A Parameter-Free and Near-Optimal Zeroth-Order Algorithm for Stochastic Convex Optimization

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Hauptverfasser: Ren, Kunjie, Luo, Luo
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author Ren, Kunjie
Luo, Luo
author_facet Ren, Kunjie
Luo, Luo
contents This paper considers zeroth-order optimization for stochastic convex minimization problem. We propose a parameter-free stochastic zeroth-order method (POEM) by introducing a step-size scheme based on the distance over finite difference and an adaptive smoothing parameter. We provide the theoretical analysis to show that POEM achieves the near-optimal stochastic zeroth-order oracle complexity. We further conduct the numerical experiments to demonstrate POEM outperforms existing zeroth-order methods in practice.
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spellingShingle A Parameter-Free and Near-Optimal Zeroth-Order Algorithm for Stochastic Convex Optimization
Ren, Kunjie
Luo, Luo
Optimization and Control
This paper considers zeroth-order optimization for stochastic convex minimization problem. We propose a parameter-free stochastic zeroth-order method (POEM) by introducing a step-size scheme based on the distance over finite difference and an adaptive smoothing parameter. We provide the theoretical analysis to show that POEM achieves the near-optimal stochastic zeroth-order oracle complexity. We further conduct the numerical experiments to demonstrate POEM outperforms existing zeroth-order methods in practice.
title A Parameter-Free and Near-Optimal Zeroth-Order Algorithm for Stochastic Convex Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05600