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08/04/2023
Adaptive Proximal Gradient Method for Convex Optimization
In this paper, we explore two fundamental first-order algorithms in conv...
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05/29/2023
Partially Personalized Federated Learning: Breaking the Curse of Data Heterogeneity
We present a partially personalized formulation of Federated Learning (F...
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05/25/2023
DoWG Unleashed: An Efficient Universal Parameter-Free Gradient Descent Method
This paper proposes a new easy-to-implement parameter-free gradient-base...
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02/07/2023
Two Losses Are Better Than One: Faster Optimization Using a Cheaper Proxy
We present an algorithm for minimizing an objective with hard-to-compute...
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01/17/2023
Convergence of First-Order Algorithms for Meta-Learning with Moreau Envelopes
In this work, we consider the problem of minimizing the sum of Moreau en...
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08/11/2022
Super-Universal Regularized Newton Method
We analyze the performance of a variant of Newton method with quadratic ...
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08/10/2022
Adaptive Learning Rates for Faster Stochastic Gradient Methods
In this work, we propose new adaptive step size strategies that improve ...
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06/15/2022
Asynchronous SGD Beats Minibatch SGD Under Arbitrary Delays
The existing analysis of asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) ...
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02/18/2022
ProxSkip: Yes! Local Gradient Steps Provably Lead to Communication Acceleration! Finally!
We introduce ProxSkip – a surprisingly simple and provably efficient met...
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01/26/2022
Server-Side Stepsizes and Sampling Without Replacement Provably Help in Federated Optimization
We present a theoretical study of server-side optimization in federated ...
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12/03/2021
Regularized Newton Method with Global O(1/k^2) Convergence
We present a Newton-type method that converges fast from any initializat...
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02/16/2021
IntSGD: Floatless Compression of Stochastic Gradients
We propose a family of lossy integer compressions for Stochastic Gradien...
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02/12/2021
Proximal and Federated Random Reshuffling
Random Reshuffling (RR), also known as Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)...
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06/10/2020
Random Reshuffling: Simple Analysis with Vast Improvements
Random Reshuffling (RR) is an algorithm for minimizing finite-sum functi...
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04/03/2020
Dualize, Split, Randomize: Fast Nonsmooth Optimization Algorithms
We introduce a new primal-dual algorithm for minimizing the sum of three...
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12/03/2019
Stochastic Newton and Cubic Newton Methods with Simple Local Linear-Quadratic Rates
We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for...
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10/21/2019
Adaptive gradient descent without descent
We present a strikingly simple proof that two rules are sufficient to au...
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09/16/2019
Sinkhorn Algorithm as a Special Case of Stochastic Mirror Descent
We present a new perspective on the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm by sho...
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09/10/2019
Better Communication Complexity for Local SGD
We revisit the local Stochastic Gradient Descent (local SGD) method and ...
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09/10/2019
First Analysis of Local GD on Heterogeneous Data
We provide the first convergence analysis of local gradient descent for ...
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06/25/2019
A Self-supervised Approach to Hierarchical Forecasting with Applications to Groupwise Synthetic Controls
When forecasting time series with a hierarchical structure, the existing...
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05/27/2019
Revisiting Stochastic Extragradient
We consider a new extension of the extragradient method that is motivate...
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01/27/2019
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It is well known that many optimization methods, including SGD, SAGA, an...
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01/26/2019
Distributed Learning with Compressed Gradient Differences
Training very large machine learning models requires a distributed compu...
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09/09/2018
SEGA: Variance Reduction via Gradient Sketching
We propose a randomized first order optimization method--SEGA (SkEtched ...
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06/25/2018
