A Distributed Optimal Control Problem with Averaged Stochastic Gradient Descent

A Distributed Optimal Control Problem with Averaged Stochastic Gradient Descent

Year:    2020

Author:    Qi Sun, Qiang Du

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 27 (2020), Iss. 3 : pp. 753–774

Abstract

In this work, we study a distributed optimal control problem, in which the governing system is given by second-order elliptic equations with log-normal coefficients. To lessen the curse of dimensionality that originates from the representation of stochastic coefficients, the Monte Carlo finite element method is adopted for numerical discretization where a large number of sampled constraints are involved. For the solution of such a large-scale optimization problem, stochastic gradient descent method is widely used but has slow convergence asymptotically due to its inherent variance. To remedy this problem, we adopt an averaged stochastic gradient descent method which performs stably even with the use of relatively large step sizes and small batch sizes. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate our theoretical findings.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0295

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 27 (2020), Iss. 3 : pp. 753–774

Published online:    2020-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

Keywords:    PDE-constrained elliptic control high-dimensional random inputs Monte Carlo finite element stochastic gradient descent.

Author Details

Qi Sun

Qiang Du

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