ItsOPT: An inexact two-level smoothing framework for nonconvex optimization via high-order Moreau envelope

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Autori principali: Kabgani, Alireza, Ahookhosh, Masoud
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author Kabgani, Alireza
Ahookhosh, Masoud
author_facet Kabgani, Alireza
Ahookhosh, Masoud
contents This paper introduces ItsOPT, an inexact two-level smoothing optimization framework designed to find first-order critical points of nonsmooth and nonconvex functions. The framework involves two levels of methodologies: at the upper level, a zero-, first-, or second-order method will be tailored to minimize a smooth approximation; at the lower level, the high-order proximal auxiliary problems will be solved inexactly, generating an inexact oracle for the smooth function. As a smoothing technique, we here introduce the high-order Moreau envelope (HOME) and study its fundamental features under standard assumptions. Next, introducing a boosted high-order proximal-point algorithm (Boosted HiPPA) at the upper level using the inexact oracle from the lower level leads to an instance of ItsOPT. Global convergence rates are established under the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz (KL) property of the cost and envelope functions, along with some reasonable conditions for the accuracy of the proximal terms. surprisingly, for any KL exponent $θ\in (0,1)$ of the original cost, setting the regularization order $p=\frac{1}{1-θ}$ ensures that Boosted HiPPA converges linearly to a proximal fixed point, which is the first algorithm with this property for KL functions. Preliminary numerical experiments on a robust low-rank matrix recovery problem indicate a promising performance of the proposed algorithm, validating our theoretical foundations.
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spellingShingle ItsOPT: An inexact two-level smoothing framework for nonconvex optimization via high-order Moreau envelope
Kabgani, Alireza
Ahookhosh, Masoud
Optimization and Control
90C26, 90C25, 90C06, 65K05, 49J52, 49J53
This paper introduces ItsOPT, an inexact two-level smoothing optimization framework designed to find first-order critical points of nonsmooth and nonconvex functions. The framework involves two levels of methodologies: at the upper level, a zero-, first-, or second-order method will be tailored to minimize a smooth approximation; at the lower level, the high-order proximal auxiliary problems will be solved inexactly, generating an inexact oracle for the smooth function. As a smoothing technique, we here introduce the high-order Moreau envelope (HOME) and study its fundamental features under standard assumptions. Next, introducing a boosted high-order proximal-point algorithm (Boosted HiPPA) at the upper level using the inexact oracle from the lower level leads to an instance of ItsOPT. Global convergence rates are established under the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz (KL) property of the cost and envelope functions, along with some reasonable conditions for the accuracy of the proximal terms. surprisingly, for any KL exponent $θ\in (0,1)$ of the original cost, setting the regularization order $p=\frac{1}{1-θ}$ ensures that Boosted HiPPA converges linearly to a proximal fixed point, which is the first algorithm with this property for KL functions. Preliminary numerical experiments on a robust low-rank matrix recovery problem indicate a promising performance of the proposed algorithm, validating our theoretical foundations.
title ItsOPT: An inexact two-level smoothing framework for nonconvex optimization via high-order Moreau envelope
topic Optimization and Control
90C26, 90C25, 90C06, 65K05, 49J52, 49J53
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19928