Iteration complexity of first-order augmented Lagrangian methods for convex conic programming
(1803.09941)Abstract
In this paper we consider a class of convex conic programming. In particular, we first propose an inexact augmented Lagrangian (I-AL) method that resembles the classical I-AL method for solving this problem, in which the augmented Lagrangian subproblems are solved approximately by a variant of Nesterov's optimal first-order method. We show that the total number of first-order iterations of the proposed I-AL method for finding an $\epsilon$-KKT solution is at most $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon{-7/4})$. We then propose an adaptively regularized I-AL method and show that it achieves a first-order iteration complexity $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon{-1}\log\epsilon{-1})$, which significantly improves existing complexity bounds achieved by first-order I-AL methods for finding an $\epsilon$-KKT solution. Our complexity analysis of the I-AL methods is based on a sharp analysis of inexact proximal point algorithm (PPA) and the connection between the I-AL methods and inexact PPA. It is vastly different from existing complexity analyses of the first-order I-AL methods in the literature, which typically regard the I-AL methods as an inexact dual gradient method.
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