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most citedScalable Stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

17 citations · 54 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

Evidential Deep Active Learning for Semi-Supervised Classification

Shenkai Zhao, Xinao Zhang, Lipeng Pan +2

Semi-supervised classification based on active learning has made significant progress, but the existing methods often ignore the uncertainty estimation (or reliability) of the pred…

stat.ML2020★ 1 cited

Stochastic Normalized Gradient Descent with Momentum for Large-Batch Training

Shen-Yi Zhao, Chang-Wei Shi, Yin-Peng Xie +1

Stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) and its variants have been the dominating optimization methods in machine learning. Compared to SGD with small-batch training, SGD with large-batc…

stat.ML2020★ 4 cited

Stagewise Enlargement of Batch Size for SGD-based Learning

Shen-Yi Zhao, Yin-Peng Xie, Wu-Jun Li

Existing research shows that the batch size can seriously affect the performance of stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) based learning, including training speed and generalization ab…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Clustered Reinforcement Learning

Xiao Ma, Shen-Yi Zhao, Wu-Jun Li

Exploration strategy design is one of the challenging problems in reinforcement learning~(RL), especially when the environment contains a large state space or sparse rewards. Durin…

stat.ML2019

ADASS: Adaptive Sample Selection for Training Acceleration

Shen-Yi Zhao, Hao Gao, Wu-Jun Li

Stochastic gradient decent~(SGD) and its variants, including some accelerated variants, have become popular for training in machine learning. However, in all existing SGD and its v…

stat.ML2019★ 1 cited

On the Convergence of Memory-Based Distributed SGD

Shen-Yi Zhao, Hao Gao, Wu-Jun Li

Distributed stochastic gradient descent~(DSGD) has been widely used for optimizing large-scale machine learning models, including both convex and non-convex models. With the rapid…

stat.ML2019★ 1 cited

Global Momentum Compression for Sparse Communication in Distributed Learning

Chang-Wei Shi, Shen-Yi Zhao, Yin-Peng Xie +2

With the rapid growth of data, distributed momentum stochastic gradient descent~(DMSGD) has been widely used in distributed learning, especially for training large-scale deep model…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Quantized Epoch-SGD for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning

Shen-Yi Zhao, Hao Gao, Wu-Jun Li

Due to its efficiency and ease to implement, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been widely used in machine learning. In particular, SGD is one of the most popular optimization…

stat.ML2018★ 1 cited

Proximal SCOPE for Distributed Sparse Learning: Better Data Partition Implies Faster Convergence Rate

Shen-Yi Zhao, Gong-Duo Zhang, Ming-Wei Li +1

Distributed sparse learning with a cluster of multiple machines has attracted much attention in machine learning, especially for large-scale applications with high-dimensional data…

cs.LG2018★ 16 cited

Feature-Distributed SVRG for High-Dimensional Linear Classification

Gong-Duo Zhang, Shen-Yi Zhao, Hao Gao +1

Linear classification has been widely used in many high-dimensional applications like text classification. To perform linear classification for large-scale tasks, we often need to…

stat.ML2016

Lock-Free Optimization for Non-Convex Problems

Shen-Yi Zhao, Gong-Duo Zhang, Wu-Jun Li

Stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) and its variants have attracted much attention in machine learning due to their efficiency and effectiveness for optimization. To handle large-sca…

stat.ML2016★ 5 cited

SCOPE: Scalable Composite Optimization for Learning on Spark

Shen-Yi Zhao, Ru Xiang, Ying-Hao Shi +2

Many machine learning models, such as logistic regression~(LR) and support vector machine~(SVM), can be formulated as composite optimization problems. Recently, many distributed st…

stat.ML2015★ 5 cited

Fast Asynchronous Parallel Stochastic Gradient Decent

Shen-Yi Zhao, Wu-Jun Li

Stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) and its variants have become more and more popular in machine learning due to their efficiency and effectiveness. To handle large-scale problems,…

cs.LG2015★ 17 cited

Scalable Stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Shen-Yi Zhao, Wu-Jun Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), which visits only one sample or a mini-batch of samples each time, has recently been proved to achieve better perform…