Summary of Stacking As Accelerated Gradient Descent, by Naman Agarwal and Pranjal Awasthi and Satyen Kale and Eric Zhao
Stacking as Accelerated Gradient Descent
by Naman Agarwal, Pranjal Awasthi, Satyen Kale, Eric Zhao
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers investigate the effectiveness of “stacking,” a technique used to train deep residual networks by gradually increasing the number of layers and initializing new layers based on older layers’ parameters. Stacking has shown promise in improving training efficiency for deep neural networks. The authors propose a theoretical explanation for stacking’s success, demonstrating that it implements Nesterov’s accelerated gradient descent method. This theory also applies to simpler models like additive ensembles used in boosting methods. Furthermore, the paper proves that stacking provides accelerated training for certain deep linear residual networks through a new potential function analysis of Nesterov’s accelerated gradient method. Experimental results validate the authors’ theoretical findings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study explains why “stacking” is effective at training deep neural networks. Stacking helps improve how fast and efficient it is to train these networks by gradually adding more layers and copying information from older layers to new ones. Researchers found that stacking uses a technique called Nesterov’s accelerated gradient descent, which makes it faster and better than other methods. They also showed that simpler models use the same idea. The study proves that for certain types of deep neural networks, stacking really does make training go faster. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Boosting * Gradient descent
