A Unified Perspective of Surrogates for Decision Focused Learning

April 23, 2026 Join Zoom Webinar Passcode: 345051 Webinar ID: 964 8206 8919 Abstract One of the key challenges in decision-focused learning is that for many problems of interest (like combinatorial optimization with an uncertain objective), the decision-loss is ill-behaved, piecewise constant, and NP-Hard to optimize. Consequently, numerous authors have proposed various surrogate loss functions.