Performance Estimation for Smooth and Strongly Convex Sets

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Main Authors: Luner, Alan, Grimmer, Benjamin
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Published: 2024
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Grimmer, Benjamin
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Grimmer, Benjamin
contents We extend recent computer-assisted design and analysis techniques for first-order optimization over structured functions--known as performance estimation--to apply to structured sets. We prove "interpolation theorems" for smooth and strongly convex sets with Slater points and bounded diameter, showing a wide range of extremal questions amount to structured mathematical programs. Prior function interpolation theorems are recovered as a limit of our set interpolation theory. Our theory provides finite-dimensional formulations of performance estimation problems for algorithms utilizing separating hyperplane oracles, linear optimization oracles, and/or projection oracles of smooth/strongly convex sets. As direct applications of this computer-assisted machinery, we identify the minimax optimal separating hyperplane method and several areas for improvement in the theory of Frank-Wolfe, Alternating Projections, and non-Lipschitz Smooth Optimization. While particular applications and methods are not our primary focus, several simple theorems and numerically supported conjectures are provided.
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spellingShingle Performance Estimation for Smooth and Strongly Convex Sets
Luner, Alan
Grimmer, Benjamin
Optimization and Control
90C22, 90C25, 65K05
We extend recent computer-assisted design and analysis techniques for first-order optimization over structured functions--known as performance estimation--to apply to structured sets. We prove "interpolation theorems" for smooth and strongly convex sets with Slater points and bounded diameter, showing a wide range of extremal questions amount to structured mathematical programs. Prior function interpolation theorems are recovered as a limit of our set interpolation theory. Our theory provides finite-dimensional formulations of performance estimation problems for algorithms utilizing separating hyperplane oracles, linear optimization oracles, and/or projection oracles of smooth/strongly convex sets. As direct applications of this computer-assisted machinery, we identify the minimax optimal separating hyperplane method and several areas for improvement in the theory of Frank-Wolfe, Alternating Projections, and non-Lipschitz Smooth Optimization. While particular applications and methods are not our primary focus, several simple theorems and numerically supported conjectures are provided.
title Performance Estimation for Smooth and Strongly Convex Sets
topic Optimization and Control
90C22, 90C25, 65K05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14811