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In this paper, we study the problem of low-rank tensor learning, where only a few of training samples are observed and the underlying tensor has a low-rank structure. The existing methods are based on the sum of nuclear norms of unfolding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Sijia Xia , Michael K. Ng , Xiongjun Zhang

Fractional gradient descent has been studied extensively, with a focus on its ability to extend traditional gradient descent methods by incorporating fractional-order derivatives. This approach allows for more flexibility in navigating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Teodor Alexandru Szente , James Harrison , Mihai Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

The simplicity of gradient descent (GD) made it the default method for training ever-deeper and complex neural networks. Both loss functions and architectures are often explicitly tuned to be amenable to this basic local optimization. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dmitrii Marin , Meng Tang , Ismail Ben Ayed , Yuri Boykov

Learning to Rank (LTR) algorithms are usually evaluated using Information Retrieval metrics like Normalised Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) or Mean Average Precision. As these metrics rely on sorting predicted items' scores (and thus, on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Przemysław Pobrotyn , Radosław Białobrzeski

In this paper, the Riemannian gradient algorithm and the natural gradient algorithm are applied to solve descent direction problems on the manifold of positive definite Hermitian matrices, where the geodesic distance is considered as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Xiaomin Duan , Huafei Sun , Linyu Peng

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, existing FL algorithms predominantly focus on unconstrained optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Hongye Wang , Zhaoye Pan , Chang He , Jiaxiang Li , Bo Jiang

Tensor ring (TR) decomposition is a simple but effective tensor network for analyzing and interpreting latent patterns of tensors. In this work, we propose a doubly randomized optimization framework for computing TR decomposition. It can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Yajie Yu , Hanyu Li , Jingchun Zhou

We describe four algorithms for neural network training, each adapted to different scalability constraints. These algorithms are mathematically principled and invariant under a number of transformations in data and network representation,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Yann Ollivier

Recently, there has been a growing interest in efficient numerical algorithms based on tensor networks and low-rank techniques to approximate high-dimensional functions and solutions to high-dimensional PDEs. In this paper, we propose a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Alec Dektor , Daniele Venturi

The numerical solution of partial differential equations on high-dimensional domains gives rise to computationally challenging linear systems. When using standard discretization techniques, the size of the linear system grows exponentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Daniel Kressner , Michael Steinlechner , Bart Vandereycken

We provide the first experimental results on non-synthetic datasets for the quasi-diagonal Riemannian gradient descents for neural networks introduced in [Ollivier, 2015]. These include the MNIST, SVHN, and FACE datasets as well as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Gaétan Marceau-Caron , Yann Ollivier

This paper proposes a novel method for learning highly nonlinear, multivariate functions from examples. Our method takes advantage of the property that continuous functions can be approximated by polynomials, which in turn are representable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sandor Szedmak , Anna Cichonska , Heli Julkunen , Tapio Pahikkala , Juho Rousu

Adaptive stochastic gradient algorithms in the Euclidean space have attracted much attention lately. Such explorations on Riemannian manifolds, on the other hand, are relatively new, limited, and challenging. This is because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hiroyuki Kasai , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Enforcing orthonormal or isometric property for the weight matrices has been shown to enhance the training of deep neural networks by mitigating gradient exploding/vanishing and increasing the robustness of the learned networks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Zhen Qin , Xuwei Tan , Zhihui Zhu

Value function learning plays a central role in many state-of-the-art reinforcement-learning algorithms. Many popular algorithms like Q-learning do not optimize any objective function, but are fixed-point iterations of some variant of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yihao Feng , Lihong Li , Qiang Liu

Decision Trees (DTs) are commonly used for many machine learning tasks due to their high degree of interpretability. However, learning a DT from data is a difficult optimization problem, as it is non-convex and non-differentiable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sascha Marton , Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In the recent years, Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have received strong interest as a method to solve PDE driven systems, in particular for data assimilation purpose. This method is still in its infancy, with many shortcomings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Nilo Schwencke , Cyril Furtlehner

The natural gradient allows for more efficient gradient descent by removing dependencies and biases inherent in a function's parameterization. Several papers present the topic thoroughly and precisely. It remains a very difficult idea to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

One of the most important parts of Artificial Neural Networks is minimizing the loss functions which tells us how good or bad our model is. To minimize these losses we need to tune the weights and biases. Also to calculate the minimum value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Kaustubh Yadav

The paper addresses the problem of learning a regression model parameterized by a fixed-rank positive semidefinite matrix. The focus is on the nonlinear nature of the search space and on scalability to high-dimensional problems. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Gilles Meyer , Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre