Poster
Exponentially convergent stochastic k-PCA without variance reduction
Cheng Tang
East Exhibition Hall B + C #200
Keywords: [ Algorithms -> Online Learning; Algorithms -> Representation Learning; Applications -> Time Series Analysis; Optimization ] [ Non ] [ Unsupervised Learning ] [ Algorithms ]
We present Matrix Krasulina, an algorithm for online k-PCA, by gen- eralizing the classic Krasulina’s method (Krasulina, 1969) from vector to matrix case. We show, both theoretically and empirically, that the algorithm naturally adapts to data low-rankness and converges exponentially fast to the ground-truth principal subspace. Notably, our result suggests that despite various recent efforts to accelerate the convergence of stochastic-gradient based methods by adding a O(n)-time variance reduction step, for the k- PCA problem, a truly online SGD variant suffices to achieve exponential convergence on intrinsically low-rank data.
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