My work belongs to three overlapping fields: quantum information and algorithms, algebraic combinatorics, and game theory. I participate in the HQI initiative , from the French national quantum plan, which funds my postdoc together with the Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard .

Areas of interest Supervision Publications Communication Collaborators

Areas of interest

Currently, I am working on

Supervision

Publications, proceedings & preprints

For an updated list of articles, see my arXiv page .

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The algebraic structures of social organizations: the operad of cooperative games
Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Victor Roca i Lucio
Algebraic Combinatorics , 2026 • 49 pages • arXiv.2507.01969

Variational quantum algorithms for permutation-based combinatorial problems: Optimal ansatz generation with applications to quadratic assignment problems and beyond
Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Andrea Simonetto, Sourour Elloumi
Quantum 10, p. 1998, 2026 • 36 pages • arXiv.2509.05981v3

Attraction of the core and the cohesion flow
Dylan Laplace Mermoud
Theory and Decision 99, pp. 377-392, 2025 • 15 pages • arXiv.2507.02918

Minimal balanced collections and their application to core stability and other topics of game theory
Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Michel Grabich, Peter Sudhölter
Discrete Applied Mathematics 341, pp. 60-81, 2023 • 32 pages • arXiv.2507.05898

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Combinatorics on Social Configurations
Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Pierre Popoli
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 403, pp. 128-133, 2024 • 6 pages • arXiv.2406.14588

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Scaling QAOA: transferring optimal adiabatic schedules from small-scale to large-scale variational circuits
Ugo Nzongani, Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Arthur Braida
arXiv preprint arXiv.2602.14986 (Under review) • 2026 • 6 pages

On the closest balanced game
Pedro García-Segador, Michel Grabisch, Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Pedro Miranda
arXiv preprint arXiv.2601.15318 (Under review) • 2025 • 31 pages

Sampled-Based Guided Quantum Walk: Non-variational quantum algorithm for combinatorial optimization
Ugo Nzongani, Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Andrea Simonetto
arXiv preprint arXiv.2509.15138 (Revised and resubmitted) • 2025 • 27 pages

Diffusion in dynamic networks with time-varying inputs to allocate responsibility
Rosa van den Ende, Dylan Laplace Mermoud
arXiv preprint arXiv.2301.02728 • 2025 • 25 pages

Projection onto the core: An optimal reallocation to correct market failure
Dylan Laplace Mermoud
arXiv preprint arXiv.2411.11810 • 2024 • 30 pages

On the formation of steady coalitions
Dylan Laplace Mermoud
arXiv preprint arXiv.2410.05087 • 2024 • 21 pages

————— Doctoral thesis

Geometry of Set Functions in Game Theory: Combinatorial and Computational Aspects
  Supervised by Michel Grabisch and Peter Sudhölter,
  Reviewed by Marina Nuñez and Tamas Solymosi,
  Chaired by Philippe Bich,
  Additional jury members: Jean-Jacques Herings and Philippe Solal.
  Link: arXiv preprint arXiv.2301.02950

Communications

[Q]: quantum talk, [GT]: game theory talk, [AC]: algebraic combinatorics talk

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