arxivcs.LG2026-07-01
Decision-focused Sparse Tangent Portfolio Optimization
Haeun Jeon, Seunghoon Choi, Hyunglip Bae, Yongjae Lee, Woo Chang Kim
Sparse tangent portfolio optimization aims to learn an interpretable, low-cardinality portfolio in the tangency direction of the mean-variance frontier. However, the associated cardinality-constrained formulation is NP-hard, and standard predict-then-optimize pipelines often misa…