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Main Authors: Xu, Tao, He, Jianping
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08858
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author Xu, Tao
He, Jianping
author_facet Xu, Tao
He, Jianping
contents Probabilistic prediction of stochastic dynamical systems (SDSs) aims to accurately predict the conditional probability distributions of future states. However, accurate probabilistic predictions tightly hinge on accurate distributional information from a nominal model, which is hardly available in practice. To address this issue, we propose a novel functional-maximin-based distributionally robust probabilistic prediction (DRPP) framework. In this framework, one can design probabilistic predictors that have worst-case performance guarantees over a pre-defined ambiguity set of SDSs. Nevertheless, DRPP requires optimizing over the space of probability measures with density functions with respect to the Lebesgue measure, which is generally intractable. We develop a methodology that equivalently transforms the original maximin from function spaces to Euclidean spaces. Although it remains intractable to seek a global optimal solution, two suboptimal solutions are derived. By relaxing the constraints on the ambiguity set, we obtain a suboptimal predictor called Noise-DRPP. Relaxing the constraints on the predictor yields another suboptimal predictor, Eig-DRPP. Moreover, optimality gaps between the proposed predictors and the global optimal predictor are derived. Finally, we conduct elaborate numerical simulations to compare the performance of different predictors under different SDSs.
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spellingShingle Distributionally Robust Probabilistic Prediction for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Xu, Tao
He, Jianping
Optimization and Control
Probabilistic prediction of stochastic dynamical systems (SDSs) aims to accurately predict the conditional probability distributions of future states. However, accurate probabilistic predictions tightly hinge on accurate distributional information from a nominal model, which is hardly available in practice. To address this issue, we propose a novel functional-maximin-based distributionally robust probabilistic prediction (DRPP) framework. In this framework, one can design probabilistic predictors that have worst-case performance guarantees over a pre-defined ambiguity set of SDSs. Nevertheless, DRPP requires optimizing over the space of probability measures with density functions with respect to the Lebesgue measure, which is generally intractable. We develop a methodology that equivalently transforms the original maximin from function spaces to Euclidean spaces. Although it remains intractable to seek a global optimal solution, two suboptimal solutions are derived. By relaxing the constraints on the ambiguity set, we obtain a suboptimal predictor called Noise-DRPP. Relaxing the constraints on the predictor yields another suboptimal predictor, Eig-DRPP. Moreover, optimality gaps between the proposed predictors and the global optimal predictor are derived. Finally, we conduct elaborate numerical simulations to compare the performance of different predictors under different SDSs.
title Distributionally Robust Probabilistic Prediction for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08858