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Fast Distributed Coordinate Descent for Non-Strongly Convex Losses

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arxiv 1405.5300 v2 pith:ZY2DZT5G submitted 2014-05-21 math.OC cs.LG

Fast Distributed Coordinate Descent for Non-Strongly Convex Losses

classification math.OC cs.LG
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We propose an efficient distributed randomized coordinate descent method for minimizing regularized non-strongly convex loss functions. The method attains the optimal $O(1/k^2)$ convergence rate, where $k$ is the iteration counter. The core of the work is the theoretical study of stepsize parameters. We have implemented the method on Archer - the largest supercomputer in the UK - and show that the method is capable of solving a (synthetic) LASSO optimization problem with 50 billion variables.

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