README.md

Stagewise SGD

This is the official implementation of the paper "Stagewise Training Accelerates Convergence of Testing Error Over SGD" published on NeurIPS 2019.

Installation

Python=3.5
Numpy=1.18.5 
Scipy=1.2.1
Scikit-Learn=0.20.3
Pillow=5.0.0
Tensorflow>=1.10.0

Dataset

The code will automatically download CIFAR10, CIFAR100 in your working directory. You may also download the datasets on your own from https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html.

Usage

(1) SGD with c/t, c/sqrt(t)

You can run this command for SGD and set --version=0,1 for choosing different learning rate schedules, e.g., c/t, c/sqrt(t).

python main_SGD.py --version=2 --lr=0.1 --is_save_model=False --use_L2=False --activation='elu' --model='resnet' --resnet_layers=56 --dataset=100 --random_seed=789 --num_iters=80040

(2) StagewiseSGD V1, StagewiseSGD V2, StagewiseSGD V3

You can run this command for Stagewise SGD and set --version=2,3,4 for Stagewise SGD V1, V2, V3.

python main_START.py --version=3 --lr=0.1 --gamma=5000 --use_L2=False --is_save_model=False --activation='elu' --model='resnet' --resnet_layers=56 --dataset=10 --random_seed=123 --num_iters=80040

(3) Theta/Mu

You can run this command for computing theta/mu value. Before this step, you need to save your trained models by setting --is_save_model=False=True --num_iters=200400 from previous steps.

python eval_compute_theta_mu.py --version=2 --use_L2=False --model='resnet' --resnet_layers=56 --dataset=10 --random_seed=123

(4) Minimal Eigen Value (Lanczos Method):

You can run this command for computing minimal eigen value using Lanczos Method. Before this step, you need to save your trained models. Note that if you don't set an initial value for --model_iter, the code will use the default checkpoints, e.g., 20000, 40000, 60000, 80000.

python eval_compute_min_eig_val.py --lr=0.001 --use_L2=False --activation='elu' --model='resnet' --resnet_layers=20 --random_seed=123 --model_iter=80000

Bibtex

If you use this repository in your work, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{yuan2019stagewise,
  title={Stagewise Training Accelerates Convergence of Testing Error Over SGD},
  author={Yuan, Zhuoning and Yan, Yan and Jin, Rong and Yang, Tianbao},
  journal={NeurIPS},
  year={2019}
}