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New extragradient method achieves optimal convergence for minimax optimization

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Researchers have developed a new single-loop extragradient method for solving smooth strongly convex--strongly concave minimax optimization problems. This method, which requires only two full-gradient evaluations per iteration, achieves linear convergence for the last iterate. The proposed approach achieves an optimal condition-number order for reducing the distance to the saddle point, with numerical experiments confirming its effectiveness. AI

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New extragradient method achieves optimal convergence for minimax optimization

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Minhao Zhang, Zi Xu ·

    Near-Optimal Pure Single-Loop Extragradient Method for Strongly Convex--Strongly Concave Minimax Optimization

    arXiv:2609.20327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study smooth strongly convex--strongly concave minimax optimization with general nonlinear coupling in the deterministic unconstrained setting. We propose a pure single-loop damped extragradient method with fixed parameters and…

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