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A ConstrainedOptimizer based on swap-regret minimization.
tf.contrib.constrained_optimization.MultiplicativeSwapRegretOptimizer(
    optimizer, constraint_optimizer=None, minimum_multiplier_radius=0.001,
    initial_multiplier_radius=None
)
This ConstrainedOptimizer uses the given tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizers to
jointly
minimize over the model parameters, and maximize over constraint/objective
weight matrix (the analogue of Lagrange multipliers), with the latter
maximization using multiplicative updates and an algorithm that minimizes swap
regret.
For more specifics, please refer to:
Cotter, Jiang and Sridharan. "Two-Player Games for Efficient Non-Convex Constrained Optimization". https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06500
The formulation used by this optimizer can be found in Definition 2, and is
discussed in Section 4. It is most similar to Algorithm 2 in Section 4, with
the difference being that it uses tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizers, instead of
SGD, for
the "inner" updates.
| Args | |
|---|---|
| optimizer | tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer, used to optimize the objective and proxy_constraints portion of ConstrainedMinimizationProblem. If constraint_optimizer is not provided, this will also be used to optimize the Lagrange multiplier analogues. | 
| constraint_optimizer | optional tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer, used to optimize the Lagrange multiplier analogues. | 
| minimum_multiplier_radius | float, each element of the matrix will be lower
bounded by minimum_multiplier_radiusdivided by one plus the number of
constraints. | 
| initial_multiplier_radius | float, the initial value of each element of the
matrix associated with a constraint (i.e. excluding those elements
associated with the objective) will be initial_multiplier_radiusdivided by one plus the number of constraints. Defaults to the value ofminimum_multiplier_radius. | 
| Raises | |
|---|---|
| ValueError | If the two radius parameters are inconsistent. | 
| Attributes | |
|---|---|
| constraint_optimizer | Returns the tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizerused for the matrix. | 
| optimizer | Returns the tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizerused for optimization. | 
Methods
minimize
minimize(
    minimization_problem, unconstrained_steps=None, global_step=None, var_list=None,
    gate_gradients=train_optimizer.Optimizer.GATE_OP, aggregation_method=None,
    colocate_gradients_with_ops=False, name=None, grad_loss=None
)
Returns an Operation for minimizing the constrained problem.
This method combines the functionality of minimize_unconstrained and
minimize_constrained. If global_step < unconstrained_steps, it will
perform an unconstrained update, and if global_step >= unconstrained_steps,
it will perform a constrained update.
The reason for this functionality is that it may be best to initialize the constrained optimizer with an approximate optimum of the unconstrained problem.
| Args | |
|---|---|
| minimization_problem | ConstrainedMinimizationProblem, the problem to optimize. | 
| unconstrained_steps | int, number of steps for which we should perform unconstrained updates, before transitioning to constrained updates. | 
| global_step | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| var_list | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| gate_gradients | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| aggregation_method | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| colocate_gradients_with_ops | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| name | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| grad_loss | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| Operation, the train_op. | 
| Raises | |
|---|---|
| ValueError | If unconstrained_steps is provided, but global_step is not. | 
minimize_constrained
minimize_constrained(
    minimization_problem, global_step=None, var_list=None,
    gate_gradients=train_optimizer.Optimizer.GATE_OP, aggregation_method=None,
    colocate_gradients_with_ops=False, name=None, grad_loss=None
)
Returns an Operation for minimizing the constrained problem.
Unlike minimize_unconstrained, this function attempts to find a solution
that minimizes the objective portion of the minimization problem while
satisfying the constraints portion.
| Args | |
|---|---|
| minimization_problem | ConstrainedMinimizationProblem, the problem to optimize. | 
| global_step | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| var_list | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| gate_gradients | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| aggregation_method | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| colocate_gradients_with_ops | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| name | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| grad_loss | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| Operation, the train_op. | 
minimize_unconstrained
minimize_unconstrained(
    minimization_problem, global_step=None, var_list=None,
    gate_gradients=train_optimizer.Optimizer.GATE_OP, aggregation_method=None,
    colocate_gradients_with_ops=False, name=None, grad_loss=None
)
Returns an Operation for minimizing the unconstrained problem.
Unlike minimize_constrained, this function ignores the constraints (and
proxy_constraints) portion of the minimization problem entirely, and only
minimizes objective.
| Args | |
|---|---|
| minimization_problem | ConstrainedMinimizationProblem, the problem to optimize. | 
| global_step | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| var_list | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| gate_gradients | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| aggregation_method | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| colocate_gradients_with_ops | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| name | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| grad_loss | as in tf.compat.v1.train.Optimizer'sminimizemethod. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| Operation, the train_op. |