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Conservative set valued fields, automatic differentiation, stochastic gradient methods and deep learning

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  • Bolte, Jérôme
  • Pauwels, Edouard

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Modern problems in AI or in numerical analysis require nonsmooth approaches with a exible calculus. We introduce generalized derivatives called conservative fields for which we develop a calculus and provide representation formulas. Functions having a conservative field are called path differentiable: convex, concave, Clarke regular and any semialgebraic Lipschitz continuous functions are path differentiable. Using Whitney stratification techniques for semialgebraic and definable sets, our model provides variational formulas for nonsmooth automatic diffrentiation oracles, as for instance the famous backpropagation algorithm in deep learning. Our differential model is applied to establish the convergence in values of nonsmooth stochastic gradient methods as they are implemented in practice.

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  • Bolte, Jérôme & Pauwels, Edouard, 2019. "Conservative set valued fields, automatic differentiation, stochastic gradient methods and deep learning," TSE Working Papers 19-1044, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
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    1. Bolte, Jérôme & Castera, Camille & Pauwels, Edouard & Févotte, Cédric, 2019. "An Inertial Newton Algorithm for Deep Learning," TSE Working Papers 19-1043, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
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    3. Michel Benaïm & Josef Hofbauer & Sylvain Sorin, 2005. "Stochastic Approximations and Differential Inclusions; Part II: Applications," Working Papers hal-00242974, HAL.
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