## Weak convergence rates for stochastic approximation with application to multiple targets and simulated annealing.(English)Zbl 0965.62065

Summary: We study convergence rates of $$\mathbb{R}^d$$-valued algorithms, especially in the case of multiple targets and simulated annealing. We precise, for example, the convergence rate of simulated annealing algorithms, whose weak convergence to a distribution concentrated on the potential’s minima had been established by S.B. Gelfand and S.K. Mitter [see SIAM J. Control Optimization 29, No. 5, 999-1018 (1991; Zbl 0753.65051)] or by C.R. Hwang and S.J. Sheu [On the behavior of a stochastic algorithm with annealing. Tech. Rep., Acad. Sinica. Taiwan (1990)].

### MSC:

 62L20 Stochastic approximation 60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems 60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)

### Keywords:

stochastic algorithms; simulated annealing

Zbl 0753.65051
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