Title
Fast And Safe: Accelerated Gradient Methods With Optimality Certificates And Underestimate Sequences
Abstract
In this work we introduce the concept of an Underestimate Sequence (UES), which is motivated by Nesterov's estimate sequence. Our definition of a UES utilizes three sequences, one of which is a lower bound (or under-estimator) of the objective function. The question of how to construct an appropriate sequence of lower bounds is addressed, and we present lower bounds for strongly convex smooth functions and for strongly convex composite functions, which adhere to the UES framework. Further, we propose several first order methods for minimizing strongly convex functions in both the smooth and composite cases. The algorithms, based on efficiently updating lower bounds on the objective functions, have natural stopping conditions that provide the user with a certificate of optimality. Convergence of all algorithms is guaranteed through the UES framework, and we show that all presented algorithms converge linearly, with the accelerated variants enjoying the optimal linear rate of convergence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s10589-021-00269-4
COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Underestimate sequence, Estimate sequence, Quadratic averaging, Lower bounds, Strongly convex, Smooth minimization, Composite minimization, Accelerated algorithms
Journal
79
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0926-6003
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Majid Jahani100.34
Naga Venkata C. Gudapati200.34
Chenxin Ma300.34
Rachael Tappenden400.34
Martin Takác575249.49