Acceleration with a Ball Optimization Oracle
Acceleration with a Ball Optimization Oracle
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2020-03
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Y. Carmon;A. Jambulapati;Qijia Jiang;Yujia Jin;Y. Lee;Aaron Sidford;Kevin Tian
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Y. Carmon;A. Jambulapati;Qijia Jiang;Yujia Jin;Y. Lee;Aaron Sidford;Kevin Tian
Consider an oracle which takes a point $x$ and returns the minimizer of a convex function $f$ in an $\ell_2$ ball of radius $r$ around $x$. It is straightforward to show that roughly $r^{-1}\log\frac{1}{\epsilon}$ calls to the oracle suffice to find an $\epsilon$-approximate minimizer of $f$ in an $\ell_2$ unit ball. Perhaps surprisingly, this is not optimal: we design an accelerated algorithm which attains an $\epsilon$-approximate minimizer with roughly $r^{-2/3} \log \frac{1}{\epsilon}$ oracle queries, and give a matching lower bound. Further, we implement ball optimization oracles for functions with locally stable Hessians using a variant of Newton's method. The resulting algorithm applies to a number of problems of practical and theoretical import, improving upon previous results for logistic and $\ell_\infty$ regression and achieving guarantees comparable to the state-of-the-art for $\ell_p$ regression.