Accelerates Riemannian gradient methods with extrapolation.
problem Optimizing functions on manifolds efficiently.
method Extrapolating iterates in Riemannian gradient descent.
result Achieves optimal convergence rate and computational advantage.
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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.
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.
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.
Accelerates coordinate descent methods for machine learning problems.
problem Slowness of coordinate descent methods in machine learning.
method Extrapolation-based accelerated coordinate descent.
result Significant speed-up in practice compared to existing methods.
A Continuized View on Nesterov Acceleration for Stochastic Gradient Descent and Randomized Gossipmath.OC
Continuized Nesterov acceleration accelerates stochastic gradient descent and gossip algorithms.
problem Improving the convergence rate of stochastic gradient descent and gossip algorithms.
method Introducing a continuized variant of Nesterov acceleration, which mixes variables continuously and takes gradient steps at random times.
result The continuized Nesterov acceleration achieves convergence rates similar to Nesterov's original acceleration but with random parameters.
We analyze Riemannian accelerated methods using a new framework.
problem Understanding Riemannian accelerated gradient methods.
method Riemannian A-HPE framework, focusing on Euclidean A-HPE insights and metric distortion control.
result Characterization of acceleration for various Riemannian methods.
There is widespread sentiment that it is not possible to effectively utilize fast gradient methods (e.g. Nesterov's acceleration, conjugate gradient, heavy ball) for the purposes of stochastic optimization due to their instability and error accumulation, a notion made precise in d'Aspremont 2008 and Devolder, Glineur, …
Hamiltonian Descent Algorithms for Optimization: Accelerated Rates via Randomized Integration Timemath.OC
HF-opt uses Hamiltonian dynamics to optimize functions, achieving accelerated rates with randomized integration time.
problem Optimizing functions efficiently and accelerating convergence rates.
method Randomized Hamiltonian flow (RHF) with accelerated convergence rates.
result RHGD achieves accelerated convergence rates similar to Nesterov's AGD.
This work accelerates gradient descent with anytime convergence guarantees.
problem Improving the convergence rate of gradient descent methods.
method Proposes a stepsize schedule for gradient descent that achieves anytime convergence rates.
result Gradient descent can achieve convergence rates of for any stopping time .
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…
We study learning properties of accelerated gradient descent methods for linear least-squares in Hilbert spaces. We analyze the implicit regularization properties of Nesterov acceleration and a variant of heavy-ball in terms of corresponding learning error bounds. Our results show that acceleration can provides faster …
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 …
FedAc accelerates Federated Averaging for distributed optimization.
problem Efficiently optimizing distributed machine learning models.
method Federated Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Descent (FedAc) using a potential-based perturbed iterate analysis.
result FedAc achieves faster convergence and lower communication costs than previous methods.
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.
Accelerated gradient methods play a central role in optimization, achieving optimal rates in many settings. While many generalizations and extensions of Nesterov's original acceleration method have been proposed, it is not yet clear what is the natural scope of the acceleration concept. In this paper, we study accelera…
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.
ASVGD accelerates SVGD for efficient sampling.
problem Slow SVGD in high-dimensional sampling.
method Accelerated gradient flow in a metric space of probability densities, using Nesterov's method and momentum-based updates.
result ASVGD outperforms SVGD and other methods in sampling efficiency.
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.
No accelerated gradient method for hyperbolic convex functions.
problem Existence of accelerated gradient methods for geodesically convex functions on hyperbolic spaces.
method Analysis of volume growth in negatively curved spaces.
result No-go theorem for accelerated gradient methods on hyperbolic plane.
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.
We present a framework for Nesterov's accelerated gradient flows in probability space to design efficient mean-field Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for Bayesian inverse problems. Here four examples of information metrics are considered, including Fisher-Rao metric, Wasserstein-2 metric, Kalman-Wasserstein m…
Accelerated optimization methods improve robustness and privacy in estimation.
problem Improving robustness and privacy in estimation methods.
method Accelerated gradient methods based on Frank-Wolfe and projected gradient descent, with tailored learning rates and Nesterov's momentum.
result Reduction in iteration complexity, leading to stronger statistical guarantees.
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 …
Accelerates policy optimization in RL with optimistic and adaptive updates.
problem Improving policy optimization methods in reinforcement learning.
method Integrates foresight into policy improvement step via optimistic and adaptive updates.
result Designs an optimistic policy gradient algorithm, adaptive via meta-gradient learning.
Stochastic gradient descent (\textsc{Sgd}) methods are the most powerful optimization tools in training machine learning and deep learning models. Moreover, acceleration (a.k.a. momentum) methods and diagonal scaling (a.k.a. adaptive gradient) methods are the two main techniques to improve the slow convergence of \text…
Gradient tree boosting is a prediction algorithm that sequentially produces a model in the form of linear combinations of decision trees, by solving an infinite-dimensional optimization problem. We combine gradient boosting and Nesterov's accelerated descent to design a new algorithm, which we call AGB (for Accelerated…
This paper studies an acceleration technique for incremental aggregated gradient ({\sf IAG}) method through the use of \emph{curvature} information for solving strongly convex finite sum optimization problems. These optimization problems of interest arise in large-scale learning applications. Our technique utilizes a c…
A new algorithm improves convergence rates for convex optimization problems.
problem Convex optimization problems with finite-sum structure.
method Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient (NASG) integrating Nesterov's acceleration with different shuffling schemes.
result Improved convergence rate of O(1/T) for unified shuffling schemes.
Stacking improves deep neural network training efficiency.
problem Improving the efficiency of training deep neural networks.
method Proposes stacking as a form of accelerated gradient descent.
result Proves stacking provides accelerated training for certain deep linear residual networks.
A new accelerated method with simpler momentum update rules.
problem Optimizing parameters in machine learning models.
method Proposes a novel accelerated stochastic gradient method with simpler momentum update rules.
result The method outperforms Sgdm and Adam in practical problems.
AB dynamically scales gradients to mitigate asynchronous training delays.
problem Gradient delay in asynchronous training reduces model performance.
method Adaptive Braking (AB) dynamically scales gradients based on alignment.
result AB enables training with up to 32 update steps of delay without accuracy loss.
Improved reSGLD accelerates convergence in non-convex learning problems.
problem Inefficient swaps due to noisy energy estimators in reSGLD.
method Variance reduction for noisy energy estimators, theoretical analysis, and numerical experiments.
result Exponential acceleration in convergence for non-convex learning problems.
Provably convergent acceleration in factored gradient descent with applications in matrix sensingcs.LG
We present theoretical results on the convergence of \emph{non-convex} accelerated gradient descent in matrix factorization models with -norm loss. The purpose of this work is to study the effects of acceleration in non-convex settings, where provable convergence with acceleration should not be considered a \em…
We present a unifying framework for adapting the update direction in gradient-based iterative optimization methods. As natural special cases we re-derive classical momentum and Nesterov's accelerated gradient method, lending a new intuitive interpretation to the latter algorithm. We show that a new algorithm, which we …
In this work we introduce a conditional accelerated lazy stochastic gradient descent algorithm with optimal number of calls to a stochastic first-order oracle and convergence rate improving over the projection-free, Online Frank-Wolfe based stochastic gradient descent of Hazan an…
We study distributed stochastic gradient (D-SG) method and its accelerated variant (D-ASG) for solving decentralized strongly convex stochastic optimization problems where the objective function is distributed over several computational units, lying on a fixed but arbitrary connected communication graph, subject to loc…
Accelerates MMLE using SVGD with Nesterov acceleration.
problem Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation optimization.
method Stein variational gradient descent with Nesterov acceleration.
result Consistently accelerates convergence across various tasks.
Study on Nesterov's method in stochastic settings, revealing divergence under certain conditions.
problem Understanding Nesterov's method in stochastic settings, especially finite-sum.
method Analysis of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method in stochastic and finite-sum settings.
result Nesterov's method may diverge in finite-sum settings without additional conditions.
SympFormer accelerates attention blocks using inertial dynamics on density spaces.
problem Improving the efficiency of self-attention blocks in Transformers.
method Introduced accelerated attention blocks derived from inertial Nesterov dynamics on density spaces.
result Accelerated attention blocks converge faster than classical blocks while preserving oracle calls.
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 distance for log-strongly-concave targets.
Accelerated method finds critical points faster on manifolds.
problem Optimization on non-convex manifolds.
method Accelerated gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds.
result Find approximate first-order critical points faster than regular gradient descent.
Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffers from cyclic behaviors of iterates. Based on a simple intuition that the direction of centripetal acceleration of an object moving in uniform circular motion is toward the center of the circle, we present the Simultaneous Centripetal Acceleration (SCA) method…
On Acceleration of Gradient-Based Empirical Risk Minimization using Local Polynomial Regressionmath.OC
Accelerates ERM problems with LPI-GD and improved oracle complexity.
problem Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) problems with strong convexity and smoothness.
method Local Polynomial Interpolation-based Gradient Descent (LPI-GD) and accelerated methods.
result Oracle complexity improved to $ ilde{O}\left(\sqrtσ m^d \log(1/\varepsilon)
ight)$.
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…
ASVGD accelerates SVGD for efficient sampling from Gaussian targets.
problem Efficient sampling from Gaussian distributions using SVGD.
method Accelerated gradient flow in a metric space of probability densities, including momentum and Wasserstein regularization.
result ASVGD achieves optimal convergence rate for Gaussian targets, independent of covariance.
Chebyshev steps improve convergence in deep-unfolded gradient descent.
problem Improving convergence speed in iterative algorithms.
method Introducing Chebyshev steps to bound convergence rate of gradient descent.
result Chebyshev steps lead to asymptotically optimal convergence rate.
Sparsification is an efficient approach to accelerate CNN inference, but it is challenging to take advantage of sparsity in training procedure because the involved gradients are dynamically changed. Actually, an important observation shows that most of the activation gradients in back-propagation are very close to zero…