Publications

Formal research outputs

Theses and conference work, most recent first. Code and documentation for each research project live on its own page.

Scholarly outputs

  1. 2023 Master's thesis

    Column generation-based decomposition for large-scale feature selection problems

    Nicolás Acevedo Villena

    Universidad de Chile · Santiago, Chile

    Also presented as a poster at EVIC 2023 and the Workshop in Management Science.

    PDF DOI Repository record Poster Research
    BibTeX 
    @mastersthesis{AcevedoVillena2023,
  author    = {Acevedo Villena, Nicol{\'a}s},
  title     = {{Column generation}-based decomposition for large-scale feature selection problems},
  school    = {Universidad de Chile},
  address   = {Santiago, Chile},
  type      = {{Master's} thesis},
  year      = {2023},
  month     = dec,
  note      = {Also presented as a poster at EVIC 2023 and the Workshop in Management Science.},
  url       = {https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/198750},
  doi       = {10.58011/yyb6-dk92},
  pdf       = {https://repositorio.uchile.cl/bitstream/handle/2250/198750/Column-generation-based-decomposition-for-large-scale-feature-selection-problems.pdf},
  poster    = {/assets/pdf/Poster_MSWorkshop.pdf},
  project   = {feature-selection},
  selected  = {true}
}
  2. 2022 Conference presentation (unpublished)

    On the outlier detection for standardized tests

    Nicolás Acevedo VillenaCharles ThravesMauricio Varas

    XIV Chilean Conference on Operations Research (OPTIMA 2021) · Universidad Católica del Maule · Talca, Chile

    Presented 6–8 March 2022. Not published in proceedings.

    PDF Slides Event page Research
    BibTeX 
    @unpublished{AcevedoVillena2022,
  author    = {Acevedo Villena, Nicol{\'a}s and Thraves, Charles and Varas, Mauricio},
  title     = {On the outlier detection for standardized tests},
  year      = {2022},
  month     = mar,
  booktitle = {XIV Chilean Conference on Operations Research (OPTIMA 2021)},
  organization = {Universidad Cat{\'o}lica del Maule},
  address   = {Talca, Chile},
  note      = {Presented 6--8 March 2022. Not published in proceedings.},
  website   = {https://www.ucm.cl/eventos/xiv-chilean-conference-on-operations-research/},
  pdf       = {/assets/pdf/psu-outliers-tex.pdf},
  slides    = {/assets/pdf/psu-outliers-slides.pdf},
  project   = {standardized-test-outliers},
  selected  = {true}
}

Open research code

Public repositories that document a project's method and validation.

  1. 2024 Research code Ongoing research

    Property assessment

    github.com/nicacevedo/soft-vertical-equity-constrained-mass-appraissal

    Optimization-based predictive modeling for mass appraisal that holds predictive quality and vertical equity in the same objective.

    Repository Research
  2. 2026 Research repository Ongoing public-data modeling

    Data-center systems

    github.com/nicacevedo/data-center-externalities-modeling

    Public-data modeling of data-center resource systems, beginning with a transparent case-study reconstruction.

    Repository Research
  3. 2024 Research software Ongoing research

    First-order methods on GPUs

    github.com/nicacevedo/cuPDLP.jl

    Ongoing research on numerical reliability in GPU-based first-order methods for large-scale optimization.

    Repository Research

Citing this work

Each entry above carries its BibTeX record. The full bibliography is kept as a single .bib file in the site's repository, and is the source this page is built from.