Title
Convergence of Cubic Regularization for Nonconvex Optimization under KL Property.
Abstract
Cubic-regularized Newton's method (CR) is a popular algorithm that guarantees to produce a second-order stationary solution for solving nonconvex optimization problems. However, existing understandings of the convergence rate of CR are conditioned on special types of geometrical properties of the objective function. In this paper, we explore the asymptotic convergence rate of CR by exploiting the ubiquitous Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz (KL) property of nonconvex objective functions. In specific, we characterize the asymptotic convergence rate of various types of optimality measures for CR including function value gap, variable distance gap, gradient norm and least eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix. Our results fully characterize the diverse convergence behaviors of these optimality measures in the full parameter regime of the KL property. Moreover, we show that the obtained asymptotic convergence rates of CR are order-wise faster than those of first-order gradient descent algorithms under the KL property.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 31 (NIPS 2018)
nonconvex optimization,objective function,convergence rate,function value,hessian matrix
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
31
1049-5258
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Zhou16517.55
Wang, Zhe244.13
Yingbin Liang31646147.64