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Stochastic Recursive Momentum for Policy Gradient Methods
Huizhuo Yuan, Xiangru Lian, Ji Liu +1
In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm named STOchastic Recursive Momentum for Policy Gradient (STORM-PG), which operates a SARAH-type stochastic recursive variance-reduced po…
Stochastic Recursive Variance Reduction for Efficient Smooth Non-Convex Compositional Optimization
Huizhuo Yuan, Xiangru Lian, Ji Liu
Stochastic compositional optimization arises in many important machine learning tasks such as value function evaluation in reinforcement learning and portfolio management. The obje…
Variance Reduced methods for Non-convex Composition Optimization
Liu Liu, Ji Liu, Dacheng Tao
This paper explores the non-convex composition optimization in the form including inner and outer finite-sum functions with a large number of component functions. This problem aris…
Duality-free Methods for Stochastic Composition Optimization
Liu Liu, Ji Liu, Dacheng Tao
We consider the composition optimization with two expected-value functions in the form of ,…