English

Global convergence and asymptotic optimality of the heavy ball method for a class of non-convex optimization problems

Optimization and Control 2022-03-28 v2 Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

In this letter we revisit the famous heavy ball method and study its global convergence for a class of non-convex problems with sector-bounded gradient. We characterize the parameters that render the method globally convergent and yield the best RR-convergence factor. We show that for this family of functions, this convergence factor is superior to the factor obtained from the triple momentum method.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.02914,
  title  = {Global convergence and asymptotic optimality of the heavy ball method for a class of non-convex optimization problems},
  author = {Valery Ugrinovskii and Ian R. Petersen and Iman Shames},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02914},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in CSS Letters