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SIRFShampoo: Structured Inverse- and Root-Free Shampoo

This package contains the official PyTorch implementation of our inverse- and square-root free Shampoo optimizer from our ICML paper 'Can We Remove the Square-Root in Adaptive Gradient Methods? A Second-Order Perspective' (the 'IF-Shampoo' optimizer in Fig. 3).

Some highlights of the optimizer:

  • Numerically stable, even in bfloat16, due to a fully matrix-multiplication based update (no matrix decompositions)
  • Compatible with any architecture as the pre-conditioner only uses mini-batch gradients
  • Kronecker factors can have structures to reduce memory and computation, thanks to our previous SINGD work

Installation

  • Stable (recommended): 

    pip install sirfshampoo

  • Latest version from GitHub main branch: 

    pip install git+https://github.com/f-dangel/sirfshampo.git@main

Usage

Limitations

  • SIRFShampoo assumes that the objective is an average over per-example losses.

  • The code has stabilized only recently. Expect things to break and help us improve by filing issues.

Citation

If you find this code useful for your research, consider citing the paper:

@inproceedings{lin2024can,
  title =        {Can We Remove the Square-Root in Adaptive Gradient Methods? A
                  Second-Order Perspective},
  author =       {Wu Lin and Felix Dangel and Runa Eschenhagen and Juhan Bae and
                  Richard E. Turner and Alireza Makhzani},
  booktitle =    {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year =         2024,
}