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Perturbed Fenchel Duality and Primal-Dual Convergence of First-Order Methods

Optimization and Control 2024-12-04 v2

Abstract

It has been shown that many first-order methods satisfy the perturbed Fenchel duality inequality, which yields a unified derivation of convergence. More first-order methods are discussed in this paper, e.g., dual averaging and bundle method. We show primal-dual convergence of them on convex optimization by proving the perturbed Fenchel duality property. We also propose a single-cut bundle method for saddle problem, and prove its convergence in a similar manner.

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@article{arxiv.2411.09503,
  title  = {Perturbed Fenchel Duality and Primal-Dual Convergence of First-Order Methods},
  author = {Tiantian Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09503},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

There was an error in the proof of convergence rate for subgradient method in Appendix B and C, and the perturbed Fenchel duality property was not used