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Convergence Analysis of Decentralized Hessian-/Jacobian-Free Algorithm for Nonconvex Stochastic Bi-Level Optimization

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This paper proposes a novel decentralized stochastic first-order optimization algorithm, which does not require second-order Hessian or Jacobian matrices, for the setting where the lower-level loss function is nonconvex but satisfies the Polyak–Łojasiewicz (PL) condition.

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