A lower bound on complexity of optimization on the Wiener space

  • Authors:
  • James M. Calvin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper is a study of the complexity of optimization of continuous univariate functions using a fixed number of sequentially selected function evaluations. The complexity is studied in the average case under a conditioned Wiener measure. We show that to obtain an error of at most ε, on the order of loglog(1/ε)log(1/ε) function evaluations are required.