Advanced Optimization Techniques for Machine Learning
Chapter 1: Foundations of Optimization in Machine Learning
Revisiting Gradient Descent Variants
The Role of Convexity
Understanding Loss Surfaces
Convergence Analysis Fundamentals
Challenges in Non-Convex Optimization
Numerical Stability Considerations
Practice: Analyzing Convergence Behavior
Chapter 2: Second-Order Optimization Methods
Newton's Method: Theory and Derivation
The Hessian Matrix: Computation and Properties
Challenges with Newton's Method
Quasi-Newton Methods: Approximating the Hessian
BFGS Algorithm Explained
Limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS)
Trust Region Methods
Hands-on Practical: Implementing L-BFGS
Chapter 3: Adaptive Learning Rate Algorithms
Limitations of Fixed Learning Rates
AdaGrad: Adapting Rates Based on Past Gradients
RMSprop: Addressing AdaGrad's Diminishing Rates
Adam: Combining Momentum and RMSprop
Adamax and Nadam Variants
AMSGrad: Improving Adam's Convergence
Understanding Learning Rate Schedules
Hands-on Practical: Comparing Adaptive Optimizers
Chapter 4: Optimization for Large-Scale Datasets
Stochastic Gradient Descent Revisited: Variance Reduction
Stochastic Average Gradient (SAG)
Stochastic Variance Reduced Gradient (SVRG)
Mini-batch Gradient Descent Trade-offs
Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent
Data Parallelism Strategies
Hands-on Practical: Implementing SVRG
Chapter 5: Distributed Optimization Strategies
Motivation for Distributed Training
Parameter Server Architectures
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Updates
Communication Bottlenecks and Strategies
All-Reduce Algorithms
Federated Learning Optimization Principles
Hands-on Practical: Simulating Distributed SGD
Chapter 6: Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning
Characteristics of Deep Learning Loss Landscapes
Impact of Network Architecture on Optimization
Normalization Techniques and Optimization
Gradient Clipping and Explosion/Vanishing Gradients
Initialization Strategies and Their Effect
Regularization Methods as Implicit Optimization
Practice: Tuning Optimizers for Deep Networks
Chapter 7: Advanced and Specialized Optimization Topics
Constrained Optimization Fundamentals
Lagrangian Duality and KKT Conditions
Projected Gradient Methods
Derivative-Free Optimization Overview
Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Tuning
Optimization for Reinforcement Learning Policies
Practice: Implementing Projected Gradient Descent
Normalization Techniques and Optimization
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- Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift, Sergey Ioffe, Christian Szegedy, 2015 Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vol. 37 (PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research)) DOI: 10.5555/3045118.3045167 - Introduces Batch Normalization, a technique to reduce internal covariate shift and accelerate deep network training.
- Layer Normalization, Jimmy Lei Ba, Jamie Ryan Kiros, Geoffrey E. Hinton, 2016 arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06450 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1607.06450 - Presents Layer Normalization, an alternative to Batch Normalization that is independent of batch size.
- Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, 2016 (MIT Press) - Offers a comprehensive treatment of deep learning foundations, including optimization challenges and normalization techniques.
- Group Normalization, Yuxin Wu, Kaiming He, 2019 International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 128 (Springer US) DOI: 10.1007/s11263-019-01198-w - Proposes Group Normalization as an effective alternative for CNNs when Batch Normalization is not feasible due to small batch sizes.