Primal-Dual Block Generalized Frank-Wolfe

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019)

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Authors

Qi Lei, JIACHENG ZHUO, Constantine Caramanis, Inderjit S Dhillon, Alexandros G Dimakis

Abstract

We propose a generalized variant of Frank-Wolfe algorithm for solving a class of sparse/low-rank optimization problems. Our formulation includes Elastic Net, regularized SVMs and phase retrieval as special cases. The proposed Primal-Dual Block Generalized Frank-Wolfe algorithm reduces the per-iteration cost while maintaining linear convergence rate. The per iteration cost of our method depends on the structural complexity of the solution (i.e. sparsity/low-rank) instead of the ambient dimension. We empirically show that our algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on (multi-class) classification tasks.