Using Importance Samping in Estimating Weak Derivative

09/27/2022
by   Cheng Jie, et al.
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In this paper we study simulation-based methods for estimating gradients in stochastic networks. We derive a new method of calculating weak derivative estimator using importance sampling transform, and our method has less computational cost than the classical method. In the context of M/M/1 queueing network and stochastic activity network, we analytically show that our new method won't result in a great increase of sample variance of the estimators. Our numerical experiments show that under same simulation time, the new method can yield a narrower confidence interval of the true gradient than the classical one, suggesting that the new method is more competitive.

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