Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Minibatch Proximal Gradient: Less-Than-Single-Pass Optimization with Nearly Optimal Generalization

Jul 12, 2020

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Stochastic variance-reduced gradient (SVRG) algorithms have been shown to work favorably in solving large-scale learning problems. Despite the remarkable success, the stochastic gradient complexity of SVRG-type algorithms usually scales linearly with data size and thus could still be expensive for huge data. To address this deficiency, we propose a hybrid stochastic-deterministic minibatch proximal gradient (HSDMPG) algorithm for strongly-convex problems that enjoys provably improved data-size-independent complexity guarantees. More precisely, for quadratic loss F() of n components, we prove that HSDMPG can attain an ϵ-optimization-error E[F(θ)-F(θ^*)] ≤ϵ within 𝒪(κ^1.5/ϵ^0.25log^1.5(1/ϵ) ∧(κ√(n)log^2(1/ϵ) +κ^3/n^1.5ϵ)) stochastic gradient evaluations, where κ is condition number. For generic strongly convex loss functions, we prove a nearly identical complexity bound though at the cost of slightly increased logarithmic factors. For large-scale learning problems, our complexity bounds are superior to those of the prior state-of-the-art SVRG algorithms with or without dependence on data size. Particularly, in the case of ϵ=𝒪(1/√(n)) which is at the order of intrinsic excess error bound of a learning model and thus sufficient for generalization, the stochastic gradient complexity bounds of HSDMPG for quadratic and generic loss functions are respectively 𝒪 (n^0.875log^1.5(n)) and 𝒪 (n^0.875log^2.25(n)), which to our best knowledge, for the first time achieve optimal generalization in less than a single pass over data. Extensive numerical results demonstrate the computational advantages of our algorithm over the prior ones.

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