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Natural language models are often summarized through a high-dimensional set of descriptive metrics including training corpus size, training time, the number of trainable parameters, inference times, and evaluation statistics that assess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Zachary Zhou , Alisha Zachariah , Devin Conathan , Jeffery Kline

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as mathematical models evaluates the technical efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMU) having multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Researchers are interested in applying DEA models in Multi Attribute…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Majid Zerafat Angiz L. , Mohd Kamal Nawawi , Mohammad Ghadiri , Adli Mustafa

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) appears more than just an instrument of measurement. DEA models can be seen as a mathematical structure for democratic voicing within decisional contexts. Such an important aspect of DEA is enhanced through…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Amar Oukil

This paper introduces a new specification for the nonparametric production-frontier based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) when dealing with decision-making units whose economic performances are correlated with those of the neighbors…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-03-29 Julian Ramajo , Miguel A. Marquez , Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems involve the evaluation of alternatives based on various minimization and maximization criteria. Similarly, efficiency evaluation (EA) methods assess decision-making units (DMUs) by analyzing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Fuh-Hwa Franklin Liu , Su-Chuan Shih

We introduce DABstep, a novel benchmark for evaluating AI agents on realistic multi-step data analysis tasks. DABstep comprises over 450 real-world challenges derived from a financial analytics platform, requiring models to combine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Alex Egg , Martin Iglesias Goyanes , Friso Kingma , Andreu Mora , Leandro von Werra , Thomas Wolf

Evaluating the efficiency of organizations and branches within an organization is a challenging issue for managers. Evaluation criteria allow organizations to rank their internal units, identify their position concerning their competitors,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Vahid Kayvanfar , Hamed Baziyad , Shaya Sheikh , Frank Werner

In data envelopment analysis (DEA), the concept of efficiency is examined in either Farrell (DEA) or Pareto senses. In either of these senses, the efficiency status of a decision making unit (DMU) is classified as either weak or strong. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Mahmood Mehdiloozad , Mohammad Bagher Ahmadi , Biresh K. Sahoo

This paper proposes a new method to evaluate Decision Making Units (DMUs) under uncertainty using fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In the proposed multi-objective nonlinear programming methodology both the objective functions and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-26 M. Zerafat Angiz L. , M. K. M. Nawawi , R. Khalid , A. Mustafa , A. Emrouznejad , R. John , G. Kendall

This article presents a Benchmarking methodology to support decision-making for international market selection (IMS). In order to do so, we will be using an output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. This methodology considers…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-10-08 Safa El Kefi

In data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature, the returns to scale (RTS) of an inefficient decision making unit (DMU) is determined at its projected point on the efficient frontier. Under the occurrences of multiple projection points,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Mahmood Mehdiloozad , Biresh K. Sahoo

Dynamic multi-objective optimization (DMOO) has recently attracted increasing interest from both academic researchers and engineering practitioners, as numerous real-world applications that evolve over time can be naturally formulated as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chang Shao , Qi Zhao , Nana Pu , Shi Cheng , Jing Jiang , Yuhui Shi

We propose a novel DEA ranking based on a robust optimization viewpoint: the higher ranking for those DMU's that remain efficient even for larger variations of data and vice versa. This ranking can be computed by solving generalized linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Milan Hladík

Assessing the technical efficiency of a set of observations requires that the associated data composed of inputs and outputs are perfectly known. If this is not the case, then biased estimates will likely be obtained. Data Envelopment…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-21 Diogo Cunha Ferreira , Josè RUi Figueira , Salvatore Greco , Rui Marques

Applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) show that many inefficient units are projected onto the weakly efficient parts of the frontier when efficiency scores are computed. However this fact disagrees with the main concept of the DEA…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Vladimir E. Krivonozhko , Finn R. Førsund , Andrey V. Lychev

Recent advances in probabilistic modelling have led to a large number of simulation-based inference algorithms which do not require numerical evaluation of likelihoods. However, a public benchmark with appropriate performance metrics for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-12 Jan-Matthis Lueckmann , Jan Boelts , David S. Greenberg , Pedro J. Gonçalves , Jakob H. Macke

Empirical and LLM-based research in model-driven engineering increasingly relies on datasets of software models, for instance, to train or evaluate machine learning techniques for modeling support. These datasets have a significant impact…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Philipp-Lorenz Glaser , Lola Burgueño , Dominik Bork

We systematically study cornerstones that must be solved to define an air traffic control benchmarking system based on a Data Envelopment Analysis. Primarily, we examine the appropriate decision-making units, what to consider and what to…

General Economics · Economics 2023-02-16 Thomas Standfuss , Georg Hirte , Michael Schultz , Hartmut Fricke

In this article, the concepts of technical efficiency, efficiency, effectiveness and productivity are illustrated. It is discussed that when firms are not homogenous, the situation is the same as when each factor has a different unit of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Dariush Khezrimotlagh

Measuring Mutual Information (MI) between high-dimensional, continuous, random variables from observed samples has wide theoretical and practical applications. Recent work, MINE (Belghazi et al. 2018), focused on estimating tight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiao Lin , Indranil Sur , Samuel A. Nastase , Ajay Divakaran , Uri Hasson , Mohamed R. Amer