A Theoretical Analysis of Optimization by Gaussian Continuation

Authors: Hossein Mobahi, John Fisher III

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical Here, we provide a theoretical analysis that provides a bound on the endpoint solution of the continuation method. The derived bound depends on a problem specific characteristic that we refer to as optimization complexity. We show that this characteristic can be analytically computed when the objective function is expressed in some suitable basis functions. Our analysis combines elements of scale-space theory, regularization and differential equations.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Hossein Mobahi and John W. Fisher III Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. (CSAIL) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hmobahi,fisher@csail.mit.edu
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Algorithm for Optimization by Continuation Method
Open Source Code No The paper is theoretical and focuses on mathematical analysis. It does not mention releasing any source code for its theoretical contributions or analysis methods.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct empirical studies or use datasets. Therefore, it does not provide information about public datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve empirical experiments or data. Therefore, it does not specify dataset splits for training, validation, or testing.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct experiments. Therefore, no hardware specifications are mentioned or required.
Software Dependencies No The paper is purely theoretical and focuses on mathematical derivations. It does not involve software implementation or dependencies with specific version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct experiments. Therefore, it does not provide details on experimental setup, hyperparameters, or training configurations.