Simple and optimal high-probability bounds for strongly-convex stochastic gradient descent
We consider stochastic gradient descent algorithms for minimizing a non-smooth, strongly-convex function. Several forms of this algorithm, including suffix averaging, are known to achieve the optimal $O(1/T)$ convergence rate in expectation. We consider a simple, non-uniform averaging strategy of Lacoste-Julien et al. (2011) and prove that it achieves the optimal $O(1/T)$ convergence rate with high probability. Our proof uses a recently developed generalization of Freedman's inequality. Finally, we compare several of these algorithms experimentally and show that this non-uniform averaging strategy outperforms many standard techniques, and with smaller variance.
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