Summary of Near-optimal Streaming Heavy-tailed Statistical Estimation with Clipped Sgd, by Aniket Das et al.
Near-Optimal Streaming Heavy-Tailed Statistical Estimation with Clipped SGD
by Aniket Das, Dheeraj Nagaraj, Soumyabrata Pal, Arun Suggala, Prateek Varshney
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Oct 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 This paper tackles high-dimensional heavy-tailed statistical estimation in streaming settings, where memory constraints pose significant challenges. Building on stochastic convex optimization with heavy-tailed gradients, it shows that Clipped-SGD attains near-optimal sub-Gaussian rates when the second moment of noise is finite. For smooth and strongly convex objectives, the algorithm achieves an error rate of with probability 1-, improving upon existing rates. The results also extend to smooth and Lipschitz convex objectives. A key innovation is a novel iterative refinement strategy for martingale concentration, which surpasses the PAC-Bayes approach. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers work on a tough math problem that helps with analyzing big data sets in real-time. They use a special algorithm called Clipped-SGD to make predictions and find patterns. The team shows that this algorithm works really well when the data is noisy and has lots of variables. This is important because it helps us understand how to process large amounts of data quickly and accurately. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Probability
