Publication

Corporate structure optimisation for multinational companies

From Trees to Barcodes and Back Again: A Combinatorial, Probabilistic and Geometric Study of a Topological Inverse Problem

In this thesis, we investigate the inverse problem of trees and barcodes from a combinatorial, geometric, probabilistic and statistical point of view. Computing the persistent homology of a merge tree yields a barcode B. Reconstructing a tree from B invol ...

EPFL2022

Tree in Tree: from Decision trees to Decision Graphs

Mahsa Shoaran, Bingzhao Zhu

Decision trees have been widely used as classifiers in many machine learning applications thanks to their lightweight and interpretable decision process. This paper introduces Tree in Tree decision graph (TnT), a framework that extends the conventional dec ...

Curran Associates, Inc, (NIPS '21: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)2021

Essays in Corporate Finance

Thomas Antonius Geelen

In this thesis I study how firms choose their optimal debt maturity. The recent financial crisis illustrated why debt maturity is an important determinant of firmsâ capital structure and it also renewed economistsâ interest in this topic, see for examp ...

EPFL2018

Automated Reconstruction of Evolving Curvilinear Tree Structures

Przemyslaw Rafal Glowacki

Curvilinear networks are prevalent in nature and span many different scales, ranging from micron-scale neural structures in the brain to petameter-scale dark-matter arbors binding massive galaxy clusters. Reliably reconstructing them in an automated fashio ...

EPFL2016

RRB Vector: A Practical General Purpose Immutable Sequence

Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf, Nicolas Alexander Stucki, Vlad Ureche

State-of-the-art immutable collections have wildly differing performance characteristics across their operations, often forcing programmers to choose different collection implementations for each task. Thus, changes to the program can invalidate the choice ...

ACM2015

Scaling Similarity Joins over Tree-Structured Data

Given a large collection of tree-structured objects (e.g., XML documents), the similarity join finds the pairs of objects that are similar to each other, based on a similarity threshold and a tree edit distance measure. The state-of-the-art similarity join ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

RUBIK: Efficient Threshold Queries on Massive Time Series

Anastasia Ailamaki, Thomas Heinis, Farhan Tauheed, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou

An increasing number of applications from finance, meteorology, science and others are producing time series as output. The analysis of the vast amount of time series is key to understand the phenomena studied, particularly in the simulation sciences, wher ...

2015

Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance

Stefano Colonnello

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines whether the availability of credit default swaps (CDS) has consequences for creditor governance. CDSs offer creditors the opportunity to hedge credit risk and may impact their willing ...

EPFL2015

Distributed Rate Allocation in Inter-Session Network Coding

Pascal Frossard, Nikolaos Thomos, Eirina Bourtsoulatze

In this work, we propose a distributed rate allocation algorithm that minimizes the average decoding delay for multimedia clients in inter-session network coding systems. We consider a scenario where the users are organized in a mesh network and each user ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Dendritic tree extraction from noisy maximum intensity projection images in C-elegans

Pascal Fua, Raphael Sznitman, Josué Sznitman

Background: Maximum Intensity Projections (MIP) of neuronal dendritic trees obtained from confocal microscopy are frequently used to study the relationship between tree morphology and mechanosensory function in the model organism C. elegans. Extracting den ...

Biomed Central Ltd2014