Publications, revisions, and current work

This page emphasizes both formal citation and practical contribution. Each entry includes a short explanation of why the work matters for interpretable and cost-sensitive decision making.

Published

Diverse ensemble cost-sensitive logistic regression

Yang, B., Van Aelst, S., & Verdonck, T.

2026

European Journal of Operational Research, 328(1), 282-294

We propose a cost-sensitive ensemble of logistic regressions that minimizes expected decision cost while retaining the interpretability of logistic regression coefficients.

Why it matters. It shows that better decision performance does not have to come from abandoning interpretability; the gain can come from diversity-aware ensemble design under a cost-sensitive objective.

Under Revision

Ensemble cost-sensitive logistic regression models with mixed-type penalty

Yang, B., Van Aelst, S., & Verdonck, T.

2026

Under revision at Information Sciences (JCR Q1 / CAS Q1 Top)

This work extends ensemble cost-sensitive logistic regression to real-world datasets with nominal, ordinal, and continuous predictors through a mixed-type regularization penalty.

Why it matters. It connects interpretability with structured feature handling, making cost-sensitive modeling more usable on practical mixed-type business data.

Work in Progress

Sparse Prescriptive Learning

Bing Yang

2026

Work in progress

This project introduces sparse regularization into prescriptive analytics to select a small set of representative prototypes from historical data.

Why it matters. It aims to make data-driven prescriptions faster, more interpretable, and closer to how people justify decisions through representative cases.