arXiv:2603. 20388v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We derive the asymptotic risk function of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) estimators tuned by $n$-fold cross-validation (CV).
By Karun Adusumilli, Maximilian Kasy, Ashia Wilson
arXiv:2602. 02877v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies optimization for a family of problems termed $\textbf{compositional entropic risk minimization}$, in which each data's loss is formulated as a Log-Expectation-Exponential (Log-E-Exp) function.
By Xiyuan Wei, Linli Zhou, Bokun Wang, Chih-Jen Lin, Tianbao Yang
arXiv:2606. 27462v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The global minimum-variance portfolio (GMVP) is the canonical decision built from an estimated covariance matrix, yet covariance estimators are universally evaluated by matrix-norm loss, which is not the object the decision depends on.
By Xavier Fonseca
arXiv:2605. 26000v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is foundational to large-scale statistical learning and stochastic optimization.
By Jose Blanchet, Peter Glynn, Wenhao Yang
arXiv:2607. 14373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a noise-robust elicit-to-optimize framework that integrates inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and reinforcement learning (RL) for eliciting agents' risk preferences and optimizing policies under a broad class of risk objectives characterized by distortion riskmetrics.
By Yang Liu, Yuhao Liu, Yunran Wei
arXiv:2605. 27991v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gradient-flow optimization is usually viewed as an algorithmic procedure for minimizing empirical loss, with training duration selected by validation or heuristic early-stopping rules.
By Minhao Yao, Ruoyu Wang, Xihong Lin, Lin Liu, Zhonghua Liu
arXiv:2607. 21773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose and study a robust variant of the smart predict-then-optimize approach that accounts for prediction shifts due to disturbance in the covariate feature space.
By Aakil Caunhye, Xuefei Lu, Belen Martin-Barragan
arXiv:2303. 08777v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cross-validation is one of the most widely used tools for risk estimation and model selection in statistics and machine learning, yet its theoretical properties when embedded in a learning procedure remain insufficiently understood.
By Diego Marcondes, Cl\'audia Peixoto
arXiv:2606. 13984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision trees are one of the fundamental tools in statistical learning due to their interpretability, flexibility, and their ability to adapt to nonlinear structures.
By Mathias Bourel
arXiv:2607. 11947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typical semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods rely on distributional assumptions, and their performance degrades when these are violated.
By Yushi Hirose, Hiroo Irobe, Takafumi Kanamori
arXiv:2606. 00320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an online, distribution-free framework for controlling the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR), extending conformal tail risk control to non-stationary and adversarial environments.
By Catherine Chen, Jingyan Shen, Zhun Deng, Lihua Lei
arXiv:2407. 04900v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Numerous existing studies have examined the performance of Sample Average Approximation (SAA) in the fundamental newsvendor problem.
By Jiameng Lyu, Shilin Yuan, Bingkun Zhou, Yuan Zhou