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一种极值事件估计的分布鲁棒优化框架

A Distributionally Robust Optimization Framework for Extreme Event Estimation

Yuanlu Bai, Henry Lam, Xinyu Zhang

摘要:

传统的极端事件估计方法依赖于精心选择的参数模型渐近证明极值理论(EVT)。这些方法虽然功能强大且理论上有基础,但可能会遇到困难的偏差-方差权衡,特别是当数据量太小时,这种权衡会加剧,从而降低尾部估计的可靠性。在本文中,我们研究了一个框架的基础上,最近激增的文献分布鲁棒优化。这种方法可以被看作是一种非参数替代传统EVT,通过施加一般形状的信念,而不是参数假设的尾巴,并使用最坏情况下的优化作为一种解决方案,以处理非参数的不确定性。我们解释了这种方法如何绕过EVT中的偏差方差权衡。另一方面,我们面临着保守性方差权衡,我们描述如何解决。我们还展示了所涉及的优化问题的计算工具,并比较我们的性能与传统的EVT在一系列的数值例子。

英文摘要:

Conventional methods for extreme event estimation rely on well-chosen parametric models asymptotically justified from extreme value theory (EVT). These methods, while powerful and theoretically grounded, could however encounter a difficult bias-variance tradeoff that exacerbates especially when data size is too small, deteriorating the reliability of the tail estimation. In this paper, we study a framework based on the recently surging literature of distributionally robust optimization. This approach can be viewed as a nonparametric alternative to conventional EVT, by imposing general shape belief on the tail instead of parametric assumption and using worst-case optimization as a resolution to handle the nonparametric uncertainty. We explain how this approach bypasses the bias-variance tradeoff in EVT. On the other hand, we face a conservativeness-variance tradeoff which we describe how to tackle. We also demonstrate computational tools for the involved optimization problems and compare our performance with conventional EVT across a range of numerical examples.

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