Statistical Inference for Stochastic Approximation and Online Learning via Hierarchical Incremental Gradient Descent

Statistical Inference for Stochastic Approximation and Online Learning via Hierarchical Incremental Gradient Descent

Neyman Seminar
Dec 6, 2017, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is an immensely popular approach for optimization in settings where data arrives in a stream or data sizes are very large. Despite an ever-increasing volume of works on SGD, less is known about statistical inferential properties of predictions based on SGD solutions. In this paper, we introduce a novel procedure termed HiGrad to conduct inference on predictions,...