arXiv Machine Learning

Dual Space Preconditioning for Gradient Descent in the Overparameterized Regime

arXiv:2603. 10485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we study the convergence properties of the Dual Space Preconditioned Gradient Descent, encompassing optimizers such as Normalized Gradient Descent and Gradient Clipping.

arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Averaged Mirror Descent and Dual Gradient Methods: Convergent Algorithms for Entropic Gromov-Wasserstein Problems

The paper studies algorithms for computing the Entropic Gromov-Wasserstein (EGW) distance, a measure of discrepancy between metric measure spaces. It introduces Averaged Mirror Descent (AMD), which averages successive Mirror Descent steps and is proven to converge for any cost function, and shows that a dual gradient method with a fixed step size also converges for arbitrary costs, even when iterations are inexact. Empirical comparisons demonstrate that both AMD and the dual gradient method succeed on cases where classical Mirror Descent fails.

By Joanna Marks, Gabriel Rioux, Riccardo Passeggeri
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Robust Learning of a Group DRO Neuron

arXiv:2601. 18115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the problem of learning a single neuron under standard squared loss in the presence of arbitrary label noise and group-level distributional shifts, for a broad family of covariate distributions.

By Guyang Cao, Shuyao Li, Sushrut Karmalkar, Jelena Diakonikolas