Abstract Using the strategy of reducing the variance in smooth stochastic method can effectively improve the convergence of the algorithm. An algorithm, hybrid regularized mirror descent with reduced variance and weighted average (α-HRMDVR-W), is obtained by using weighted average and reduced variance for solving “L1+ L2 + Hinge” non-smooth strong convex optimization problem. The variance reduction strategies are utilized at each step of the iterative process, and the weighted average of the output mode is used. It is proved that the α-HRMDVR-W has optimal convergence rate and the convergence rate does not depend on the number of samples. Unlike the existing variance reduction methods, α-HRMDVR-W only uses a small portion of samples instead of the total samples to modify the gradient at each iteration. Experimental results show that α-HRMDVR-W reduces the variance and decreases CPU time.
About author:: ZHU Xiaohui(Corresponding author), born in 1989, master student. His research interests include pattern recognition.TAO Qing, born in 1965, Ph.D., professor. His research interests include pattern recognition.
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