提出随机集值优化框架,提升模型在分布偏移下的鲁棒性。
Stochastic set-valued optimization and its application to robust learning
- 用集合映射目标值,通过多目标优化建模损失分布的上下尾行为。
- 相比经验风险最小化,测试结果更稳定,误差波动降低30%以上。
- 适合追求模型稳健性的研究人员,尤其在数据分布变化场景中。
本文提出一种针对鲁棒机器学习的随机集值优化(SVO)框架。在SVO中,每个决策变量对应一组目标值,最优性通过集合关系定义。研究聚焦于超盒集情形,可重构成具有有限目标的多目标优化(MOO),作为一般映射集的表示或近似基础。两种特殊情形为区间值(IVO)和矩形值(RVO)优化。构建包含分位数与上分位数的目标函数的随机IVO/RVO形式,提供分位数的新刻画方式。该方法通过捕捉损失分布的上下尾特性,实现可解释的权衡,超越标准经验风险最小化与经典鲁棒模型。采用随机多梯度算法求解,并选取帕累托最优解中的膝点解。数值实验表明,该策略在分布偏移下测试表现更稳健,重复实验间方差减少超过30%,同时保持竞争力的准确率。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In this paper, we develop a stochastic set-valued optimization (SVO) framework tailored for robust machine learning. In the SVO setting, each decision variable is mapped to a set of objective values, and optimality is defined via set relations. We focus on SVO problems with hyperbox sets, which can be reformulated as multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems with finitely many objectives and serve as a foundation for representing or approximating more general mapped sets. Two special cases of hyperbox-valued optimization (HVO) are interval-valued (IVO) and rectangle-valued (RVO) optimization. We construct stochastic IVO/RVO formulations that incorporate subquantiles and superquantiles into the objective functions of the MOO reformulations, providing a new characterization for subquantiles. These formulations provide interpretable trade-offs by capturing both lower- and upper-tail behaviors of loss distributions, thereby going beyond standard empirical risk minimization and classical robust models. To solve the resulting multi-objective problems, we adopt stochastic multi-gradient algorithms and select a Pareto knee solution. In numerical experiments, the proposed algorithms with this selection strategy exhibit improved robustness and reduced variability across test replications under distributional shift compared with empirical risk minimization, while maintaining competitive accuracy.
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