Enhancing Hypergradients Estimation: A Study of Preconditioning and Reparameterization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16748v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:09:18 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Hypergradients Estimation: A Study of Preconditioning and Reparameterization
• Authors: Zhenzhang Ye, Gabriel Peyr\'e, Daniel Cremers, Pierre Ablin
• Abstract summary: Bilevel optimization aims to optimize an outer objective function that depends on the solution to an inner optimization problem. The conventional method to compute the so-called hypergradient of the outer problem is to use the Implicit Function Theorem (IFT) We study the error of the IFT method and analyze two strategies to reduce this error.
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• Abstract: Bilevel optimization aims to optimize an outer objective function that depends on the solution to an inner optimization problem. It is routinely used in Machine Learning, notably for hyperparameter tuning. The conventional method to compute the so-called hypergradient of the outer problem is to use the Implicit Function Theorem (IFT). As a function of the error of the inner problem resolution, we study the error of the IFT method. We analyze two strategies to reduce this error: preconditioning the IFT formula and reparameterizing the inner problem. We give a detailed account of the impact of these two modifications on the error, highlighting the role played by higher-order derivatives of the functionals at stake. Our theoretical findings explain when super efficiency, namely reaching an error on the hypergradient that depends quadratically on the error on the inner problem, is achievable and compare the two approaches when this is impossible. Numerical evaluations on hyperparameter tuning for regression problems substantiate our theoretical findings.

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