High-Order Error Bounds for Markovian LSA with Richardson-Romberg Extrapolation

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Autori principali: Levin, Ilya, Naumov, Alexey, Samsonov, Sergey
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author Levin, Ilya
Naumov, Alexey
Samsonov, Sergey
author_facet Levin, Ilya
Naumov, Alexey
Samsonov, Sergey
contents In this paper, we study the bias and high-order error bounds of the Linear Stochastic Approximation (LSA) algorithm with Polyak-Ruppert (PR) averaging under Markovian noise. We focus on the version of the algorithm with constant step size $α$ and propose a novel decomposition of the bias via a linearization technique. We analyze the structure of the bias and show that the leading-order term is linear in $α$ and cannot be eliminated by PR averaging. To address this, we apply the Richardson-Romberg (RR) extrapolation procedure, which effectively cancels the leading bias term. We derive high-order moment bounds for the RR iterates and show that the leading error term aligns with the asymptotically optimal covariance matrix of the vanilla averaged LSA iterates.
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spellingShingle High-Order Error Bounds for Markovian LSA with Richardson-Romberg Extrapolation
Levin, Ilya
Naumov, Alexey
Samsonov, Sergey
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Statistics Theory
62L20
In this paper, we study the bias and high-order error bounds of the Linear Stochastic Approximation (LSA) algorithm with Polyak-Ruppert (PR) averaging under Markovian noise. We focus on the version of the algorithm with constant step size $α$ and propose a novel decomposition of the bias via a linearization technique. We analyze the structure of the bias and show that the leading-order term is linear in $α$ and cannot be eliminated by PR averaging. To address this, we apply the Richardson-Romberg (RR) extrapolation procedure, which effectively cancels the leading bias term. We derive high-order moment bounds for the RR iterates and show that the leading error term aligns with the asymptotically optimal covariance matrix of the vanilla averaged LSA iterates.
title High-Order Error Bounds for Markovian LSA with Richardson-Romberg Extrapolation
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Statistics Theory
62L20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05570