SOREL: A Stochastic Algorithm for Spectral Risks Minimization

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Autori principali: Ge, Yuze, Jiang, Rujun
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author Ge, Yuze
Jiang, Rujun
author_facet Ge, Yuze
Jiang, Rujun
contents The spectral risk has wide applications in machine learning, especially in real-world decision-making, where people are not only concerned with models' average performance. By assigning different weights to the losses of different sample points, rather than the same weights as in the empirical risk, it allows the model's performance to lie between the average performance and the worst-case performance. In this paper, we propose SOREL, the first stochastic gradient-based algorithm with convergence guarantees for the spectral risk minimization. Previous algorithms often consider adding a strongly concave function to smooth the spectral risk, thus lacking convergence guarantees for the original spectral risk. We theoretically prove that our algorithm achieves a near-optimal rate of $\widetilde{O}(1/\sqrtε)$ in terms of $ε$. Experiments on real datasets show that our algorithm outperforms existing algorithms in most cases, both in terms of runtime and sample complexity.
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spellingShingle SOREL: A Stochastic Algorithm for Spectral Risks Minimization
Ge, Yuze
Jiang, Rujun
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
The spectral risk has wide applications in machine learning, especially in real-world decision-making, where people are not only concerned with models' average performance. By assigning different weights to the losses of different sample points, rather than the same weights as in the empirical risk, it allows the model's performance to lie between the average performance and the worst-case performance. In this paper, we propose SOREL, the first stochastic gradient-based algorithm with convergence guarantees for the spectral risk minimization. Previous algorithms often consider adding a strongly concave function to smooth the spectral risk, thus lacking convergence guarantees for the original spectral risk. We theoretically prove that our algorithm achieves a near-optimal rate of $\widetilde{O}(1/\sqrtε)$ in terms of $ε$. Experiments on real datasets show that our algorithm outperforms existing algorithms in most cases, both in terms of runtime and sample complexity.
title SOREL: A Stochastic Algorithm for Spectral Risks Minimization
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14618