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Main Authors: Yu, Xian, Basciftci, Beste
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19185
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author Yu, Xian
Basciftci, Beste
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Basciftci, Beste
contents We consider a two-stage distributionally robust optimization (DRO) model with multimodal uncertainty, where both the mode probabilities and uncertainty distributions could be affected by the first-stage decisions. To address this setting, we propose a generic framework by introducing a $ϕ$-divergence based ambiguity set to characterize the decision-dependent mode probabilities and further consider both moment-based and Wasserstein distance-based ambiguity sets to characterize the uncertainty distribution under each mode. We identify two special $ϕ$-divergence examples (variation distance and $χ^2$-distance) and provide specific forms of decision dependence relationships under which we can derive tractable reformulations. Furthermore, we investigate the benefits of considering multimodality in a DRO model compared to a single-modal counterpart through an analytical analysis. Additionally, we develop a separation-based decomposition algorithm to solve the resulting multimodal decision-dependent DRO models with finite convergence and optimality guarantee under certain settings. We provide a detailed computational study over two example problem settings, the facility location problem and shipment planning problem with pricing, to illustrate our results, which demonstrate that omission of multimodality or decision-dependent uncertainties within DRO frameworks result in inadequately performing solutions with worse in-sample and out-of-sample performances under various settings. We further demonstrate the speed-ups obtained by the solution algorithm against the off-the-shelf solver over various instances.
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spellingShingle Distributionally Robust Optimization with Multimodal Decision-Dependent Ambiguity Sets
Yu, Xian
Basciftci, Beste
Optimization and Control
We consider a two-stage distributionally robust optimization (DRO) model with multimodal uncertainty, where both the mode probabilities and uncertainty distributions could be affected by the first-stage decisions. To address this setting, we propose a generic framework by introducing a $ϕ$-divergence based ambiguity set to characterize the decision-dependent mode probabilities and further consider both moment-based and Wasserstein distance-based ambiguity sets to characterize the uncertainty distribution under each mode. We identify two special $ϕ$-divergence examples (variation distance and $χ^2$-distance) and provide specific forms of decision dependence relationships under which we can derive tractable reformulations. Furthermore, we investigate the benefits of considering multimodality in a DRO model compared to a single-modal counterpart through an analytical analysis. Additionally, we develop a separation-based decomposition algorithm to solve the resulting multimodal decision-dependent DRO models with finite convergence and optimality guarantee under certain settings. We provide a detailed computational study over two example problem settings, the facility location problem and shipment planning problem with pricing, to illustrate our results, which demonstrate that omission of multimodality or decision-dependent uncertainties within DRO frameworks result in inadequately performing solutions with worse in-sample and out-of-sample performances under various settings. We further demonstrate the speed-ups obtained by the solution algorithm against the off-the-shelf solver over various instances.
title Distributionally Robust Optimization with Multimodal Decision-Dependent Ambiguity Sets
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19185