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Tensor methods for strongly convex strongly concave saddle point problems and strongly monotone variational inequalities

Optimization and Control 2021-04-14 v3

Abstract

In this paper we propose three pp-th order tensor methods for μ\mu-strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems (SPP). The first method is based on the assumption of pp-th order smoothness of the objective and it achieves a convergence rate of O((LpRp1μ)2p+1logμR2εG)O \left( \left( \frac{L_p R^{p - 1}}{\mu} \right)^\frac{2}{p + 1} \log \frac{\mu R^2}{\varepsilon_G} \right), where RR is an estimate of the initial distance to the solution, and εG\varepsilon_G is the error in terms of duality gap. Under additional assumptions of first and second order smoothness of the objective we connect the first method with a locally superlinear converging algorithm and develop a second method with the complexity of O((LpRp1μ)2p+1logL2Rmax{1,L1μ}μ+loglogL132μ2εGlogL1L2μ2)O \left( \left( \frac{L_p R^{p - 1}}{\mu} \right)^\frac{2}{p + 1}\log \frac{L_2 R \max \left\{ 1, \frac{L_1}{\mu} \right\}}{\mu} + \log \frac{\log \frac{L_1^3}{2 \mu^2 \varepsilon_G}}{\log \frac{L_1 L_2}{\mu^2}} \right). The third method is a modified version of the second method, and it solves gradient norm minimization SPP with O~((LpRpε)2p+1)\tilde O \left( \left( \frac{L_p R^p}{\varepsilon_\nabla} \right)^\frac{2}{p + 1} \right) oracle calls, where ε\varepsilon_\nabla is an error in terms of norm of the gradient of the objective. Since we treat SPP as a particular case of variational inequalities, we also propose three methods for strongly monotone variational inequalities with the same complexity as the described above.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15595,
  title  = {Tensor methods for strongly convex strongly concave saddle point problems and strongly monotone variational inequalities},
  author = {Petr Ostroukhov and Rinat Kamalov and Pavel Dvurechensky and Alexander Gasnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15595},
  year   = {2021}
}
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