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Distributionally Robust Optimization with Markovian Data

Li, Mengmeng
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Sutter, Tobias  
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Kuhn, Daniel  
2021
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning
38th International Conference on Machine Learning

We study a stochastic program where the probability distribution of the uncertain problem parameters is unknown and only indirectly observed via finitely many correlated samples generated by an unknown Markov chain with d states. We propose a data-driven distributionally robust optimization model to estimate the problem’s objective function and optimal solution. By leveraging results from large deviations theory, we derive statistical guarantees on the quality of these estimators. The underlying worst-case expectation problem is nonconvex and involves O(d^2) decision variables. Thus, it cannot be solved efficiently for large d. By exploiting the structure of this prob- lem, we devise a customized Frank-Wolfe algorithm with convex direction-finding subproblems of size O(d). We prove that this algorithm finds a stationary point efficiently under mild conditions. The efficiency of the method is predicated on a dimensionality reduction enabled by a dual reformulation. Numerical experiments indicate that our approach has better computational and statistical properties than the state-of-the-art methods.

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conference paper
ArXiv ID

2106.06741

Author(s)
Li, Mengmeng
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Sutter, Tobias  
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Kuhn, Daniel  
Date Issued

2021

Publisher

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH

Publisher place

San Diego

Published in
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning
Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

Volume

139

Start page

6493

End page

6503

Subjects

Distributionally robust optimization

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Data-driven optimization

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Markov chains

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Large deviations theory

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Algorithms

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06741.pdf

Published paper

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/li21t.html
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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
38th International Conference on Machine Learning

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July 18-24, 2021

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June 15, 2021
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