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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.77
Regularized Box-Simplex Games and Dynamic Decremental Bipartite Matching

Authors: Arun Jambulapati, Yujia Jin, Aaron Sidford, and Kevin Tian

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)

Abstract
Box-simplex games are a family of bilinear minimax objectives which encapsulate graph-structured problems such as maximum flow [Sherman, 2017], optimal transport [Arun Jambulapati et al., 2019], and bipartite matching [Sepehr Assadi et al., 2022]. We develop efficient near-linear time, high-accuracy solvers for regularized variants of these games. Beyond the immediate applications of such solvers for computing Sinkhorn distances, a prominent tool in machine learning, we show that these solvers can be used to obtain improved running times for maintaining a (fractional) ε-approximate maximum matching in a dynamic decremental bipartite graph against an adaptive adversary. We give a generic framework which reduces this dynamic matching problem to solving regularized graph-structured optimization problems to high accuracy. Through our reduction framework, our regularized box-simplex game solver implies a new algorithm for dynamic decremental bipartite matching in total time Õ(m ⋅ ε^{-3}), from an initial graph with m edges and n nodes. We further show how to use recent advances in flow optimization [Chen et al., 2022] to improve our runtime to m^{1 + o(1)} ⋅ ε^{-2}, thereby demonstrating the versatility of our reduction-based approach. These results improve upon the previous best runtime of Õ(m ⋅ ε^{-4}) [Aaron Bernstein et al., 2020] and illustrate the utility of using regularized optimization problem solvers for designing dynamic algorithms.
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Arun Jambulapati, Yujia Jin, Aaron Sidford, and Kevin Tian. Regularized Box-Simplex Games and Dynamic Decremental Bipartite Matching. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 77:1-77:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{jambulapati_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.77,
  author =	{Jambulapati, Arun and Jin, Yujia and Sidford, Aaron and Tian, Kevin},
  title =	{{Regularized Box-Simplex Games and Dynamic Decremental Bipartite Matching}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{77:1--77:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.77},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164181},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.77},
  annote =	{Keywords: bipartite matching, decremental matching, dynamic algorithms, continuous optimization, box-simplex games, primal-dual method}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.62
Relative Lipschitzness in Extragradient Methods and a Direct Recipe for Acceleration

Authors: Michael B. Cohen, Aaron Sidford, and Kevin Tian

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 185, 12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021)

Abstract
We show that standard extragradient methods (i.e. mirror prox [Arkadi Nemirovski, 2004] and dual extrapolation [Yurii Nesterov, 2007]) recover optimal accelerated rates for first-order minimization of smooth convex functions. To obtain this result we provide fine-grained characterization of the convergence rates of extragradient methods for solving monotone variational inequalities in terms of a natural condition we call relative Lipschitzness. We further generalize this framework to handle local and randomized notions of relative Lipschitzness and thereby recover rates for box-constrained 𝓁_∞ regression based on area convexity [Jonah Sherman, 2017] and complexity bounds achieved by accelerated (randomized) coordinate descent [Zeyuan {Allen Zhu} et al., 2016; Yurii Nesterov and Sebastian U. Stich, 2017] for smooth convex function minimization.
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Michael B. Cohen, Aaron Sidford, and Kevin Tian. Relative Lipschitzness in Extragradient Methods and a Direct Recipe for Acceleration. In 12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 185, pp. 62:1-62:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{cohen_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.62,
  author =	{Cohen, Michael B. and Sidford, Aaron and Tian, Kevin},
  title =	{{Relative Lipschitzness in Extragradient Methods and a Direct Recipe for Acceleration}},
  booktitle =	{12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021)},
  pages =	{62:1--62:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-177-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{185},
  editor =	{Lee, James R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.62},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136011},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.62},
  annote =	{Keywords: Variational inequalities, minimax optimization, acceleration, 𝓁\underline∞ regression}
}
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