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Poster

Convex Elicitation of Continuous Properties

Jessica Finocchiaro · Rafael Frongillo

Room 210 #73

Keywords: [ Game Theory and Computational Economics ] [ Convex Optimization ] [ Learning Theory ]


Abstract:

A property or statistic of a distribution is said to be elicitable if it can be expressed as the minimizer of some loss function in expectation. Recent work shows that continuous real-valued properties are elicitable if and only if they are identifiable, meaning the set of distributions with the same property value can be described by linear constraints. From a practical standpoint, one may ask for which such properties do there exist convex loss functions. In this paper, in a finite-outcome setting, we show that in fact every elicitable real-valued property can be elicited by a convex loss function. Our proof is constructive, and leads to convex loss functions for new properties.

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