Efficient First Order Method for Saddle Point Problems with Higher Order Smoothness

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Autores principales: Wang, Nuozhou, Zhang, Junyu, Zhang, Shuzhong
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author Wang, Nuozhou
Zhang, Junyu
Zhang, Shuzhong
author_facet Wang, Nuozhou
Zhang, Junyu
Zhang, Shuzhong
contents This paper studies the complexity of finding approximate stationary points for the smooth nonconvex-strongly-concave (NC-SC) saddle point problem: $\min_x\max_yf(x,y)$. Under the standard first-order smoothness conditions where $f$ is $\ell$-smooth in both arguments and $μ_y$-strongly concave in $y$, existing literature shows that the optimal complexity for first-order methods to obtain an $ε$-stationary point is $\tilde{O}\big(\sqrt{κ_y}\ellε^{-2}\big)$, where $κ_y=\ell/μ_y$ is the condition number. However, when $Φ(x):=\max_y f(x,y)$ has $L_2$-Lipschitz continuous Hessian in addition, we derive a first-order algorithm with an $\tilde{O}\big(\sqrt{κ_y}\ell^{1/2}L_2^{1/4}ε^{-7/4}\big)$ complexity by designing an accelerated proximal point algorithm enhanced with the "Convex Until Proven Guilty" technique. Moreover, an improved $Ω\big(\sqrt{κ_y}\ell^{3/7}L_2^{2/7}ε^{-12/7}\big)$ lower bound for first-order method is also derived for sufficiently small $ε$. As a result, given the second-order smoothness of the problem, the complexity of our method improves the state-of-the-art result by a factor of $\tilde{O}\big(\big(\frac{\ell^2}{L_2ε}\big)^{1/4}\big)$, while almost matching the lower bound except for a small $\tilde{O}\big(\big(\frac{\ell^2}{L_2ε}\big)^{1/28}\big)$ factor.
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spellingShingle Efficient First Order Method for Saddle Point Problems with Higher Order Smoothness
Wang, Nuozhou
Zhang, Junyu
Zhang, Shuzhong
Optimization and Control
This paper studies the complexity of finding approximate stationary points for the smooth nonconvex-strongly-concave (NC-SC) saddle point problem: $\min_x\max_yf(x,y)$. Under the standard first-order smoothness conditions where $f$ is $\ell$-smooth in both arguments and $μ_y$-strongly concave in $y$, existing literature shows that the optimal complexity for first-order methods to obtain an $ε$-stationary point is $\tilde{O}\big(\sqrt{κ_y}\ellε^{-2}\big)$, where $κ_y=\ell/μ_y$ is the condition number. However, when $Φ(x):=\max_y f(x,y)$ has $L_2$-Lipschitz continuous Hessian in addition, we derive a first-order algorithm with an $\tilde{O}\big(\sqrt{κ_y}\ell^{1/2}L_2^{1/4}ε^{-7/4}\big)$ complexity by designing an accelerated proximal point algorithm enhanced with the "Convex Until Proven Guilty" technique. Moreover, an improved $Ω\big(\sqrt{κ_y}\ell^{3/7}L_2^{2/7}ε^{-12/7}\big)$ lower bound for first-order method is also derived for sufficiently small $ε$. As a result, given the second-order smoothness of the problem, the complexity of our method improves the state-of-the-art result by a factor of $\tilde{O}\big(\big(\frac{\ell^2}{L_2ε}\big)^{1/4}\big)$, while almost matching the lower bound except for a small $\tilde{O}\big(\big(\frac{\ell^2}{L_2ε}\big)^{1/28}\big)$ factor.
title Efficient First Order Method for Saddle Point Problems with Higher Order Smoothness
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12453