Global Riemannian Acceleration in Hyperbolic and Spherical Spaces

Abstract

We further research on the accelerated optimization phenomenon on Riemannian manifolds by introducing accelerated global first-order methods for the optimization of $L$-smooth and geodesically convex (g-convex) or $\mu$-strongly g-convex functions defined on the hyperbolic space or a subset of the sphere. For a manifold other than the Euclidean space, these are the first methods to \emph{globally} achieve the same rates as accelerated gradient descent in the Euclidean space with respect to $L$ and $\epsilon$ (and $\mu$ if it applies), up to log factors. Due to the geometric deformations, our rates have an extra factor, depending on the initial distance $R$ to a minimizer and the curvature $K$, with respect to Euclidean accelerated algorithms As a proxy for our solution, we solve a constrained non-convex Euclidean problem, under a condition between convexity and \emph{quasar-convexity}, of independent interest. Additionally, for any Riemannian manifold of bounded sectional curvature, we provide reductions from optimization methods for smooth and g-convex functions to methods for smooth and strongly g-convex functions and vice versa. We also reduce global optimization to optimization over bounded balls where the effect of the curvature is reduced.

greatly improved geometric constants in the rates

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