Improved Gradient Descent Lower Bounds Beyond Nesterov

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We study how far gradient descent (GD) can be accelerated by predetermined stepsizes in smooth convex optimization. Going beyond the classical $Ω(n^{-2})$ first-order oracle lower bound of Nemirovsky and Yudin, we prove an $Ω(n^{-1.6342})$ non-anytime lower bound and an $Ω(n^{-1.2408})$ anytime lower bound. These improve the recent $Ω(n^{-1.932})$ non-anytime lower bound of Ma and Chen and the $Ω(n^{-4/3})$ anytime lower bound of Tsai et al., respectively. Together with the non-anytime $O(n^{-\log_2(1+\sqrt{2})})$ rate achieved by silver schedules, our anytime lower bound establishes a strict separation between the achievable convergence exponents in the two settings.

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