Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction and its convergence analysis

Hiroyuki Kasai, Hiroyuki Sato, Bamdev Mishra
Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 84:269-278, 2018.

Abstract

Stochastic variance reduction algorithms have recently become popular for minimizing the average of a large, but finite number of loss functions. The present paper proposes a Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction (R-SQN-VR). The key challenges of averaging, adding, and subtracting multiple gradients are addressed with notions of retraction and vector transport. We present convergence analyses of R-SQN-VR on both non-convex and retraction-convex functions under retraction and vector transport operators. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on the Karcher mean computation on the symmetric positive-definite manifold and the low-rank matrix completion on the Grassmann manifold. In all cases, the proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art Riemannian batch and stochastic gradient algorithms.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v84-kasai18a, title = {Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction and its convergence analysis}, author = {Kasai, Hiroyuki and Sato, Hiroyuki and Mishra, Bamdev}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics}, pages = {269--278}, year = {2018}, editor = {Storkey, Amos and Perez-Cruz, Fernando}, volume = {84}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {09--11 Apr}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v84/kasai18a/kasai18a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v84/kasai18a.html}, abstract = {Stochastic variance reduction algorithms have recently become popular for minimizing the average of a large, but finite number of loss functions. The present paper proposes a Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction (R-SQN-VR). The key challenges of averaging, adding, and subtracting multiple gradients are addressed with notions of retraction and vector transport. We present convergence analyses of R-SQN-VR on both non-convex and retraction-convex functions under retraction and vector transport operators. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on the Karcher mean computation on the symmetric positive-definite manifold and the low-rank matrix completion on the Grassmann manifold. In all cases, the proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art Riemannian batch and stochastic gradient algorithms. } }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction and its convergence analysis %A Hiroyuki Kasai %A Hiroyuki Sato %A Bamdev Mishra %B Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2018 %E Amos Storkey %E Fernando Perez-Cruz %F pmlr-v84-kasai18a %I PMLR %P 269--278 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v84/kasai18a.html %V 84 %X Stochastic variance reduction algorithms have recently become popular for minimizing the average of a large, but finite number of loss functions. The present paper proposes a Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction (R-SQN-VR). The key challenges of averaging, adding, and subtracting multiple gradients are addressed with notions of retraction and vector transport. We present convergence analyses of R-SQN-VR on both non-convex and retraction-convex functions under retraction and vector transport operators. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on the Karcher mean computation on the symmetric positive-definite manifold and the low-rank matrix completion on the Grassmann manifold. In all cases, the proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art Riemannian batch and stochastic gradient algorithms.
APA
Kasai, H., Sato, H. & Mishra, B.. (2018). Riemannian stochastic quasi-Newton algorithm with variance reduction and its convergence analysis. Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 84:269-278 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v84/kasai18a.html.

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