Weak convergence of the stochastic proximal point method in metric spaces

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contents We prove the almost sure weak convergence of a stochastic proximal point method for minimizing a convex integral function in the general nonlinear context of complete geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature (so-called Hadamard spaces), solving a problem of M. Bačák. This method, formulated in the context of a mild growth condition on the function which generalizes Lipschitz continuity, was previously only considered in the context of strong metric regularity conditions or in the context of locally compact spaces. The proof is a combination of a weak almost sure convergence theorem for stochastic processes in Hadamard spaces which confine to a stochastic variant of quasi-Fejér monotonicity, due to previous work of the author, together with a new argument for proving the almost sure convergence of the mean function values of the process towards the minimal value.
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spellingShingle Weak convergence of the stochastic proximal point method in metric spaces
Pischke, Nicholas
Optimization and Control
We prove the almost sure weak convergence of a stochastic proximal point method for minimizing a convex integral function in the general nonlinear context of complete geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature (so-called Hadamard spaces), solving a problem of M. Bačák. This method, formulated in the context of a mild growth condition on the function which generalizes Lipschitz continuity, was previously only considered in the context of strong metric regularity conditions or in the context of locally compact spaces. The proof is a combination of a weak almost sure convergence theorem for stochastic processes in Hadamard spaces which confine to a stochastic variant of quasi-Fejér monotonicity, due to previous work of the author, together with a new argument for proving the almost sure convergence of the mean function values of the process towards the minimal value.
title Weak convergence of the stochastic proximal point method in metric spaces
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20805