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In this talk, I will consider the online learning problem where a convex function is minimized observing recursively the gradients. I will introduce SAEW, a new procedure that accelerates exponential weights procedures with the slow rate 1/sqrt(T) to procedures achieving the fast rate 1/T. Under the strong convexity of the risk, it achieves the optimal rate of convergence for approximating sparse parameters in R^d. The acceleration is achieved by using successive averaging steps in an online fashion. The procedure also produces sparse estimators thanks to additional hard threshold steps.
Dates:
Friday, February 10, 2017 - 11:00
Location:
Inria, room A00
Speaker(s):
Pierre Gaillard
Affiliation(s):
Inria Sierra
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