When the nonconvex problem is complicated by stochasticity, the sample complexity of stochastic first-order methods may depend linearly on the problem dimension, which is undesirable for large-scale problems. In this work, we propose dimension-insensitive stochastic first-order methods (DISFOMs) to address nonconvex optimization with expected-valued objective function. Our algorithms allow for non-Euclidean and non-smooth distance functions as the proximal terms. Under mild assumptions, we show that DISFOM using minibatches to estimate the gradient enjoys sample complexity of $ \mathcal{O} ( (\log d) / \epsilon^4 ) $ to obtain an $\epsilon$-stationary point. Furthermore, we prove that DISFOM employing variance reduction can sharpen this bound to $\mathcal{O} ( (\log d)^{2/3}/\epsilon^{10/3} )$, which perhaps leads to the best-known sample complexity result in terms of $d$. We provide two choices of the non-smooth distance functions, both of which allow for closed-form solutions to the proximal step. Numerical experiments are conducted to illustrate the dimension insensitive property of the proposed frameworks.

非凸优化中采用维度无关的随机一阶方法(DISFOM)来解决样本复杂度问题，使用小批量估计梯度以达到ε-稳定点的样本复杂度为O((log d) / ε^4)，进一步利用方差缩减可将该界限提高至O((log d)^(2/3) / ε^(10/3))，并提供了两种非平滑距离函数的选择，数值实验验证了所提框架的维度无关性。

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