What is the Right Notion of Distance between Predict-then-Optimize Tasks?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06997v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:13:17 GMT
• Title: What is the Right Notion of Distance between Predict-then-Optimize Tasks?
• Authors: Paula Rodriguez-Diaz, Lingkai Kong, Kai Wang, David Alvarez-Melis, Milind Tambe,
• Abstract summary: We show that traditional dataset distances, which rely solely on feature and label dimensions, lack informativeness in the Predict-then-then (PtO) context. We propose a new dataset distance that incorporates the impacts of downstream decisions. Our results show that this decision-aware dataset distance effectively captures adaptation success in PtO contexts.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Comparing datasets is a fundamental task in machine learning, essential for various learning paradigms; from evaluating train and test datasets for model generalization to using dataset similarity for detecting data drift. While traditional notions of dataset distances offer principled measures of similarity, their utility has largely been assessed through prediction error minimization. However, in Predict-then-Optimize (PtO) frameworks, where predictions serve as inputs for downstream optimization tasks, model performance is measured through decision regret minimization rather than prediction error minimization. In this work, we (i) show that traditional dataset distances, which rely solely on feature and label dimensions, lack informativeness in the PtO context, and (ii) propose a new dataset distance that incorporates the impacts of downstream decisions. Our results show that this decision-aware dataset distance effectively captures adaptation success in PtO contexts, providing a PtO adaptation bound in terms of dataset distance. Empirically, we show that our proposed distance measure accurately predicts transferability across three different PtO tasks from the literature.

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