• DocumentCode
    424840
  • Title

    Stochastic approximation on discrete sets using simultaneous difference approximations

  • Author

    Hill, Stacy D. ; Gerencsér, László ; Vágó, Zsuzsanna

  • Author_Institution
    Appl. Phys. Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    June 30 2004-July 2 2004
  • Firstpage
    2795
  • Abstract
    A stochastic approximation method for optimizing a class of discrete functions is considered. The procedure is a version of the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) method that has been modified to obtain a stochastic optimization method for cost functions defined on a grid of points in Euclidean p-space having integer components. We discuss the algorithm and examine its convergence properties.
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; stochastic programming; Euclidean p-space; difference approximations; discrete functions optimization; simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation; stochastic optimization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA, USA
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8335-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1383889