1. MODIFIED STOCHASTIC VARIANCE REDUCTION GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM AND ITS APPLICATION Open Access Author: Fei, Cai Title: MODIFIED STOCHASTIC VARIANCE REDUCTION GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM AND ITS APPLICATION Area of Honors: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Machine LearningGradient DescentMathematical OptimizationStochastic Gradient Descent File: Download Fei__Cai__Honors_Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Tao Yao, Thesis SupervisorDr. Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Thesis Honors Advisor