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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

Asynchronous optimization algorithms often require delay bounds to prove their convergence, though these bounds can be difficult to obtain in practice. Existing algorithms that do not require delay bounds often converge slowly. Therefore,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Ellie Pond , Yichen Zhao , Matthew Hale

Adaptive gradient-based optimizers, notably Adam, have left their mark in training large-scale deep learning models, offering fast convergence and robustness to hyperparameter settings. However, they often struggle with generalization,…

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

The last decade has witnessed the breakthrough of deep neural networks (DNNs) in many fields. With the increasing depth of DNNs, hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations need to be executed. To accelerate such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Georg Boecherer , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a nonlinear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar , Janine Mendola , Amir Shmuel

Image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications, ranging from autonomous systems to medical imaging. The CIFAR-10 dataset is a widely used benchmark to evaluate the performance of classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaoran Yang , Shuhan Yu , Wenxi Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to outperform classical methods on several machine learning benchmarks. However, they have high computational complexity and require powerful processing units. Especially when deployed on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Wolfram Burgard

Pipeline Parallelism (PP) enables large neural network training on small, interconnected devices by splitting the model into multiple stages. To maximize pipeline utilization, asynchronous optimization is appealing as it offers 100%…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Sameera Ramasinghe , Yan Zuo , Gil Avraham , Alexander Long

In this work we propose a differential geometric motivation for Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (AGM) for strongly-convex problems. By considering the optimization procedure as occurring on a Riemannian manifold with a natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Aaron Defazio

While many distributed optimization algorithms have been proposed for solving smooth or convex problems over the networks, few of them can handle non-convex and non-smooth problems. Based on a proximal primal-dual approach, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Zhiguo Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Jian Li , Zhi-Quan Luo

We present and analyze a momentum-based gradient method for training linear classifiers with an exponentially-tailed loss (e.g., the exponential or logistic loss), which maximizes the classification margin on separable data at a rate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ziwei Ji , Nathan Srebro , Matus Telgarsky

Current state-of-the-art optimizers are adaptive gradient-based optimization methods such as Adam. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in formulating gradient-based optimizers in a probabilistic framework for better modeling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Haotian Chen , Anna Kuzina , Babak Esmaeili , Jakub M Tomczak

We introduce the "continuized" Nesterov acceleration, a close variant of Nesterov acceleration whose variables are indexed by a continuous time parameter. The two variables continuously mix following a linear ordinary differential equation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Raphaël Berthier , Francis Bach , Nicolas Flammarion , Pierre Gaillard , Adrien Taylor

DNNs are known to be vulnerable to so-called adversarial attacks that manipulate inputs to cause incorrect results that can be beneficial to an attacker or damaging to the victim. Recent works have proposed approximate computation as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mohammad Hossein Samavatian , Saikat Majumdar , Kristin Barber , Radu Teodorescu

This paper delves into the realm of stochastic optimization for compositional minimax optimization - a pivotal challenge across various machine learning domains, including deep AUC and reinforcement learning policy evaluation. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jin Liu , Xiaokang Pan , Junwen Duan , Hongdong Li , Youqi Li , Zhe Qu

The best performing Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are usually attained using Adam optimization and its multi-step training variants. However, to the best of our knowledge, few studies explore the fundamental reasons why Adam is superior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Shichao Li , Koen Helwegen , Dong Huang , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Adaptive gradient methods such as Adam have been shown to be very effective for training deep neural networks (DNNs) by tracking the second moment of gradients to compute the individual learning rates. Differently from existing methods, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Guoqiang Zhang , Kenta Niwa , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Convolutional neural networks have outperformed humans in image recognition tasks, but they remain vulnerable to attacks from adversarial examples. Since these data are crafted by adding imperceptible noise to normal images, their existence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Heng Yin , Hengwei Zhang , Jindong Wang , Ruiyu Dou

We derive efficient algorithms to compute weakly Pareto optimal solutions for smooth, convex and unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems in general Hilbert spaces. To this end, we define a novel inertial gradient-like dynamical…

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