Convergence of Gradient Descent for Learning Linear Neural Networks
MCML Authors
Gabin Maxime Nguegnang
Holger Rauhut
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Ulrich Terstiege
Dr.
Abstract
Gabin Maxime Nguegnang
Holger Rauhut
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Ulrich Terstiege
Dr.
Abstract
We study the convergence properties of gradient descent for training deep linear neural networks, i.e., deep matrix factorizations, by extending a previous analysis for the related gradient flow. We show that under suitable conditions on the stepsizes gradient descent converges to a critical point of the loss function, i.e., the square loss in this article. Furthermore, we demonstrate that for almost all initializations gradient descent converges to a global minimum in the case of two layers. In the case of three or more layers, we show that gradient descent converges to a global minimum on the manifold matrices of some fixed rank, where the rank cannot be determined a priori.
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Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models
2024.23. Jul. 2024.
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G. M. Nguegnang • H. Rauhut • U. TerstiegeLinks
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