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Random directions stochastic approximation with deterministic perturbations
Prashanth L A, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Nirav Bhavsar +2
We introduce deterministic perturbation schemes for the recently proposed random directions stochastic approximation (RDSA) [17], and propose new first-order and second-order algor…
math.NA2018
Optimal Unbiased Estimation for Expected Cumulative Cost
Zhenyu Cui, Michael C. Fu, Yijie Peng +1
We consider estimating an expected infinite-horizon cumulative discounted cost/reward contingent on an underlying stochastic process by Monte Carlo simulation. An unbiased estimato…