Appropriate Learning Rates of Adaptive Learning Rate Optimization Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks

This paper deals with nonconvex stochastic optimization problems in deep learning and provides appropriate learning rates with which adaptive learning rate optimization algorithms, such as Adam and AMSGrad, can approximate a stationary point of the problem. In particular, constant and diminishing learning rates are provided to approximate a stationary point of the problem. Our results also guarantee that the adaptive learning rate optimization algorithms can approximate global minimizers of convex stochastic optimization problems. The adaptive learning rate optimization algorithms are examined in numerical experiments on text and image classification. The experiments show that the algorithms with constant learning rates perform better than ones with diminishing learning rates.

Hideaki Iiduka · 2020