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Poster
Accelerated Mini-Batch Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent
Shai Shalev-Shwartz · Tong Zhang

Thu Dec 05 07:00 PM -- 11:59 PM (PST) @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor

Stochastic dual coordinate ascent (SDCA) is an effective technique for solving regularized loss minimization problems in machine learning. This paper considers an extension of SDCA under the mini-batch setting that is often used in practice. Our main contribution is to introduce an accelerated mini-batch version of SDCA and prove a fast convergence rate for this method. We discuss an implementation of our method over a parallel computing system, and compare the results to both the vanilla stochastic dual coordinate ascent and to the accelerated deterministic gradient descent method of Nesterov [2007].

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Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Mobileye & HUJI)
Tong Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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