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Mairal et al. Online dictionary learning for sparse coding. ICML 2009.

The following figures are all from this paper.

The paper goal is to propose a online learning method to learn sparse coding dictionary, the basis set which can represent specific data through linear combination, for large scale data.

## Algorithm

The algorithm is showed above. Assuming the training set composed of i.i.d. samples of a distribution, the method is minimizing the cost function, the difference between linear combination of basis set and real data, by stochastic gradient discent to find decomposing coefficient $latex \alpha$ and dictionary $latex D$ iteratively.

Their algorithm above for updating the dictionary uses block-coordinate descent.

## My comment

The work is solid because they present not only the experiment result but also the sophisticated theoretical proof showing the convergence of the online learning method; however, the assumption, the training set composed of i.i.d. samples of a distribution, may be suspicious because it is not alway satisfied in real world.

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