An Asynchronous Parallel Stochastic Coordinate Descent Algorithm

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zbMATH Open1337.68286arXiv1311.1873MaRDI QIDQ5502117FDOQ5502117


Authors: Ji Liu, Stephen J. Wright, Christopher Re, Victor Bittorf, Srikrishna Sridhar Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 August 2015

Abstract: We describe an asynchronous parallel stochastic coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing smooth unconstrained or separably constrained functions. The method achieves a linear convergence rate on functions that satisfy an essential strong convexity property and a sublinear rate (1/K) on general convex functions. Near-linear speedup on a multicore system can be expected if the number of processors is O(n1/2) in unconstrained optimization and O(n1/4) in the separable-constrained case, where n is the number of variables. We describe results from implementation on 40-core processors.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1873




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