Document Type
Article - preprint
Department
Mathematics (CMC)
Publication Date
7-2-2014
Abstract
Motivated by recent work on stochastic gradient descent methods, we develop two stochastic variants of greedy algorithms for possibly non-convex optimization problems with sparsity constraints. We prove linear convergence in expectation to the solution within a specified tolerance. This generalized framework applies to problems such as sparse signal recovery in compressed sensing, low-rank matrix recovery, and co-variance matrix estimation, giving methods with provable convergence guarantees that often outperform their deterministic counterparts. We also analyze the settings where gradients and projections can only be computed approximately, and prove the methods are robust to these approximations. We include many numerical experiments which align with the theoretical analysis and demonstrate these improvements in several different settings.
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Recommended Citation
Nguyen, N., Needell, D., Woolf, T., "Linear Convergence of Stochastic Iterative Greedy Algorithms with Sparse Constraints", Submitted, arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0088, 2014.
