MoSSP: A Momentum-Based Single-Loop Stochastic Penalty Method for Nonconvex Constrained DC-Regularized Optimization

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Autores principales: Li, Luxuan, Cui, Chunfeng, Wang, Xiao
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author Li, Luxuan
Cui, Chunfeng
Wang, Xiao
author_facet Li, Luxuan
Cui, Chunfeng
Wang, Xiao
contents In this paper, we study a structured class of nonconvex constrained stochastic problems with difference-of-convex (DC) regularization, where the feasible set is possibly nonconvex and the concave part of the DC regularizer is allowed to be nonsmooth. The fundamental challenge lies in maintaining feasibility for nonconvex constraints while achieving favorable oracle complexity. Although single-loop algorithms efficiently solve unconstrained DC optimization problems, their potential for constrained optimization with DC structure remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we develop MoSSP, a Momentum-based Single-loop Stochastic Penalty method for such problems with provable complexity guarantees. The key idea is to apply a single stochastic proximal-gradient step to the Moreau envelope of the penalty plus the convex DC part, with the concave part's proximal mapping computed in parallel. We derive two algorithm variants: a Polyak-momentum version with $O(\varepsilon^{-4})$ oracle complexity for finding stochastic $\varepsilon$-KKT points, and an improved $O(\varepsilon^{-3})$ version incorporating recursive momentum. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
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spellingShingle MoSSP: A Momentum-Based Single-Loop Stochastic Penalty Method for Nonconvex Constrained DC-Regularized Optimization
Li, Luxuan
Cui, Chunfeng
Wang, Xiao
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
90C26, 90C15, 90C30, 65K05
In this paper, we study a structured class of nonconvex constrained stochastic problems with difference-of-convex (DC) regularization, where the feasible set is possibly nonconvex and the concave part of the DC regularizer is allowed to be nonsmooth. The fundamental challenge lies in maintaining feasibility for nonconvex constraints while achieving favorable oracle complexity. Although single-loop algorithms efficiently solve unconstrained DC optimization problems, their potential for constrained optimization with DC structure remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we develop MoSSP, a Momentum-based Single-loop Stochastic Penalty method for such problems with provable complexity guarantees. The key idea is to apply a single stochastic proximal-gradient step to the Moreau envelope of the penalty plus the convex DC part, with the concave part's proximal mapping computed in parallel. We derive two algorithm variants: a Polyak-momentum version with $O(\varepsilon^{-4})$ oracle complexity for finding stochastic $\varepsilon$-KKT points, and an improved $O(\varepsilon^{-3})$ version incorporating recursive momentum. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
title MoSSP: A Momentum-Based Single-Loop Stochastic Penalty Method for Nonconvex Constrained DC-Regularized Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
90C26, 90C15, 90C30, 65K05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29635