Optimal Extragradient-Based Algorithms for Stochastic Variational Inequalities with Separable Structure
Angela Yuan, Chris Junchi Li, Gauthier Gidel, Michael I. Jordan, Quanquan Gu, Simon S. Du
Abstract
We consider the problem of solving stochastic monotone variational inequalities with a separable structure using a stochastic first-order oracle. Building on standard extragradient for variational inequalities we propose a novel algorithm-stochastic accelerated gradient-extragradient (AG-EG)-for strongly monotone variational inequalities (VIs). Our approach combines the strengths of extragradient and Nesterov acceleration. By showing that its iterates remain in a bounded domain and applying scheduled restarting, we prove that AG-EG has an optimal convergence rate for strongly monotone VIs. Furthermore, when specializing to the particular case of bilinearly coupled strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle-point problems, including bilinear games, our algorithm achieves fine-grained convergence rates that match the respective lower bounds, with the stochasticity being characterized by an additive statistical error term that is optimal up to a constant prefactor.
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