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Risk and parameter convergence of logistic regression (1803.07300v3)
Published 20 Mar 2018 in cs.LG, math.OC, and stat.ML
Abstract: Gradient descent, when applied to the task of logistic regression, outputs iterates which are biased to follow a unique ray defined by the data. The direction of this ray is the maximum margin predictor of a maximal linearly separable subset of the data; the gradient descent iterates converge to this ray in direction at the rate $\mathcal{O}(\ln\ln t / \ln t)$. The ray does not pass through the origin in general, and its offset is the bounded global optimum of the risk over the remaining data; gradient descent recovers this offset at a rate $\mathcal{O}((\ln t)2 / \sqrt{t})$.