Randomized Transport Plans via Hierarchical Fully Probabilistic Design

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02701v1
• Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 18:24:02 GMT
• Title: Randomized Transport Plans via Hierarchical Fully Probabilistic Design
• Authors: Sarah Boufelja Y., Anthony Quinn, Robert Shorten,
• Abstract summary: An optimal randomized strategy for design of balanced, normalized mass transport plans is developed. It replaces the deterministic, regularized optimal transport (OT) strategy, which yields only a certainty-equivalent plan. An application in algorithmic fairness is outlined, where HFPD-OT enables the recruitment of a more diverse subset of contracts.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: An optimal randomized strategy for design of balanced, normalized mass transport plans is developed. It replaces -- but specializes to -- the deterministic, regularized optimal transport (OT) strategy, which yields only a certainty-equivalent plan. The incompletely specified -- and therefore uncertain -- transport plan is acknowledged to be a random process. Therefore, hierarchical fully probabilistic design (HFPD) is adopted, yielding an optimal hyperprior supported on the set of possible transport plans, and consistent with prior mean constraints on the marginals of the uncertain plan. This Bayesian resetting of the design problem for transport plans -- which we call HFPD-OT -- confers new opportunities. These include (i) a strategy for the generation of a random sample of joint transport plans; (ii) randomized marginal contracts for individual source-target pairs; and (iii) consistent measures of uncertainty in the plan and its contracts. An application in algorithmic fairness is outlined, where HFPD-OT enables the recruitment of a more diverse subset of contracts -- than is possible in classical OT -- into the delivery of an expected plan. Also, it permits fairness proxies to be endowed with uncertainty quantifiers.

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