---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- An implementation of SGD adapted with features of Nesterov's -- Accelerated Gradient method, based on the paper -- On the Importance of Initialization and Momentum in Deep Learning -- Sutsveker et. al., ICML 2013 -- -- ARGS: -- opfunc : a function that takes a single input (X), the point of -- evaluation, and returns f(X) and df/dX -- x : the initial point -- state : a table describing the state of the optimizer; after each -- call the state is modified -- state.learningRate : learning rate -- state.learningRateDecay : learning rate decay -- state.weightDecay : weight decay -- state.momentum : momentum -- state.learningRates : vector of individual learning rates -- -- RETURN: -- x : the new x vector -- f(x) : the function, evaluated before the update -- -- (Dilip Krishnan, 2013) -- function optim.nag(opfunc, x, config, state) -- (0) get/update state local config = config or {} local state = state or config local lr = config.learningRate or 1e-3 local lrd = config.learningRateDecay or 0 local wd = config.weightDecay or 0 local mom = config.momentum or 0.9 local damp = config.dampening or mom local lrs = config.learningRates state.evalCounter = state.evalCounter or 0 local nevals = state.evalCounter if mom <= 0 then error('Momentum must be positive for Nesterov Accelerated Gradient') end -- (1) evaluate f(x) and df/dx -- first step in the direction of the momentum vector if state.dfdx then x:add(mom, state.dfdx) end -- then compute gradient at that point -- comment out the above line to get the original SGD local fx,dfdx = opfunc(x) -- (2) weight decay if wd ~= 0 then dfdx:add(wd, x) end -- (3) learning rate decay (annealing) local clr = lr / (1 + nevals*lrd) -- (4) apply momentum if not state.dfdx then state.dfdx = torch.Tensor():typeAs(dfdx):resizeAs(dfdx):fill(0) else state.dfdx:mul(mom) end -- (5) parameter update with single or individual learning rates if lrs then if not state.deltaParameters then state.deltaParameters = torch.Tensor():typeAs(x):resizeAs(dfdx) end state.deltaParameters:copy(lrs):cmul(dfdx) x:add(-clr, state.deltaParameters) state.dfdx:add(-clr, state.deltaParameters) else x:add(-clr, dfdx) state.dfdx:add(-clr, dfdx) end -- (6) update evaluation counter state.evalCounter = state.evalCounter + 1 -- return x, f(x) before optimization return x,{fx} end