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Fast Convergence of Greedy 2-Coordinate Updates for Optimizing with an Equality Constraint
Amrutha Varshini Ramesh · Aaron Mishkin · Mark Schmidt
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In this work, we study the Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) algorithm with greedy block selection rule for minimizing functions with one linear equality constraint. We show a faster linear convergence rate for BCD with block size 2 (2-BCD) on functions satisfying the Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequality. Our analysis exploits similarity between the solutions of 2-BCD and equality-constrained steepest descent (SD) in the L1-norm. This yields a simple proof.

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Amrutha Varshini Ramesh (University of British Columbia)
Aaron Mishkin (Stanford Univeristy)
Mark Schmidt (University of British Columbia)

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