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New Sample Complexity Bounds for Sample Average Approximation in Heavy-Tailed Stochastic Programming

Hongcheng Liu, Jindong Tong

Abstract

This paper studies sample average approximation (SAA) and its simple regularized variation in solving convex or strongly convex stochastic programming problems. Under heavy-tailed assumptions and comparable regularity conditions as in the typical SAA literature, we show --- perhaps for the first time --- that the sample complexity can be completely free from any complexity measure (e.g., logarithm of the covering number) of the feasible region. As a result, our new bounds can be more advantageous than the state-of-the-art in terms of the dependence on the problem dimensionality.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{
liu2024new,
title={New Sample Complexity Bounds for Sample Average Approximation in Heavy-Tailed Stochastic Programming},
author={Hongcheng Liu and Jindong Tong},
booktitle={Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=2hWd4CVhXz}
}
New Sample Complexity Bounds for Sample Average Approximation in Heavy-Tailed Stochastic Programming · ICML 2024