A differentiable model of supply-chain shocks

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Hauptverfasser: Hamid, Saad, Moran, José, Mungo, Luca, Quera-Bofarull, Arnau, Towers, Sebastian
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author Hamid, Saad
Moran, José
Mungo, Luca
Quera-Bofarull, Arnau
Towers, Sebastian
author_facet Hamid, Saad
Moran, José
Mungo, Luca
Quera-Bofarull, Arnau
Towers, Sebastian
contents Modelling how shocks propagate in supply chains is an increasingly important challenge in economics. Its relevance has been highlighted in recent years by events such as Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Agent-based models (ABMs) are a promising approach for this problem. However, calibrating them is hard. We show empirically that it is possible to achieve speed ups of over 3 orders of magnitude when calibrating ABMs of supply networks by running them on GPUs and using automatic differentiation, compared to non-differentiable baselines. This opens the door to scaling ABMs to model the whole global supply network.
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spellingShingle A differentiable model of supply-chain shocks
Hamid, Saad
Moran, José
Mungo, Luca
Quera-Bofarull, Arnau
Towers, Sebastian
Physics and Society
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
Modelling how shocks propagate in supply chains is an increasingly important challenge in economics. Its relevance has been highlighted in recent years by events such as Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Agent-based models (ABMs) are a promising approach for this problem. However, calibrating them is hard. We show empirically that it is possible to achieve speed ups of over 3 orders of magnitude when calibrating ABMs of supply networks by running them on GPUs and using automatic differentiation, compared to non-differentiable baselines. This opens the door to scaling ABMs to model the whole global supply network.
title A differentiable model of supply-chain shocks
topic Physics and Society
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05231