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Main Authors: Cheng, Yi, Lan, Guanghui, Masiha, Saeed, Romeijn, H. Edwin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05108
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author Cheng, Yi
Lan, Guanghui
Masiha, Saeed
Romeijn, H. Edwin
author_facet Cheng, Yi
Lan, Guanghui
Masiha, Saeed
Romeijn, H. Edwin
contents We study projection-free methods for functional constrained optimization with convex or smooth nonconvex objectives. Such problems arise in applications such as portfolio optimization and radiation therapy planning, where risk-aware criteria and sparsity frequently appear together. For the convex setting, we propose a Level Conditional Gradient (LCG) method that combines a level-set outer loop with a conditional gradient oracle for saddle-point subproblems, and we show an iteration complexity of $\mathcal{O}\big(ε^{-2}\log(ε^{-1})\big)$ for smooth and nonsmooth cases without dependence on the magnitude of an optimal dual Lagrange multiplier. For the nonconvex setting, we propose the Inexact Proximal Point LCG (IPP-LCG) method, which solves a sequence of convex subproblems by LCG and attains $\mathcal{O}\big(ε^{-3}\log(ε^{-1})\big)$ complexity for computing an \((ε,ε)\)-near-KKT point. Numerical results on portfolio selection and IMRT illustrate the practical sparsity/risk trade-offs of the proposed methods.
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spellingShingle Projection-Free Functional Constrained Optimization for Risk Aversion and Sparsity Control
Cheng, Yi
Lan, Guanghui
Masiha, Saeed
Romeijn, H. Edwin
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
We study projection-free methods for functional constrained optimization with convex or smooth nonconvex objectives. Such problems arise in applications such as portfolio optimization and radiation therapy planning, where risk-aware criteria and sparsity frequently appear together. For the convex setting, we propose a Level Conditional Gradient (LCG) method that combines a level-set outer loop with a conditional gradient oracle for saddle-point subproblems, and we show an iteration complexity of $\mathcal{O}\big(ε^{-2}\log(ε^{-1})\big)$ for smooth and nonsmooth cases without dependence on the magnitude of an optimal dual Lagrange multiplier. For the nonconvex setting, we propose the Inexact Proximal Point LCG (IPP-LCG) method, which solves a sequence of convex subproblems by LCG and attains $\mathcal{O}\big(ε^{-3}\log(ε^{-1})\big)$ complexity for computing an \((ε,ε)\)-near-KKT point. Numerical results on portfolio selection and IMRT illustrate the practical sparsity/risk trade-offs of the proposed methods.
title Projection-Free Functional Constrained Optimization for Risk Aversion and Sparsity Control
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05108