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  • I beg to disagree.

    [1] provides one with a whole-data-set training method (ADMM, one of such methods). Page 8 contains figure 2(b) - accuracy of training after specified amount of time. Note that ADMM start where stochastic gradient stops.

    [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02026.pdf

    At [2] I tried to apply logistic regression trained using reweighted least squares algorithm on the same Higgs boson data set. I've got the same accuracy (64%) as mentioned in the ADMM paper with much less number of coefficients - basically, just the size of input vector + 1 instead of 300 such rows of coefficients and then 300x1 affine transformation. When I added squares of inputs (for the simplest approximation of polynomial regression) and used the same reweighted iterative least squares algorithm, I've got even better accuracy (66%) for double the number of coefficients.

    [2] https://github.com/thesz/higgs-logistic-regression

    There's a hypothesis [3] that SGD and ADAM are best optimizers because that everyone use and report on. Rarely if ever you get anything that differ.

    [3] https://parameterfree.com/2020/12/06/neural-network-maybe-ev...

    So, answering your question of "how do you know" - researchers at Google cannot do IRLS (search provides IRLS only for logistic regression in Tensorflow), they cannot do Hessian-free optimization ([4], closed due lack of activity - notice the "we can't support RNN due to the WHILE loop" bonanza), etc. All due to the fact they have to use Tensorflow - it just does not support these things.

    https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/2682

    I haven't seen anything about whole-data-set optimization from Google at all. That's why I (and only me - due to standing I take and experiments I did) conclude that they do not quite care about parameter efficiency.

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