retrospective approximation

Retrospective Approximation Sequential Quadratic Programming for Stochastic Optimization with General Deterministic Nonlinear Constraints

  • Shagun Gupta
  • Raghu Bollapragada
  • Albert S. Berahas
    • Categories Constrained Nonlinear Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization, Optimization in Data Science Tags , , , ,

    In this paper, we propose a framework based on the Retrospective Approximation (RA) paradigm to solve optimization problems with a stochastic objective function and general nonlinear deterministic constraints. This framework sequentially constructs increasingly accurate approximations of the true problems which are solved to a specified accuracy via a deterministic solver, thereby decoupling the uncertainty from … Read more

    An Adaptive Sequential Sample Average Approximation Framework for Solving Two-stage Stochastic Programs

  • Raghu Pasupathy
  • Yongjia Song
    • Categories Stochastic Programming Tags , ,

    We present adaptive sequential SAA (sample average approximation) algorithms to solve large-scale two-stage stochastic linear programs. The iterative algorithm framework we propose is organized into \emph{outer} and \emph{inner} iterations as follows: during each outer iteration, a sample-path problem is implicitly generated using a sample of observations or “scenarios,” and solved only \emph{imprecisely}, to within a … Read more