MAGMA: Multilevel Accelerated Gradient Mirror Descent Algorithm for Large-Scale Convex Composite Minimization

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DOI10.1137/15M104013XzbMATH Open1358.90097arXiv1509.05715MaRDI QIDQ3179624FDOQ3179624

Vahan Hovhannisyan, Panos Parpas, Stefanos P. Zafeiriou

Publication date: 19 December 2016

Published in: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Composite convex optimization models arise in several applications, and are especially prevalent in inverse problems with a sparsity inducing norm and in general convex optimization with simple constraints. The most widely used algorithms for convex composite models are accelerated first order methods, however they can take a large number of iterations to compute an acceptable solution for large-scale problems. In this paper we propose to speed up first order methods by taking advantage of the structure present in many applications and in image processing in particular. Our method is based on multi-level optimization methods and exploits the fact that many applications that give rise to large scale models can be modelled using varying degrees of fidelity. We use Nesterov's acceleration techniques together with the multi-level approach to achieve mathcalO(1/sqrtepsilon) convergence rate, where epsilon denotes the desired accuracy. The proposed method has a better convergence rate than any other existing multi-level method for convex problems, and in addition has the same rate as accelerated methods, which is known to be optimal for first-order methods. Moreover, as our numerical experiments show, on large-scale face recognition problems our algorithm is several times faster than the state of the art.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05715





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