Linear Convergence of Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Descent for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization

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In this paper, we study the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method for the nonconvex nonsmooth optimization, and propose an accelerated SGD method by combining the variance reduction technique with Nesterov's extrapolation technique.

• Moreover, based on the local error bound condition, we establish the linear convergence of our method to obtain a stationary point of the nonconvex optimization.
• In particular, we prove that not only the sequence generated linearly converges to a stationary point of the problem, but also the corresponding sequence of objective values is linearly convergent.
• Finally, some numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.