A pruning-aware adaptive gradient method is proposed which classifies the variables in two sets before updating them using different strategies. This technique extends the “relevant/irrelevant” approach of Ding (2019) and Zimmer et al. (2022) and allows a posteriori sparsification of the solution of model parameter fitting problems. The new method is proved to be convergent with a global rate of decrease of the averaged gradient’s norm of the form O(log(k)/\sqrt{k+1}). Numerical experiments on several applications show that it is competitive.
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