Oracle complexity separation in convex optimization

DOI10.1007/S10957-022-02038-7zbMATH Open1492.90125OpenAlexW3005409728MaRDI QIDQ2139268FDOQ2139268

Authors: Anastasiya Ivanova, Pavel Dvurechensky, Evgeniya A. Vorontsova, Dmitry Pasechnyuk, Alexander V. Gasnikov, Darina Dvinskikh, Alexander Tyurin 

Publication date: 17 May 2022

Published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many convex optimization problems have structured objective function written as a sum of functions with different types of oracles (full gradient, coordinate derivative, stochastic gradient) and different evaluation complexity of these oracles. In the strongly convex case these functions also have different condition numbers, which eventually define the iteration complexity of first-order methods and the number of oracle calls required to achieve given accuracy. Motivated by the desire to call more expensive oracle less number of times, in this paper we consider minimization of a sum of two functions and propose a generic algorithmic framework to separate oracle complexities for each component in the sum. As a specific example, for the $mu$-strongly convex problem $mi{n}_{xinmathbb{R}^n}h(x)+g(x)$ with $L_h$-smooth function $h$ and $L_g$-smooth function $g$, a special case of our algorithm requires, up to a logarithmic factor, $O(sqrt{L}_h/mu)$ first-order oracle calls for $h$ and $O(sqrt{L}_g/mu)$ first-order oracle calls for $g$. Our general framework covers also the setting of strongly convex objectives, the setting when $g$ is given by coordinate derivative oracle, and the setting when $g$ has a finite-sum structure and is available through stochastic gradient oracle. In the latter two cases we obtain respectively accelerated random coordinate descent and accelerated variance reduction methods with oracle complexity separation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02706

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zbMATH Keywords

first-order methodsconvex optimizationstochastic gradientcomplexityrandom coordinate descent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Convex programming (90C25)

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