arXiv:2607.14545cs.LG2026-07

用可验证证书提升离线优化效率,保证结果不因预测错误而失效

CASP: Learning-Augmented Offline Approximation with Verifiable Certificates and Bounded-Loss PAC Guarantees

论文配图:CASP: Learning-Augmented Offline Approximation with Verifiable Certificates and Bounded-Loss PAC Guarantees
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  • 通过可验证的证书筛选搜索空间,确保正确性不依赖预测质量
  • 相同预测下,未验证方法损失最高达26%,验证后无损失
  • 适合需要可靠保障的优化场景,如工业调度、资源分配

机器学习预测能加速离线NP难优化问题,但直接采纳预测会丧失最坏情况下的保证。CASP(证书增强解空间剪枝)改为询问哪些区域可忽略,并在多项式时间验证器确认后才接受,从而保证正确性始终独立于预测质量。我们建立了该设计的学习理论:验证器使损失类均匀有界,证书参数可在$ ilde O(\varepsilon^{-2}"log K)$样本下学习(K为最大实例规模),而未经验证的承诺类无法实现分布无关的收敛率,在代价分布范围为R时,下界为Ω(R/ε²)。以可验证置信度过滤噪声预测,性能优于标准最小组合器,且我们给出了闭式表达的裕度。即使给定线性规划(LP),预测仍有效,因其能打破退化最优面的对称性——所有仅依赖可验证置信度值的对称LP策略在此处必然停滞。在五个问题上的实验验证了理论的定量预测:使用训练好的预测器时,未验证剪枝在分布偏移下最多损失26%最优解,而经验证部署的同一预测则无任何损失。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Machine-learned predictions can speed up offline NP-hard optimization, but asking a predictor what to do amounts to asking it to solve the problem, and committing an unchecked prediction forfeits every worst-case guarantee. CASP (Certificate-Augmented Solution Pruning) instead asks which parts of the search space may be ignored, and accepts each answer only after a sound polynomial-time verifier has checked it, so correctness never depends on prediction quality. We develop the learning theory of this design. The verifier makes the induced loss class uniformly bounded, so certificate parameters are learnable from $\tilde O(\varepsilon^{-2}\log K)$ samples ($K$ the maximum instance size), whereas the unverified commitment class admits no distribution-free rate and, under cost spread $R$, none below $Ω(R/\varepsilon^2)$. Filtering noisy predictions by verifiable confidence dominates the standard min-combiner, with a margin we compute in closed form, and the prediction stays useful even given the LP, because it breaks ties on degenerate optimal faces, where every symmetric LP policy, meaning one whose commitments depend on the instance only through the verifiable confidence values, provably stalls. Experiments on five problems test the theory's quantitative predictions. With trained predictors, unverified pruning loses up to $26%$ of the optimum under distribution shift, while the verified deployment of the same predictions loses nothing.

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