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Solving Smooth Min-Min and Min-Max Problems by Mixed Oracle Algorithms

Communications in Computer and Information Science. 2021. Vol. 1476. P. 19–40.
Gladin E., Sadiev A., Gasnikov A., Dvurechensky P., Beznosikov A., Alkousa M.

In this paper, we consider two types of problems that have some similarity in their structure, namely, min-min problems and min-max saddle-point problems. Our approach is based on considering the outer minimization problem as a minimization problem with an inexact oracle. This inexact oracle is calculated via an inexact solution of the inner problem, which is either minimization or maximization problem. Our main assumption is that the available oracle is mixed: it is only possible to evaluate the gradient w.r.t. the outer block of variables which corresponds to the outer minimization problem, whereas for the inner problem, only zeroth-order oracle is available. To solve the inner problem, we use the accelerated gradient-free method with zeroth-order oracle. To solve the outer problem, we use either an inexact variant of Vaidya’s cutting-plane method or a variant of the accelerated gradient method. As a result, we propose a framework that leads to non-asymptotic complexity bounds for both min-min and min-max problems. Moreover, we estimate separately the number of first- and zeroth-order oracle calls, which are sufficient to reach any desired accuracy.

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