We construct 2-dimensional CAT(-1) groups which contain free subgroups with arbitrary iterated exponential distortion, and with distortion higher than any iterated exponential.
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We develop a class of integrals on a manifold M called exponential iterated integrals, an extension of K. T. Chen's iterated integrals. It is shown that the matrix entries of any upper triangular representation of the fundamental group of M can be expressed via these new integrals. The ring of exponential iterated inte…
We represent the coordinate ring of algebraic hulls (which are generalizations of the Malcev completions of nilpotent groups for solvable groups) of solvmanifolds by using Miller's exponential iterated integrals (which are extensions of Chen's iterated integrals) of invariant differential forms.
Two new PCA variants improve financial data analysis.
Exponential distribution is ubiquitous in the framework of multi-agent systems. Usually, it appears as an equilibrium state in the asymptotic time evolution of statistical systems. It has been explained from very different perspectives. In statistical physics, it is obtained from the principle of maximum entropy. In th…
Paper provides exponential convergence guarantees for Iterative Markovian Fitting.
Exponential distribution is ubiquitous in the framework of multi-agent systems. An alternative approach with an economic motivation to derive the exponential distribution in the framework of iterations in the space of distributions is disclosed.
Policy iteration is a family of algorithms that are used to find an optimal policy for a given Markov Decision Problem (MDP). Simple Policy iteration (SPI) is a type of policy iteration where the strategy is to change the policy at exactly one improvable state at every step. Melekopoglou and Condon [1990] showed an exp…
This paper gives a new definition of the Contou-Carrere symbol in terms of an exponential of a Chen iterated integral and proves the corresponding reciprocity law.
The AdaBoost algorithm was designed to combine many "weak" hypotheses that perform slightly better than random guessing into a "strong" hypothesis that has very low error. We study the rate at which AdaBoost iteratively converges to the minimum of the "exponential loss." Unlike previous work, our proofs do not require …
PACE optimizes training for averaged language models, improving performance.
New algorithms achieve high-probability parameter-free regret in online convex optimization with heavy-tailed data.
Adversarial training is a technique for training robust machine learning models. To encourage robustness, it iteratively computes adversarial examples for the model, and then re-trains on these examples via some update rule. This work analyzes the performance of adversarial training on linearly separable data, and prov…
We describe and analyze a simple algorithm for principal component analysis and singular value decomposition, VR-PCA, which uses computationally cheap stochastic iterations, yet converges exponentially fast to the optimal solution. In contrast, existing algorithms suffer either from slow convergence, or computationally…
A new algorithm detects changes in data with constant cost per iteration.
Adaptive importance samplers are adaptive Monte Carlo algorithms to estimate expectations with respect to some target distribution which \textit{adapt} themselves to obtain better estimators over a sequence of iterations. Although it is straightforward to show that they have the same convergen…
The L1 loss landscape of neural nets near local minima behaves differently, revealing exponential decay and increased vertex density.
Proposes an exponentially increasing step-size for faster parameter estimation in statistical models.
MSTGD optimizes gradient descent with stratified sampling for faster convergence.
The study shows exponential distortion in virtually special groups containing free subgroups.
Quantum systems with scrambling improve temporal information processing, but scaling requires exponential overhead.
Paper establishes universal lower bounds and optimal rates for clustering sub-exponential mixture models.
New stability theory for Sinkhorn semigroups with explicit decay rates.
We consider binary classification problems with positive definite kernels and square loss, and study the convergence rates of stochastic gradient methods. We show that while the excess testing loss (squared loss) converges slowly to zero as the number of observations (and thus iterations) goes to infinity, the testing …
Proposes an iterative algorithm for optimizing attention mechanisms in large language models.
A technique identifies memoryless algorithms approximating memory-dependent optimization methods.
Improving optimization for iterate-averaged language models
CAVI converges exponentially fast for Bayesian PCA models.
In this paper, we study the properties of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve the \ExactSparse reconstruction problem. We prove that when the dictionary is quasi-incoherent, at each iteration, the Frank-Wolfe algorithm picks up an atom indexed by the support. We also prove that when the dictionary is quasi-incoherent, t…
A new accelerated method with simpler momentum update rules.
We consider the action of a pseudo-Anosov mapping class on . This action has north-south dynamics and so, under iteration, laminations converge exponentially to the stable lamination. We study the rate of this convergence and give examples of families of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes where the rate go…
Improved convergence rates for saddle-point optimization algorithms.
SGD converges to an invariant distribution with sub-Gaussian or sub-exponential properties.
The paper approximates financial derivatives using neural networks and iterated integrals.
Given an automorphism of a free group , we consider the following invariants: is the number of exponential strata (an upper bound for the number of different exponential growth rates of conjugacy classes); is the maximal degree of polynomial growth of conjugacy classes; is the rank of the fixed subgrou…
We provide non-asymptotic bounds for the well-known temporal difference learning algorithm TD(0) with linear function approximators. These include high-probability bounds as well as bounds in expectation. Our analysis suggests that a step-size inversely proportional to the number of iterations cannot guarantee optimal …
Gradient methods converge exponentially in concave network games.
Softmax PG methods can take extremely long to converge, even with exact gradients.
This paper analyzes a simplified strategy for nonlinear control using local linear models and iLQR updates.
A new method for target propagation using iterative approximations converges fast and is more biologically plausible.
Proposes a privacy-preserving sign selection method for distributed systems.
BEMA reduces bias in EMA, leading to faster convergence and better performance.
PER-ETD improves ETD by reducing variance to polynomial complexity.
New algorithm trains deep neural networks without global optimization.
The paper defines conditions for a free-by-free group to be hyperbolic.
We develop a privatised stochastic variational inference method for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The iterative nature of stochastic variational inference presents challenges: multiple iterations are required to obtain accurate posterior distributions, yet each iteration increases the amount of noise that must be …
ELU algorithm improves on EM for over-specified Gaussian mixtures.
We prove that the control polygon of a Bezier curve B becomes homeomorphic and ambient isotopic to B via subdivision, and we provide closed-form formulas to compute the number of iterations to ensure these topological characteristics. We first show that the exterior angles of control polygons converge exponentially to …