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Main Authors: Liu, Chengchang, Chen, Cheng, Luo, Luo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16188
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  • This paper proposes a novel class of block quasi-Newton methods for convex optimization which we call symmetric rank-$k$ (SR-$k$) methods. Each iteration of SR-$k$ incorporates the curvature information with~$k$ Hessian-vector products achieved from the greedy or random strategy. We prove that SR-$k$ methods have the local superlinear convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}\big((1-k/d)^{t(t-1)/2}\big)$ for minimizing smooth and strongly convex function, where $d$ is the problem dimension and $t$ is the iteration counter. This is the first explicit superlinear convergence rate for block quasi-Newton methods, and it successfully explains why block quasi-Newton methods converge faster than ordinary quasi-Newton methods in practice. We also leverage the idea of SR-$k$ methods to study the block BFGS and block DFP methods, showing their superior convergence rates.