Near-Optimal Convergence of Accelerated Gradient Methods under Generalized and $(L_0, L_1)$-Smoothness
arXiv:2508.06884v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study first-order methods for convex optimization problems with functions $f$ satisfying the recently proposed $\ell$-smoothness condition $||\nabla^{2}f(x)|| \le \ell\left(||\nabla f(x)||\right),$ which generalizes the $L$-smoothness and $(L_{0},L_{1})$-smoothness. While accelerated gradient descent AGD is known to reach the optimal complexity $O(\sqrt{L} R / \sqrt{\varepsilon})$ under $L$-smoothness, where $\varepsilon$ is an error tolerance and $R$ is the distance between a starting and an optimal point, existing extensions to $\e
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