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Is there a direct conversion between gradient descent ([1], Alg 1 ) and any of the following algorithms?

1) Weighted Majority: http://onlineprediction.net/?n=Main.WeightedMajorityAlgorithm

2) Follow the Leader: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalai/papers/onlineopt/onlineopt.pdf I keep seeing these together, but I don't see the direct conversion.

[1] http://moodle.technion.ac.il/pluginfile.php/195968/mod_resource/content/0/OCP_ICML03.pdf

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Yes -- both gradient descent and the randomized weighted majority algorithm (often called multiplicative weights these days) are instantiations of the "Follow the regularized leader" framework. Gradient descent is what comes out if you regularize with the euclidean norm, and multiplicative weights is what comes out if you regularize with Shannon entropy.

See e.g. here (http://www.jennwv.com/courses/F11/lecture11.pdf) for a derivation of the weighted majority algorithm from this framework.

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