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Faster Gradient Methods for Highly-Smooth Stochastic Bile...
Lesi Chen, Junru Li, El Mahdi Chayti, Jingzhao Zhang · 2025-09-03 · via stat.ML updates on arXiv.org

This paper studies the complexity of finding an $ε$-stationary point for stochastic bilevel optimization when the upper-level problem is nonconvex and the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent work proposed the first-order method, F${}^2$SA, achieving the $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-6})$ upper complexity bound for first-order smooth problems. This is slower than the optimal $Ω(ε^{-4})$ complexity lower bound in its single-level counterpart. In this work, we show that faster rates are achievable for higher-order smooth problems. We first reformulate F$^2$SA as approximating the hyper-gradient with a forward difference. Based on this observation, we propose a class of methods F${}^2$SA-$p$ that uses $p$th-order finite difference for hyper-gradient approximation and improves the upper bound to $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(p ε^{-4-p/2})$ for $p$th-order smooth problems. Finally, we demonstrate that the $Ω(ε^{-4})$ lower bound also holds for stochastic bilevel problems when the high-order smoothness holds for the lower-level variable, indicating that the upper bound of F${}^2$SA-$p$ is nearly optimal in the highly smooth region $p = Ω( \log ε^{-1} / \log \log ε^{-1})$.