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On the Convergence to a Global Solution of Shuffling-Type Gradient Algorithms

Machine Learning 2023-10-27 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is the method of choice in many machine learning tasks thanks to its scalability and efficiency in dealing with large-scale problems. In this paper, we focus on the shuffling version of SGD which matches the mainstream practical heuristics. We show the convergence to a global solution of shuffling SGD for a class of non-convex functions under over-parameterized settings. Our analysis employs more relaxed non-convex assumptions than previous literature. Nevertheless, we maintain the desired computational complexity as shuffling SGD has achieved in the general convex setting.

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@article{arxiv.2206.05869,
  title  = {On the Convergence to a Global Solution of Shuffling-Type Gradient Algorithms},
  author = {Lam M. Nguyen and Trang H. Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.05869},
  year   = {2023}
}

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The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)

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