- Sharp worst-case evaluation complexity bounds for arbitrary-order nonconvex optimization with inexpensive constraints Coralia Cartis(coralia.cartismaths.ox.ac.uk) Nick I. M. Gould(nick.gouldstfc.ac.uk) Philippe L. Toint(philippe.tointunamur.be) Abstract: We provide sharp worst-case evaluation complexity bounds for nonconvex minimization problems with general inexpensive constraints, i.e.\ problems where the cost of evaluating/enforcing of the (possibly nonconvex or even disconnected) constraints, if any, is negligible compared to that of evaluating the objective function. These bounds unify, extend or improve all known upper and lower complexity bounds for unconstrained and convexly-constrained problems. It is shown that, given an accuracy level $\epsilon$, a degree of highest available Lipschitz continuous derivatives $p$ and a desired optimality order $q$ between one and $p$, a conceptual regularization algorithm requires no more than $O(\epsilon^{-\frac{p+1}{p-q+1}})$ evaluations of the objective function and its derivatives to compute a suitably approximate $q$-th order minimizer. With an appropriate choice of the regularization, a similar result also holds if the $p$-th derivative is merely H\"{o}lder rather than Lipschitz continuous. We provide an example that shows that the above complexity bound is sharp for unconstrained and a wide class of constrained problems; we also give reasons for the optimality of regularization methods from a worst-case complexity point of view, within a large class of algorithms that use the same derivative information. Keywords: evaluation complexity, regularization algorithm, high-order optimization, sharp bounds, nonconvex optimization, set-constrained problems Category 1: Nonlinear Optimization (Constrained Nonlinear Optimization ) Category 2: Applications -- Science and Engineering (Data-Mining ) Category 3: Nonlinear Optimization (Nonlinear Systems and Least-Squares ) Citation: Download: [PDF]Entry Submitted: 11/03/2018Entry Accepted: 11/03/2018Entry Last Modified: 11/03/2018Modify/Update this entry Visitors Authors More about us Links Subscribe, Unsubscribe Digest Archive Search, Browse the Repository Submit Update Policies Coordinator's Board Classification Scheme Credits Give us feedback Optimization Journals, Sites, Societies Optimization Online is supported by the Mathematical Optmization Society.