Online and Stochastic Universal Gradient Methods for Minimizing Regularized H\"older Continuous Finite Sums

Abstract

Online and stochastic gradient methods have emerged as potent tools in large scale optimization with both smooth convex and nonsmooth convex problems from the classes $C^{1,1}(\reals^p)$ and $C^{1,0}(\reals^p)$ respectively. However to our best knowledge, there is few paper to use incremental gradient methods to optimization the intermediate classes of convex problems with H\"older continuous functions $C^{1,v}(\reals^p)$. In order fill the difference and gap between methods for smooth and nonsmooth problems, in this work, we propose the several online and stochastic universal gradient methods, that we do not need to know the actual degree of smoothness of the objective function in advance. We expanded the scope of the problems involved in machine learning to H\"older continuous functions and to propose a general family of first-order methods. Regret and convergent analysis shows that our methods enjoy strong theoretical guarantees. For the first time, we establish an algorithms that enjoys a linear convergence rate for convex functions that have H\"older continuous gradients.