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# Fast Stochastic Methods for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization

@article{Reddi2016FastSM,
title={Fast Stochastic Methods for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization},
author={Sashank J. Reddi and Suvrit Sra and Barnab{\'a}s P{\'o}czos and Alex Smola},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2016},
volume={abs/1605.06900}
}
• Published 23 May 2016
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• ArXiv
We analyze stochastic algorithms for optimizing nonconvex, nonsmooth finite-sum problems, where the nonconvex part is smooth and the nonsmooth part is convex. Surprisingly, unlike the smooth case, our knowledge of this fundamental problem is very limited. For example, it is not known whether the proximal stochastic gradient method with constant minibatch converges to a stationary point. To tackle this issue, we develop fast stochastic algorithms that provably converge to a stationary point for…

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