Generalized Simultaneous Perturbation-based Gradient Search with Reduced Estimator Bias

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10477v2
• Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:27:05 GMT
• Title: Generalized Simultaneous Perturbation-based Gradient Search with Reduced Estimator Bias
• Authors: Soumen Pachal, Shalabh Bhatnagar and L.A. Prashanth
• Abstract summary: We present a family of generalized simultaneous perturbation-based search (GSPGS) estimators that use noisy function measurements. The number of function measurements required by each estimator is guided by the desired level of accuracy.
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• Abstract: We present in this paper a family of generalized simultaneous perturbation-based gradient search (GSPGS) estimators that use noisy function measurements. The number of function measurements required by each estimator is guided by the desired level of accuracy. We first present in detail unbalanced generalized simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (GSPSA) estimators and later present the balanced versions (B-GSPSA) of these. We extend this idea further and present the generalized smoothed functional (GSF) and generalized random directions stochastic approximation (GRDSA) estimators, respectively, as well as their balanced variants. We show that estimators within any specified class requiring more number of function measurements result in lower estimator bias. We present a detailed analysis of both the asymptotic and non-asymptotic convergence of the resulting stochastic approximation schemes. We further present a series of experimental results with the various GSPGS estimators on the Rastrigin and quadratic function objectives. Our experiments are seen to validate our theoretical findings.

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