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Autori principali: Gupta, Kanan, Wojtowytsch, Stephan
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08395
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author Gupta, Kanan
Wojtowytsch, Stephan
author_facet Gupta, Kanan
Wojtowytsch, Stephan
contents While momentum-based optimization algorithms are commonly used in the notoriously non-convex optimization problems of deep learning, their analysis has historically been restricted to the convex and strongly convex setting. In this article, we partially close this gap between theory and practice and demonstrate that virtually identical guarantees can be obtained in optimization problems with a `benign' non-convexity. We show that these weaker geometric assumptions are well justified in overparametrized deep learning, at least locally. Variations of this result are obtained for a continuous time model of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm (NAG), the classical discrete time version of NAG, and versions of NAG with stochastic gradient estimates with purely additive noise and with noise that exhibits both additive and multiplicative scaling.
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spellingShingle Nesterov acceleration in benignly non-convex landscapes
Gupta, Kanan
Wojtowytsch, Stephan
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
While momentum-based optimization algorithms are commonly used in the notoriously non-convex optimization problems of deep learning, their analysis has historically been restricted to the convex and strongly convex setting. In this article, we partially close this gap between theory and practice and demonstrate that virtually identical guarantees can be obtained in optimization problems with a `benign' non-convexity. We show that these weaker geometric assumptions are well justified in overparametrized deep learning, at least locally. Variations of this result are obtained for a continuous time model of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm (NAG), the classical discrete time version of NAG, and versions of NAG with stochastic gradient estimates with purely additive noise and with noise that exhibits both additive and multiplicative scaling.
title Nesterov acceleration in benignly non-convex landscapes
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08395