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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">mathematics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Вестник российских университетов. Математика</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Russian Universities Reports. Mathematics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2686-9667</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2782-3342</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Тамбовский государственный университет имени Г.Р. Державина</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.20310/2686-9667-2026-31-154-168-185</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">mathematics-366</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>НАУЧНЫЕ СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ORIGINAL ARTICLES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Стохастические конечно-разностные схемы для недифференцируемой квазивыпуклой оптимизации: скорость сходимости</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Stochastic finite-difference schemes for nondifferentiable quasiconvex optimization: convergence rate</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-0562</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хачатрян</surname><given-names>Рафик Агасиевич</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Khachatryan</surname><given-names>Rafik A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Хачатрян Рафик Агасиевич, доктор физико-математических наук, профессор кафедры численного анализа и математического моделирования  </p><p>0025, г. Ереван, ул. Алек Манукян, 1</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Rafik A. Khachatryan, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modeling Department  </p><p>1 Alex Manukyan St., Yerevan 0025</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">khrafik@ysu.am</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Ереванский государственный университет</institution><country>Армения</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Yerevan State University</institution><country>Armenia</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>31</volume><issue>154</issue><fpage>168</fpage><lpage>185</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Хачатрян Р.А., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Хачатрян Р.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Khachatryan R.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://mathematics.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/366">https://mathematics.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/366</self-uri><abstract><p>В данной работе исследуются методы стохастического приближения на основе конечных разностей для задачи минимизации квазивыпуклых функций. Традиционные подходы к задачам выпуклой оптимизации в основном опираются на использование точных или стохастических субградиентов. Однако во многих практических ситуациях доступна только зашумленная информация о значениях функции. В таких случаях рассматриваются стохастические квазиградиентные схемы, построенные на основе рандомизированных конечно-разностных оценок. В частности, изучаются пакетные двухточечные схемы, которые дают несмещенные приближения градиента сглаженной целевой функции. Для данных схем устанавливаются оценки дисперсии, что позволяет провести анализ сходимости проективных стохастических методов спуска.</p><p>В работе рассматривается задача минимизации функций вида $f(x)=\max_{i \in I} f_i(x),$ где каждая функция $f_i(x),$ $i \in I,$ является квазивыпуклой и имеет липшицев градиент на выпуклом компактном множестве. Основным результатом работы является получение оценок скорости сходимости стохастических конечно-разностных методов в случае квазивыпуклых функций. Показано, что ожидаемая субоптимальность убывает со скоростью $O\!\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}\right).$ Полученные результаты существенно расширяют область применения стохастических конечно-разностных методов к негладким задачам квазивыпуклой оптимизации и обеспечивают строгое теоретическое обоснование алгоритма в условиях «черного ящика», когда доступны только зашумленные оценки функции.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This paper investigates stochastic approximation methods based on finite differences for the minimization of quasiconvex functions. Traditional approaches to convex optimization problems primarily rely on exact or stochastic subgradients. However, in many practical situations, only noisy information about function values is available. In such cases, stochastic quasi-gradient schemes constructed using randomized finite-difference estimators are considered. In particular, we study batch two-point schemes that provide unbiased approximations of the gradient of a smoothed objective function. Variance bounds are established for these estimators, which enable a rigorous convergence analysis of projected stochastic descent methods.</p><p>The paper considers the minimization problem of functions of the form $f(x) = \max_{i \in I} f_i(x),$ where each function $f_i(x),$ $i \in I,$ is quasiconvex and has a Lipschitz-continuous gradient on a convex compact set. The main result of the paper is the derivation of convergence rate estimates for stochastic finite-difference methods in the quasiconvex setting. It is shown that the expected suboptimality decreases at the rate $O\!\left(1/\sqrt{k}\right).$ The obtained results significantly broaden the applicability of stochastic finite-difference methods to nonsmooth quasiconvex optimization problems and provide a rigorous theoretical justification of the algorithm in black-box settings where only noisy function evaluations are available.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>оптимизация</kwd><kwd>квазивыпуклая функция</kwd><kwd>субградиент</kwd><kwd>конечно-разностная схема</kwd><kwd>скорость сходимости</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>optimization</kwd><kwd>quasi convex function</kwd><kwd>subgradient</kwd><kwd>finite-difference scheme</kwd><kwd>convergence rate</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">F. 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