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研究非对偶Lipschitz凸优化稳定移动算法,实现近最优Oracle速率

Stable Movement for Nondual Lipschitz Convex Optimization: Efficiency and Nearly Optimal Oracle Rates

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这是篇关于优化算法的论文,研究如何更高效地求解一类凸优化问题,对理论研究者可能有参考价值。

研究了一种针对G-Lipschitz凸函数优化的算法,在p<q时,经过T次Oracle查询后,误差为$\widetilde{O}_{p,q}(GR/T^{1/p-(1/q-1/2)_{+}})$,解决了COLT 2015开放问题。特别地,对于欧几里得Lipschitz性在$\ell_1$-球上的情况(p=1,q=2),速率达到$\widetilde{O}(GR/T)$。该算法通过将凸Lipschitz优化转化为嵌套凸集追逐问题,利用稳定选择器和深度切割的二元性来控制迭代次数。

原文 · arXiv cs.LG

Stable Movement for Nondual Lipschitz Convex Optimization: Efficiency and Nearly Optimal Oracle Rates

We study efficient algorithms for realizing the first-order oracle complexity of optimization of $G$-Lipschitz convex functions with respect to the $\ell_{q}$-norm over an $\ell_{p}$-ball of radius $R$, where $1\leq p,q\leq \infty$. For $p<q$, we obtain error $\widetilde{O}_{p,q}(GR/T^{1/p-(1/q-1/2)_{+}})$ after $T$ oracle queries, efficiently realizing the nearly optimal rates of (MBG+26), thereby resolving the nonsmooth end of the COLT 2015 open problem (Guz15b). In particular, the rate is $\widetilde{O}(GR/T)$ for Euclidean Lipschitzness over an $\ell_1$-ball of radius $R$ ($p=1,q=2$). Our solution consists of reducing convex Lipschitz optimization to the chasing nested convex sets problem in sublevel sets of an evolving bundle (LNN95; BBE+20): at each query we either find a point with low function value or we produce a deep cut in the current sublevel of the bundle, that we chase. The dichotomy between stability of selectors and forced movement by deep cuts bounds the number of iterations of the algorithm near optimally. For nested subsets of $R B_{p}^{d}$, we introduce a novel notion of stable center whose movement is bounded by $\widetilde{O}_{p,q}(RT^{1-1/p+(1/q-1/2)_{+}})$ in the $\ell_{q}$-norm after $T$ steps, which we show is nearly optimal in high dimensions. A Monte Carlo average of the proposed selector achieves near-optimal rates with high probability and can be implemented in polynomial time for our optimization algorithm in the real-arithmetic model.