arXiv:2504. 09951v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We revisit a classical assumption for analyzing stochastic gradient algorithms where the squared norm of the stochastic subgradient (or the variance for smooth problems) is allowed to grow as fast as the squared norm of the optimization variable.
arXiv:2608. 06182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic extragradient (SEG) methods for solving monotone variational inequality problems (VIPs) over a feasible set.
arXiv:2609.08380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the stochastic first-order oracle complexity for constrained or regularized convex-concave min-max optimization and stochastic monotone vari...
arXiv:2606. 21528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study first-order methods for solving monotone variational inequalities arising in min-max optimization.
arXiv:2511. 19656v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although upper bound guarantees for bilevel optimization have been widely studied, progress on lower bounds has been limited due to the complexity of the bilevel structure.
We prove a sharp lower bound for smooth nonconvex stochastic optimization with uniformly bounded gradient noise. In the \(K=1\) fresh-sample model, every randomized adaptive algorithm requires $$Ω\left( \frac{ΔL}{ε^2} + \frac{ΔLσ^2}{ε^4} \right)$$ queries to find a point with expected gradient norm at most \(ε\).
arXiv:2608. 09004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We prove a sharp lower bound for smooth nonconvex stochastic optimization with uniformly bounded gradient noise.
arXiv:2606. 24879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the last iterate of the stochastic subgradient method for one-dimensional convex Lipschitz objectives.
arXiv:2608. 25551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is typically analyzed at a deterministic horizon chosen before the algorithm is run, even though practical stopping decisions are made adaptively by inspecting the evolving trajectory.
arXiv:2608. 05460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces a proximal stochastic subgradient method for minimizing the sum of an expected cost, whose integrand is potentially nonsmooth and nonconvex, and a lower semicontinuous, prox-bounded function.
arXiv:2609.08537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the time-uniform convergence of the raw iterate of standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for unconstrained smooth convex objectives. We...
arXiv:2609. 06921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study constrained online convex optimization with adversarial constraints when constraint values and gradients are observed through unbiased noise.