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most citedProxSARAH: An Efficient Algorithmic Framework for Stochastic Composite Nonconvex Optimization

42 citations · 52 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ML2021

FedDR -- Randomized Douglas-Rachford Splitting Algorithms for Nonconvex Federated Composite Optimization

Quoc Tran-Dinh, Nhan H. Pham, Dzung T. Phan +1

We develop two new algorithms, called, FedDR and asyncFedDR, for solving a fundamental nonconvex composite optimization problem in federated learning. Our algorithms rely on a nove…

math.OC2020

Finite-Time Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent under Markov Randomness

Thinh T. Doan, Lam M. Nguyen, Nhan H. Pham +1

Motivated by broad applications in reinforcement learning and machine learning, this paper considers the popular stochastic gradient descent (SGD) when the gradients of the underly…

cs.LG2020

A Hybrid Stochastic Policy Gradient Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning

Nhan H. Pham, Lam M. Nguyen, Dzung T. Phan +3

We propose a novel hybrid stochastic policy gradient estimator by combining an unbiased policy gradient estimator, the REINFORCE estimator, with another biased one, an adapted SARA…

math.OC2020

Stochastic Gauss-Newton Algorithms for Nonconvex Compositional Optimization

Quoc Tran-Dinh, Nhan H. Pham, Lam M. Nguyen

We develop two new stochastic Gauss-Newton algorithms for solving a class of non-convex stochastic compositional optimization problems frequently arising in practice. We consider b…

math.OC2020

Convergence Rates of Accelerated Markov Gradient Descent with Applications in Reinforcement Learning

Thinh T. Doan, Lam M. Nguyen, Nhan H. Pham +1

Motivated by broad applications in machine learning, we study the popular accelerated stochastic gradient descent (ASGD) algorithm for solving (possibly nonconvex) optimization pro…

math.OC2019

A Hybrid Stochastic Optimization Framework for Stochastic Composite Nonconvex Optimization

Quoc Tran-Dinh, Nhan H. Pham, Dzung T. Phan +1

We introduce a new approach to develop stochastic optimization algorithms for a class of stochastic composite and possibly nonconvex optimization problems. The main idea is to comb…