$Q$-fully Quadratic Modeling and its Application in a Random Subspace Derivative-free Method

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Main Authors: Chen, Yiwen, Hare, Warren, Wiebe, Amy
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author Chen, Yiwen
Hare, Warren
Wiebe, Amy
author_facet Chen, Yiwen
Hare, Warren
Wiebe, Amy
contents Model-based derivative-free optimization (DFO) methods are an important class of DFO methods that are known to struggle with solving high-dimensional optimization problems. Recent research has shown that incorporating random subspaces into model-based DFO methods has the potential to improve their performance on high-dimensional problems. However, most of the current theoretical and practical results are based on linear approximation models due to the complexity of quadratic approximation models. This paper proposes a random subspace trust-region algorithm based on quadratic approximations. Unlike most of its precursors, this algorithm does not require any special form of objective function. We study the geometry of sample sets, the error bounds for approximations, and the quality of subspaces. In particular, we provide a technique to construct $Q$-fully quadratic models, which is easy to analyze and implement. We present an almost-sure global convergence result of our algorithm and give an upper bound on the expected number of iterations to find a sufficiently small gradient. We also develop numerical experiments to compare the performance of our algorithm using both linear and quadratic approximation models. The numerical results demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of using quadratic approximations.
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spellingShingle $Q$-fully Quadratic Modeling and its Application in a Random Subspace Derivative-free Method
Chen, Yiwen
Hare, Warren
Wiebe, Amy
Optimization and Control
90C56, 65K05, 90C06
Model-based derivative-free optimization (DFO) methods are an important class of DFO methods that are known to struggle with solving high-dimensional optimization problems. Recent research has shown that incorporating random subspaces into model-based DFO methods has the potential to improve their performance on high-dimensional problems. However, most of the current theoretical and practical results are based on linear approximation models due to the complexity of quadratic approximation models. This paper proposes a random subspace trust-region algorithm based on quadratic approximations. Unlike most of its precursors, this algorithm does not require any special form of objective function. We study the geometry of sample sets, the error bounds for approximations, and the quality of subspaces. In particular, we provide a technique to construct $Q$-fully quadratic models, which is easy to analyze and implement. We present an almost-sure global convergence result of our algorithm and give an upper bound on the expected number of iterations to find a sufficiently small gradient. We also develop numerical experiments to compare the performance of our algorithm using both linear and quadratic approximation models. The numerical results demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of using quadratic approximations.
title $Q$-fully Quadratic Modeling and its Application in a Random Subspace Derivative-free Method
topic Optimization and Control
90C56, 65K05, 90C06
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03169