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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction

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This paper cites Natasha: Faster non-convex stochastic optimization via strongly non- convex parameter.

Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Natasha: Faster non-convex stochastic optimization via strongly non- convex parameter

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Natasha 2: Faster non-convex optimization than SGD

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Variance reduction for faster non-convex optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Improved SVRG for non-strongly-convex or sum-of-non- convex objectives

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction First-Order Methods in Optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Unbiased Simulation for Optimizing Stochastic Function Compositions

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Policy evaluation with temporal dif- ferences: a survey and comparison

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction SAGA: A fast incremental gradient method with support for non-strongly convex composite objectives

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Optimal distributed online prediction using mini-batches

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Statistical estimation of com- posite risk functionals and risk optimization problems

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Ermoliev

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Spider: Near-optimal non-convex optimization via stochastic path-integrated diﬀerential estimator

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Stochastic ﬁrst- and zeroth-order methods for nonconvex stochastic programming

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction A Single Time-Scale Stochastic Approximation Method for Nested Stochastic Optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Accelerated method for stochastic composi- tion optimization with nonsmooth regularization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Accelerating stochastic gradient descent using predictive vari- ance reduction

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Koshal, A

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Finite-sum composition optimization via variance reduced gradient descent

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Improved Sample Complexity for Stochastic Compositional Variance Reduced Gradient

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Gradient methods for minimizing composite functions

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Lectures on Convex Optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Nguyen, Jie Liu, Katya Scheinberg, and Martin Tak´ aˇ c

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Finite-Sum Smooth Optimization with SARAH

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction ProxSARAH: An Efficient Algorithmic Framework for Stochastic Composite Nonconvex Optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Reddi, Ahmed Hefny, Suvrit Sra, Barnabas Poczos, and Alex Smola

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Fast incremental method for smooth nonconvex optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Proximal stochastic methods for nonsmooth nonconvex ﬁnite-sum optimization

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Advances in risk-averse optimization.INFORMS TutORials in Operation Research, 2013

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Stochastic compositional gradient descent: algo- rithms for minimizing compositions of expected-value functions

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction SpiderBoost and Momentum: Faster Stochastic Variance Reduction Algorithms

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction A proximal stochastic gradient method with progressive variance reduction

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Adversarial examples: Attacks and defenses for deep learning

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction A composite randomized incremental gradient method

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction A stochastic composite gradient method with incremental variance reduction

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Multi-Level Composite Stochastic Optimization via Nested Variance Reduction Stochastic nested variance reduced gradient descent for nonconvex optimization

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