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This research introduces SLP-ProbHard, a framework that embeds structural constraints directly into the latent space of probabilistic models rather than applying them as post-hoc corrections. By parameterizing predictions via feasible maps and structural latent laws, the method reduces stochastic dimensionality while maintaining exact constraint satisfaction across affine, ordering, and nonlinear manifolds. The study demonstrates improved efficiency in coordinate usage without compromising calibration or predictive accuracy compared to existing hard-constraint approaches.
SLP-ProbHard: Probabilistic Hard-Constrained Learning via Structural Latent Parameterization
arXiv:2609.33515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many probabilistic predictors must satisfy exact structure in every stochastic realization, yet common hard-constraint approaches form predictions in ambient coordinates and then correct or project them. We introduce SLP-ProbHard, a cross-family, representation-centered framework for probabilistic hard-constrained learning when explicit structural parameterizations are available. Its core object, a Structural Feasible Latent Parameterization (SFLP), combines a structural latent law $Z \sim P^Z_\theta(\cdot\mid x)$ with a feasible map $Y=h_\phi(x,Z)$ that satisfies the constraint for every latent realization. Together these components define the predictive law itself, including its support and boundary probabilities, rather than serving as a final feasibility wrapper. We study how feasible coordinates and maps affect stochastic dimension, dependence, calibration, expressiveness, and computation. Experiments use Gaussian latent laws and fixed geometry-derived maps across affine equalities, ordering and simplex constraints, nonlinear manifolds, and three structural representations of seven-basin hydrological flow-duration-curve (FDC) data. In an official-source affine comparison with ProbHardE2E/DPPL, both methods achieve zero practical constraint violations. SLP-ProbHard uses 8 instead of 11 stochastic coordinates and improves MSE/MAE, while DPPL yields better marginal CRPS and closer-to-nominal coverage; a paired test detects no Energy Score difference across ten seeds. Real-world affine and nonlinear FDC representations reduce 13 to 7 and 14 to 8 ambient versus computational coordinates, respectively. Exact feasibility alone thus does not determine a predictive law, motivating direct structural generation when meaningful feasible coordinates are available.
Abstract:Many probabilistic predictors must satisfy exact structure in every stochastic realization, yet common hard-constraint approaches form predictions in ambient coordinates and then correct or project them. We introduce SLP-ProbHard, a cross-family, representation-centered framework for probabilistic hard-constrained learning when explicit structural parameterizations are available. Its core object, a Structural Feasible Latent Parameterization (SFLP), combines a structural latent law $Z \sim P^Z_\theta(\cdot\mid x)$ with a feasible map $Y=h_\phi(x,Z)$ that satisfies the constraint for every latent realization. Together these components define the predictive law itself, including its support and boundary probabilities, rather than serving as a final feasibility wrapper. We study how feasible coordinates and maps affect stochastic dimension, dependence, calibration, expressiveness, and computation. Experiments use Gaussian latent laws and fixed geometry-derived maps across affine equalities, ordering and simplex constraints, nonlinear manifolds, and three structural representations of seven-basin hydrological flow-duration-curve (FDC) data. In an official-source affine comparison with ProbHardE2E/DPPL, both methods achieve zero practical constraint violations. SLP-ProbHard uses 8 instead of 11 stochastic coordinates and improves MSE/MAE, while DPPL yields better marginal CRPS and closer-to-nominal coverage; a paired test detects no Energy Score difference across ten seeds. Real-world affine and nonlinear FDC representations reduce 13 to 7 and 14 to 8 ambient versus computational coordinates, respectively. Exact feasibility alone thus does not determine a predictive law, motivating direct structural generation when meaningful feasible coordinates are available.
44 pages, including appendices. Preprint
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
arXiv:2609.33515 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2609.33515v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.33515 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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