Strong geodesic convex function and strong monotone vector field of order on Riemannian manifolds have been established. A characterization of strong geodesic convex function of order for the continuously differentiable functions has been discussed. The relation between the solution of a new variational inequal…
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FastAdaBelief improves convergence rate of AdaBelief by exploiting strong convexity.
This paper shows how to learn variational inequalities fast with strong monotonicity.
Estimate collapsibility of causal effects in CPDAGs via strong d-convex hulls.
SAGA is a fast incremental gradient method on the finite sum problem and its effectiveness has been tested on a vast of applications. In this paper, we analyze SAGA on a class of non-strongly convex and non-convex statistical problem such as Lasso, group Lasso, Logistic regression with regularization, linear r…
Harmonic functions on compact symmetric spaces exhibit strong convexity properties.
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…
Optimal control in changing systems without strong convexity assumptions.
New guarantees for Group LASSO in sparse convex optimization.
Epoch-GDA achieves optimal convergence rate for SCSC min-max problems.
New algorithm solves saddle point problems in Banach spaces.
We show that an infinite dimensional Lie group in Milnor's sense has the strong Trotter property if it is locally -convex. This is a continuity condition imposed on the Lie group multiplication that generalizes the triangle inequality for locally convex vector spaces, and is equivalent to -continuity of the evo…
The versatility of exponential families, along with their attendant convexity properties, make them a popular and effective statistical model. A central issue is learning these models in high-dimensions, such as when there is some sparsity pattern of the optimal parameter. This work characterizes a certain strong conve…
We propose a DC proximal Newton algorithm for solving nonconvex regularized sparse learning problems in high dimensions. Our proposed algorithm integrates the proximal Newton algorithm with multi-stage convex relaxation based on the difference of convex (DC) programming, and enjoys both strong computational and statist…
This work studies the strong duality of non-convex matrix factorization problems: we show that under certain dual conditions, these problems and its dual have the same optimum. This has been well understood for convex optimization, but little was known for non-convex problems. We propose a novel analytical framework an…
NAPP-ERM improves ERM with differential privacy guarantees by iteratively achieving target regularization and delivering strong convexity.
New findings on strong convexity in triangulations of convex polygons.
We consider empirical risk minimization of linear predictors with convex loss functions. Such problems can be reformulated as convex-concave saddle point problems, and thus are well suitable for primal-dual first-order algorithms. However, primal-dual algorithms often require explicit strongly convex regularization in …
The Adam algorithm has become extremely popular for large-scale machine learning. Under convexity condition, it has been proved to enjoy a data-dependant regret bound where is the time horizon. However, whether strong convexity can be utilized to further improve the performance remains an open problem…
Stochastic approximation (SA) is a classical approach for stochastic convex optimization. Previous studies have demonstrated that the convergence rate of SA can be improved by introducing either smoothness or strong convexity condition. In this paper, we make use of smoothness and strong convexity simultaneously to boo…
SVRG and its variants are among the state of art optimization algorithms for large scale machine learning problems. It is well known that SVRG converges linearly when the objective function is strongly convex. However this setup can be restrictive, and does not include several important formulations such as Lasso, grou…
Stochastic gradient algorithms estimate the gradient based on only one or a few samples and enjoy low computational cost per iteration. They have been widely used in large-scale optimization problems. However, stochastic gradient algorithms are usually slow to converge and achieve sub-linear convergence rates, due to t…
RR algorithm improves convergence rate without strong convexity assumptions.
Boosts weak online learners to strong ones with sublinear regret.
On a Riemannian manifold, lower Ricci curvature bounds are known to be characterized by geodesic convexity properties of various entropies with respect to the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein square distance from optimal transportation. These notions also make sense in a (nonsmooth) metric measure setting, where they…
Boosting is a popular way to derive powerful learners from simpler hypothesis classes. Following previous work (Mason et al., 1999; Friedman, 2000) on general boosting frameworks, we analyze gradient-based descent algorithms for boosting with respect to any convex objective and introduce a new measure of weak learner p…
Unified convergence analysis of alpha-SVRG under strong convexity.
New approach to convex hulls for low-rank problems.
Paper proposes DC functions for better regularization of inverse problems with theoretical guarantees.
New insights show NAG and FISTA converge linearly without knowing strong convexity modulus.
Global convergence for robust regression problems via IRLS with enhancements.
Strongly convex bodies can be approximated by smooth ones.
PF-LaCG removes the need for knowing smoothness and strong convexity parameters for locally accelerated CG.
The paper explores volume product and slicing conjectures using convex body deformations.
Kernel k-Means algorithm improves clustering of non-linear data.
Geodesic convexity generalizes the notion of (vector space) convexity to nonlinear metric spaces. But unlike convex optimization, geodesically convex (g-convex) optimization is much less developed. In this paper we contribute to the understanding of g-convex optimization by developing iteration complexity analysis for …
Extends boosting to multiclass online agnostic classification.
In this work we study convex relaxations of quadratic optimisation problems over permutation matrices. While existing semidefinite programming approaches can achieve remarkably tight relaxations, they have the strong disadvantage that they lift the original -dimensional variable to an -d…
New method simplifies checking consistency of differentiable loss functions.
New methods solve complex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions.
New DP algorithm improves privacy and efficiency for convex optimization.
New method uses momentum to converge in DC optimization with small batches.
Study sharp inequalities for perimeter functionals in capillarity and convex cones.
The proximal inertial gradient descent is efficient for the composite minimization and applicable for broad of machine learning problems. In this paper, we revisit the computational complexity of this algorithm and present other novel results, especially on the convergence rates of the objective function values. The no…
The main goal of this paper is to investigate under which conditions cash-subadditive convex dynamic risk measures are time-consistent. Proceeding as in Detlefsen and Scandolo \cite{detlef-scandolo} and inspired by their result, we give a dual representation of dynamic cash-subadditive convex risk measures (that can al…
In this paper we generalize the framework of the feasible descent method (FDM) to a randomized (R-FDM) and a coordinate-wise random feasible descent method (RC-FDM) framework. We show that the famous SDCA algorithm for optimizing the SVM dual problem, or the stochastic coordinate descent method for the LASSO problem, f…
The paper proves isometric embeddings for smooth manifolds.
Novel methods for accelerating optimization in complex bilevel and minimax problems.