Finito: A Faster, Permutable Incremental Gradient Method for Big Data   Problems
  Recent advances in optimization theory have shown that smooth strongly convex finite sums can be minimized faster than by treating them as a black box "batch" problem. In this work we introduce a new method in this class with a theoretical convergence rate four times faster than existing methods, for sums with sufficiently many terms. This method is also amendable to a sampling without replacement scheme that in practice gives further speed-ups. We give empirical results showing state of the art performance. 
Aaron J. Defazio and Tib\'erio S. Caetano and Justin Domke
cs.LG stat.ML