Variance Reduced Coordinate Descent with Acceleration: New Method With a Surprising Application to Finite-Sum Problems

Filip Hanzely, Dmitry Koyaley, Peter Richtarik

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Abstract

We propose an accelerated version of stochastic variance reduced coordinate descent – ASVRCD. As other variance reduced coordinate descent methods such as SEGA or SVRCD, our method can deal with problems that include a non-separable and non-smooth regularizer, while accessing a random block of partial derivatives in each iteration only. However, ASVRCD incorporates Nesterov’s momentum, which offers favorable iteration complexity guarantees over both SEGA and SVRCD. As a by-product of our theory, we show that a variant of Katyusha [1] is a specific case of ASVRCD, recovering the optimal oracle complexity for the finite sum objective
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
PublisherarXiv
StatePublished - 2020

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