Stochastic Optimization of PCA with Capped MSG

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 (NIPS 2013)

Authors

Raman Arora, Andy Cotter, Nati Srebro

Abstract

We study PCA as a stochastic optimization problem and propose a novel stochastic approximation algorithm which we refer to as Matrix Stochastic Gradient'' (MSG), as well as a practical variant, Capped MSG. We study the method both theoretically and empirically. "