Smooth Nested Simulation: Bridging Cubic and Square Root Convergence Rates in High Dimensions

Author:

Wang Wenjia1ORCID,Wang Yanyuan2,Zhang Xiaowei2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Data Science and Analytics Thrust, Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511400, China;

2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Abstract

Nested simulation concerns estimating functionals of a conditional expectation via simulation. In this paper, we propose a new method based on kernel ridge regression to exploit the smoothness of the conditional expectation as a function of the multidimensional conditioning variable. Asymptotic analysis shows that the proposed method can effectively alleviate the curse of dimensionality on the convergence rate as the simulation budget increases, provided that the conditional expectation is sufficiently smooth. The smoothness bridges the gap between the cubic root convergence rate (that is, the optimal rate for the standard nested simulation) and the square root convergence rate (that is, the canonical rate for the standard Monte Carlo simulation). We demonstrate the performance of the proposed method via numerical examples from portfolio risk management and input uncertainty quantification. This paper was accepted by Baris Ata, stochastic models and simulation. Funding: The authors acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant NSFC 12101149] and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council [Grants GRF 17201520 and GRF 17206821]. Supplemental Material: The e-companion and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.00204 .

Publisher

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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