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Main Authors: Kim, Jaeyeon, Park, Chanwoo, Ozdaglar, Asuman, Diakonikolas, Jelena, Ryu, Ernest K.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17296
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  • While first-order optimization methods are usually designed to efficiently reduce the function value $f(x)$, there has been recent interest in methods efficiently reducing the magnitude of $\nabla f(x)$, and the findings show that the two types of methods exhibit a certain symmetry. In this work, we present mirror duality, a one-to-one correspondence between mirror-descent-type methods reducing function value and reducing gradient magnitude. Using mirror duality, we obtain the dual accelerated mirror descent (dual-AMD) method that efficiently reduces $ψ^*(\nabla f(x))$, where $ψ$ is a distance-generating function and $ψ^*$ quantifies the magnitude of $\nabla f(x)$. We then apply dual-AMD to efficiently reduce $\|\nabla f(\cdot) \|_q$ for $q\in [2,\infty)$ and to efficiently compute $\varepsilon$-approximate solutions of the optimal transport problem.