stat.MLFeb 22, 2026

Implicit Bias and Convergence of Matrix Stochastic Mirror Descent

Authors: Danil Akhtiamov, Reza Ghane, Omead Pooladzandi, Babak Hassibi

Organizations: Electrical Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

Abstract

We investigate Stochastic Mirror Descent (SMD) with matrix parameters and vector-valued predictions, a framework relevant to multi-class classification and matrix completion problems. Focusing on the overparameterized regime, where the total number of parameters exceeds the number of training samples, we prove that SMD with matrix mirror functions ψ(⋅)ψ(\cdot) converges exponentially to a global interpolator. Furthermore, we generalize classical implicit bias results of vector SMD by demonstrating that the matrix SMD algorithm converges to the unique solution minimizing the Bregman divergence induced by ψ(⋅)ψ(\cdot) from initialization subject to interpolating the data. These findings reveal how matrix mirror maps dictate inductive bias in high-dimensional, multi-output problems.

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