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A simple parameter-free and adaptive approach to optimization under a minimal local smoothness assumption

Victor Gabillon
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Michal Valko

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We study the problem of optimizing a function under a budgeted number of evaluations. We only assume that the function is locally smooth around one of its global optima. The difficulty of optimization is measured in terms of 1) the amount of noise b of the function evaluation and 2) the local smoothness, d, of the function. A smaller d results in smaller optimization error. We come with a new, simple, and parameter-free approach. First, for all values of b and d, this approach recovers at least the state-of-the-art regret guarantees. Second, our approach additionally obtains these results while being agnostic to the values of both b and d. This leads to the first algorithm that naturally adapts to an unknown range of noise b and leads to significant improvements in a moderate and low-noise regime. Third, our approach also obtains a remarkable improvement over the state-of-the-art SOO algorithm when the noise is very low which includes the case of optimization under deterministic feedback (b=0). There, under our minimal local smoothness assumption, this improvement is of exponential magnitude and holds for a class of functions that covers the vast majority of functions that practitioners optimize (d=0). We show that our algorithmic improvement is borne out in experiments as we empirically show faster convergence on common benchmarks.
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hal-01885368 , version 1 (01-10-2018)
hal-01885368 , version 2 (24-02-2019)

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Peter Bartlett, Victor Gabillon, Michal Valko. A simple parameter-free and adaptive approach to optimization under a minimal local smoothness assumption. Algorithmic Learning Theory, 2019, Chicago, United States. ⟨hal-01885368v2⟩
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