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Stochastic optimization on continuous domains with finite-time guarantees by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

Optimization and Control 2016-11-17 v2

Abstract

We introduce bounds on the finite-time performance of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms in approaching the global solution of stochastic optimization problems over continuous domains. A comparison with other state-of-the-art methods having finite-time guarantees for solving stochastic programming problems is included.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.1055,
  title  = {Stochastic optimization on continuous domains with finite-time guarantees by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods},
  author = {A. Lecchini-Visintini and J. Lygeros and J. Maciejowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1055},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

29 pages, 6 figures. Revised version based on referees report

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