Gradient-Variation Online Adaptivity for Accelerated Optimization with Hölder Smoothness

Yu-Hu Yan (Nanjing University) · Peng Zhao (Nanjing University) · Kfir Y. Levy (Technion) · Yuheng Zhao (Nanjing University)
accelerated convergenceaccelerationadaptivityconvex optimizationdetection-based proceduregradient-variation algorithmgradient-variation regretguess-and-checkhölder functionslipschitz functionsonline learningonline-to-batch conversionsmoothnessstochastic convex optimizationuniversal method

Smoothness is known to be crucial for acceleration in offline optimization, and for gradient-variation regret minimization in online learning. Interestingly, these two problems are actually closely connected