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Global convergence of the Heavy-ball method for convex optimization

Optimization and Control 2014-12-24 v1

Abstract

This paper establishes global convergence and provides global bounds of the convergence rate of the Heavy-ball method for convex optimization problems. When the objective function has Lipschitz-continuous gradient, we show that the Cesaro average of the iterates converges to the optimum at a rate of O(1/k)O(1/k) where k is the number of iterations. When the objective function is also strongly convex, we prove that the Heavy-ball iterates converge linearly to the unique optimum.

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@article{arxiv.1412.7457,
  title  = {Global convergence of the Heavy-ball method for convex optimization},
  author = {Euhanna Ghadimi and Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian and Mikael Johansson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7457},
  year   = {2014}
}