Convergence of a stochastic gradient method with momentum for non-smooth non-convex optimization
2020 (English)In: 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020, International Machine Learning Society (IMLS) , 2020, p. 6576-6585Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Stochastic gradient methods with momentum are widely used in applications and at the core of optimization subroutines in many popular machine learning libraries. However, their sample complexities have not been obtained for problems beyond those that are convex or smooth. This paper establishes the convergence rate of a stochastic subgradient method with a momentum term of Polyak type for a broad class of non-smooth, non-convex, and constrained optimization problems. Our key innovation is the construction of a special Lyapunov function for which the proven complexity can be achieved without any tuning of the momentum parameter. For smooth problems, we extend the known complexity bound to the constrained case and demonstrate how the unconstrained case can be analyzed under weaker assumptions than the state-of-The-Art. Numerical results confirm our theoretical developments.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
International Machine Learning Society (IMLS) , 2020. p. 6576-6585
Keywords [en]
Constrained optimization, Convex optimization, Gradient methods, Lyapunov functions, Machine learning, Momentum, Complexity bounds, Constrained optimi-zation problems, Convergence rates, Nonconvex optimization, Numerical results, Stochastic gradient methods, Sub-gradient methods, Theoretical development, Stochastic systems
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-302903Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099888979OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-302903DiVA, id: diva2:1599870
Conference
37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020, 13 July 2020 through 18 July 2020
Note
QC 20211002
2021-10-022021-10-022023-04-05Bibliographically approved