Global Convergence of SGD For Logistic Loss on Two Layer Neural Nets

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Main Authors: Gopalani, Pulkit, Jha, Samyak, Mukherjee, Anirbit
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author Gopalani, Pulkit
Jha, Samyak
Mukherjee, Anirbit
author_facet Gopalani, Pulkit
Jha, Samyak
Mukherjee, Anirbit
contents In this note, we demonstrate a first-of-its-kind provable convergence of SGD to the global minima of appropriately regularized logistic empirical risk of depth $2$ nets -- for arbitrary data and with any number of gates with adequately smooth and bounded activations like sigmoid and tanh. We also prove an exponentially fast convergence rate for continuous time SGD that also applies to smooth unbounded activations like SoftPlus. Our key idea is to show the existence of Frobenius norm regularized logistic loss functions on constant-sized neural nets which are "Villani functions" and thus be able to build on recent progress with analyzing SGD on such objectives.
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spellingShingle Global Convergence of SGD For Logistic Loss on Two Layer Neural Nets
Gopalani, Pulkit
Jha, Samyak
Mukherjee, Anirbit
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
In this note, we demonstrate a first-of-its-kind provable convergence of SGD to the global minima of appropriately regularized logistic empirical risk of depth $2$ nets -- for arbitrary data and with any number of gates with adequately smooth and bounded activations like sigmoid and tanh. We also prove an exponentially fast convergence rate for continuous time SGD that also applies to smooth unbounded activations like SoftPlus. Our key idea is to show the existence of Frobenius norm regularized logistic loss functions on constant-sized neural nets which are "Villani functions" and thus be able to build on recent progress with analyzing SGD on such objectives.
title Global Convergence of SGD For Logistic Loss on Two Layer Neural Nets
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09258