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most citedA Scalable Algorithm For Sparse Portfolio Selection

57 citations · 135 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

math.OC2026

A Shrinkage Path Heuristic for Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization

Lingjun Meng, Ryan Cory-Wright, Wolfram Wiesemann

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is a versatile and widely adopted framework for decision-making under uncertainty, yet its standard deterministic reformulati…

stat.ML2026

msPCA: An R Package for Sparse PCA with Multiple Components

Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet

We present msPCA: an open-source R package for sparse principal component analysis with multiple components. It implements an alternating maximization algorithm to generate a set o…

math.OC2026

Compact Lifted Relaxations for Low-Rank Optimization

Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet

We develop tractable convex relaxations for rank-constrained quadratic optimization problems over matrices, a setting for which tractable relaxations are typically onl…

math.OC2026

Pricing Discrete and Nonlinear Markets With Semidefinite Relaxations

Cheng Guo, Lauren Henderson, Ryan Cory-Wright +1

Nonconvexities in markets with discrete decisions and nonlinear constraints make efficient pricing challenging, often necessitating subsidies. A prime example is the unit commitmen…

cs.AI2025

Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Laws Derived by AI Systems and Canonical Knowledge via Abductive Inference with AI-Noether

Karan Srivastava, Sanjeeb Dash, Ryan Cory-Wright +3

Advances in AI have shown great potential in contributing to the acceleration of scientific discovery. Symbolic regression can fit interpretable models to data, but these models ar…

cs.AI2025

The Need for Verification in AI-Driven Scientific Discovery

Cristina Cornelio, Takuya Ito, Ryan Cory-Wright +2

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the practice of science. Machine learning and large language models (LLMs) can generate hypotheses at a scale and speed far exceeding t…

math.OC2025★ 2 cited

Stability Regularized Cross-Validation

Ryan Cory-Wright, Andrés Gómez

We revisit the problem of ensuring strong test set performance via cross-validation, and propose a nested k-fold cross-validation scheme that selects hyperparameters by minimizing…

math.OC2025

Improved Approximation Algorithms for Orthogonally Constrained Problems Using Semidefinite Optimization

Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic…

cs.AI2023★ 20 cited

Evolving Scientific Discovery by Unifying Data and Background Knowledge with AI Hilbert

Ryan Cory-Wright, Cristina Cornelio, Sanjeeb Dash +2

The discovery of scientific formulae that parsimoniously explain natural phenomena and align with existing background theory is a key goal in science. Historically, scientists have…

math.OC2023

Efficient Cross-Validation for Sparse Linear Regression

Ryan Cory-Wright, Andrés Gómez

Given a high-dimensional covariate matrix and a response vector, ridge-regularized sparse linear regression selects a subset of features that explains the relationship between cova…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Disjunctive Branch-and-Bound for Certifiably Optimal Low-Rank Matrix Completion

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Sean Lo +1

Low-rank matrix completion consists of computing a matrix of minimal complexity that recovers a given set of observations as accurately as possible. Unfortunately, existing methods…

math.OC2023★ 6 cited

A Stochastic Benders Decomposition Scheme for Large-Scale Stochastic Network Design

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet +1

Network design problems involve constructing edges in a transportation or supply chain network to minimize construction and daily operational costs. We study a stochastic version w…

math.OC2022★ 8 cited

Sparse PCA With Multiple Components

Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a cardinal technique for obtaining combinations of features, or principal components (PCs), that explain the variance of high-dimensio…

math.OC2022

Decarbonizing OCP

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Vassilis Digalakis

We present our collaboration with the OCP Group, one of the world's largest producers of phosphate and phosphate-based products, to reduce OCP's carbon emissions significantly. We…

stat.ML2021★ 4 cited

Sparse Plus Low Rank Matrix Decomposition: A Discrete Optimization Approach

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Nicholas A. G. Johnson

We study the Sparse Plus Low-Rank decomposition problem (SLR), which is the problem of decomposing a corrupted data matrix into a sparse matrix of perturbations plus a low-rank mat…

math.OC2021★ 8 cited

A new perspective on low-rank optimization

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet

A key question in many low-rank problems throughout optimization, machine learning, and statistics is to characterize the convex hulls of simple low-rank sets and judiciously apply…

math.OC2019★ 9 cited

On Polyhedral and Second-Order Cone Decompositions of Semidefinite Optimization Problems

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright

We study a cutting-plane method for semidefinite optimization problems (SDOs), and supply a proof of the method's convergence, under a boundedness assumption. By relating the metho…

math.OC2019★ 11 cited

A unified approach to mixed-integer optimization problems with logical constraints

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Jean Pauphilet

We propose a unified framework to address a family of classical mixed-integer optimization problems with logically constrained decision variables, including network design, facilit…

math.OC2018★ 57 cited

A Scalable Algorithm For Sparse Portfolio Selection

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright

The sparse portfolio selection problem is one of the most famous and frequently-studied problems in the optimization and financial economics literatures. In a universe of risky ass…

math.OC2018★ 9 cited

On stochastic auctions in risk-averse electricity markets with uncertain supply

Ryan Cory-Wright, Golbon Zakeri

This paper studies risk in a stochastic auction which facilitates the integration of renewable generation in electricity markets. We model market participants who are risk averse a…