{ "id": "2211.14850", "version": "v1", "published": "2022-11-27T15:06:29.000Z", "updated": "2022-11-27T15:06:29.000Z", "title": "Lyapunov stability of the subgradient method with constant step size", "authors": [ "Cédric Josz", "Lexiao Lai" ], "comment": "11 pages, 2 figures", "categories": [ "math.OC" ], "abstract": "We consider the subgradient method with constant step size for minimizing locally Lipschitz semi-algebraic functions. In order to analyze the behavior of its iterates in the vicinity of a local minimum, we introduce a notion of discrete Lyapunov stability and propose necessary and sufficient conditions for stability.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2022-11-27T15:06:29.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "constant step size", "subgradient method", "minimizing locally lipschitz semi-algebraic functions", "discrete lyapunov stability", "sufficient conditions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }