Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization with Large Minibatches

25 Sep 2017  ·  Weiran Wang, Nathan Srebro ·

We study stochastic optimization of nonconvex loss functions, which are typical objectives for training neural networks. We propose stochastic approximation algorithms which optimize a series of regularized, nonlinearized losses on large minibatches of samples, using only first-order gradient information. Our algorithms provably converge to an approximate critical point of the expected objective with faster rates than minibatch stochastic gradient descent, and facilitate better parallelization by allowing larger minibatches.

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