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Main Authors: Zhang, Yiyang, Liu, Junyi, Zhao, Xiaobo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13646
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author Zhang, Yiyang
Liu, Junyi
Zhao, Xiaobo
author_facet Zhang, Yiyang
Liu, Junyi
Zhao, Xiaobo
contents Focusing on stochastic programming (SP) with covariate information, this paper proposes an empirical risk minimization (ERM) method embedded within a nonconvex piecewise affine decision rule (PADR), which aims to learn the direct mapping from features to optimal decisions. We establish the nonasymptotic consistency result of our PADR-based ERM model for unconstrained problems and asymptotic consistency result for constrained ones. To solve the nonconvex and nondifferentiable ERM problem, we develop an enhanced stochastic majorization-minimization algorithm and establish the asymptotic convergence to (composite strong) directional stationarity along with complexity analysis. We show that the proposed PADR-based ERM method applies to a broad class of nonconvex SP problems with theoretical consistency guarantees and computational tractability. Our numerical study demonstrates the superior performance of PADR-based ERM methods compared to state-of-the-art approaches under various settings, with significantly lower costs, less computation time, and robustness to feature dimensions and nonlinearity of the underlying dependency.
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spellingShingle Data-driven Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Stochastic Programming with Covariate Information
Zhang, Yiyang
Liu, Junyi
Zhao, Xiaobo
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Focusing on stochastic programming (SP) with covariate information, this paper proposes an empirical risk minimization (ERM) method embedded within a nonconvex piecewise affine decision rule (PADR), which aims to learn the direct mapping from features to optimal decisions. We establish the nonasymptotic consistency result of our PADR-based ERM model for unconstrained problems and asymptotic consistency result for constrained ones. To solve the nonconvex and nondifferentiable ERM problem, we develop an enhanced stochastic majorization-minimization algorithm and establish the asymptotic convergence to (composite strong) directional stationarity along with complexity analysis. We show that the proposed PADR-based ERM method applies to a broad class of nonconvex SP problems with theoretical consistency guarantees and computational tractability. Our numerical study demonstrates the superior performance of PADR-based ERM methods compared to state-of-the-art approaches under various settings, with significantly lower costs, less computation time, and robustness to feature dimensions and nonlinearity of the underlying dependency.
title Data-driven Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Stochastic Programming with Covariate Information
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13646