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Algorithms for Approximate Minimization of the Difference Between Submodular Functions, with Applications [PDF]
, 2012 We extend the work of Narasimhan and Bilmes [30] for minimizing set functions representable as a difference between submodular functions. Similar to [30], our new algorithms are guaranteed to monotonically reduce the objective function at every step.
Bilmes, Jeff, Iyer, Rishabh
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Data and Competition: A Simple Framework
The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 494-510, Winter 2025.ABSTRACT Does enhanced access to data foster or hinder competition among firms? Using a competition‐in‐utility framework that encompasses many situations where firms use data, we model data as a revenue‐shifter and identify two opposite effects: a mark‐up effect according to which data induces firms to compete harder, and a surplus‐extraction effect ...
Alexandre de Cornière, Greg Taylor
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Multivariate Incomplete Information in the Mixture Model of Contests
The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 607-624, Winter 2025.ABSTRACT A general mixture model of contests is introduced, combining stochastic performance and multivariate incomplete information. Performance is determined by a mixture distribution with endogenous weights on a good and bad distribution, respectively.
René Kirkegaard
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Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 1971-1998, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study reports the results of a systematic literature review on auctions mechanism. Auctions are a very popular practice employed in many fields but does not exist a research that investigates the use of auctions under a cross‐disciplinary approach. This work is focused on analyzing which are the areas where auctions are mostly adopted and
Alberto Michele Felicetti +3 more
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Discretised sum‐product theorems by Shannon‐type inequalities
Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 112, Issue 6, December 2025.Abstract By making use of arithmetic information inequalities, we give a strong quantitative bound for the discretised ring theorem. In particular, we show that if A⊂[1,2]$A \subset [1,2]$ is a (δ,σ)$(\delta,\sigma)$‐set, with |A|=δ−σ$|A| = \delta ^{-\sigma }$, then A+A$A+A$ or AA$AA$ has δ$\delta$‐covering number at least δ−c|A|$\delta ^{-c}|A|$ for ...
András Máthé, William O'Regan
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Does Twin Transition Facilitate Exporting? The Case of Logistics Innovation
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 7, Page 8194-8212, November 2025.ABSTRACT Firms need to overcome two hurdles to enter foreign markets: deciding whether to export and the intensity of their export sales. Although logistics plays a crucial role in exporting, the link between logistics innovation and exporting remains unexplored.
Areti Gkypali +2 more
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Financial Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 1483-1503, November 2025.ABSTRACT We study the target return strategy (TRS), which exits the market once the return reaches a preset target. We show that the holding‐period return (HPR) cannot mean‐variance dominate TRS, but TRS can mean‐variance dominate HPR. We theoretically analyze TRS and quantitatively illustrate that training targets by a mean‐variance utility ...
Ying Xue, Zheng Wen, Xu Jiang
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The Maximum Traveling Salesman Problem with Submodular Rewards [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper, we look at the problem of finding the tour of maximum reward on an undirected graph where the reward is a submodular function, that has a curvature of $\kappa$, of the edges in the tour. This problem is known to be NP-hard.
Jawaid Stephen, L. Smith, Syed Talha
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A note on Laplacian bounds, deformation properties, and isoperimetric sets in metric measure spaces
Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 112, Issue 5, November 2025.Abstract In the setting of length PI spaces satisfying a suitable deformation property, it is known that each isoperimetric set has an open representative. In this paper, we construct an example of a length PI space (without the deformation property) where an isoperimetric set does not have any representative whose topological interior is nonempty ...
Enrico Pasqualetto, Tapio Rajala
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Maximizing General Set Functions by Submodular Decomposition
, 2009 We present a branch and bound method for maximizing an arbitrary set function h mapping 2^V to R. By decomposing h as f-g, where f is a submodular function and g is the cut function of a (simple, undirected) graph G with vertex set V, our original problem is reduced to a sequence of submodular maximization problems.
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