The rate of convergence of Bregman proximal methods: Local geometry vs. regularity vs. sharpness

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Main Authors: Azizian, Waïss, Iutzeler, Franck, Malick, Jérôme, Mertikopoulos, Panayotis
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author Azizian, Waïss
Iutzeler, Franck
Malick, Jérôme
Mertikopoulos, Panayotis
author_facet Azizian, Waïss
Iutzeler, Franck
Malick, Jérôme
Mertikopoulos, Panayotis
contents We examine the last-iterate convergence rate of Bregman proximal methods - from mirror descent to mirror-prox and its optimistic variants - as a function of the local geometry induced by the prox-mapping defining the method. For generality, we focus on local solutions of constrained, non-monotone variational inequalities, and we show that the convergence rate of a given method depends sharply on its associated Legendre exponent, a notion that measures the growth rate of the underlying Bregman function (Euclidean, entropic, or other) near a solution. In particular, we show that boundary solutions exhibit a stark separation of regimes between methods with a zero and non-zero Legendre exponent: the former converge at a linear rate, while the latter converge, in general, sublinearly. This dichotomy becomes even more pronounced in linearly constrained problems where methods with entropic regularization achieve a linear convergence rate along sharp directions, compared to convergence in a finite number of steps under Euclidean regularization.
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spellingShingle The rate of convergence of Bregman proximal methods: Local geometry vs. regularity vs. sharpness
Azizian, Waïss
Iutzeler, Franck
Malick, Jérôme
Mertikopoulos, Panayotis
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Primary 65K15, 90C33, secondary 68Q25, 68Q32
We examine the last-iterate convergence rate of Bregman proximal methods - from mirror descent to mirror-prox and its optimistic variants - as a function of the local geometry induced by the prox-mapping defining the method. For generality, we focus on local solutions of constrained, non-monotone variational inequalities, and we show that the convergence rate of a given method depends sharply on its associated Legendre exponent, a notion that measures the growth rate of the underlying Bregman function (Euclidean, entropic, or other) near a solution. In particular, we show that boundary solutions exhibit a stark separation of regimes between methods with a zero and non-zero Legendre exponent: the former converge at a linear rate, while the latter converge, in general, sublinearly. This dichotomy becomes even more pronounced in linearly constrained problems where methods with entropic regularization achieve a linear convergence rate along sharp directions, compared to convergence in a finite number of steps under Euclidean regularization.
title The rate of convergence of Bregman proximal methods: Local geometry vs. regularity vs. sharpness
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Primary 65K15, 90C33, secondary 68Q25, 68Q32
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08043