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

Paul-Henri Djoko (2026), Master 1, on reinforcement learning in game theory.
Bruno Galibert (2025), Master 1, on quantum circuit simplification.
Qui Loc Phan (2024), Master 1, on quantum circuit design and combinatorial optimization.

Publications, proceedings & preprints

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

————— Publications

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

————— Proceedings

Scaling QAOA: transferring optimal adiabatic schedules from small-scale to large-scale variational circuits
Ugo Nzongani, Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Arthur Braida
2026 International Conference on Quantum Control, Computing and Learning (qCCL) • 2026 • 6 pages • arXiv.2602.14986

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

————— Preprints

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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Collaborators