Autoregressive state transitions, where predictions are conditioned on past predictions, are the predominant choice for both deterministic and stochastic sequential models. However, autoregressive feedback exposes the evolution of the hidden state trajectory to potential biases from well-known train-test discrepancies.…
Bayesian method estimates Kronecker graphical models from autoregressive processes.
problem Estimating Kronecker graphical models from autoregressive Gaussian processes.
method Bayesian approach to estimate Kronecker graphical models.
result Effectiveness demonstrated through numerical experiments and real-world data application.
Study confirms Indian stock market is weak form inefficient.
problem Impact of stock market efficiency on investment returns.
method Runs test, Autocorrelation test, Autoregression test on daily stock indices.
result Indian stock market is weak form inefficient and can be outperformed.
This study compares different types of normalizing flows for generating complex distributions.
problem Comparing different types of normalizing flows for generating complex distributions.
method Real-valued non-Volume preserving (RealNVP), masked autoregressive flow (MAF), coupling rational quadratic spline (C-RQS), and autoregressive rational quadratic spline (A-RQS) were compared using statistical tests.
result A-RQS algorithm outperforms others in terms of accuracy and training speed.
New method makes machine learning approximations unbiased and efficient.
problem Efficient sampling of complex probability distributions.
method Uses autoregressive neural networks with cluster updates and physical symmetries.
result Shows unbiased and low-variance approximations for phase transitions.
Study evaluates stock price forecasting models during the pandemic.
problem Forecasting stock prices during the Covid-19 pandemic.
method Four models (Long-Short Term Memory, XGBoost, Autoregression, Last Value) were tested on stock prices of Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Google, and Apple.
result Autoregression and Last Value models outperform other models due to strong correlation between prices.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a sharp analysis on the asymptotic behavior of the Durbin-Watson statistic. We focus our attention on the first-order autoregressive process where the driven noise is also given by a first-order autoregressive process. We establish the almost sure convergence and the asymptotic n…
Improved autoregressive models generate higher quality images and are more robust to noise.
problem Generating high-quality images from autoregressive models.
method Noise conditional maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with score-based sampling.
result Models trained with noise conditional MLE achieve better test likelihoods and generate higher quality images.
Incorporating nonlinearity is paramount to predicting the future states of a dynamical system, its response to shocks, and its underlying causal network. However, most existing methods for causality detection and impulse response, such as Vector Autoregression (VAR), assume linearity and are thus unable to capture the …
Bayesian method tests Granger causality in functional time series.
problem Testing Granger causality between functional time series.
method Bayesian dynamic linear models (DLM) and Bayes Factor.
result Captures Granger causality between yield curves and weather conditions.
Value-at-Risk (VaR) is an institutional measure of risk favored by financial regulators. VaR may be interpreted as a quantile of future portfolio values conditional on the information available, where the most common quantile used is 95%. Here we demonstrate Conditional Autoregressive Value at Risk, first introduced by…
Paper proposes forecast-necessity testing for accurate causal interpretation in nonlinear time-series models.
problem Misinterpretation of causal scores from nonlinear models as regression coefficients.
method Systematic edge ablation and forecast comparison to evaluate causal necessity.
result Causal relationships with similar scores can differ in their necessity for accurate prediction.
Discriminator guidance improves autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
problem Improving the accuracy of autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
method Deriving ways to use a discriminator with a pretrained generative model in the discrete case, including optimal and sub-optimal scenarios.
result Using a discriminator can correct pretrained models and improve exact sampling from the data distribution.
In this paper we solve the discrete time mean-variance hedging problem when asset returns follow a multivariate autoregressive hidden Markov model. Time dependent volatility and serial dependence are well established properties of financial time series and our model covers both. To illustrate the relevance of our propo…
Paper proposes a forecasting model combining autoregressive models with spectral attention.
problem Time series forecasting across various domains.
method Combines deep autoregressive models with Spectral Attention (SA) module.
result SAAM consistently demonstrates improved forecasting accuracy compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
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 demonstrate the use of conditional autoregressive generative models (van den Oord et al., 2016a) over a discrete latent space (van den Oord et al., 2017b) for forward planning with MCTS. In order to test this method, we introduce a new environment featuring varying difficulty levels, along with moving goals and obst…
Unified asymptotic theory and tests for ACD models reveal infinite-mean durations in cryptocurrency trading.
problem Challenges in asymptotic theory for ACD models, especially for integrated ACD.
method Unified asymptotic theory for quasi-maximum likelihood estimator, hypothesis testing framework.
result Infinite-mean durations in cryptocurrency trading, rejected integrated ACD hypothesis.
ARDMs are a new model class for autoregressive diffusion that generalize existing models and can compress data efficiently.
problem Efficient data compression and generation.
method Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs) that generalize existing autoregressive models and discrete diffusion models.
result ARDMs require significantly fewer steps for compression compared to discrete diffusion models.
Training of the neural autoregressive density estimator (NADE) can be viewed as doing one step of probabilistic inference on missing values in data. We propose a new model that extends this inference scheme to multiple steps, arguing that it is easier to learn to improve a reconstruction in k steps rather than to lea…
ARCNPs improve CNPs by autoregressively modeling dependencies.
problem CNPs struggle with modeling dependencies in predictions.
method Autoregressive deployment of factorized Gaussian CNPs.
result ARCNPs significantly outperform non-AR CNPs in various tasks.
Paper estimates non-causal graphical models using covariance extension and transportation distance.
problem Estimating non-causal graphical models with smoothing relations.
method Proposes a covariance extension problem and uses transportation distance to minimize error with white noise.
result Solution is a double-sided autoregressive non-causal graphical model.
New method for estimating and testing impulse responses in high-dimensional VAR systems.
problem Statistical inference for impulse responses in sparse, high-dimensional vector autoregressions.
method Local projection equations and de-sparsified estimators combined with a non-regularized contemporaneous impact matrix.
result Valid inference procedures for structural impulse responses in high-dimensional systems.
Improved portfolio optimization using GAM factor models.
problem Enhancing CVaR portfolio optimization performance.
method Combines autoregressive filters with factor regressions to predict stock returns.
result Substantial improvement in portfolio performances with GAM models.
Enhances PHM solutions by augmenting scarce multivariate time series data.
problem Data scarcity in failure prognostics.
method Extends autoregressive models for data augmentation.
result Significantly improves PHM solution performance.
Training autoregressive models to better predict under the test metric, instead of maximizing the likelihood, has been reported to be beneficial in several use cases but brings additional complications, which prevent wider adoption. In this paper, we follow the learning-to-search approach (Daumé III et al., 2009; Leblo…
Generative neural samplers estimate quantum spin system properties.
problem Estimating observables for quantum spin systems.
method Autoregressive models using Suzuki-Trotter transformation.
result Results for energy, specific heat, and susceptibility are in good agreement with Monte Carlo methods.
Time Series forecasting (univariate and multivariate) is a problem of high complexity due the different patterns that have to be detected in the input, ranging from high to low frequencies ones. In this paper we propose a new model for timeseries prediction that utilizes convolutional layers for feature extraction, a r…
DiAMoNDBack models protein backmapping from coarse-grained Cα traces.
problem Restoring all-atom details from coarse-grained protein representations.
method Autoregressive denoising diffusion model for residue-by-residue backmapping.
result Achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction performance in diverse applications.
A new autoregressive SPO method improves decision-making for dependent data.
problem Improving decision-making for dependent data in stochastic optimization.
method An autoregressive Smart Predict-then-Optimize (SPO) method for time series data.
result Generalization bounds and uniform calibration results for the SPO loss in autoregressive models.
New bidirectional model predicts magnetohydrodynamics fields and estimates uncertainty.
problem Predicting multiple fields in magnetohydrodynamics with uncertainty.
method Bidirectional autoregressive latent diffusion approach.
result Model can estimate uncertainty without ground truth using self-supervised consistency.
The paper develops robust tests for detecting independence in synchronous stochastic systems with finite sample guarantees.
problem Detecting independence in synchronous stochastic systems with finite sample guarantees.
method Combines confidence region estimates with permutation tests and dependence measures to detect nonlinear dependence.
result Consistent hypothesis tests for detecting independence under mild assumptions.
Autoregressive models are among the best performing neural density estimators. We describe an approach for increasing the flexibility of an autoregressive model, based on modelling the random numbers that the model uses internally when generating data. By constructing a stack of autoregressive models, each modelling th…
Testing procedures for predictive regressions with lagged autoregressive variables imply a suboptimal inference in presence of small violations of ideal assumptions. We propose a novel testing framework resistant to such violations, which is consistent with nearly integrated regressors and applicable to multi-predictor…
The 2006 sudden and immense downturn in U.S. House Prices sparked the 2007 global financial crisis and revived the interest about forecasting such imminent threats for economic stability. In this paper we propose a novel hybrid forecasting methodology that combines the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) from …
This work proposes an efficient autoregressive model for text generation.
problem The challenge of generating high-quality text with autoregressive models.
method Introduces a cascaded decoding approach using Markov transformers to achieve sub-linear parallel time generation.
result Shows competitive accuracy/speed tradeoff compared to existing methods on five machine translation datasets.
Flow-based deep generative models learn data distributions by transforming a simple base distribution into a complex distribution via a set of invertible transformations. Due to the invertibility, such models can score unseen data samples by computing their exact likelihood under the learned distribution. This makes fl…
Autoregressive sequence models achieve state-of-the-art performance in domains like machine translation. However, due to the autoregressive factorization nature, these models suffer from heavy latency during inference. Recently, non-autoregressive sequence models were proposed to reduce the inference time. However, the…
Bayesian method for multivariate autoregressive models with exogenous inputs.
problem Estimating uncertainties in autoregressive models with exogenous inputs.
method Recursive Bayesian estimation via message passing in a factor graph.
result Produces full posterior distributions for autoregressive coefficients and noise precision.
There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our method masks the autoencoder's parameters to respect autoregressive constraints: ea…
Alternative sampling method for autoregressive models using Langevin dynamics.
problem Efficiently sampling from autoregressive models.
method Initialize sequences with white noise and follow Langevin dynamics on global log-likelihood.
result Parallelizes and generalizes sampling process for autoregressive models.
In this paper we consider portmanteau tests for testing the adequacy of multiplicative seasonal autoregressive moving-average (SARMA) models under the assumption that the errors are uncorrelated but not necessarily independent.We relax the standard independence assumption on the error term in order to extend the range …
Enhanced EEG classification using augmented covariance matrix.
problem Improving motor imagery classification from EEG signals.
method Proposes a new framework based on the augmented covariance matrix derived from an autoregressive model.
result The augmented covariance matrix outperformed state-of-the-art methods.
Paper proposes AXE loss for non-autoregressive machine translation, improving performance.
problem Challenges in training non-autoregressive models due to lack of autoregressive factors and cross entropy loss penalties.
method Proposes aligned cross entropy (AXE) loss function using a differentiable dynamic program for better word order alignment.
result AXE-based training improves performance on major WMT benchmarks and sets a new state of the art for non-autoregressive models.
Graph neural networks improve volatility forecasts and portfolio performance.
problem Improving volatility forecasting for better portfolio performance.
method Compared Heterogeneous Autoregressive and Long Short-Term Memory models with GraphSAGE models built on rolling correlation, sector, and Granger-causal graphs.
result GraphSAGE models with macro regime features outperform other models in terms of forecast accuracy, ranking quality, and portfolio Sharpe ratio.
New method tests independence with single nonstationary time series.
problem Testing independence in nonstationary nonlinear time series.
method Time-varying nonlinear regression, local long-run covariance estimation, strong Gaussian approximation.
result First framework for conditional independence testing with a single realization of a nonstationary nonlinear process.
Linear attention in Transformers can be interpreted as dynamic VAR models.
problem Misalignment between Transformers and autoregressive forecasting objectives.
method Interpreting linear attention as VAR, rearranging MLP, attention, and flow.
result SAMoVAR improves performance, interpretability, and efficiency.
Paper proposes a self-supervised method to denoise autoregressive signals with heavy-tailed noise.
problem Denoising autoregressive signals corrupted by heavy-tailed noise.
method Self-supervised learning approach without requiring full noise distribution knowledge.
result Strong denoising performance compared to baseline methods, especially for impulsive noise.