The weighted average random iterate x^(k) used in the strongly convex stochastic
projected-subgradient rate. It uses the canonical weight convention from Theorem 8.31, so
x^(0) = x^0 and for k > 0 the coefficients are α_n^k = 2 n / (k (k + 1)).
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Evaluating the stochastic strongly convex averaged iterate at k gives the weighted sum
∑_{n=0}^k α_n^k x^n(ω) with the canonical Chapter 8 ergodic weights α_n^k.
The stochastic strongly convex weighted average at k = 0 is the initial random iterate
x^0.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: a Euclidean subgradient of the real-valued restriction
x ↦ (f x).toReal at a finite point yields a genuine subgradient of the original extended-real
objective.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: every Euclidean subgradient at a feasible point supports the strongly convex objective at an optimal point with the quadratic correction term.
The sigma-algebra generated by the stochastic iterate x[n].
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Helper for Theorem 8.37: the oracle unbiasedness clause lifts the deterministic strong support inequality to the conditional expectation subgradient almost surely.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: once the right factor is measurable with respect to the conditioning sigma-algebra, the conditional expectation of the inner product pulls through that factor.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: each stochastic iterate is almost surely strongly measurable.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: one stochastic projection step has a coarse quadratic growth bound, used only to bootstrap square-integrability of the iterates.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: the squared distance to the optimal point is integrable at every iterate, obtained from the coarse quadratic growth recursion.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: the pathwise projection step satisfies the exact squared-distance
expansion from equation (8.55) before conditioning.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: the inner-product term in the projected-square expansion is
integrable, because both the stochastic subgradient and the iterate offset belong to L².
Helper for Theorem 8.37: the conditional projected-square estimate at the sigma-algebra
generated by the measurable iterate x[n]. This is the source-faithful (8.55) + (8.u196)
bridge before any integration or telescoping.
Theorem 8.37: integrating the conditional one-step inequality first yields the stable expectation-level remainder estimate before the stepsize coefficients are normalized.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: the weighted telescope keeps the negative squared-distance tail before it is discarded in the final bound.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: the n-weighted telescope obtained by summing the integrated
one-step inequalities.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: normalizing the weighted telescope gives the exact simplex-weighted objective-gap estimate used in the ergodic part of the proof.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: for k > 0, the weighted average iterate is a convex combination of
feasible iterates, hence it remains in C pathwise.
Helper for Theorem 8.37: for k > 0, Jensen's inequality converts the value gap at the
stochastic weighted average iterate into the simplex-weighted sum of the expected iterate gaps.
Part (1) of Theorem 8.37: under Assumptions 8.7 and 8.34, if f is σ-strongly convex with
σ > 0, the stochastic projected subgradient method uses the stepsizes
t_k = 2 / (σ (k + 1)), and the sampled directions satisfy the oracle assumptions along the
generated iterates, with each iterate x^n measurable as a random variable, then the expected
best objective value attained among the first k + 1
stochastic iterates satisfies
E(f_best^k) - fOpt ≤ 2 L_tilde_f^2 / (σ (k + 1)).
Part (2) of Theorem 8.37: with the same assumptions as in part (1), the weighted average random
iterate
x^(k) = ∑_{n=0}^k α_n^k x^n, where α_n^k = 2 n / (k (k + 1)) for k > 0 and x^(0) = x^0,
satisfies the same expected objective-gap bound
E(f(x^(k))) - fOpt ≤ 2 L_tilde_f^2 / (σ (k + 1)).