Abstract
This paper introduces AdaSDCA: an adaptive variant of stochastic dual coordinate ascent (SDCA) for solving the regularized empirical risk minimization problems. Our modification consists in allowing the method to adaptively change the probability distribution over the dual variables throughout the iterative process. AdaSDCA achieves provably better complexity bound than SDCA with the best fixed probability distribution, known as importance sampling. However, it is of a theoretical character as it is expensive to implement. We also propose AdaSDCA+: a practical variant which in our experiments outperforms existing non-adaptive methods.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2015 |
Publisher | International Machine Learning Society (IMLS)[email protected] |
Pages | 674-683 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781510810587 |
State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |