arXiv AI

Distributed Optimization via Energy Conservation Laws in Dilated Coordinates

arXiv:2409. 19279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continuous-time models can reveal accelerated structures in distributed optimization, but their rates need not survive direct discretization.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

A lower bound for stepsize-based acceleration of gradient descent

arXiv:2608. 10418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that, for smooth convex optimization, plain gradient descent can be accelerated from its textbook convergence rate of $O(T^{-1})$ (where $T$ denotes the number of iterations) to $O\big(T^{-\log_2(1+\sqrt{2})}\big)$ using carefully designed stepsize schedules alone, without resorting to momentum or other algorithmic modifications.

By Jianhao Ma, Yuxin Chen