Bridging the gap between constant step size stochastic gradient descent and Markov chains
连接恒定步长随机梯度下降与马尔可夫链
We consider the minimization of a strongly convex objective function given access to unbiased estimates of its gradient through stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with constant step size. While the detailed analysis was only performed for quadratic functions, we provide an explicit asymptotic expansion of the moments of the averaged SGD iterates that outlines the dependence on initial conditions, the effect of noise and the step size, as well as the lack of convergence in the…