A Globally Convergent Gradient Method with Momentum

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Autori principali: Lapucci, Matteo, Liuzzi, Giampaolo, Lucidi, Stefano, Pucci, Davide, Sciandrone, Marco
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author Lapucci, Matteo
Liuzzi, Giampaolo
Lucidi, Stefano
Pucci, Davide
Sciandrone, Marco
author_facet Lapucci, Matteo
Liuzzi, Giampaolo
Lucidi, Stefano
Pucci, Davide
Sciandrone, Marco
contents In this work, we consider smooth unconstrained optimization problems and we deal with the class of gradient methods with momentum, i.e., descent algorithms where the search direction is defined as a linear combination of the current gradient and the preceding search direction. This family of algorithms includes nonlinear conjugate gradient methods and Polyak's heavy-ball approach, and is thus of high practical and theoretical interest in large-scale nonlinear optimization. We propose a general framework where the scalars of the linear combination defining the search direction are computed simultaneously by minimizing the approximate quadratic model in the 2 dimensional subspace. This strategy allows us to define a class of gradient methods with momentum enjoying global convergence guarantees and an optimal worst-case complexity bound in the nonconvex setting. Differently than all related works in the literature, the convergence conditions are stated in terms of the Hessian matrix of the bi-dimensional quadratic model. To the best of our knowledge, these results are novel to the literature. Moreover, extensive computational experiments show that the gradient method with momentum here presented is a solid choice to tackle some classes of nonconvex unconstrained problems.
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spellingShingle A Globally Convergent Gradient Method with Momentum
Lapucci, Matteo
Liuzzi, Giampaolo
Lucidi, Stefano
Pucci, Davide
Sciandrone, Marco
Optimization and Control
90C26, 90C30, 90C60
In this work, we consider smooth unconstrained optimization problems and we deal with the class of gradient methods with momentum, i.e., descent algorithms where the search direction is defined as a linear combination of the current gradient and the preceding search direction. This family of algorithms includes nonlinear conjugate gradient methods and Polyak's heavy-ball approach, and is thus of high practical and theoretical interest in large-scale nonlinear optimization. We propose a general framework where the scalars of the linear combination defining the search direction are computed simultaneously by minimizing the approximate quadratic model in the 2 dimensional subspace. This strategy allows us to define a class of gradient methods with momentum enjoying global convergence guarantees and an optimal worst-case complexity bound in the nonconvex setting. Differently than all related works in the literature, the convergence conditions are stated in terms of the Hessian matrix of the bi-dimensional quadratic model. To the best of our knowledge, these results are novel to the literature. Moreover, extensive computational experiments show that the gradient method with momentum here presented is a solid choice to tackle some classes of nonconvex unconstrained problems.
title A Globally Convergent Gradient Method with Momentum
topic Optimization and Control
90C26, 90C30, 90C60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17613