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On Linear Convergence of Non-Euclidean Gradient Methods without Strong Convexity and Lipschitz Gradient Continuity

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  • Heinz H. Bauschke

    (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

  • Jérôme Bolte

    (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole)

  • Jiawei Chen

    (Southwest University)

  • Marc Teboulle

    (Tel Aviv University)

  • Xianfu Wang

    (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

Abstract

The gradient method is well known to globally converge linearly when the objective function is strongly convex and admits a Lipschitz continuous gradient. In many applications, both assumptions are often too stringent, precluding the use of gradient methods. In the early 1960s, after the amazing breakthrough of Łojasiewicz on gradient inequalities, it was observed that uniform convexity assumptions could be relaxed and replaced by these inequalities. On the other hand, very recently, it has been shown that the Lipschitz gradient continuity can be lifted and replaced by a class of functions satisfying a non-Euclidean descent property expressed in terms of a Bregman distance. In this note, we combine these two ideas to introduce a class of non-Euclidean gradient-like inequalities, allowing to prove linear convergence of a Bregman gradient method for nonconvex minimization, even when neither strong convexity nor Lipschitz gradient continuity holds.

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  • Heinz H. Bauschke & Jérôme Bolte & Jiawei Chen & Marc Teboulle & Xianfu Wang, 2019. "On Linear Convergence of Non-Euclidean Gradient Methods without Strong Convexity and Lipschitz Gradient Continuity," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 182(3), pages 1068-1087, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joptap:v:182:y:2019:i:3:d:10.1007_s10957-019-01516-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10957-019-01516-9
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