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48 results for Asymmetric measure

Study of geometric analysis on asymmetric metric spaces, including heat flow and Sobolev spaces.

problem Analysis of geometric properties on asymmetric metric measure spaces.
method Introduction of upper gradients, qq-Laplacian, and qq-heat flow in asymmetric settings.
result Extension of concepts from symmetric to asymmetric metric measure spaces.

Introduces an asymmetric model for measuring market risk.

problem Existing models are symmetric and do not account for asymmetric risk.
method Develops an asymmetric capital asset pricing model that considers position-dependent market risk.
result Long positions in Apple stock have lower volatility than the market, contrary to the standard model.

This paper analyzes ETFs with Taiwan exposure, finding heavy tails and asymmetric volatility.

problem Heavy tails and asymmetric volatility in Taiwan-related ETFs.
method Tail-risk diagnostics, asymmetric volatility modeling, and portfolio optimization under mean--variance and CVaR criteria.
result CVaR optimization produces more concentrated allocations, favoring SMH during the post-COVID AI-driven expansion.

New method uses asymmetric Tsallis relative entropy for better risk assessment in financial portfolios.

problem Improving risk assessment for financial portfolios using asymmetric data.
method Generalized Tsallis relative entropy (ATRE) for asymmetric distributions of returns.
result ATRE shows better risk-return profiles, especially during market crashes.

Machine learning improves beta forecasts, enhancing equity valuation and portfolio performance.

problem Improving beta forecasts for better equity valuation and portfolio performance.
method Using machine learning on a large cross-section of US stocks with various firm characteristics.
result Machine learning improves out-of-sample performance of asymmetric beta measures.

Study proves value of non-Markovian games with partial, asymmetric info.

problem Value of non-Markovian Dynkin games with partial and asymmetric information.
method Probabilistic and functional analytic approach based on Sion's min-max theorem.
result Existence of optimal strategies for both players in randomised stopping times.

Online Active Learning (OAL) aims to manage unlabeled datastream by selectively querying the label of data. OAL is applicable to many real-world problems, such as anomaly detection in health-care and finance. In these problems, there are two key challenges: the query budget is often limited; the ratio between classes i…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient descent solves asymmetric low-rank matrix sensing without balancing.

problem Recovering asymmetric low-rank matrices from linear measurements.
method Gradient descent with spectral initialization, avoiding balancing term.
result Gradient descent converges linearly without balancing, factors stay balanced.

This paper introduces forward-looking measures of the network connectedness of fears in the financial system, arising due to the good and bad beliefs of market participants about uncertainty that spreads unequally across a network of banks. We argue that this asymmetric network structure extracted from call and put tra…

2018-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper studies asymmetric matrix sensing, proving gradient descent converges to low-rank solutions.

problem Reconstructing asymmetric low-rank matrices from linear measurements.
method Factorized gradient descent with coupling and regularization properties.
result Gradient descent from small random initialization converges to globally optimal and generalizing solutions.

Quantum networks learn task-dependent asymmetric similarity measures.

problem Challenges of conventional distance functions in capturing meaningful similarity.
method GQSim: Quantum networks for learning task-dependent (a)symmetric similarity.
result Quantum similarity measures extract salient features and achieve theoretically guaranteed performance.

We prove that the Omega measure, which considers all moments when assessing portfolio performance, is equivalent to the widely used Sharpe ratio under jointly elliptic distributions of returns. Portfolio optimization of the Sharpe ratio is then explored, with an active-set algorithm presented for markets prohibiting sh…

2015-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

The {\em drawdown} process YY of a completely asymmetric Lévy process XX is equal to XX reflected at its running supremum Xˉ\bar{X}: Y=XˉXY = \bar{X} - X. In this paper we explicitly express in terms of the scale function and the Lévy measure of XX the law of the sextuple of the first-passage time of YY over the leve…

2011-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds time-varying volatility and multifractality in Bitcoin, with asymmetry weakening as market efficiency increases.

problem Investigating time-varying properties of Bitcoin's volatility and multifractality.
method Rolling window method to examine daily Bitcoin returns and multifractal properties over time.
result Volatility asymmetry in Bitcoin changes over time, becoming less pronounced as market efficiency increases.

Novel model improves clinical risk prediction by transferring knowledge between tasks over time.

problem Negative transfer in multi-task learning for clinical risk prediction.
method Temporal Probabilistic Asymmetric Multi-Task Learning (TPAMTL).
result Significantly outperforms various deep learning models for time-series prediction.

Minwise hashing (Minhash) is a widely popular indexing scheme in practice. Minhash is designed for estimating set resemblance and is known to be suboptimal in many applications where the desired measure is set overlap (i.e., inner product between binary vectors) or set containment. Minhash has inherent bias towards sma…

2014-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This survey is an introduction to the geometry of co-Minkowksi space, the space of unoriented spacelike hyperplanes of the Minkowski space. Affine deformations of cocompact lattices of hyperbolic isometries act on it, in a way similar to the way that quasi-Fuchsian groups act on hyperbolic space. In particular, there i…

2018-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Stein discrepancy improves UDA performance in low-data scenarios.

problem Improving model performance on unlabeled target domains with limited data.
method Proposes a novel UDA framework using Stein discrepancy, an asymmetric measure that depends on the target distribution through its score function.
result Consistently outperforms prior UDA approaches under limited target data across multiple benchmarks.

APGD algorithm reconstructs point set from partial distance measurements.

problem Reconstructing point set configuration from partial Euclidean distance measurements.
method Asymmetric Projected Gradient Descent (APGD) for EDMC problem.
result Global convergence and exact recovery with O(μ2r3κ2nlogn)\mathcal{O}(μ^2 r^3 κ^2 n \log n) observations.

DEUA detects diffusion-generated images by accounting for different types of uncertainty.

problem Detecting generated images with varying aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
method DEUA framework using Laplace approximation for DEU estimation and asymmetric loss function.
result DEUA achieves state-of-the-art performance on large-scale benchmarks.

New metrics derived from Hölder distortion on Hitchin components.

problem Deriving metrics on Hitchin components from Hölder distortion.
method Expressing Thurston's metric in terms of Hölder regularity of boundary maps, associating stratified loci, and measuring relative Hölder distortion.
result First known geometrically significant complete metrics on Hitchin components for n>3n > 3.

We show that the length function of a measured geodesic lamination is convex in Thurston's shear coordinates over Teichmüller space and strictly convex for generic laminations. We give some consequences of this result in the context of Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space.

2014-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The Teichmüller space T(Σ)\mathcal{T}(Σ) of a surface ΣΣ is equipped with Thurston's asymmetric metric. Stretch lines are oriented geodesics for this metric on T(Σ)\mathcal{T}(Σ). We give the asymptotic behavior of the lengths of the measured geodesic laminations as one follows a stretch line in the positive direction.

2018-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This study examines asymmetric cross-correlations in cryptocurrency markets using fractal analysis.

problem Exploring asymmetric multifractal cross-correlations in cryptocurrency markets.
method Fractal analysis and MF-ADCCA method to investigate asymmetric volatility dynamics.
result Cross-correlations are stronger in downtrend markets than in uptrend markets for maturing BTC and ETH.

Theoretical justification for asymmetric actor-critic algorithms in reinforcement learning.

problem Lack of precise theoretical justification for asymmetric actor-critic algorithms in reinforcement learning.
method Adapting a finite-time convergence analysis to the asymmetric actor-critic setting with linear function approximators.
result A finite-time bound reveals that the asymmetric critic eliminates aliasing errors in the agent state.

We consider the problem of designing locality sensitive hashes (LSH) for inner product similarity, and of the power of asymmetric hashes in this context. Shrivastava and Li argue that there is no symmetric LSH for the problem and propose an asymmetric LSH based on different mappings for query and database points. Howev…

2014-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper improves asymmetric causality tests by addressing inefficiencies and statistical significance issues.

problem Inefficiencies and statistical significance issues in asymmetric causality tests.
method Improved asymmetric causality tests via partial cumulative sums for positive and negative components, explicitly testing differences between causal parameters.
result Efficiently tested hypotheses on asymmetric causal interaction between financial markets.

We propose Deep Asymmetric Multitask Feature Learning (Deep-AMTFL) which can learn deep representations shared across multiple tasks while effectively preventing negative transfer that may happen in the feature sharing process. Specifically, we introduce an asymmetric autoencoder term that allows reliable predictors fo…

2017-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we show how the study of asymmetric R&D alliances, that are those between young and small firms and large and MNEs firms for knowledge exploration and/or exploitation, requires the adoption of a coopetitive framework which consider both collaboration and competition. We draw upon the literature on asymmet…

2012-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We generalise the description of the dynamics of the order book of financial markets in terms of a Brownian particle embedded in a fluid of incoming, exiting and annihilating particles by presenting a model of the velocity on each side (buy and sell) independently. The improved model builds on the time-averaged number …

2015-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian VI copula models capture asymmetric intraday equity dependence.

problem Modeling asymmetric and extreme tail dependence in financial data.
method Bayesian variational inference for skew-t copula models in high dimensions.
result The copula captures substantial heterogeneity in asymmetric dependence over equity pairs and time.