The paper explores properties of projections and gradient methods in hyperbolic space forms.
problem Optimization problems in hyperbolic space forms.
method Intrinsic κ-projection and gradient projection methods.
result Every accumulation point of the sequence generated by the gradient projection method is a stationary point.
Optimizes reinsurance and investment strategies to minimize ruin probability.
problem Optimizing reinsurance and investment strategies to minimize ruin probability.
method Stochastic projected gradient method based on Malliavin calculus.
result Effectiveness of the proposed method demonstrated through numerical experiments.
Soft-Radial Projection solves gradient saturation in constrained deep learning.
problem Gradient saturation in deep learning models when integrating hard constraints.
method Introduces Soft-Radial Projection, a differentiable layer that maps predictions onto constraint boundaries without rank-deficient Jacobians.
result Improves convergence and solution quality over state-of-the-art methods.
New PG methods tackle nonconvex optimization with auto-conditioned stepsizes.
problem Optimizing nonconvex functions over convex sets.
method Auto-conditioned projected gradient (AC-PG) methods and stochastic variants.
result Achieved optimal iteration complexity for finding approximate stationary points.
A new method improves stochastic gradient descent for faster and more efficient estimation.
problem Efficient and fast parametric estimation methods.
method Projected stochastic gradient descent corrected by Fisher scoring.
result The method is faster and more efficient than traditional methods.
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 …
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.
Three new efficient algorithms project vectors onto weighted l1 ball.
problem Sparse system identification and feature selection.
method Projected gradient descent algorithms with linear or highly competitive quadratic worst case complexities.
result Efficient tools for machine learning methods like compress sensing and feature selection.
New projection techniques reduce the frequency of projections in solving LCPs.
problem Solving linearly constrained problems efficiently with reduced projection frequency.
method Delayed projection technique to call a projection less frequently.
result Theoretical and practical improvements in convergence rates and efficiency.
A new algorithm estimates sparse gradients on graphs with improved risk bounds.
problem Estimating sparse gradients on graph-structured data.
method Tree-Projected Gradient Descent algorithm for gradient-sparse parameters.
result Achieves risk bound of ns∗log(1+s∗p). EAGC boosts GCD by regulating gradient entanglement, improving known and novel category separability.
problem Gradient entanglement distorts supervised gradients and overlaps known and novel class representations.
method EAGC uses AGA and EEP to align and project gradients, reducing entanglement and overlap.
result EAGC consistently boosts GCD performance, setting new state-of-the-art results.
A new method for Bayesian inference tackles high-dimensional problems.
problem Bayesian inference in high-dimensional settings with kernel density estimation issues.
method Projected Wasserstein gradient descent (pWGD) method to overcome curse of dimensionality.
result pWGD method effectively addresses high-dimensional Bayesian inference problems.
Paper develops methods for non-quadratic loss low-rank matrix recovery.
problem Recovery of low-rank matrices with non-quadratic losses.
method Projected gradient method with a regularity projection oracle.
result Projected gradient method converges globally and linearly.
This paper focuses on projection-free methods for solving smooth Online Convex Optimization (OCO) problems. Existing projection-free methods either achieve suboptimal regret bounds or have high per-iteration computational costs. To fill this gap, two efficient projection-free online methods called ORGFW and MORGFW are …
Paper studies PSGD for constrained optimization problems and its statistical properties.
problem Online inference for constrained optimization problems.
method Stochastic gradient descent with projection (PSGD) for constrained optimization.
result Limiting distribution of PSGD-based estimates under linear-equality constraints.
New analysis shows SNG's effectiveness in small samples.
problem Limited understanding of SNG in small data settings.
method Sketch-and-project analysis of SNG.
result Global convergence and rate characterization for SNG.
PGD-trained models have a preferential direction in their gradients, which improves robustness.
problem Mathematical lack of clarity in the direction of preferential gradient alignment after adversarial training.
method Proposed a novel definition of preferential direction and evaluated it using a metric based on GANs.
result PGD-trained models have higher alignment with the proposed preferential direction than baseline models.
K-means is a classical clustering algorithm with wide applications. However, soft K-means, or fuzzy c-means at m=1, remains unsolved since 1981. To address this challenging open problem, we propose a novel clustering model, i.e. Probabilistic K-Means (PKM), which is also a nonlinear programming model constrained on lin…
We propose and study kernel conjugate gradient methods (KCGM) with random projections for least-squares regression over a separable Hilbert space. Considering two types of random projections generated by randomized sketches and Nyström subsampling, we prove optimal statistical results with respect to variants of norms …
The paper interprets diffusion models as gradient descent and proposes a new sampler.
problem Improving the efficiency and quality of diffusion models.
method Interprets diffusion models as gradient descent and proposes a new sampler.
result The new sampler achieves state-of-the-art FID scores and generates high quality samples.
SMAVE optimizes SDR by projecting onto a low-dimensional subspace on a Riemannian manifold.
problem High-dimensional regression challenges due to the curse of dimensionality.
method SMAVE combines nearest-neighbor localization and Riemannian stochastic gradient ascent.
result SMAVE achieves almost-sure convergence and matches RMAVE's synthetic subspace recovery rate.
In this paper, we consider the problem of learning high-dimensional tensor regression problems with low-rank structure. One of the core challenges associated with learning high-dimensional models is computation since the underlying optimization problems are often non-convex. While convex relaxations could lead to polyn…
A parameter-free PGD algorithm for convex optimization.
problem Minimizing convex functions over convex sets.
method A fully adaptive AdaGrad variant of PGD without parameters or restarts.
result Optimal convergence rates for cumulative regret.
The curse of dimensionality is a longstanding challenge in Bayesian inference in high dimensions. In this work, we propose a projected Stein variational gradient descent (pSVGD) method to overcome this challenge by exploiting the fundamental property of intrinsic low dimensionality of the data informed subspace stemmin…
This paper deals with unsupervised clustering with feature selection. The problem is to estimate both labels and a sparse projection matrix of weights. To address this combinatorial non-convex problem maintaining a strict control on the sparsity of the matrix of weights, we propose an alternating minimization of the Fr…
Paper optimizes approximating high-dimensional diffusions by independent coordinates.
problem Optimizing approximations of high-dimensional diffusions by independent coordinates.
method Introduces independent projection as optimal for two criteria.
result Independent projection is optimal for two criteria related to entropy and convergence.
We consider the problem of minimizing a Lipschitz differentiable function over a class of sparse symmetric sets that has wide applications in engineering and science. For this problem, it is known that any accumulation point of the classical projected gradient (PG) method with a constant stepsize 1/L satisfies the $L…
FP uses random projections to train networks without feedback, achieving comparable performance to backpropagation.
problem Training neural networks without feedback from downstream layers.
method Forward Projection (FP) method that uses randomised nonlinear projections and closed-form regression.
result FP achieves comparable generalisation to backpropagation methods with a single forward pass, offering significant speedup.
We study the projected gradient descent method on low-rank matrix problems with a strongly convex objective. We use the Burer-Monteiro factorization approach to implicitly enforce low-rankness; such factorization introduces non-convexity in the objective. We focus on constraint sets that include both positive semi-defi…
New algorithm solves complex optimization problems without needing projections.
problem Optimizing nested functions under convex constraints with noisy evaluations.
method Projection-free conditional gradient-type algorithm for smooth stochastic multi-level composition optimization.
result The algorithm achieves ε-stationary solutions with complexity bounds independent of ε and T. Gradient flow preserves speed for integral Menger curvature curves.
problem Optimizing curves with integral Menger curvature constraints.
method Projected Sobolev gradient flow in Hilbert space.
result Long-time existence and C1,1-bounds for the flow. We propose a projected semi-stochastic gradient descent method with mini-batch for improving both the theoretical complexity and practical performance of the general stochastic gradient descent method (SGD). We are able to prove linear convergence under weak strong convexity assumption. This requires no strong convexit…
BBVI with STL converges geometrically under perfect specification, with quadratic variance bound.
problem Convergence rate of BBVI with STL estimator.
method Proved geometric convergence rate with quadratic variance bound for BBVI with STL estimator.
result BBVI with STL converges geometrically under perfect variational family specification.
Consider convex optimization problems subject to a large number of constraints. We focus on stochastic problems in which the objective takes the form of expected values and the feasible set is the intersection of a large number of convex sets. We propose a class of algorithms that perform both stochastic gradient desce…
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.
Faster reconstruction of compressed signals using conditional GAN and NPGD.
problem Recovering compressed signals from measurements.
method Network-based projected gradient descent (NPGD) combined with measurement-conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs/BEGANs).
result Significant speed-up in reconstruction (up to 140-175 times faster).
Projective DP-SGD reduces privacy error by identifying low-dimensional gradient subspaces.
problem Differentially private SGD's error rate scales with model's dimensionality, problematic for over-parameterized models.
method Projective DP-SGD, projecting noisy gradients to a low-dimensional subspace identified from a public dataset.
result The method reduces the dependence on model dimensionality, improving accuracy in high privacy regimes.
New bounds for mixing time and privacy in projected Langevin algorithm and noisy SGD.
problem Analyzing mixing times and privacy in projected Langevin algorithm and noisy SGD.
method New bounds derived using PABI framework and optimization problems.
result New bounds for mixing time and privacy in projected Langevin algorithm and noisy SGD, showing dependency on gradient regularity.
We consider stochastic strongly convex optimization with a complex inequality constraint. This complex inequality constraint may lead to computationally expensive projections in algorithmic iterations of the stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) methods. To reduce the computation costs pertaining to the projections, we pro…
Improves point-cloud reconstruction by optimizing projections with self-attention.
problem Inefficient and non-metric projection methods for sliced Wasserstein distances.
method Proposes distributional sliced Wasserstein distance with self-attention for permutation-invariant and metric optimization.
result Self-attention amortized distributional projection optimization achieves better performance in point-cloud reconstruction.
We model how Lipschitz continuity changes during neural network training.
problem Understanding how Lipschitz continuity evolves during training.
method We use a system of stochastic differential equations to capture the dynamics of Lipschitz continuity under SGD.
result We identify three factors driving the evolution of Lipschitz continuity: gradient flow projection, gradient noise, and Hessian projection.
Equivalence of convex optimization, saddle-point problems, and variational inequalities is a well-established concept. The variational inequality (VI) is a static problem which is studied under dynamical settings using a framework called the projected dynamical system, whose stationary points coincide with the static s…
Develops first and second-order pseudo-mirror descent methods for nonnegative function estimation.
problem Nonnegative function estimation in settings like MLE and trajectory optimization.
method First and second-order pseudo-mirror descent with pseudo-gradients and projections.
result Establishes tradeoffs and non-asymptotic bounds on model complexity.
The move from hand-designed to learned optimizers in machine learning has been quite successful for gradient-based and -free optimizers. When facing a constrained problem, however, maintaining feasibility typically requires a projection step, which might be computationally expensive and not differentiable. We show how …
Gradient descent at edge of stability stabilizes implicitly, following projected gradient descent.
problem Gradient descent's stability and sharpness behavior at the edge of instability.
method Cubic Taylor expansion analysis of gradient descent dynamics.
result Gradient descent at edge of stability implicitly follows projected gradient descent.
Flora uses random projections to achieve high-rank updates with low memory usage.
problem Excessive memory usage in large neural networks during training.
method Flora approximates LoRA using random projections to enable high-rank updates with sublinear space complexity.
result Flora achieves high-rank updates with significantly reduced memory usage compared to LoRA.
LDAdam optimizes large models with low memory by adapting to lower-dimensional subspaces.
problem Training large models efficiently and accurately.
method Adaptive optimization in lower-dimensional subspaces with a new projection-aware update rule and error feedback mechanism.
result LDAdam achieves accurate and efficient training of language models.
Algorithm selects public datasets for private machine learning.
problem Choosing the most suitable public dataset for private machine learning.
method Measures gradient subspace distance between public and private datasets.
result Excess risk scales with the subspace distance between gradients.