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Poster

From Inverse Optimization to Feasibility to ERM

Saurabh Mishra · Anant Raj · Sharan Vaswani


Abstract:

Inverse optimization involves inferring unknown parameters of an optimization problem from known solutions and is widely used in fields such as transportation, power systems, and healthcare. We study the contextual inverse optimization setting that utilizes additional contextual information to better predict the unknown problem parameters. We focus on contextual inverse linear programming (CILP) addressing the challenges posed by the non-differentiable nature of LPs. For a linear prediction model, we reduce CILP to a convex feasibility problem allowing the use of standard algorithms such as alternating projections. The resulting algorithm for CILP is equipped with theoretical convergence guarantees without additional assumptions such as degeneracy or interpolation. Next, we reduce CILP to empirical risk minimization (ERM) on a smooth, convex loss that satisfies the Polyak-Lojasiewicz condition. This reduction enables the use of scalable first-order optimization methods to solve large non-convex problems while maintaining theoretical guarantees in the convex setting. Finally, we experimentally validate our approach on both synthetic and real-world problems and demonstrate improved performance compared to existing methods.

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