Second-order Online Nonconvex Optimization

Autor: Lesage-Landry, Antoine, Taylor, Joshua A., Shames, Iman
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.3040372
Popis: We present the online Newton's method, a single-step second-order method for online nonconvex optimization. We analyze its performance and obtain a dynamic regret bound that is linear in the cumulative variation between round optima. We show that if the variation between round optima is limited, the method leads to a constant regret bound. In the general case, the online Newton's method outperforms online convex optimization algorithms for convex functions and performs similarly to a specialized algorithm for strongly convex functions. We simulate the performance of the online Newton's method on a nonlinear, nonconvex moving target localization example and find that it outperforms a first-order approach.
Databáze: arXiv