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Acceleration through Optimistic No-Regret Dynamics

Jun-Kun Wang, Jacob D. Abernethy

Neural Information Processing Systems

Zero-sum games can be solved using online learning dynamics, where a classical technique involves simulating two no-regret algorithms that play against each other and, afterT rounds, the average iterate is guaranteed to solve the original optimization problem with error decaying asO(logT/T). In this paper we show that the technique can be enhanced to a rate ofO(1/T2) by extending recent work [22, 25] that leverages optimistic learning to speed upequilibrium computation.



Gradient Descent Meets Shift-and-Invert Preconditioning for Eigenvector Computation

Zhiqiang Xu

Neural Information Processing Systems

Shift-and-invert preconditioning, as a classic acceleration technique for the leading eigenvector computation, has received much attention again recently, owing to fast least-squares solvers for efficiently approximating matrix inversions in power iterations.


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Neural Information Processing Systems

However,theanalysis ofsuchdataposes challenges due to the high levels of noise, sparsity, and data scale encountered.