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Automation and Remote Control

A randomized stochastic optimization algorithm: Its estimation accuracy

Alexander Vakhitov, Oleg Nikolaevich Granichin, S. S. Sysoev

Published Apr 1, 2006• 8 citations
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Abstract

For a randomized stochastic optimization algorithm, consistency conditions of estimates are slackened and the order of accuracy for a finite number of observations is studied. A new method of realization of this algorithm on quantum computers is developed.
DOI
10.1134/s0005117906040060

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