Suppose is integrable and adapted, and is finite and adapted. Use the stopped predictable budget for adapted increments with an integer budget . The process is an integrable nonnegative supermartingale, because its budget decrement cancels the localized drift. It has a finite almost-sure limit. On the event that the total drift is smaller than , the stopping time is infinite, so itself converges. Taking the countable union over integer budgets proves finite almost sure convergence. No expectation of the total drift is needed.
When the drift bound is a deterministic summable sequence , the displayed correction is a nonnegative supermartingale. Its added tail tends to zero, so the almost sure supermartingale convergence theorem directly implies finite almost sure convergence of . This simpler tail correction requires deterministic bounds; an arbitrary future random drift tail is not generally measurable at the current time.
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