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Choose Your Path Wisely: Gradient Descent in a Bregman Distance Framework

Benning, M; Betcke, MM; Ehrhardt, MJ; Schönlieb, C-B; (2021) Choose Your Path Wisely: Gradient Descent in a Bregman Distance Framework. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences , 14 (2) pp. 814-843. 10.1137/20M1357500. Green open access

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Abstract

We propose an extension of a special form of gradient descent---in the literature known as linearized Bregman iteration---to a larger class of nonconvex functions. We replace the classical (squared) two norm metric in the gradient descent setting with a generalized Bregman distance, based on a proper, convex, and lower semicontinuous function. The algorithm's global convergence is proven for functions that satisfy the Kurdyka--Łojasiewicz property. Examples illustrate that features of different scale are being introduced throughout the iteration, transitioning from coarse to fine. This coarse-to-fine approach with respect to scale allows us to recover solutions of nonconvex optimization problems that are superior to those obtained with conventional gradient descent, or even projected and proximal gradient descent. The effectiveness of the linearized Bregman iteration in combination with early stopping is illustrated for the applications of parallel magnetic resonance imaging, blind deconvolution, as well as image classification with neural networks.

Type: Article
Title: Choose Your Path Wisely: Gradient Descent in a Bregman Distance Framework
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1137/20M1357500
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1357500
Language: English
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Keywords: nonconvex optimization, nonsmooth optimization, gradient descent, Bregman iteration, linearized Bregman iteration, parallel MRI, blind deconvolution, deep learning
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10122178
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