Unanswered Questions
33 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Solving large-scale stochastic mixed integer program
What are some methods or algorithms for solving a large-scale stochastic mixed-integer optimization problem that runs on an hourly dataset for a year? Do we employ some kind of decomposition? (the ...
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Airline revenue management re-solving problem
I am considering a bid prices (shadow price of the capacity constraint) problem (from Chen, L. and Homem-de Mello, T. (2009)., page 14) where the acceptable classes for booking requests for ...
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Sample Average Approximation vs. Numerical Integration
In the sense of the calculation of the expected value of objective functions, we have two choices to evaluate the value; 1. Sample Average Approximation (SAA):
$$
\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N f(x,\xi^i).
$$...
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Chance constrained optimization - interpretation
Suppose that we have a stochastic vector $\psi$ and $S$ realisations of $\psi$ given by $\psi_1,\dots,\psi_S$ with equal probability of occurrence. In addition, we have constraints of the form
\begin{...
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What kind of algorithm is this: water foraging
I am pondering if a machine learning problem might be better formulated as a reinforcement or control problem. I have no experience with the latter, so bear with me.
Let's say I am organising a tour ...
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In a binary logistic regression context, how to introduce a constraint to model the dependency between consecutive samples
Imagine we are running a logistic regression to identify opportunities for car sale promotion, using previous promotion campaign's result. Each $y$ is the increase of car sale after the promotion.
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Stochastic optimization for inventory management
The deterministic problem is to minimize operational cost subject to constraints in demand, supply and capacity. The ordering policy is periodic review, order-up-to.
The stochastic version of the ...
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How to find range of values for the first-stage decisions resulting in the same cuts in two-stage stochastic programming?
Suppose we have a two-stage stochastic program as follows:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\min \ & c^Tx + \mathbb{E}_\xi[Q(x,\xi)] \\
& \text{where}\\
&Q(x,\xi)=\min q(\xi)^Ty\\
&Tx+...
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Control variables and cofounding effects in stochastic programming/,model predictive control/reinforcement learning
How can we be sure that confounding variables/control variables don’t pickup the effect our decisions w.r.t decision variables had on the actual control variable?
Since the term control variable ...
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How to establish the optimal value functions and optimal control policy for a controlled random walk problem?
Question: How to establish an explicit characterization of both the optimal value functions and the optimal control policy for a controlled random walk?
Background:
Assume our system is a perfectly-...
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Derivative of sup(max) functions in distributionally robust optimization
In the distributionally robust optimization problem
\begin{aligned}
\min_{x\in X}\sup_{P\in\mathfrak{P}}\mathbb{E}_P[f(x,\xi)],
\end{aligned}
where $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$ and $P$ is a ...
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Reformulate the deterministic equivalent model as an Expected Value problem
Given an optimization problem as follows:
$$
\begin{array}{cc}
\operatorname{Max} Z=3 x_{1}+9 x_{2}-2 y_{1}-4 y_{2} \\
\text { subject to, } y_{1}+y_{2}=15 \\
5 x_{1}+2 x_{2} \leq 10 \\
x_{1}, x_{2}, ...
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Two-stage stochastic with non-linear recourse
I am working on a two-stage facility location problem as I described in this question.
I am solving it with the L-shaped method (Benders decomposition). The cost value between each $(i,j)$ is a ...
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What is the intuition behind Progressive hedging algorithm?
I am reading some papers about PHA to solve multi-stage stochastic programming, but I think it is not still clear to me. This is my understanding and I would be thankful to know if it is correct or ...
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How to write nonanticipativity constraints?
In Multi-stage stochastic programming, we write the constraints that for scenarios $s$ and $s^{\prime}$ which have the same trajectory up to time $t$, should take the same value. That is,
$$
x_{t,s} =...
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