A Fenchel-Young Loss Approach to Data-Driven Inverse Optimization

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Zhehao, Wu, Yanchen, Chen, Jian, Mao, Xiaojie
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author Li, Zhehao
Wu, Yanchen
Chen, Jian
Mao, Xiaojie
author_facet Li, Zhehao
Wu, Yanchen
Chen, Jian
Mao, Xiaojie
contents Data-driven inverse optimization seeks to estimate unknown parameters in an optimization model from observations of optimization solutions. Many existing methods are ineffective in handling noisy and suboptimal solution observations and also suffer from computational challenges. In this paper, we build a connection between inverse optimization and the Fenchel-Young (FY) loss originally designed for structured prediction, proposing a FY loss approach to data-driven inverse optimization. This new approach is amenable to efficient gradient-based optimization, hence much more efficient than existing methods. We provide theoretical guarantees for the proposed method and use extensive simulation and real-data experiments to demonstrate its significant advantage in parameter estimation accuracy, decision error and computational speed.
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spellingShingle A Fenchel-Young Loss Approach to Data-Driven Inverse Optimization
Li, Zhehao
Wu, Yanchen
Chen, Jian
Mao, Xiaojie
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Data-driven inverse optimization seeks to estimate unknown parameters in an optimization model from observations of optimization solutions. Many existing methods are ineffective in handling noisy and suboptimal solution observations and also suffer from computational challenges. In this paper, we build a connection between inverse optimization and the Fenchel-Young (FY) loss originally designed for structured prediction, proposing a FY loss approach to data-driven inverse optimization. This new approach is amenable to efficient gradient-based optimization, hence much more efficient than existing methods. We provide theoretical guarantees for the proposed method and use extensive simulation and real-data experiments to demonstrate its significant advantage in parameter estimation accuracy, decision error and computational speed.
title A Fenchel-Young Loss Approach to Data-Driven Inverse Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16120