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On stochastic accelerated gradient with non-strongly convexity
AIMS Mathematics 2022, 7(1): 1445-1459
Published: 15 January 2022
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In this paper, we consider stochastic approximation algorithms for least-square and logistic regression with no strong-convexity assumption on the convex loss functions. We develop two algorithms with varied step-size motivated by the accelerated gradient algorithm which is initiated for convex stochastic programming. We analyse the developed algorithms that achieve a rate of O ( 1 / n 2 ) where n is the number of samples, which is tighter than the best convergence rate O ( 1 / n ) achieved so far on non-strongly-convex stochastic approximation with constant-step-size, for classic supervised learning problems. Our analysis is based on a non-asymptotic analysis of the empirical risk (in expectation) with less assumptions that existing analysis results. It does not require the finite-dimensionality assumption and the Lipschitz condition. We carry out controlled experiments on synthetic and some standard machine learning data sets. Empirical results justify our theoretical analysis and show a faster convergence rate than existing other methods.

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