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20052026
most citedOperational Research: Methods and Applications

120 citations

59 papers

econ.EM2026★ 5 cited

Do designated market makers provide liquidity during downward extreme price movements?

Mario Bellia, Kim Christensen, Aleksey Kolokolov +2

We study the trading activity of designated market makers (DMMs) in electronic markets using a unique dataset with audit-trail information on trader classification. DMMs may either…

econ.EM2025

Statistical Inference in Large Multi-way Networks

Lucas Resende, Guillaume Lecué, Lionel Wilner +1

We propose the Polyads estimator, a new method to estimate structural parameters in weighted multi-way networks while controlling for rich, arbitrary structures of fixed effects. T…

stat.ME2025

Multivariate Discrete Generalized Pareto Distributions: Theory, Simulation, and Applications to Dry spells

Samira Aka, Marie Kratz, Philippe Naveau

This article extends the multivariate extreme value theory (MEVT) to discrete settings, focusing on the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) as a foundational tool. The purpose of…

math.ST2025

Low-Rank Graphon Estimation: Theory and Applications to Graphon Games

Olga Klopp, Fedor Noskov

We study low-rank estimation of an unknown sparse graphon from sampled network data under operator-norm loss, motivated by targeted interventions in graphon games. Starting from th…

math.ST2024

On importance sampling and independent Metropolis-Hastings with an unbounded weight function

George Deligiannidis, Pierre E. Jacob, El Mahdi Khribch +1

Importance sampling and independent Metropolis-Hastings are among the fundamental building blocks of Monte Carlo methods. Both require a proposal distribution that globally approxi…

stat.ML2024

Minimax optimality of deep neural networks on dependent data via PAC-Bayes bounds

Pierre Alquier, William Kengne

In a groundbreaking work, Schmidt-Hieber (2020) proved the minimax optimality of deep neural networks with ReLu activation for least-square regression estimation over a large class…

stat.ML2024

Learning with Importance Weighted Variational Inference

Kamélia Daudel, François Roueff

Several variational bounds involving importance weighting ideas generalize the Evidence Lower BOund (ELBO) for marginal likelihood optimization, such as the Importance-weighted Aut…

math.OC2024

The Multi-Commodity Flow Problem with Outsourcing Decisions

Elena Fernandez, Ivana Ljubic, Nicolas Zerega

We address a new prize-collecting problem of routing commodities in a given network with hub and non-hub nodes, in which the service of the non-hub nodes will be outsourced to thir…

math.OC2024★ 4 cited

Bilevel optimization with sustainability perspective: A survey on applications

Giulia Caselli, Manuel Iori, Ivana Ljubić

Bilevel optimization, a well-established field for modeling hierarchical decision-making problems, has recently intersected with sustainability studies and practices, resulting in…

stat.ML2024

Logarithmic Smoothing for Pessimistic Off-Policy Evaluation, Selection and Learning

Otmane Sakhi, Imad Aouali, Pierre Alquier +1

This work investigates the offline formulation of the contextual bandit problem, where the goal is to leverage past interactions collected under a behavior policy to evaluate, sele…

math.OC2024★ 4 cited

Aircraft Conflict Resolution: A Benchmark Generator

Mercedes Pelegrin, Martina Cerulli

Aircraft conflict resolution is one of the major tasks of computer-aided air traffic management and represents a challenging optimization problem. Many models and methods have been…

stat.ME2024

One-Bit Total Variation Denoising over Networks with Applications to Partially Observed Epidemics

Claire Donnat, Olga Klopp, Nicolas Verzelen

This paper introduces a novel approach for epidemic nowcasting and forecasting over networks using total variation (TV) denoising, a method inspired by classical signal processing…

math.ST2024

Generalized multi-view model: Adaptive density estimation under low-rank constraints

Julien Chhor, Olga Klopp, Alexandre Tsybakov

We study the problem of bivariate discrete or continuous probability density estimation under low-rank constraints.For discrete distributions, we assume that the two-dimensional ar…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Alleviating the quantum Big- problem

Edoardo Alessandroni, Sergi Ramos-Calderer, Ingo Roth +2

A major obstacle for quantum optimizers is the reformulation of constraints as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO). Current QUBO translators exaggerate the weight…

econ.EM2023

What Does it Take to Control Global Temperatures? A toolbox for testing and estimating the impact of economic policies on climate

Guillaume Chevillon, Takamitsu Kurita

This paper tests the feasibility and estimates the cost of climate control through economic policies. It provides a toolbox for a statistical historical assessment of a Stochastic…

math.OC2023

A Decomposition Approach to Last Mile Delivery Using Public Transportation Systems

Minakshi Punam Mandal, Claudia Archetti

This study explores the potential of using public transportation systems for freight delivery, where we intend to utilize the spare capacities of public vehicles like buses, trams,…

math.ST2023★ 1 cited

Extremal behaviour and convergence rates for sample--based geometric quantiles and half space depths

Sibsankar Singha, Marie Kratz, Sreekar Vadlamani

We consider the empirical versions of geometric quantile and halfspace depth, and study their extremal behaviour as a function of the sample size. The objective of this study is to…

math.ST2023

Change point detection in low-rank VAR processes

Farida Enikeeva, Olga Klopp, Mathilde Rousselot

Vector autoregressive (VAR) models are widely used in multivariate time series analysis for describing the short-time dynamics of the data. The reduced-rank VAR models are of parti…

stat.ME2023

Efficient Estimation in Extreme Value Regression Models of Hedge Fund Tail Risks

Julien Hambuckers, Marie Kratz, Antoine Usseglio-Carleve

We introduce a method to estimate simultaneously the tail and the threshold parameters of an extreme value regression model. This standard model finds its use in finance to assess…

math.OC2023★ 13 cited

A bilevel approach for compensation and routing decisions in last-mile delivery

Martina Cerulli, Claudia Archetti, Elena Fernandez +1

In last-mile delivery logistics, peer-to-peer logistic platforms play an important role in connecting senders, customers, and independent carriers to fulfill delivery requests. Sin…

math.OC2023★ 120 cited

Operational Research: Methods and Applications

Fotios Petropoulos, Gilbert Laporte, Emel Aktas +79

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This…

stat.ML2023★ 3 cited

Bayes meets Bernstein at the Meta Level: an Analysis of Fast Rates in Meta-Learning with PAC-Bayes

Charles Riou, Pierre Alquier, Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif

Bernstein's condition is a key assumption that guarantees fast rates in machine learning. For example, the Gibbs algorithm with prior has an excess risk in , as oppos…

cs.CR2023

Managing Cyber Risk, a Science in the Making

Michel Dacorogna, Marie Kratz

Not a day goes by without news about a cyber attack. Fear spreads out and lots of wrong ideas circulate. This survey aims at showing how all these uncertainties about cyber can be…

math.ST2023

On the relation between extremal dependence and concomitants

Amir Khorrami Chokami, Marie Kratz

The study of concomitants has recently met a renewed interest due to its applications in selection procedures. For instance, concomitants are used in ranked-set sampling, to achiev…