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Mehran Poursoltani
dblp:334/9853
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization › sequential decision making
contextual optimization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Robust Data-driven Prescriptiveness Optimization · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization › optimization under uncertainty › robust optimization
distributionally robust optimization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Robust Data-driven Prescriptiveness Optimization · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization
stochastic optimization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Robust Data-driven Prescriptiveness Optimization · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization › optimization for machine learning
decision-focused learning |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Robust Data-driven Prescriptiveness Optimization · ICML 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
linear programming · 0.8bisection algorithm · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Robust Data-driven Prescriptiveness OptimizationabstractThe abundance of data has led to the emergence of a variety of optimization techniques that attempt to leverage available side information to provide more anticipative decisions. The wide range of methods and contexts of application have motivated the design of a universal unitless measure of performance known as the coefficient of prescriptiveness. This coefficient was designed to quantify both the quality of contextual decisions compared to a reference one and the prescriptive power of side information. To identify policies that maximize the former in a data-driven context, this paper introduces a distributionally robust contextual optimization model where the coefficient of prescriptiveness substitutes for the classical empirical risk minimization objective. We present a bisection algorithm to solve this model, which relies on solving a series of linear programs when the distributional ambiguity set has an appropriate nested form and polyhedral structure. Studying a contextual shortest path problem, we evaluate the robustness of the resulting policies against alternative methods when the out-of-sample dataset is subject to varying amounts of distribution shift. Mehran Poursoltani, Erick Delage, Angelos Georghiou |
ICML | 1 |