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Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization with Heterogeneous Data Sources

Rychener, Yves  
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Esteban-Perez, Adrian
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Morales, Juan M.
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July 8, 2024

We study decision problems under uncertainty, where the decision-maker has access to K data sources that carry biased information about the underlying risk factors. The biases are measured by the mismatch between the risk factor distribution and the K data-generating distributions with respect to an optimal transport (OT) distance. In this situation the decision-maker can exploit the information contained in the biased samples by solving a distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problem, where the ambiguity set is defined as the intersection of K OT neighborhoods, each of which is centered at the empirical distribution on the samples generated by a biased data source. We show that if the decision-maker has a prior belief about the biases, then the out-of-sample performance of the DRO solution can improve with K -- irrespective of the magnitude of the biases. We also show that, under standard convexity assumptions, the proposed DRO problem is computationally tractable if either K or the dimension of the risk factors is kept constant.

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preprint
ArXiv ID

10.48550/arXiv.2407.13582

Author(s)
Rychener, Yves  

EPFL

Esteban-Perez, Adrian
Morales, Juan M.
Kuhn, Daniel  

EPFL

Date Issued

2024-07-08

Subjects

Data-driven decision-making

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Distributionally robust optimization

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Optimal transport

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EPFL

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August 26, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/240843
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