nphralviissinicaedutw might want take look book adaptive algorithms stochastic approximations benveniste metivier prioutet 1990 chunnan quoting ronen brafman want find maximum fx1xn n typically large sample value f samples noisy wonder anyone provide pointers results study done various assumptions f thanks ronen message sent using imp internet messaging program fri 08 aug 2008 102438 0800 uai optimizing stochastic function