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# Speed learning on the fly

@article{Mass2015SpeedLO,
title={Speed learning on the fly},
author={Pierre Mass{\'e} and Yann Ollivier},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2015},
volume={abs/1511.02540}
}
• Published 2015
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• ArXiv
The practical performance of online stochastic gradient descent algorithms is highly dependent on the chosen step size, which must be tediously hand-tuned in many applications. The same is true for more advanced variants of stochastic gradients, such as SAGA, SVRG, or AdaGrad. Here we propose to adapt the step size by performing a gradient descent on the step size itself, viewing the whole performance of the learning trajectory as a function of step size. Importantly, this adaptation can be… Expand

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