Accelerated Multiplicative Weights Update Avoids Saddle Points almost always

25 Apr 2022  ·  Yi Feng, Ioannis Panageas, Xiao Wang ·

We consider non-convex optimization problems with constraint that is a product of simplices. A commonly used algorithm in solving this type of problem is the Multiplicative Weights Update (MWU), an algorithm that is widely used in game theory, machine learning and multi-agent systems. Despite it has been known that MWU avoids saddle points, there is a question that remains unaddressed:"Is there an accelerated version of MWU that avoids saddle points provably?" In this paper we provide a positive answer to above question. We provide an accelerated MWU based on Riemannian Accelerated Gradient Descent, and prove that the Riemannian Accelerated Gradient Descent, thus the accelerated MWU, almost always avoid saddle points.

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