## Stochastic heavy ball.(English)Zbl 1392.62244

Summary: This paper deals with a natural stochastic optimization procedure derived from the so-called Heavy-ball method differential equation, which was introduced by B. T. Poljak in the 1960s with his seminal contribution [U.S.S.R. Comput. Math. Math. Phys. 4, No. 5, 1–17 (1967; Zbl 0147.35301); translation from Zh. Vychisl. Mat. Mat. Fiz. 4, 791–803 (1964)]. The Heavy-ball method is a second-order dynamics that was investigated to minimize convex functions $$f$$. The family of second-order methods recently received a large amount of attention, until the famous contribution of Yu. E. Nesterov [Sov. Math., Dokl. 27, 372–376 (1983; Zbl 0535.90071); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 269, 543–547 (1983)], leading to the explosion of large-scale optimization problems. This work provides an in-depth description of the stochastic heavy-ball method, which is an adaptation of the deterministic one when only unbiased evalutions of the gradient are available and used throughout the iterations of the algorithm. We first describe some almost sure convergence results in the case of general non-convex coercive functions $$f$$. We then examine the situation of convex and strongly convex potentials and derive some non-asymptotic results about the stochastic heavy-ball method. We end our study with limit theorems on several rescaled algorithms.

### MSC:

 62L20 Stochastic approximation 35H10 Hypoelliptic equations 60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems 60J70 Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) 35P15 Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs

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Zbl 0147.35301; Zbl 0535.90071
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