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Avtomat. i Telemekh., 2018 Issue 8, Pages 38–49 (Mi at14643)

This article is cited in 11 papers

Stochastic Systems

Gradient-free two-point methods for solving stochastic nonsmooth convex optimization problems with small non-random noises

A. S. Bayandinaab, A. V. Gasnikovacd, A. A. Lagunovskayaa

a Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Moscow, Russia
b Skolkovo University of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
c Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
d Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We study nonsmooth convex stochastic optimization problems with a two-point zero-order oracle, i.e., at each iteration one can observe the values of the function's realization at two selected points. These problems are first smoothed out with the well-known technique of double smoothing (B. T. Polyak) and then solved with the stochastic mirror descent method. We obtain conditions for the permissible noise level of a nonrandom nature exhibited in the computation of the function's realization for which the estimate on the method's rate of convergence is preserved.

Keywords: mirror descent method, noise, stochastic optimization, gradient-free methods, double smoothing technique.

Presented by the member of Editorial Board: B. M. Miller

Received: 15.01.2017


 English version:
Automation and Remote Control, 2018, 79:8, 1399–1408

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