# Extragradient method with variance reduction for stochastic variational inequalities

## TL;DR

This paper introduces an advanced extragradient method with variance reduction for stochastic variational inequalities, achieving optimal complexity and faster convergence rates under broad conditions, including unbounded sets and non-uniform variance.

## Contribution

It develops a novel extragradient algorithm with variance reduction that attains optimal oracle complexity and improved convergence rates for stochastic variational inequalities without regularization.

## Key findings

- Achieves optimal oracle complexity of O(1/ε^2) up to log factors.
- Attains a convergence rate of O(1/K) in natural residual and D-gap functions.
- Provides explicit convergence and complexity estimates depending on problem parameters.

## Abstract

We propose an extragradient method with stepsizes bounded away from zero for stochastic variational inequalities requiring only pseudo-monotonicity. We provide convergence and complexity analysis, allowing for an unbounded feasible set, unbounded operator, non-uniform variance of the oracle and, also, we do not require any regularization. Alongside the stochastic approximation procedure, we iteratively reduce the variance of the stochastic error. Our method attains the optimal oracle complexity $\mathcal{O}(1/\epsilon^2)$ (up to a logarithmic term) and a faster rate $\mathcal{O}(1/K)$ in terms of the mean (quadratic) natural residual and the D-gap function, where $K$ is the number of iterations required for a given tolerance $\epsilon>0$. Such convergence rate represents an acceleration with respect to the stochastic error. The generated sequence also enjoys a new feature: the sequence is bounded in $L^p$ if the stochastic error has finite $p$-moment. Explicit estimates for the convergence rate, the oracle complexity and the $p$-moments are given depending on problem parameters and distance of the initial iterate to the solution set. Moreover, sharper constants are possible if the variance is uniform over the solution set or the feasible set. Our results provide new classes of stochastic variational inequalities for which a convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}(1/K)$ holds in terms of the mean-squared distance to the solution set. Our analysis includes the distributed solution of pseudo-monotone Cartesian variational inequalities under partial coordination of parameters between users of a network.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1703.00260