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Efficient Algorithms for Smooth Minimax Optimization

NeurIPS 2019 · Optimization › Nonconvex and smooth optimization · approach: Nonconvex minimax and constrained methods · 75 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Combine Mirror-Prox with Nesterov accelerated gradient using implicit primal-dual updatesStrongly convex-concave minimax optimization · Strongly convex-concave minimaxprimal-dual gap convergence rate: \order{k^{-1}} -> \tilde{O}(k^{-2})Helped
Use an inexact proximal-point method whose regularized subproblems are solved with DIAGNonconvex-concave minimax optimization · Nonconvex-concave minimaxapproximate stationary point convergence rate: \order{k^{-1/5}} -> \tilde{O}(k^{-1/3})Helped
Replace the inner minimax solver with a finite convex minimax schemeProx-FDIAG for finite max-type objectives · Finite max-type nonconvex minimizationtotal gradient evaluations for an approximate stationary point: O(m/\varepsilon^4) -> \ceil[\bigg]{\frac{4^4 L (f(x_0) - f^*)}{3 \varepsilon^2}} \cdot \ceil[\bigg]{\frac{2^4 G}{\varepsHelped
Decrease the inner-solver tolerance adaptively from an initial tolerance (ablation)Prox-FDIAG · Synthetic finite max-type nonconvex minimizationconvergence speedHelped
Use a diminishing, non-summable but square-summable step size instead of a constant step size (ablation)Subgradient method · Synthetic finite max-type nonconvex minimizationconvergence speed: O(\frac1{\sqrt{K}}) -> O(\frac{\log(k)}{\sqrt{k}})Helped

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