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New optimization method adapts to unknown smoothness conditions

Researchers have developed a novel two-phase optimization method designed to improve convergence rates for stochastic non-convex optimization. This method adapts to different smoothness conditions (average, standard, and noiseless) without requiring prior knowledge of smoothness constants or variance bounds. The approach utilizes a normalized momentum strategy when gradient differences exceed a threshold, ensuring bounded expected function gaps and achieving rates of O(T^{-1/3}) under average smoothness, O(T^{-1/4}) under standard smoothness, and O(T^{-1/2}) in noiseless settings. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Wei Jiang, Yibo Wang, Zechao Li ·

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