Perturbed gradient descent with occupation time
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This paper develops further the idea of perturbed gradient descent, by adapting perturbation with the history of state via the notation of occupation time for saddle points. The proposed algorithm PGDOT is shown to converge at least as fast as perturbed gradient descent (PGD) algorithm, and is guaranteed to avoid getting stuck at saddle points. The analysis is corroborated by experimental results.
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