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Summary of On the Performance Analysis Of Momentum Method: a Frequency Domain Perspective, by Xianliang Li et al.


On the Performance Analysis of Momentum Method: A Frequency Domain Perspective

by Xianliang Li, Jun Luo, Zhiwei Zheng, Hanxiao Wang, Li Luo, Lingkun Wen, Linlong Wu, Sheng Xu

First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Nov 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: None

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
The paper presents a frequency domain analysis framework for understanding the role of momentum in stochastic gradient methods, specifically neural network training. The authors reveal that high-frequency gradient components are undesired in the late stages of training and propose Frequency Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum (FSGDM), a heuristic optimizer that dynamically adjusts the momentum filtering characteristic. Experimental results demonstrate FSGDM’s superiority over conventional momentum optimizers.
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This paper helps us understand how to train neural networks better. It shows that some parts of the data are more important than others and proposes a new way to update those parts during training. The authors tested their new method and found it works better than other methods people use today.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Neural network  » Stochastic gradient descent