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most citedGeneral Convergence Rates Follow From Specialized Rates Assuming Growth Bounds

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math.OC2020

Limiting Behaviors of Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization via Continuous-Time Systems

Benjamin Grimmer, Haihao Lu, Pratik Worah +1

Unlike nonconvex optimization, where gradient descent is guaranteed to converge to a local optimizer, algorithms for nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization can have topologicall…

math.OC2020

The Landscape of the Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization

Benjamin Grimmer, Haihao Lu, Pratik Worah +1

Minimax optimization has become a central tool in machine learning with applications in robust optimization, reinforcement learning, GANs, etc. These applications are often nonconv…

math.OC2019

Bundle Method Sketching for Low Rank Semidefinite Programming

Lijun Ding, Benjamin Grimmer

In this paper, we show that the bundle method can be applied to solve semidefinite programming problems with a low rank solution without ever constructing a full matrix. To accompl…

math.OC20194 cited

General Convergence Rates Follow From Specialized Rates Assuming Growth Bounds

Benjamin Grimmer

Often in the analysis of first-order methods, assuming the existence of a quadratic growth bound (a generalization of strong convexity) facilitates much stronger convergence analys…

math.OC2018

A Simple Nearly-Optimal Restart Scheme For Speeding-Up First Order Methods

James Renegar, Benjamin Grimmer

We present a simple scheme for restarting first-order methods for convex optimization problems. Restarts are made based only on achieving specified decreases in objective values, t…