arXiv:2601. 07326v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies AdamW-style Shampoo, an effective variant of the classical Shampoo that won the external tuning track of the AlgoPerf neural network training competition.
By Huan Li, Yiming Dong, Zhouchen Lin
arXiv:2609.15723v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Traditional variance reduction methods (e.g., SPIDER, SARAH, STORM) have been extensively investigated for improving the convergence rates of stochasti...
By Wei Jiang, Sifan Yang, Yibo Wang, Lijun Zhang, Zechao Li
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:2505.20817v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Gradient clipping is widely used in language-model training to control heavy-tailed gradient noise and can improve convergence guarantees ove...
By Taha El Bakkali El Kadi, Savelii Chezhegov, Aleksandr Beznosikov, Samuel Horv\'ath, Eduard Gorbunov
arXiv:2310. 15976v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: signSGD is attractive in nonconvex optimization because it communicates sign-valued rather than full-precision gradients.
By Zhen Qin, Zhishuai Liu, Pan Xu
arXiv:2603. 04895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Overparameterized ML models, including neural networks, typically induce underdetermined training objectives with multiple global minima.
By Kuo-Wei Lai, Guanghui Wang, Molei Tao, Vidya Muthukumar
arXiv:2609. 03762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The computation of the Bures-Wasserstein (BW) barycenter of an ensemble of positive definite matrices arises throughout machine learning, optimal transport, and quantum information.
By A. Afham
arXiv:2608. 13467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the Moreau--Yosida unadjusted Langevin algorithm (MYULA) for the nonsmooth composite target \[ \pi(dx)\propto \exp\{-f(x)-g(x)\}\,dx, \qquad x\in\mathbb R^d, \] where \(f\) is \(m\)-strongly convex with \(L_f\)-Lipschitz gradient and \(g\) is convex and \(G\)-Lipschitz.
By Yuchen Xin, Zhihua Zhang
arXiv:2605. 23391v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for coupled multiphysics systems suffer systematic accuracy degradation as inter-equation coupling strengthens.
By Youngjae Park, Jaemin Kim, Junghwa Hong
arXiv:2609. 17973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a new single-loop algorithmic framework for smooth nonconvex--concave minimax optimization.
By Minghao Zhang, Zi Xu
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
arXiv:2608. 04382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient descent has been of particular interest in modern machine learning beyond sole focus on optimization.
By Han Bao