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most citedUnderstanding AdamW through Proximal Methods and Scale-Freeness

36 citations · 59 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Robustness to Unbounded Smoothness of Generalized SignSGD

Michael Crawshaw, Mingrui Liu, Francesco Orabona +2

Traditional analyses in non-convex optimization typically rely on the smoothness assumption, namely requiring the gradients to be Lipschitz. However, recent evidence shows that thi…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

A Communication-Efficient Distributed Gradient Clipping Algorithm for Training Deep Neural Networks

Mingrui Liu, Zhenxun Zhuang, Yunwei Lei +1

In distributed training of deep neural networks, people usually run Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) or its variants on each machine and communicate with other machines periodical…

cs.LG2022★ 36 cited

Understanding AdamW through Proximal Methods and Scale-Freeness

Zhenxun Zhuang, Mingrui Liu, Ashok Cutkosky +1

Adam has been widely adopted for training deep neural networks due to less hyperparameter tuning and remarkable performance. To improve generalization, Adam is typically used in ta…

math.OC2021

On the Initialization for Convex-Concave Min-max Problems

Mingrui Liu, Francesco Orabona

Convex-concave min-max problems are ubiquitous in machine learning, and people usually utilize first-order methods (e.g., gradient descent ascent) to find the optimal solution. One…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

On the Last Iterate Convergence of Momentum Methods

Xiaoyu Li, Mingrui Liu, Francesco Orabona

SGD with Momentum (SGDM) is a widely used family of algorithms for large-scale optimization of machine learning problems. Yet, when optimizing generic convex functions, no advantag…

cs.LG2020★ 12 cited

Adam: A Stochastic Method with Adaptive Variance Reduction

Mingrui Liu, Wei Zhang, Francesco Orabona +1

Adam is a widely used stochastic optimization method for deep learning applications. While practitioners prefer Adam because it requires less parameter tuning, its use is problemat…