precondition-opt 0.3.0

Preconditioning optimizers.

precondition: Preconditioning Optimizers

Installation (note package name is precondition but pypi distribution name is precondition-opt):

pip3 install -U precondition-opt

Currently, this contains several preconditioning optimizer implementations. Please refer to the citations below.

Shampoo (distributed_shampoo.py)

@article{anil2020scalable,
  title={Scalable second order optimization for deep learning},
  author={Anil, Rohan and Gupta, Vineet and Koren, Tomer and Regan, Kevin and Singer, Yoram},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09018},
  year={2020}
}

Sketchy (distributed_shampoo.py), logical reference implementation as a branch in Shampoo.

@article{feinberg2023sketchy,
  title={Sketchy: Memory-efficient Adaptive Regularization with Frequent Directions},
  author={Feinberg, Vladimir and Chen, Xinyi and Sun, Y Jennifer and Anil, Rohan and Hazan, Elad},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03764},
  year={2023}
}

SM3 (sm3.py).

@article{anil2020scalable,
  title={Scalable second order optimization for deep learning},
  author={Anil, Rohan and Gupta, Vineet and Koren, Tomer and Regan, Kevin and Singer, Yoram},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09018},
  year={2020}
}

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