A search-free $O(1/k^{3/2})$ homotopy inexact proximal-Newton extragradient algorithm for monotone variational inequalities

Abstract: We present and study the iteration-complexity of a relative-error inexact proximal-Newton extragradient algorithm for solving smooth monotone variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces. We removed a search procedure from Monteiro and Svaiter (2012) by introducing a novel approach based on homotopy, which requires the resolution (at each iteration) of a single strongly monotone linear variational inequality. For a given tolerance $\rho>0$, our main algorithm exhibits pointwise $O\left(\frac{1}{\rho}\right)$ and ergodic $O\left(\frac{1}{\rho^{2/3}}\right)$ iteration-complexities. From a practical perspective, preliminary numerical experiments indicate that our main algorithm outperforms some previous proximal-Newton schemes.