This paper studies accelerations in Q-learning algorithms. We propose an accelerated target update scheme by incorporating the historical iterates of Q functions. The idea is conceptually inspired by the momentum-based accelerated methods in the optimization theory. Conditions under which the proposed accelerated algor…
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Hamiltonian dynamics-based algorithms achieve deterministic and accelerated convergence for convex optimization.
Continuized Nesterov acceleration accelerates stochastic gradient descent and gossip algorithms.
Two new differentially private optimization algorithms derived from accelerated methods.
We present an accelerated algorithm for hierarchical density based clustering. Our new algorithm improves upon HDBSCAN*, which itself provided a significant qualitative improvement over the popular DBSCAN algorithm. The accelerated HDBSCAN* algorithm provides comparable performance to DBSCAN, while supporting variable …
We consider gradient descent with `momentum', a widely used method for loss function minimization in machine learning. This method is often used with `Nesterov acceleration', meaning that the gradient is evaluated not at the current position in parameter space, but at the estimated position after one step. In this work…
Octagon map accelerates diagonal changes algorithm.
PF-LaCG removes the need for knowing smoothness and strong convexity parameters for locally accelerated CG.
Improved analysis of accelerated noisy power method for PCA.
New algorithm accelerates optimization on Riemannian manifolds, including Wasserstein space.
Accelerated gradient method's stability deteriorates exponentially with steps.
Accelerates sampling from Gibbs distributions using ARWP method.
We propose accelerated randomized coordinate descent algorithms for stochastic optimization and online learning. Our algorithms have significantly less per-iteration complexity than the known accelerated gradient algorithms. The proposed algorithms for online learning have better regret performance than the known rando…
Paper discovers structural dynamics equations from only acceleration data.
In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate significantly the algorithms for nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). This framework is inspired from the extrapolation scheme used to accelerate gradient methods in convex optimization and from the method of parallel tangents. However, the use of extrapola…
New algorithms accelerate MAP inference in Markov fields with faster convergence.
We propose a novel method to accelerate Lloyd's algorithm for K-Means clustering. Unlike previous acceleration approaches that reduce computational cost per iterations or improve initialization, our approach is focused on reducing the number of iterations required for convergence. This is achieved by treating the assig…
Accelerates policy optimization in RL with optimistic and adaptive updates.
Regularized nonlinear acceleration (RNA) estimates the minimum of a function by post-processing iterates from an algorithm such as the gradient method. It can be seen as a regularized version of Anderson acceleration, a classical acceleration scheme from numerical analysis. The new scheme provably improves the rate of …
HF-opt uses Hamiltonian dynamics to optimize functions, achieving accelerated rates with randomized integration time.
Anderson acceleration (or Anderson mixing) is an efficient acceleration method for fixed point iterations , e.g., gradient descent can be viewed as iteratively applying the operation . It is known that Anderson acceleration is quite efficient in practice and can be viewed…
Accelerates TD learning for long-horizon reinforcement learning problems.
Improved first-order algorithm for entropy regularized OT with faster convergence.
Accelerates MMLE using SVGD with Nesterov acceleration.
Accelerated RPCholesky speeds up kernel matrix approximations.
AGNES accelerates gradient descent with noisy gradients.
Accelerates optimization in asynchronous systems with sparse updates.
New methods accelerate gradient descent for convex and strongly convex functions.
Memory bandwidth bottleneck is a major challenges in processing machine learning (ML) algorithms. In-memory acceleration has potential to address this problem; however, it needs to address two challenges. First, in-memory accelerator should be general enough to support a large set of different ML algorithms. Second, it…
We formulate gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling as optimization on the space of probability measures, with Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence as the objective functional. We show that an underdamped form of the Langevin algorithm performs accelerated gradient descent in this metric. To characterize t…
Conditional gradients constitute a class of projection-free first-order algorithms for smooth convex optimization. As such, they are frequently used in solving smooth convex optimization problems over polytopes, for which the computational cost of orthogonal projections would be prohibitive. However, they do not enjoy …
The paper accelerates regression algorithms by identifying saturated coordinates.
Matrix completion is a widely used technique for image inpainting and personalized recommender system, etc. In this work, we focus on accelerating the matrix completion using faster randomized singular value decomposition (rSVD). Firstly, two fast randomized algorithms (rSVD-PI and rSVD- BKI) are proposed for handling …
We introduce a generic scheme for accelerating gradient-based optimization methods in the sense of Nesterov. The approach, called Catalyst, builds upon the inexact accelerated proximal point algorithm for minimizing a convex objective function, and consists of approximately solving a sequence of well-chosen auxiliary p…
Hardware-accelerated RBM solves large combinatorial problems and integer factorization.
New algorithms accelerate solving nonlinear matrix decomposition with ReLU.
ASVGD accelerates SVGD for efficient sampling.
We accelerate PMD algorithms for reinforcement learning using functional methods.
SVRN accelerates Newton methods by reducing variance and improving performance.
Paper solves robust multi-dimensional scaling with accelerated projections.
Momentum accelerates Frank Wolfe algorithms on certain problems.
A Python package for GPU-accelerated signature kernel computation.
Recent studies incorporate Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for the acceleration of gradient based training. The Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method has shown to drastically improve the convergence speed compared to the conventional quasi-Newton method. This paper implements NAQ for non-convex optimi…
Improved SGD for non-strongly-convex regression with faster convergence.
New algorithms accelerate SVGD convergence using deep unfolding.
Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) is an extremely powerful supervised learning algorithm that is widely used in practice. GBM routinely features as a leading algorithm in machine learning competitions such as Kaggle and the KDDCup. In this work, we propose Accelerated Gradient Boosting Machine (AGBM) by incorporating Nes…
New study on No-U-Turn Sampler for accelerated mixing in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
In [19], a general, inexact, efficient proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for composite optimization problems has been proposed and a sublinear global convergence rate has been established. In this paper, we analyze the convergence properties of this method, both in the exact and inexact setting, in the case when the obje…