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On the Global Linear Convergence of Frank-Wolfe Optimization Variants

@inproceedings{LacosteJulien2015OnTG,
title={On the Global Linear Convergence of Frank-Wolfe Optimization Variants},
author={Simon Lacoste-Julien and Martin Jaggi},
booktitle={NIPS},
year={2015}
}
• Published in NIPS 18 November 2015
• Computer Science
The Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm has lately re-gained popularity thanks in particular to its ability to nicely handle the structured constraints appearing in machine learning applications. However, its convergence rate is known to be slow (sublinear) when the solution lies at the boundary. A simple less-known fix is to add the possibility to take 'away steps' during optimization, an operation that importantly does not require a feasibility oracle. In this paper, we highlight and…
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