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Hauptverfasser: Qu, Chengrui, Jia, Huiwen, You, Pengcheng
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Qu, Chengrui
Jia, Huiwen
You, Pengcheng
author_facet Qu, Chengrui
Jia, Huiwen
You, Pengcheng
contents We consider decision-making problems under decision-dependent uncertainty (DDU), where the distribution of uncertain parameters depends on the decision variables and is only observable through a finite offline dataset. To address this challenge, we formulate a decision-dependent distributionally robust optimization (DD-DRO) problem, and leverage multivariate interpolation techniques along with the Wasserstein metric to construct decision-dependent nominal distributions (thereby decision-dependent ambiguity sets) based on the offline data. We show that the resulting ambiguity sets provide a finite-sample, high-probability guarantee that the true decision-dependent distribution is contained within them. Furthermore, we establish key properties of the DD-DRO framework, including a non-asymptotic out-of-sample performance guarantee, an optimality gap bound, and a tractable reformulation. The practical effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through numerical experiments on a dynamic pricing problem with nonstationary demand, where the DD-DRO solution produces pricing strategies with guaranteed expected revenue.
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spellingShingle Decision-Dependent Distributionally Robust Optimization with Application to Dynamic Pricing
Qu, Chengrui
Jia, Huiwen
You, Pengcheng
Optimization and Control
We consider decision-making problems under decision-dependent uncertainty (DDU), where the distribution of uncertain parameters depends on the decision variables and is only observable through a finite offline dataset. To address this challenge, we formulate a decision-dependent distributionally robust optimization (DD-DRO) problem, and leverage multivariate interpolation techniques along with the Wasserstein metric to construct decision-dependent nominal distributions (thereby decision-dependent ambiguity sets) based on the offline data. We show that the resulting ambiguity sets provide a finite-sample, high-probability guarantee that the true decision-dependent distribution is contained within them. Furthermore, we establish key properties of the DD-DRO framework, including a non-asymptotic out-of-sample performance guarantee, an optimality gap bound, and a tractable reformulation. The practical effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through numerical experiments on a dynamic pricing problem with nonstationary demand, where the DD-DRO solution produces pricing strategies with guaranteed expected revenue.
title Decision-Dependent Distributionally Robust Optimization with Application to Dynamic Pricing
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06965