Preconditioned Three-Term Conjugate Gradient Framework for Nonconvex Finite Minimax Problems

Abstract

This paper develops a hyperbolic-majorization preconditioned three-term nonlinear conjugate-gradient framework for nonconvex finite minimax optimization. An analytic symmetric positive definite metric is derived from a global quadratic majorization of the hyperbolic smoothing model and is used simultaneously as a curvature absorber, a preconditioner, and the line-search energy metric. With the displacement \(s_{k-1}\) fixed and a variable curvature response \(b_k\), an enhanced three-term direction is introduced together with an adaptive parameter \(\mu_k^\star\) that is maximal under the requirement that the baseline worst-case metric-energy constant be preserved. The resulting framework yields a Dai--Liao-type conjugacy relation, enhanced sufficient descent, a smoothing-parameter-uniform Armijo lower bound, fixed-smoothing global first-order convergence and complexity, and Clarke-stationary accumulation points under continuation.