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Distributionally Robust Logistic Regression

Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Soroosh  
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Mohajerin Esfahani, Peyman  
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Kuhn, Daniel  
2015
NIPS Proceedings
Neural Information Processing Systems

This paper proposes a distributionally robust approach to logistic regression. We use the Wasserstein distance to construct a ball in the space of probability distributions centered at the uniform distribution on the training samples. If the radius of this Wasserstein ball is chosen judiciously, we can guarantee that it contains the unknown data-generating distribution with high confidence. We then formulate a distributionally robust logistic regression model that minimizes a worst-case expected logloss function, where the worst case is taken over all distributions in the Wasserstein ball. We prove that this optimization problem admits a tractable reformulation and encapsulates the classical as well as the popular regularized logistic regression problems as special cases. We further propose a distributionally robust approach based on Wasserstein balls to compute upper and lower confidence bounds on the misclassification probability of the resulting classifier. These bounds are given by the optimal values of two highly tractable linear programs. We validate our theoretical out-of-sample guarantees through simulated and empirical experiments.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Soroosh  
Mohajerin Esfahani, Peyman  
Kuhn, Daniel  
Date Issued

2015

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NIPS Proceedings
Volume

28

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http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5745-distributionally-robust-logistic-regression
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Neural Information Processing Systems

Montréal, Canada

December 7-12, 2015

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September 8, 2015
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