• DocumentCode
    764102
  • Title

    Convergence of simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation for nondifferentiable optimization

  • Author

    He, Ying ; Fu, Michael C. ; Marcus, Steven I.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    1459
  • Lastpage
    1463
  • Abstract
    We consider simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation for function minimization. The standard assumption for convergence is that the function be three times differentiable, although weaker assumptions have been used for special cases. However, all work that we are aware of at least requires differentiability. We relax the differentiability requirement and prove convergence using convex analysis.
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; convergence of numerical methods; interpolation; optimisation; convex analysis; function minimization; nondifferentiable optimization; simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation; subgradient; Approximation algorithms; Convergence; Cost function; Decision making; Finite difference methods; Helium; Minimization methods; Research and development; Semiconductor device noise; Stochastic processes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2003.815008
  • Filename
    1220767