Accelerated Proximal Point

Source file

wc_accelerated_proximal_point(alpha::Real, n::Int; solver=Clarabel.Optimizer, verbose::Int=1)

Problem statement

Compute a PEPit worst-case guarantee for wc_accelerated_proximal_point.

Consider the monotone inclusion problem

\[\mathrm{Find}\, x:\, 0\in Ax,\]

where $A$ is maximally monotone. We denote $J_A = (I + A)^{-1}$ the resolvent of $A$.

Performance metric

This code computes a worst-case guarantee for the accelerated proximal point method proposed in [1]. That, it computes the smallest possible $\tau(n, \alpha)$ such that the guarantee

\[\|x_n - y_n\|^2 \leqslant \tau(n, \alpha) \|x_0 - x_\star\|^2,\]

is valid, where $x_\star$ is such that $0 \in Ax_\star$.

Algorithm

Accelerated proximal point is described as follows, for $t \in \{ 0, \dots, n-1\}$

\[ \begin{aligned} x_{t+1} & = & J_{\alpha A}(y_t), \\ y_{t+1} & = & x_{t+1} + \frac{t}{t+2}(x_{t+1} - x_{t}) - \frac{t}{t+2}(x_t - y_{t-1}), \end{aligned}\]

where $x_0=y_0=y_{-1}$

Theoretical guarantee

A tight theoretical worst-case guarantee can be found in [1, Theorem 4.1], for $n \geqslant 1$,

\[\|x_n - y_{n-1}\|^2 \leqslant \frac{1}{n^2} \|x_0 - x_\star\|^2.\]

References

[1] D. Kim (2021). Accelerated proximal point method for maximally monotone operators. Mathematical Programming, 1-31.

Arguments

  • alpha: algorithm parameter used in the update rule.
  • n: number of iterations.
  • solver: JuMP optimizer constructor used to solve the generated SDP.
  • verbose: print example and solver progress information when true.

Returns

  • pepit_tau: worst-case value
  • theoretical_tau: theoretical value

Julia usage

wc_accelerated_proximal_point(2.0, 10; verbose=1)
## Returns approximately: (τ_PEPit, τ_theory) = (0.01, 0.01)