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48 results for Average Measure

Study optimal portfolio selection with Recovery Average Value at Risk, showing better control over liabilities.

problem Optimizing portfolios with a new risk measure under known or uncertain distributions.
method Existence results for mean-risk optimal portfolios under different distributional assumptions.
result Portfolio selection under Recovery Average Value at Risk provides better control over liabilities.

Deep ROC analysis improves model selection and interpretation in medical and AI applications.

problem Inadequate performance measures for binary classifiers.
method Deep ROC analysis, translating AUC and partial AUC into balanced average accuracy and post-test measures.
result Deep ROC analysis provides balanced average accuracy, average sensitivity, and average specificity.

Unified formula for higher traces of linear maps on finite-dimensional normed spaces.

problem Unified trace-average formula for higher traces of linear maps.
method Unified trace-average formula for the k-th higher trace of a linear operator A on a finite-dimensional normed space.
result Unified trace-average formula holds for all A if and only if the operator-valued average equals the identity.

The paper extends the market price of risk for electricity swap contracts, incorporating jump risk.

problem Pricing electricity swap contracts with consideration of jump risk.
method Introducing a Merton type model with jumps and transferring to the physical measure, comparing arithmetic and geometric averaging.
result A decomposition of swap's market price of risk into classical and market price of risk components.

New algorithms optimize spectral risk measures, improving interpolation between average and worst-case performance.

problem Optimizing spectral risk measures for learning systems.
method Developed stochastic algorithms to optimize spectral risk measures by characterizing their subdifferential and addressing challenges like biasedness of subgradient estimates and non-smoothness.
result Our approach outperforms out-of-the-box stochastic subgradient and dual averaging methods in optimizing spectral risk measures.

Measures price impact in order-driven markets without relying on averages.

problem Measuring price impact in order-driven markets without relying on averages.
method Modeling the limit order book using state-dependent Hawkes processes and defining price impact profile as a function of the compensator of a stochastic process.
result The clustering of sell child orders has a bigger impact on price than their sizes.

We generalise the average asymptotic linking number of a pair of divergence-free vector fields on homology three-spheres by considering the linking of a divergence-free vector field on a manifold of arbitrary dimension with a codimension two foliation endowed with an invariant transverse measure. We prove that the aver…

2001-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is a technique in which the 3D structure of a molecule needs to be determined from its contrast transfer function (CTF) affected, noisy 2D projection images taken at unknown viewing directions. One of the main challenges in cryo-EM is the typically…

2016-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Average signature measures geodesics in Lie groups.

problem Understanding geometric properties of Lie groups through geodesic paths.
method Introducing average signature A(G)\mathbb A(G) and using it with trace operation to recover geometric properties.
result Average signature can recover geometric properties like dimension, diameter, volume, and scalar curvature.

The paper studies the convergence of SAA for systemic risk measures.

problem Theoretical convergence of SAA for set-valued systemic risk measures.
method General theory and specific case study with mixed-integer programming formulations.
result Theoretical convergence results for SAA under Wijsman and Hausdorff topologies.

Researchers develop a method to measure treatment effects in settings with shared states.

problem Measuring treatment effects in settings with shared states like prices, recommendations, or social signals.
method Double machine learning (DML) theorem with conditions for efficient inference under shared-state interference.
result Efficient estimation of average direct effect (ADE) and global average treatment effect (GATE) in various models.

Attempts to accurately measure the monetary velocity or related properties of bitcoin used in transactions have often attempted to either directly apply definitions from traditional macroeconomic theory or to use specialized metrics relative to the properties of the Blockchain like bitcoin days destroyed. In this paper…

2017-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid approach improves probabilistic forecasts for electricity trading.

problem Improving probabilistic forecasts for electricity trading markets.
method Combines QRA and factor-based averaging for probabilistic forecasting.
result The hybrid approach outperforms benchmarks in statistical measures and economic value.

Improved measure of predictive uncertainty for machine learning models.

problem Current measure of predictive uncertainty assumes BMA predictive distribution is equivalent to true model's distribution.
method Introduced a new measure based on information theory to correct the assumption.
result Our measure behaves more reasonably in synthetic tasks and is advantageous in real-world applications.

Given a model ff that predicts a target yy from a vector of input features x=x1,x2,,xM\pmb{x} = x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_M, we seek to measure the importance of each feature with respect to the model's ability to make a good prediction. To this end, we consider how (on average) some measure of goodness or badness of prediction (wh…

2019-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove a sharp estimate on the expected value of the integral of the index of a simple random walk on the square or triangular lattice. This gives new lower bounds on the averaged Dehn function, which measures the expected area needed to fill a random curve with a disc.

2008-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for analyzing compositional data, addressing biases in summary statistics.

problem Inadequate effect measures for compositional data, especially in high-dimensionality and sparsity.
method Perturbation-based effect measures, average perturbation effects.
result Proposed estimators efficiently estimate average perturbation effects, outperforming existing techniques.

Introduces joint Shapley values to measure feature importance in models.

problem Measuring the importance of feature sets in machine learning models.
method Extends Shapley's axioms to measure a set of features' average contribution to a model's prediction.
result Joint Shapley values provide unique insights and are more consistent with local intuitions.

New measures capture tail dependence and non-exchangeability in financial data.

problem Underestimation of tail dependence and inability to capture non-exchangeable tail dependence.
method Tail copulas and novel tail dependence measures (MTCM, ATCM) are proposed.
result Captures non-exchangeable tail dependence and provides analytical forms for various copulas.

The paper tackles batch policy learning in Markov Decision Processes, focusing on average reward maximization.

problem Maximizing long-term average reward in Markov Decision Processes with batch learning.
method Doubly robust estimator for average reward, optimization algorithm for optimal policy, finite-sample regret guarantee.
result The proposed method achieves semiparametric efficiency and provides a finite-sample regret guarantee.

Since the pioneering work of Ghys, Langevin and Walczak among others, it has been known that several methods of dynamical systems theory can be adopted to study of foliations. Our aim in this paper is to investigate complexity of foliations, by generalising existence problem of time averages in dynamical systems theory…

2018-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves forecasts for diverse time series by averaging similar ones.

problem Forecasting challenges in heterogeneous time series.
method Dynamic Time Warping to find similar time series, k-Nearest Neighbor averaging.
result Averaging improves forecasts of simple models.

This paper deals with discrete-time Markov control processes on a general state space. A long-run risk-sensitive average cost criterion is used as a performance measure. The one-step cost function is nonnegative and possibly unbounded. Using the vanishing discount factor approach, the optimality inequality and an optim…

2007-04-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Robustly computes intrinsic coordinates on point clouds using resampling and averaging.

problem Computing intrinsic coordinates on noisy or outlier-prone point clouds.
method Subsample data, vary hyperparameters, cluster candidate embeddings, identify representative embeddings, and average them using Procrustes analysis.
result Robust to noise and outliers, validated on synthetic and real data.

In this paper we explore the idea that Teichmüller space is hyperbolic "on average." Our approach focuses on studying the geometry of geodesics which spend a definite proportion of time in some thick part of Teichmüller space. We consider several different measures on Teichmüller space and find that this behavior for g…

2011-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We relate the existence of many infinite geodesics on Alexandrov spaces to a statement about the average growth of volumes of balls. We deduce that the geodesic flow exists and preserves the Liouville measure in several important cases. The developed analytic tool has close ties to integral geometry.

2017-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper examines the consistency of item embeddings in recommendation systems.

problem The relevance of averaging item embeddings for user or concept representation.
method Proposes an expected precision score to measure consistency and analyzes it theoretically and empirically.
result Real-world averages are less consistent for recommendation compared to theoretical assumptions.

Most network-based protein (or gene) function prediction methods are based on the assumption that the labels of two adjacent proteins in the network are likely to be the same. However, assuming the pairwise relationship between proteins or genes is not complete, the information a group of genes that show very similar p…

2012-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the average-case complexity of decision problems for finitely generated groups, in particular the word and membership problems. Using our recent results on ``generic-case complexity'' we show that if a finitely generated group GG has the word problem solvable in subexponential time and has a subgroup of…

2002-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New offline RL method handles average-reward MDPs with single-policy coverage.

problem Challenges in offline reinforcement learning due to distribution shift and non-uniform coverage.
method Develops an algorithm based on pessimistic discounted value iteration with quantile clipping.
result First fully single-policy sample complexity bound for average-reward offline RL.

Measures collectivity in financial covariances and correlations to reveal trends and precursors.

problem Capturing collective motion in financial markets to predict trends and precursors.
method Measures collectivity using the largest eigenvalue and average sector collectivity.
result Identifies collective signals around major financial events and captures trends in covariances and correlations.

This paper proposes a simple but effective graph-based agglomerative algorithm, for clustering high-dimensional data. We explore the different roles of two fundamental concepts in graph theory, indegree and outdegree, in the context of clustering. The average indegree reflects the density near a sample, and the average…

2012-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗