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The First Optimal Acceleration of High-Order Methods in Smooth Convex Optimization
Dmitry Kovalev · Alexander Gasnikov

Wed Dec 07 05:00 PM -- 07:00 PM (PST) @
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In this paper, we study the fundamental open question of finding the optimal high-order algorithm for solving smooth convex minimization problems. Arjevani et al. (2019) established the lower bound $\Omega\left(\epsilon^{-2/(3p+1)}\right)$ on the number of the $p$-th order oracle calls required by an algorithm to find an $\epsilon$-accurate solution to the problem, where the $p$-th order oracle stands for the computation of the objective function value and the derivatives up to the order $p$. However, the existing state-of-the-art high-order methods of Gasnikov et al. (2019b); Bubeck et al. (2019); Jiang et al. (2019) achieve the oracle complexity $\mathcal{O}\left(\epsilon^{-2/(3p+1)} \log (1/\epsilon)\right)$, which does not match the lower bound. The reason for this is that these algorithms require performing a complex binary search procedure, which makes them neither optimal nor practical. We fix this fundamental issue by providing the first algorithm with $\mathcal{O}\left(\epsilon^{-2/(3p+1)}\right)$ $p$-th order oracle complexity.
Keywords: Convex Optimization · tensor methods · optimal algorithms · high-order optimization

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Dmitry Kovalev (UCLouvain)
Alexander Gasnikov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

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