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Stab-SGD: Noise-Adaptivity in Smooth Optimization with Stability Ratios

Neural Information Processing Systems

In the context of smooth stochastic optimization with first order methods, we introduce the stability ratio of gradient estimates, as a measure of local relative noise level, from zero for pure noise to one for negligible noise. We show that a schedulefree variant (Stab-SGD) of stochastic gradient descent obtained by just shrinking the learning rate by the stability ratio achieves real adaptivity to noise levels (i.e.







RecursivePAC-Bayes: AFrequentistApproachto SequentialPriorUpdateswithNoInformationLoss

Neural Information Processing Systems

However, despite two and a half decades of research, the ability to update priors sequentially without losing confidence information along the way remained elusiveforPAC-Bayes.