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Learning to Optimize with Stochastic Dominance Constraints

2022-11-14 · Hanjun Dai, Yuan Xue, Niao He, Bethany Wang, Na Li, Dale Schuurmans, Bo Dai

In real-world decision-making, uncertainty is important yet difficult to handle. Stochastic dominance provides a theoretically sound approach for comparing uncertain quantities, but optimization with stochastic dominance constraints is often computationally expensive, which limits practical applicability. In this paper, we develop a simple yet efficient approach for the problem, the Light Stochastic Dominance Solver (light-SD), that leverages useful properties of the Lagrangian. We recast the inner optimization in the Lagrangian as a learning problem for surrogate approximation, which bypasses apparent intractability and leads to tractable updates or even closed-form solutions for gradient calculations. We prove convergence of the algorithm and test it empirically. The proposed light-SD demonstrates superior performance on several representative problems ranging from finance to supply chain management.

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