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most citedPrediction of hierarchical time series using structured regularization and its application to artificial neural networks

15 citations · 25 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

math.OC2026

Distributionally robust optimization for recommendation selection

Tomoya Yanagi, Shunnosuke Ikeda, Ken Kobayashi +1

Recommender systems play an essential role in online services by providing personalized item lists to support users' decision-making processes. While collaborative filtering method…

cs.LG2025

Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting with Robust Reconciliation

Shuhei Aikawa, Aru Suzuki, Kei Yoshitake +4

This paper focuses on forecasting hierarchical time-series data, where each higher-level observation equals the sum of its corresponding lower-level time series. In such contexts,…

cs.LG2024

Balancing Immediate Revenue and Future Off-Policy Evaluation in Coupon Allocation

Naoki Nishimura, Ken Kobayashi, Kazuhide Nakata

Coupon allocation drives customer purchases and boosts revenue. However, it presents a fundamental trade-off between exploiting the current optimal policy to maximize immediate rev…

cs.LG2024

Learning Decision Trees and Forests with Algorithmic Recourse

Kentaro Kanamori, Takuya Takagi, Ken Kobayashi +1

This paper proposes a new algorithm for learning accurate tree-based models while ensuring the existence of recourse actions. Algorithmic Recourse (AR) aims to provide a recourse a…

math.OC2023

Inverse-Optimization-Based Uncertainty Set for Robust Linear Optimization

Ayaka Ueta, Mirai Tanaka, Ken Kobayashi +1

We consider solving linear optimization (LO) problems with uncertain objective coefficients. For such problems, we often employ robust optimization (RO) approaches by introducing a…

cs.IR2023

An IPW-based Unbiased Ranking Metric in Two-sided Markets

Keisho Oh, Naoki Nishimura, Minje Sung +2

In modern recommendation systems, unbiased learning-to-rank (LTR) is crucial for prioritizing items from biased implicit user feedback, such as click data. Several techniques, such…

cs.LG2023

Algorithmic Recourse with Missing Values

Kentaro Kanamori, Takuya Takagi, Ken Kobayashi +1

This paper proposes a new framework of algorithmic recourse (AR) that works even in the presence of missing values. AR aims to provide a recourse action for altering the undesired…

math.OC2022★ 1 cited

Bézier Flow: a Surface-wise Gradient Descent Method for Multi-objective Optimization

Akiyoshi Sannai, Yasunari Hikima, Ken Kobayashi +2

In this paper, we propose a strategy to construct a multi-objective optimization algorithm from a single-objective optimization algorithm by using the Bézier simplex model. Also, w…

math.OC2022★ 3 cited

A Two-phase Framework with a Bézier Simplex-based Interpolation Method for Computationally Expensive Multi-objective Optimization

Ryoji Tanabe, Youhei Akimoto, Ken Kobayashi +3

This paper proposes a two-phase framework with a Bézier simplex-based interpolation method (TPB) for computationally expensive multi-objective optimization. The first phase in TPB…

math.OC2021★ 3 cited

Cardinality-constrained Distributionally Robust Portfolio Optimization

Ken Kobayashi, Yuichi Takano, Kazuhide Nakata

This paper studies a distributionally robust portfolio optimization model with a cardinality constraint for limiting the number of invested assets. We formulate this model as a mix…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

Prediction of hierarchical time series using structured regularization and its application to artificial neural networks

Tomokaze Shiratori, Ken Kobayashi, Yuichi Takano

This paper discusses the prediction of hierarchical time series, where each upper-level time series is calculated by summing appropriate lower-level time series. Forecasts for such…

math.OC2020★ 2 cited

Bilevel Cutting-plane Algorithm for Solving Cardinality-constrained Mean-CVaR Portfolio Optimization Problems

Ken Kobayashi, Yuichi Takano, Kazuhide Nakata

This paper studies mean-risk portfolio optimization models using the conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) as a risk measure. We also employ a cardinality constraint for limiting the nu…

cs.LG2020

BRPO: Batch Residual Policy Optimization

Sungryull Sohn, Yinlam Chow, Jayden Ooi +4

In batch reinforcement learning (RL), one often constrains a learned policy to be close to the behavior (data-generating) policy, e.g., by constraining the learned action distribut…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Asymptotic Risk of Bezier Simplex Fitting

Akinori Tanaka, Akiyoshi Sannai, Ken Kobayashi +1

The Bezier simplex fitting is a novel data modeling technique which exploits geometric structures of data to approximate the Pareto front of multi-objective optimization problems.…

math.OC2018

Bezier Simplex Fitting: Describing Pareto Fronts of Simplicial Problems with Small Samples in Multi-objective Optimization

Ken Kobayashi, Naoki Hamada, Akiyoshi Sannai +3

Multi-objective optimization problems require simultaneously optimizing two or more objective functions. Many studies have reported that the solution set of an M-objective optimiza…