Market structure changed dramatically in US during COVID-19, mirroring 2008 crisis.
problem Impact of COVID-19 on market structure.
method Observation of market structure changes during the outbreak.
result Market structure resembles 2008 crisis but may evolve into a new structure.
TLRF improves timely COVID-19 outbreak detection with small sample size counties.
problem Balancing accuracy and speed in estimating COVID-19 case growth rates.
method Transfer Learning Random Forest (TLRF) framework for growth rate estimation.
result TLRF outperforms existing methods in predicting case growth rates and timely outbreak detection.
Study uses social media to analyze COVID-19 impact.
problem Understanding the global impact of COVID-19.
method Machine learning and linguistic tools to analyze social media posts.
result Automatic detection of positive reports of COVID-19.
Machine learning predicts COVID-19 activity in China.
problem Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 activity in Chinese provinces.
method Combines mechanistic disease models with digital traces (internet searches, news alerts). Uses clustering and data augmentation techniques.
result Stable and accurate forecasts 2 days ahead of current time, outperforming baseline models in 27 out of 32 provinces.
Study examines oil and US stock market interactions during coronavirus crisis.
problem Understanding the impact of coronavirus on oil and stock markets.
method Wavelet analysis of daily data from February 18, 2020 to August 15, 2020.
result Oil prices lead US stock prices at 3-5-day cycles during the first and second parts of March and April 2020.
In retrospective assessments, internet news reports have been shown to capture early reports of unknown infectious disease transmission prior to official laboratory confirmation. In general, media interest and reporting peaks and wanes during the course of an outbreak. In this study, we quantify the extent to which med…
Study compares ARIMA, ETS, NNAR and hybrids for COVID-19 hospitalizations.
problem Forecasting the second wave of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Italy.
method ARIMA, ETS, NNAR, and hybrid models.
result Hybrid models outperform single models in capturing epidemic patterns.
The early detection of infectious disease outbreaks is a crucial task to protect population health. To this end, public health surveillance systems have been established to systematically collect and analyse infectious disease data. A variety of statistical tools are available, which detect potential outbreaks as abber…
Study on financial impacts of zombie outbreak on economy.
problem Financial and economic consequences of a zombie epidemic.
method Epidemiological modeling and financial computation.
result GDP losses of 23.44% and financial market drop of 29.30% in a major industrialized nation.
Epidemiologists use a variety of statistical algorithms for the early detection of outbreaks. The practical usefulness of such methods highly depends on the trade-off between the detection rate of outbreaks and the chances of raising a false alarm. Recent research has shown that the use of machine learning for the fusi…
Social media services such as Twitter are a valuable source of information for decision support systems. Many studies have shown that this also holds for the medical domain, where Twitter is considered a viable tool for public health officials to sift through relevant information for the early detection, management, an…
Algorithm estimates COVID-19 cases from phone calls.
problem Delay in confirming COVID-19 cases.
method Modeling calls as background plus signal, fitting data with high R2. result Algorithm estimates cases days before lab results.
Russia-Ukraine conflict impacts global agricultural futures and spot markets' extreme risks.
problem Impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global agricultural futures and spot markets' extreme risks.
method Analytical framework for tail dependence, Copula-CoVaR method, ARMA-GARCH-skewed Student-t model.
result The outbreak of the conflict intensified risks in the wheat market the most and showed significant asymmetries in extreme risk spillovers.
Forecasting stock market decline and recovery post-COVID-19.
problem Analyzing exogenous risk's impact on stock markets.
method Two case studies using historical data and stochastic fluctuations.
result 85% accuracy in predicting S&P500 index decline and recovery.
New method for epidemic model inference using multinomial approximations.
problem Inference in stochastic epidemic models with partial observations.
method Recursive multinomial approximations to integrate over unobserved variables.
result Accuracy demonstrated through real and simulated data.
Accurate real-time monitoring systems of influenza outbreaks help public health officials make informed decisions that may help save lives. We show that information extracted from cloud-based electronic health records databases, in combination with machine learning techniques and historical epidemiological information,…
PHIBP predicts infectious disease outbreaks in sparse data regions.
problem Predicting outbreaks in regions with no historical data.
method Poisson Hierarchical Indian Buffet Process (PHIBP) framework.
result PHIBP provides accurate outbreak predictions and meaningful insights in sparse data settings.
STNN models forecast COVID-19 spread with improved accuracy.
problem Forecasting the spread of COVID-19 worldwide.
method Spatio-temporal Neural Network (STNN) incorporating spatial and temporal data.
result STNN models outperform classical models in accuracy and handling both spatial and temporal data.
Bayesian calibration speeds up ABM for pandemic modeling.
problem Calibrating stochastic ABMs for accurate pandemic predictions is computationally intensive.
method Random forest surrogate modeling for accelerated ABM evaluation.
result Improved predictive performance with random forest calibration compared to previous methods.
DeCom predicts post-COVID RSV timing and intensity with NPI consideration.
problem Predicting RSV timing and intensity post-COVID with NPI impact.
method Deep coupled tensor factorization machine (DeCom) leveraging tensor factorization and residual modeling.
result DeCom achieves up to 46% lower RMSE and 49% lower MAE compared to baselines.
Study shows how China's stock market reflects economic demand changes during COVID-19.
problem Understanding how stock market volatility is influenced by economic demand changes.
method Divided industries into demand-oriented groups and analyzed spillover networks.
result Spillover effects from demand-oriented sectors to consumption-oriented sectors increased during the outbreak.
Study examines how BRICS nations' economies respond to COVID-19.
problem Impact of COVID-19 on BRICS nations' economic indicators.
method Structural variable autoregression (SVAR) to analyze growth, exchange rate, and stock market data.
result COVID-19 shock to exchange rate growth persists for 10+ days, stock market growth for 15 days.
Study analyzes how COVID-19 impacts crypto and stock market volatility.
problem Impact of COVID-19 on cryptocurrency and stock market volatility.
method Two-stage multivariate EGARCH model with DCC approach, VaR and CFVaR.
result Significant spillover effects and conditional volatility surges after shocks.
New algorithm tracks COVID-19 outbreak phases.
problem Decision-making in pandemic data.
method Developed a new algorithm (BLLR) based on decision theory.
result Demonstrated ability to track different phases of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Study links public concern in Italy to financial markets worldwide.
problem Understanding public concern's impact on financial markets during pandemics.
method Used Google Trends data from YouTube, News, and Search to measure public concern and correlate it with stock index returns.
result Public concern in Italy drives concerns in other countries and explains stock index returns of multiple nations.
Several problems such as network intrusion, community detection, and disease outbreak can be described by observations attributed to nodes or edges of a graph. In these applications presence of intrusion, community or disease outbreak is characterized by novel observations on some unknown connected subgraph. These prob…
FinCausal 2020 task detects financial document causality.
problem Detect causal relationships in financial documents.
method Binary classification and relation extraction tasks.
result 16 teams participated, 13 submitted system descriptions.
Unsupervised learning identifies key factors for NYC COVID-19 spread.
problem Identify key factors for NYC COVID-19 spread.
method Unsupervised machine learning framework to cluster ZIP code areas.
result 9 interpretable categories of similar outbreak patterns identified.
New methods solve graph sparsity optimization problems faster.
problem Complex graph sparsity optimization problems in disease outbreak monitoring and social network analysis.
method Stochastic variance-reduced gradient-based methods GraphSVRG-IHT and GraphSCSG-IHT.
result Our methods achieve linear convergence speed.
EGDL predicts TB outbreaks with deep learning, integrating epidemiological models.
problem Predicting TB outbreaks with complex spatiotemporal dynamics.
method Modified MN-SIR model with Bayesian inference, deep neural networks.
result EGDL delivers robust and accurate TB outbreak predictions.
Graph neural networks predict future COVID-19 cases based on human mobility.
problem Predicting future COVID-19 cases using human mobility data.
method Created a graph with regions as nodes and human mobility as edge weights. Used graph neural networks to capture diffusion patterns and transfer learning for limited data.
result Graph neural networks outperform traditional methods in predicting future cases.
Processes such as disease propagation and information diffusion often spread over some latent network structure which must be learned from observation. Given a set of unlabeled training examples representing occurrences of an event type of interest (e.g., a disease outbreak), our goal is to learn a graph structure that…
Study reveals the 2020 U.S. stock crash was endogenous, not caused by COVID.
problem Understanding the cause of the 2020 U.S. stock market crash.
method Applied log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS) methodology to analyze four major U.S. stock market indexes.
result The 2020 U.S. stock market crash was endogenous, stemming from systemic instability, not COVID.
Method predicts disease outbreaks using search logs, overcoming instability.
problem Predicting disease outbreaks from search logs is challenging due to short-term and long-term instability.
method Seasonal-adjustment method decomposes logs into seasonal, trend, and irregular components; feature selection method selects relevant search terms.
result Proposed method outperforms comparative methods in prediction accuracy for seven of ten diseases.
Stocks of more resilient firms outperformed during the pandemic, reflecting disaster risk.
problem The impact of social distancing on firms' operations and stock performance.
method Cross-sectional analysis of firms' resilience and stock performance, controlling for risk factors.
result Stocks of more resilient firms are expected to yield significantly lower returns than less resilient ones, reflecting disaster risk.
India's 2020-21 GDP growth forecast is projected at 1.9% due to COVID-19.
problem Impact of COVID-19 on India's 2020-21 GDP growth forecast.
method Quarterly GVA estimates using capacity utilisation assumptions and 2019-20 data.
result India's GDP growth in 2020-21 is expected to be 1.9%.
Incremental machine learning models predict COVID-19 cases more efficiently than traditional methods.
problem Predicting the spread of COVID-19 cases in real-time across multiple countries.
method Comparison of online incremental machine learning algorithms against traditional LSTM models.
result Incremental machine learning models are more efficient and computationally cheaper than traditional methods.
GeoLifeCLEF 2020 dataset pairs species observations with environmental data.
problem Understanding geographic species distribution.
method Presented a dataset of species observations with environmental features.
result Advances in location-based species recommendation.
This paper compares ML models for predicting COVID-19 trends.
problem Forecasting the spread of COVID-19 to reduce its impact.
method Applied ARDL method to identify relationships, then used ML models (SVM, RF, KNN, ANN) for prediction.
result Models accurately forecasted COVID-19 cases with low MAPE.
This study analyzes dynamic connectedness in global supply chain infrastructure portfolios, identifying key risk factors and extreme events.
problem Understanding dynamic connectedness in global supply chain infrastructure portfolios under various risk factors and extreme events.
method Time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) model to study spillover and interconnectedness of risk factors.
result Risk shocks influence dynamic connectedness between portfolios and risk factors, and extreme events affect investment outcomes.
AI uses KGs to assess economic impact of selective lockdowns on Italian companies.
problem Impact of selective lockdowns on Italian companies' economic stability.
method Automated Reasoning and Knowledge Graphs to analyze company networks.
result Identifies strategic companies at risk of takeover during lockdowns.
Framework extracts symptoms from EHRs for rapid disease outbreak detection.
problem Extracting relevant data from unstructured medical texts.
method Conformal active learning for efficient data mining.
result Framework achieves strong performance with minimal manual labeling.
Fuzzy Forests reduces feature space in high-dimensional survey data.
problem High-dimensional and highly correlated datasets in social science.
method Fuzzy Forests algorithm, a variant of Random Forests.
result Partisan polarization was the strongest factor in the 2020 presidential election.
Study examines cryptocurrency risk spillover effects before and after pandemic.
problem Analyzing risk propagation among cryptocurrencies during extreme events.
method Asymmetric breakpoint approach and network analysis.
result Cryptocurrency risk spillover effect increased during pandemic.
A new COVID-19 CT dataset helps develop AI diagnosis models.
problem Lack of publicly available COVID-19 CT datasets due to privacy issues.
method Built an open-sourced COVID-CT dataset and developed AI diagnosis methods.
result Developed AI diagnosis models achieving high accuracy and performance.
Study reveals 2020 stock crashes were mostly endogenous, not exogenous.
problem Identifying the cause of the 2020 global stock market crash.
method Applied log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS) methodology to analyze stock market indexes.
result The 2020 stock market crashes were mostly endogenous, driven by systemic instability.
2020 Census uses more noise to protect privacy than needed, improving data accuracy.
problem Ensuring privacy in census data while maintaining accuracy for policy decisions.
method Applied f-differential privacy to track and reduce noise across geographical levels. result The 2020 Census provides stronger privacy protections than its nominal guarantees suggest.
RoBERTa model detects counterfactual statements in text.
problem Detecting and extracting counterfactual statements from text.
method Used RoBERTa language representation model for both subtasks.
result RoBERTa achieved top performance in both subtasks at SemEval-2020.