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Accelerated Zero-Order SGD Method for Solving the Black Box Optimization Problem under "Overparametrization" Condition

Optimization and Control 2024-02-14 v2

Abstract

This paper is devoted to solving a convex stochastic optimization problem in a overparameterization setup for the case where the original gradient computation is not available, but an objective function value can be computed. For this class of problems we provide a novel gradient-free algorithm, whose creation approach is based on applying a gradient approximation with l2l_2 randomization instead of a gradient oracle in the biased Accelerated SGD algorithm, which generalizes the convergence results of the AC-SA algorithm to the case where the gradient oracle returns a noisy (inexact) objective function value. We also perform a detailed analysis to find the maximum admissible level of adversarial noise at which we can guarantee to achieve the desired accuracy. We verify the theoretical results of convergence using a model example.

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@article{arxiv.2307.12725,
  title  = {Accelerated Zero-Order SGD Method for Solving the Black Box Optimization Problem under "Overparametrization" Condition},
  author = {Aleksandr Lobanov and Alexander Gasnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12725},
  year   = {2024}
}
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