• DocumentCode
    189380
  • Title

    Application of the Mirror Descent Method to minimize average losses coming by a poisson flow

  • Author

    Nazin, Alexander ; Anulova, Svetlana ; Tremba, Andrey

  • Author_Institution
    Ya.Z. Tsypkin Lab. of Adaptive & Robust Syst., V.A. Trapeznikov Inst. of Control Sci., Moscow, Russia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    24-27 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    2194
  • Lastpage
    2197
  • Abstract
    We treat a convex problem to minimize average loss function for a stochastic system operating in continuous time. The losses on time horizon T arise at the jump times of a Poisson process with intensity being an unknown random process. The oracle gives randomly noised gradients of the loss function; the noises are additive, unbiased, with the bounded dual norm in average square sense. The goal consists in minimizing the average integral loss over a given convex compact set in the N-dimension space. We propose a mirror descent algorithm and prove an explicit upper bound for the average integral loss regret. The bound is of type “square root of T” with an explicit coefficient. Finally, we describe an example of optimization for a server processing a stream of incoming requests, and we discuss simulation results.
  • Keywords
    continuous time systems; convex programming; random processes; stochastic processes; stochastic systems; N-dimension space; Poisson flow; Poisson process; additive noise; average integral loss function minimization; average integral loss regret; average square sense; bounded dual norm; continuous time system; convex compact set; convex optimization; convex problem; explicit coefficient; explicit upper bound; mirror descent method; random noised gradients; stochastic system; time horizon T; unbiased noise; unknown random process; Convex functions; Integral equations; Mirrors; Optimization; Random variables; Servers; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control Conference (ECC), 2014 European
  • Conference_Location
    Strasbourg
  • Print_ISBN
    978-3-9524269-1-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECC.2014.6862486
  • Filename
    6862486