Tao

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

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

An algorithm is proposed for solving optimization problems arising in neural network training for supervised learning. The unique feature of the algorithm is the use of an auxiliary loss, in addition to the original loss employed for model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yunlang Zhu , Lingjun Guo , Zahra Khatti , Xiaoyi Qu , Chia-Yuan Wu , Lara Zebiane , Frank E. Curtis

Stochastic Gradient Decent (SGD) is one of the core techniques behind the success of deep neural networks. The gradient provides information on the direction in which a function has the steepest rate of change. The main problem with basic…

Adaptive optimization methods, which perform local optimization with a metric constructed from the history of iterates, are becoming increasingly popular for training deep neural networks. Examples include AdaGrad, RMSProp, and Adam. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-23 Ashia C. Wilson , Rebecca Roelofs , Mitchell Stern , Nathan Srebro , Benjamin Recht

We present a stochastic first-order optimization method specialized for deep neural networks (DNNs), ECCO-DNN. This method models the optimization variable trajectory as a dynamical system and develops a discretization algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Carmel Fiscko , Aayushya Agarwal , Yihan Ruan , Soummya Kar , Larry Pileggi , Bruno Sinopoli

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

We introduce a new second-order inertial optimization method for machine learning called INNA. It exploits the geometry of the loss function while only requiring stochastic approximations of the function values and the generalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Camille Castera , Jérôme Bolte , Cédric Févotte , Edouard Pauwels

In this work, to efficiently help escape the stationary and saddle points, we propose, analyze, and generalize a stochastic strategy performed as an operator for a first-order gradient descent algorithm in order to increase the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Wei Zhang , Yu Bao

Many adaptive optimization methods have been proposed and used in deep learning, in which Adam is regarded as the default algorithm and widely used in many deep learning frameworks. Recently, many variants of Adam, such as Adabound, RAdam…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Wei Yuan , Kai-Xin Gao

Adaptive gradient methods, e.g. \textsc{Adam}, have achieved tremendous success in machine learning. Scaling the learning rate element-wisely by a certain form of second moment estimate of gradients, such methods are able to attain rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yizhou Wang , Yue Kang , Can Qin , Huan Wang , Yi Xu , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu

The optimization of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) relies on approximating the real-valued weights with their binarized representations. Current techniques for weight-updating use the same approaches as traditional Neural Networks (NNs) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Cuauhtemoc Daniel Suarez-Ramirez , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Leonardo Chang-Fernandez , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Mario Alberto Duran-Vega

Deep learning optimizers are optimization algorithms that enable deep neural networks to learn. The effectiveness of learning is highly dependent on the optimizer employed in the training process. Alongside the rapid advancement of deep…

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