Football Model, Martingale and Entropic Optimal Transport

Nicolas Juillet (U of Haute-Alsace)

Feb 10. 2026, 13:40 — 14:15

We contribute to the football model for tournaments and pairwise comparison introduced by Aldous and Kolesnik. We provide two algorithms inspired by variants of the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem that permit to calibrates the model parameters.

This is a joint work with Gaoyue Guo (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and Wenpin Tan (Columbia University, USA).

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Associated Event:
Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop)
Organizer(s):
Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zurich)
Julio Backhoff (U of Vienna)
Daniel Bartl (U of Vienna)
Mathias Beiglböck (U of Vienna)
Sigrid Källblad (KTH Stockholm)
Walter Schachermayer (U of Vienna)