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48 results for Acceleration Methods

The paper explores how accelerated methods in optimization can be understood through a continuous-time perspective.

problem Understanding the natural scope of acceleration in optimization methods.
method A variational perspective using a Bregman Lagrangian to study accelerated methods in optimization.
result Accelerated methods can be seen as traveling the same curve in spacetime at different speeds, providing a unified view.

Develops accelerated methods for optimization using low-dimensional projected-gradient information.

problem Optimization with low-dimensional projected-gradient information and Nesterov acceleration.
method Randomized-subspace Nesterov accelerated gradient methods for smooth convex and strongly convex optimization.
result Established accelerated oracle-complexity guarantees and unified basis for comparing sketch families.

Two accelerated methods for linearly constrained convex programming are proposed, improving convergence rates.

problem Efficiently solving structured linearly constrained convex programming problems.
method Two accelerated methods: LALM and LADMM, for composite convex objectives.
result Accelerated methods achieve faster convergence rates compared to non-accelerated methods.

Many applications require that we learn the parameters of a model from data. EM is a method used to learn the parameters of probabilistic models for which the data for some of the variables in the models is either missing or hidden. There are instances in which this method is slow to converge. Therefore, several accele…

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Improved training of large-scale neural networks with reduced variance noise.

problem Training large-scale neural networks with high variance noise.
method Stochastic variance reduced Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton method (SVR-NAQ).
result Improved performance compared to conventional methods on benchmark problems.

A new method accelerates K-Means clustering by reducing the number of iterations.

problem Reducing the number of iterations required for K-Means clustering convergence.
method Applying Anderson acceleration to the assignment and update steps of Lloyd's algorithm, dynamically adjusting the number of previous iterates used.
result Achieves robust and consistent speedups across different problem instances, outperforming other algorithms in 106 out of 120 test cases.

Locally Accelerated Conditional Gradients improve convergence rates for smooth convex optimization problems.

problem Achieving optimal convergence rates for smooth convex optimization problems over polytopes.
method Locally Accelerated Conditional Gradients, coupling accelerated steps with conditional gradient steps.
result Achieves optimal accelerated local convergence for smooth strongly convex problems.

Accelerated gradient method's stability deteriorates exponentially with steps.

problem Algorithmic stability of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method.
method Analysis of two notions of algorithmic stability for Nesterov's accelerated gradient method.
result Stability of Nesterov's accelerated method deteriorates exponentially with the number of gradient steps.

ASVRG accelerates stochastic variance reduction methods with simplicity and efficiency.

problem Efficiently solving convex and non-convex optimization problems.
method Accelerated proximal stochastic variance reduced gradient (ASVRG) method with momentum acceleration.
result ASVRG achieves best known oracle complexities for strongly and non-strongly convex objectives.

New method accelerates steepest descent for convex optimization.

problem Achieving acceleration for general p\ell_p smooth functions.
method Primal-dual iterate sequences with differing norms, implicitly determined interpolation parameter.
result Improves iteration complexity to O(d12p)O(d^{1-\frac{2}{p}}) for p\ell_p norm smooth problems.

PF-LaCG removes the need for knowing smoothness and strong convexity parameters for locally accelerated CG.

problem Locally accelerated CG requires knowledge of smoothness and strong convexity parameters.
method Parameter-Free Locally Accelerated CG (PF-LaCG) algorithm.
result PF-LaCG achieves local acceleration without requiring knowledge of smoothness and strong convexity parameters.

Super-acceleration of gradient descent with momentum improves loss function minimization.

problem Minimizing loss functions in machine learning.
method Extending Nesterov acceleration by using gradients at multiple steps ahead.
result Super-acceleration of the momentum algorithm is beneficial for various loss landscapes and tasks.

Two new differentially private optimization algorithms derived from accelerated methods.

problem Improving privacy in optimization algorithms while maintaining convergence rates.
method Polyak's heavy ball method and Nesterov's accelerated gradient method with differential privacy.
result The proposed algorithms outperform existing differentially private optimization methods.

Improved quasi-Newton method for convex optimization with linear and accelerated convergence.

problem Efficiently solving composite optimization problems with strong convexity.
method Proximal quasi-Newton algorithm with accelerated variant.
result Acceleration may not improve convergence in quasi-Newton setting.

New method accelerates gradient descent on curved spaces.

problem Optimizing functions on curved Riemannian manifolds.
method Developed a novel geometric inequality to control metric distortion, enabling a Riemannian accelerated gradient method.
result Proposed the first global accelerated gradient method for Riemannian manifolds.

This research accelerates sampling methods using Nesterov's Acceleration.

problem Improving sampling efficiency in MCMC methods.
method Developed a Hessian-Free High-Resolution ODE reformulation of NAG-SC, injected noise, and discretized the diffusion process.
result Quantified acceleration beyond underdamped Langevin in W2W_2 distance for log-strongly-concave targets.

This work refutes the conventional wisdom and shows acceleration can be made robust for least squares regression.

problem The challenge of using fast gradient methods for stochastic optimization due to instability and error accumulation.
method Introduced an accelerated stochastic gradient method for least squares regression.
result Proves accelerated stochastic gradient descent achieves minimax optimal statistical risk faster than SGD.

Interpolatron accelerates deep neural network optimization faster than existing methods.

problem Accelerating nonconvex optimization for deep neural networks.
method Proposes Interpolatron, a new interpolation scheme to accelerate nonconvex optimization.
result Interpolatron converges much faster than state-of-the-art methods on DNNs of great depths.

Study accelerates gradient methods in machine learning, revealing risk and stability connections.

problem Understanding the statistical risk of accelerated gradient methods in machine learning.
method Continuous-time analysis of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method and Polyak's heavy ball method for least squares regression.
result Connections between early stopping, stability, and curvature of loss function are revealed.

New algorithm accelerates optimization on Riemannian manifolds, including Wasserstein space.

problem Accelerating optimization methods in Riemannian geometry.
method Dynamic stepsize algorithms on Riemannian manifolds with specific vector transport.
result First provable accelerated gradient method in Wasserstein space.

New methods accelerate gradient descent for convex and strongly convex functions.

problem Improving convergence rates of gradient-based optimization methods.
method Formulated two classes of first-order algorithms with Lyapunov analyses and Hamiltonian assisted gradient method.
result Achieved accelerated convergence rates matching Nesterov's methods in strongly and general convex settings.

AGNES accelerates gradient descent with noisy gradients.

problem Minimizing smooth convex and strongly convex functions with noisy gradients.
method Generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm for noisy conditions.
result AGNES achieves acceleration for noisy gradients with a constant of proportionality up to 1.

Unified analysis of conjugate gradients and accelerated methods using duality gap.

problem Minimizing convex quadratic functions efficiently.
method Approximate Duality Gap Technique to unify conjugate gradients and accelerated methods.
result Unified and self-contained proof of conjugate gradients without relying on Chebyshev polynomials.

Paper accelerates NMF algorithms using extrapolation.

problem Efficiently solving nonnegative matrix factorization problems.
method Inspired by convex optimization, uses extrapolation for two-block exact coordinate descent algorithms.
result Significantly accelerates NMF algorithms on various data sets.