화학공학소재연구정보센터
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.48, No.8, 1459-1463, 2003
Convergence of simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation for nondifferentiable optimization
In this note, 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. In this note, we relax the differentiability requirement and prove convergence using convex analysis.