Summary of Precise Asymptotics Of Reweighted Least-squares Algorithms For Linear Diagonal Networks, by Chiraag Kaushik et al.
Precise asymptotics of reweighted least-squares algorithms for linear diagonal networks
by Chiraag Kaushik, Justin Romberg, Vidya Muthukumar
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed algorithms aim to recover an unknown signal from linear measurements by iteratively solving weighted least squares problems. The classical IRLS algorithm has shown favorable empirical performance and theoretical guarantees for sparse recovery and l1-norm minimization. Recent connections have been made between IRLS and non-convex linear neural networks that exploit low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional models. This work provides a unified asymptotic analysis for a family of algorithms, including IRLS, lin-RFM, and alternating minimization on linear diagonal neural networks. The analysis shows that the algorithm can achieve favorable performance in only a handful of iterations with an appropriate reweighting policy. Additionally, leveraging group-sparse structure in the reweighting scheme provably improves test error compared to coordinate-wise reweighting. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper studies how to recover an unknown signal from some measurements. It looks at different algorithms that can do this and tries to understand what makes them work well or poorly. One important algorithm is called IRLS, which has been used for things like finding the right combination of features in images. The paper shows that some new algorithms are related to IRLS and that they can be useful for certain types of problems. It also explains why some ways of doing things are better than others. |
