eprintid: 10140922 rev_number: 15 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/14/09/22 datestamp: 2022-01-05 14:52:49 lastmod: 2023-01-05 07:10:25 status_changed: 2022-01-05 14:52:49 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Jin, B creators_name: Zhou, Z creators_name: Zou, J title: An analysis of stochastic variance reduced gradient for linear inverse problems ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: Stochastic variance reduced gradient (SVRG) is a popular variance reduction technique for accelerating stochastic gradient descent (SGD). We provide a first analysis of the method for solving a class of linear inverse problems in the lens of the classical regularization theory. We prove that for a suitable constant step size schedule, the method can achieve an optimal convergence rate in terms of the noise level (under suitable regularity condition) and the variance of the SVRG iterate error is smaller than that by SGD. These theoretical findings are corroborated by a set of numerical experiments. date: 2021-01-04 publisher: IOP Publishing official_url: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ac4428 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1911441 doi: 10.1088/1361-6420/ac4428 lyricists_name: Jin, Bangti lyricists_id: BJINX59 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Inverse Problems volume: 38 number: 2 article_number: 025009 citation: Jin, B; Zhou, Z; Zou, J; (2021) An analysis of stochastic variance reduced gradient for linear inverse problems. Inverse Problems , 38 (2) , Article 025009. 10.1088/1361-6420/ac4428 <https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420%2Fac4428>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10140922/1/Jin%2Bet%2Bal_2021_Inverse_Problems_10.1088_1361-6420_ac4428.pdf