A Variable Sample-Size Stochastic Quasi-Newton Method for Smooth and Nonsmooth Stochastic Convex Optimization

Afrooz Jalilzadeh, Angelia Nedich, Uday V. Shanbhag, Farzad Yousefian

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Abstract

In the last several years, stochastic quasi-Newton (SQN) methods have assumed increasing relevance in solving a breadth of machine learning and stochastic optimization problems. Inspired by recently presented SQN schemes [1]-[3], we consider merely convex and possibly nonsmooth stochastic programs and utilize increasing sample-sizes to allow for variance reduction. To this end, we make the following contributions. (i) A regularized and smoothed variable sample-size BFGS update (rsL-BFGS) is developed that can accommodate nonsmooth convex objectives by utilizing iterative regularization and smoothing; (ii) A regularized variable sample-size SQN (rVS-SQN) is developed that admits a rate and oracle complexity bound of {O}(1/k^{1-\varepsilon}) and {O}(\epsilon^{-(3+\varepsilon)/(1-\varepsilon)}), respectively (where \varepsilon, \varepsilon > 0 are arbitrary scalars), improving on past rate statements; (iii) By leveraging (rsL-BFGS), we develop rate statements for the function of the ergodic average through a regularized and smoothed VS-SQN scheme that can accommodate nonsmooth (but smoothable) functions with the convergence rate {O}(1/k^{1/3-2\varepsilon}).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4097-4102
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538613955
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2018
Event57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018 - Miami, United States
Duration: Dec 17 2018Dec 19 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2018-December
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Conference

Conference57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami
Period12/17/1812/19/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Control and Optimization

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