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[1605.08101] Global rates of convergence for nonconvex optimization on manifolds

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We consider the minimization of a cost function $f$ on a manifold $M$ using Riemannian gradient descent and Riemannian trust regions (RTR). We focus on satisfying necessary optimality conditions within a tolerance $\varepsilon$. Specifically, we show that, under Lipschitz-type assumptions on the pullbacks of $f$ to the tangent spaces of $M$, both of these algorithms produce points with Riemannian gradient smaller than $\varepsilon$ in $O(1/\varepsilon^2)$ iterations. Furthermore, RTR returns a point where also the Riemannian Hessian's least eigenvalue is larger than $-\varepsilon$ in $O(1/\varepsilon^3)$ iterations. There are no assumptions on initialization. The rates match their (sharp) unconstrained counterparts as a function of the accuracy $\varepsilon$ (up to constants) and hence are sharp in that sense. These are the first deterministic results for global rates of convergence to approximate first- and second-order Karush-Kuhn-Tucker points on manifolds. They apply in particular for optimization constrained to compact submanifolds of $\mathbb{R}^n$, under simpler assumptions.

Global rates of convergence for nonconvex optimization on manifolds arXiv:1605.08101v2 [math.OC] 28 Apr 2018 Nicolas Boumal∗ P.-A. Absil† Coralia Cartis‡ May 1, 2018 Abstract We consider the minimization…

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