Decision Making under Cumulative Prospect Theory: An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

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Main Authors: Cui, Xiangyu, Jiang, Rujun, Shi, Yun, Xiao, Rufeng, Yan, Yifan
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Published: 2022
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author Cui, Xiangyu
Jiang, Rujun
Shi, Yun
Xiao, Rufeng
Yan, Yifan
author_facet Cui, Xiangyu
Jiang, Rujun
Shi, Yun
Xiao, Rufeng
Yan, Yifan
contents This paper proposes a novel numerical method for solving the problem of decision making under cumulative prospect theory (CPT), where the goal is to maximize utility subject to practical constraints, assuming only finite realizations of the associated distribution are available. Existing methods for CPT optimization rely on particular assumptions that may not hold in practice. To overcome this limitation, we present the first numerical method with a theoretical guarantee for solving CPT optimization using an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). One of its subproblems involves optimization with the CPT utility subject to a chain constraint, which presents a significant challenge. To address this, we develop two methods for solving this subproblem. The first method uses dynamic programming, while the second method is a modified version of the pooling-adjacent-violators algorithm that incorporates the CPT utility function. Moreover, we prove the theoretical convergence of our proposed ADMM method and the two subproblem-solving methods. Finally, we conduct numerical experiments to validate our proposed approach and demonstrate how CPT's parameters influence investor behavior using real-world data.
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spellingShingle Decision Making under Cumulative Prospect Theory: An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
Cui, Xiangyu
Jiang, Rujun
Shi, Yun
Xiao, Rufeng
Yan, Yifan
Optimization and Control
This paper proposes a novel numerical method for solving the problem of decision making under cumulative prospect theory (CPT), where the goal is to maximize utility subject to practical constraints, assuming only finite realizations of the associated distribution are available. Existing methods for CPT optimization rely on particular assumptions that may not hold in practice. To overcome this limitation, we present the first numerical method with a theoretical guarantee for solving CPT optimization using an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). One of its subproblems involves optimization with the CPT utility subject to a chain constraint, which presents a significant challenge. To address this, we develop two methods for solving this subproblem. The first method uses dynamic programming, while the second method is a modified version of the pooling-adjacent-violators algorithm that incorporates the CPT utility function. Moreover, we prove the theoretical convergence of our proposed ADMM method and the two subproblem-solving methods. Finally, we conduct numerical experiments to validate our proposed approach and demonstrate how CPT's parameters influence investor behavior using real-world data.
title Decision Making under Cumulative Prospect Theory: An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02626