Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent with Variance Reduction for Non-Convex Optimization
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چکیده
We provide the first theoretical analysis on the convergence rate of the asynchronous stochastic variance reduced gradient (SVRG) descent algorithm on nonconvex optimization. Recent studies have shown that the asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) based algorithms with variance reduction converge with a linear convergent rate on convex problems. However, there is no work to analyze asynchronous SGD with variance reduction technique on non-convex problem. In this paper, we study two asynchronous parallel implementations of SVRG: one is on a distributed memory system and the other is on a shared memory system. We provide the theoretical analysis that both algorithms can obtain a convergence rate of O(1/T ), and linear speed up is achievable if the number of workers is upper bounded.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1604.03584 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016