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LDAdam: Adaptive Optimization from Low-Dimensional Gradient Statistics

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arxiv 2410.16103 v4 pith:ALFZKMSB submitted 2024-10-21 cs.LG math.OCstat.ML

classification cs.LGmath.OCstat.ML
keywords ldadamoptimizeradaptiveallowsgradientmodelsoptimizationstatistics
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We introduce LDAdam, a memory-efficient optimizer for training large models, that performs adaptive optimization steps within lower dimensional subspaces, while consistently exploring the full parameter space during training. This strategy keeps the optimizer's memory footprint to a fraction of the model size. LDAdam relies on a new projection-aware update rule for the optimizer states that allows for transitioning between subspaces, i.e., estimation of the statistics of the projected gradients. To mitigate the errors due to low-rank projection, LDAdam integrates a new generalized error feedback mechanism, which explicitly accounts for both gradient and optimizer state compression. We prove the convergence of LDAdam under standard assumptions, and show that LDAdam allows for accurate and efficient fine-tuning and pre-training of language models. Code is available at https://github.com/IST-DASLab/LDAdam

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