Stochastic Variational Inequalities: Residual Minimization Smoothing Sample Average Approximations

The stochastic variational inequality (VI) has been used widely in engineering and economics as an effective mathematical model for a number of equilibrium problems involving uncertain data. This paper presents a new expected residual minimization (ERM) formulation for a class of stochastic VI. The objective of the ERM-formulation is Lipschitz continuous and semismooth which helps us guarantee the existence of a solution and convergence of approximation methods. We propose a globally convergent (a.s.) smoothing sample average approximation (SSAA) method to minimize the residual function; this minimization problem is convex for the linear stochastic VI if the expected matrix is positive semidefinite. We show that the ERM problem and its SSAA problems have minimizers in a compact set and any cluster point of minimizers and stationary points of the SSAA problems is a minimizer and a stationary point of the ERM problem (a.s.). Our examples come from applications involving traffic flow problems. We show that t...

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