An Accelerated Linearly Convergent Stochastic L-BFGS Algorithm.

Chang, Daqing; Sun, Shiliang; Zhang, Changshui · IEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The limited memory version of the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (L-BFGS) algorithm is the most popular quasi-Newton algorithm in machine learning and optimization. Recently, it was shown that the stochastic L-BFGS (sL-BFGS) algorithm with the variance-reduced stochastic gradient converges linearly. In this paper, we propose a new sL-BFGS algorithm by importing a proper momentum. We prove an accelerated linear convergence rate under mild conditions. The experimental results on different data sets also verify this acceleration advantage.