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Biased Stochastic First-Order Methods for Conditional Stochastic Optimization and Applications in Meta Learning

NeurIPS 2020 · Optimization › Nonconvex and smooth optimization · approach: Stochastic convex optimization complexity · 13 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use BSGD with small inner batch instead of SAA for the same sample budgetinvariant logistic regression · noise ratio 1error (mean): 5.56e-04 -> 1.77e-04Helped
use BSGD instead of SAAinvariant logistic regression · noise ratio 100error (mean): 1.12e-02 -> 1.50e-03Helped
use BSGD (Hessian-aware biased gradient) instead of first-order MAMLsine-wave MAML · m=20average loss: 2.50e+00 -> 2.04e-01Helped
use BSGD instead of FO-MAMLsine-wave MAML · m=10CPU minutes: 41.45 -> 71.57Hurt
use BSGD instead of Adam on biased gradientsine-wave MAML · m=10average loss: 8.16e-01 -> 2.12e-01Helped
increase inner batch size m from 10 to 50 for BSGD (ablation)BSGD · sine-wave MAMLaverage loss: 2.12e-01 -> 2.17e-01No clear effect
use BSpiderBoost instead of BSGDsine-wave MAML · convergence and recoveryconvergenceHelped

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