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Near-Optimal Algorithms for Making the Gradient Small in Stochastic Minimax Optimization

11 Aug 2022arXiv:2208.05925archive 2025-07-28

Lesi Chen, Luo Luo

We study the problem of finding a near-stationary point for smooth minimax optimization. The recent proposed extra anchored gradient (EAG) methods achieve the optimal convergence rate for the convex-concave minimax problem in deterministic setting. However, the direct extension of EAG to stochastic optimization is not efficient.In this paper, we design a novel stochastic algorithm called Recursive Anchored IteratioN (RAIN). We show that the RAIN achieves near-optimal stochastic first-order oracle (SFO) complexity for stochastic minimax optimization in both convex-concave and strongly-convex-strongly-concave cases. In addition, we extend the idea of RAIN to solve structured nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problem and it also achieves near-optimal SFO complexity.

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