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Mat. Sb., 2023 Volume 214, Number 3, Pages 3–53 (Mi sm9700)

Solving strongly convex-concave composite saddle-point problems with low dimension of one group of variable

M. S. Alkousaa, A. V. Gasnikovabcd, E. L. Gladine, I. A. Kuruzova, D. A. Pasechnyuka, F. S. Stonyakinaf

a Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia
b Research Center for Trusted Artificial Intelligence, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
c Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow, Russia
d Caucasus Mathematical Center, Adyghe State University, Maikop, Russia
e Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
f V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russia

Abstract: Algorithmic methods are developed that guarantee efficient complexity estimates for strongly convex-concave saddle-point problems in the case when one group of variables has a high dimension, while another has a rather low dimension (up to 100). These methods are based on reducing problems of this type to the minimization (maximization) problem for a convex (concave) functional with respect to one of the variables such that an approximate value of the gradient at an arbitrary point can be obtained with the required accuracy using an auxiliary optimization subproblem with respect to the other variable. It is proposed to use the ellipsoid method and Vaidya's method for low-dimensional problems and accelerated gradient methods with inexact information about the gradient or subgradient for high-dimensional problems. In the case when one group of variables, ranging over a hypercube, has a very low dimension (up to five), another proposed approach to strongly convex-concave saddle-point problems is rather efficient. This approach is based on a new version of a multidimensional analogue of Nesterov's method on a square (the multidimensional dichotomy method) with the possibility to use inexact values of the gradient of the objective functional.
Bibliography: 28 titles.

Keywords: saddle-point problem, ellipsoid method, Vaidya's method, inexact subgradient, hypercube, multidimensional dichotomy.

MSC: Primary 90C47; Secondary 68Q25, 90C06

Received: 26.11.2021 and 24.10.2022

DOI: 10.4213/sm9700


 English version:
Sbornik: Mathematics, 2023, 214:3, 285–333

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