EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

548. Tight Analysis of Second-Order Optimization Methods via Interpolation of generalized Hessian Lipschitz Univariate Functions

Invited abstract in session MC-8: Systematic and computer-aided analyses II: Systematic algorithmic design approaches, stream Systematic and computer-aided analyses of optimization algorithms.

Monday, 14:00-16:00
Room: B100/7007

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. François Glineur
ICTEAM/INMA & CORE, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
2. Nizar Bousselmi
ICTEAM, UCLouvain
3. Julien Hendrickx
ICTEAM
4. Anne Rubbens
ICTEAM, UCLouvain

Abstract

We show how to compute exact worst-case guarantees on the performance of second-order optimization methods on a wide range of univariate function classes. These classes include Hessian Lipschitz, self-concordant, and quasi-self-concordant functions, which we unify within a class of generalized Lipschitz functions.

Our results rely on the development of interpolation conditions for all classes of interest, for which we present a standard derivation procedure, combined with the Performance Estimation framework which we generalize to include second-order quantities. Use those, we improve or, in some cases, prove tightness of known rates of convergence of Newton's method and its regularized variants on the above-mentioned classes of univariate functions.

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Status: accepted


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