ICCOPT 2013 Talk, Auditorium B, Wednesday, July 31, 11:30-13:00

 Speaker: Xiaojun Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
 Title: Worst case complexity of nonconvex non-Lipschiz minimization
 Co-authors: Wei Bian, Dongdong Ge, Zizhou Wang, Yinyu Ye

 Abstract:
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We consider evaluation complexity of minimization problems with nonconvex, non-Lipschitz regularization terms. For $ L_2-L_p$ non-Lipschitz regularized minimization, we show that finding a global optimal solution is strongly NP-hard. We propose a smoothing quadratic regularization algorithm for unconstrained problems and a first-order interior point algorithm for a class of problems with box constraints. Both algorithms are easy to implement and the worst-case iteration complexity for finding an $\epsilon$ scaled first-order stationary point is $O(\epsilon^{-2})$. Moreover, we develop a second-order interior point algorithm using the Hessian matrix, and solve a quadratic program with a ball constraint at each iteration. Although the second-order interior point algorithm costs more computational time than that of the first-order algorithm in each iteration, its worst-case iteration complexity for finding an $\epsilon$ (scaled) second-order stationary point is reduced to $O(\epsilon^{-3/2})$. Examples are presented to illustrate the theory and algorithms.


 Talk in: Organized Session Wed.A.AB Sparse and low-rank optimization
 Cluster: Nonlinear optimization


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