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DistrictNet: Decision-aware learning for geographical districting
Cheikh Ahmed, Alexandre Forel, Axel Parmentier +1
Districting is a complex combinatorial problem that consists in partitioning a geographical area into small districts. In logistics, it is a major strategic decision determining op…
The Differentiable Feasibility Pump
Matteo Cacciola, Alexandre Forel, Antonio Frangioni +1
Although nearly 20 years have passed since its conception, the feasibility pump algorithm remains a widely used heuristic to find feasible primal solutions to mixed-integer linear…
Free Lunch in the Forest: Functionally-Identical Pruning of Boosted Tree Ensembles
Youssouf Emine, Alexandre Forel, Idriss Malek +1
Tree ensembles, including boosting methods, are highly effective and widely used for tabular data. However, large ensembles lack interpretability and require longer inference times…
CF-OPT: Counterfactual Explanations for Structured Prediction
Germain Vivier-Ardisson, Alexandre Forel, Axel Parmentier +1
Optimization layers in deep neural networks have enjoyed a growing popularity in structured learning, improving the state of the art on a variety of applications. Yet, these pipeli…