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Optimizing the Efficiency of First-Order Methods for Decreasing the Gradient of Smooth Convex Functions

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  • Donghwan Kim

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))

  • Jeffrey A. Fessler

    (University of Michigan)

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This paper optimizes the step coefficients of first-order methods for smooth convex minimization in terms of the worst-case convergence bound (i.e., efficiency) of the decrease in the gradient norm. This work is based on the performance estimation problem approach. The worst-case gradient bound of the resulting method is optimal up to a constant for large-dimensional smooth convex minimization problems, under the initial bounded condition on the cost function value. This paper then illustrates that the proposed method has a computationally efficient form that is similar to the optimized gradient method.

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  • Donghwan Kim & Jeffrey A. Fessler, 2021. "Optimizing the Efficiency of First-Order Methods for Decreasing the Gradient of Smooth Convex Functions," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 188(1), pages 192-219, January.
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