no code implementations • 1 Jan 2024 • Hongcheng Liu, Jindong Tong
From the newly established complexity bounds, an important revelation is that the SAA and the canonical stochastic mirror descent (SMD) method, two mainstream solution approaches to SP, entail almost identical rates of sample efficiency, rectifying a long-standing theoretical discrepancy of the SAA from the SMD by the order of $O(d)$.