Positive factorization found for a specific map on surfaces.
problem Balanced superelliptic rotation on surfaces.
method Positive factorization approach.
result Positive factorization for balanced superelliptic rotation.
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Regression Trees analyze stock returns, revealing market excess return as the most informative factor.
problem Understanding informational content of three factors in stock returns.
method Joint regression tree analysis of daily stock return data for 5 major US corporations.
result The market excess return factor is always the most informative in all cases (solo and joint).
New Ricci flow method for directed graphs with balancing factor.
problem Analyzing asymmetry in directed networks.
method Rigorous formulation of Ricci flow on directed weighted graphs with balancing factor.
result Existence and uniqueness of discrete Ricci flow solutions.
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.
A new approach to risk allocation balances asset and factor risks.
problem Challenges in estimating expected returns for portfolio optimization.
method Risk Budgeting framework that allocates risk at the factor level.
result Effective portfolios can be constructed by balancing asset and factor risks.
We establish a link between Archimedes' method of integration for calculating areas, volumes and centers of mass of segments of parabolas and quadrics of revolution by factorization via the moments of a balance and an integration technique for a particular integrable system, namely Bianchi's Bäcklund transformation for…
Style Miner generates stable and significant style factors for time series analysis.
problem Finding significant and stable explanatory factors in high-dimensional time series data.
method Proposes a reinforcement learning method to balance explanatory power and stability constraints.
result Outperforms existing methods by a large margin and achieves a 10% gain in R-squared explanatory power.
This paper uses PCA and FA for feature selection in credit rating.
problem Selecting important features for credit rating prediction.
method Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis.
result Factor Analysis reduces feature set significantly without losing much accuracy.
CUBE explains models by balanced experiments and contrasts.
problem Post-hoc explanation of trained predictive models.
method Design-based framework using balanced low-high probes.
result Reveals dominant learned effect structure and clarifies query efficiency.
The paper proposes Tier Balancing for dynamic fairness in decision-making.
problem Achieving long-term fairness in decision-making processes.
method Causal modeling with DAGs to investigate dynamic fairness.
result Tier Balancing is a more natural approach to achieve long-term fairness, capturing latent causal factors.
This paper finds a new method for decomposing insurer profits and losses.
problem Nonlinear balance sheets make it hard to attribute changes to risk factors.
method An axiomatic approach leading to infinitesimal sequential updating (ISU) decompositions.
result ISU decompositions are more general and applicable beyond insurance.
Paper finds exact Hessian sharpness in deep matrix factorization.
problem Understanding the geometry of loss landscapes in deep matrix factorization.
method Presented the first exact expression for Hessian maximum eigenvalue.
result Spectral-norm balance is a sufficient condition for flatness in deep matrix factorization.
Let be a holomorphic vector bundle over a compact Kaehler manifold and let be its decomposition into irreducible factors. Suppose that each admits a -balanced metric in Donaldson-Wang terminology. In this paper we prove that admits a unique…
Algorithmic Regularization in Learning Deep Homogeneous Models: Layers are Automatically Balancedcs.LG
We study the implicit regularization imposed by gradient descent for learning multi-layer homogeneous functions including feed-forward fully connected and convolutional deep neural networks with linear, ReLU or Leaky ReLU activation. We rigorously prove that gradient flow (i.e. gradient descent with infinitesimal step …
Balanced Direction from Multifarious Choices: Arithmetic Meta-Learning for Domain Generalizationcs.LG
New meta-learning method improves domain generalization by balancing parameters closer to domain centroids.
problem Improving domain generalization by reducing overfitting to specific domains.
method Arithmetic meta-learning with arithmetic-weighted gradients to balance parameters closer to domain centroids.
result Experimental validation of improved domain generalization performance.
The paper proposes a neural network method to estimate treatment effects by balancing treated and control distributions.
problem Estimating individual and average treatment effects from observational data.
method Balance regularization of multi-head neural network architectures to reduce confounding effects.
result The approach reduces bias-variance trade-off and improves treatment effect estimation.
New framework for interpretable firm characteristics factors.
problem Creating statistically efficient and economically interpretable factors from firm characteristics.
method Grouping related characteristics and deriving one factor per group, combining economic intuition with data-driven clustering.
result Parsimonious, transparent factors outperform benchmarks in out-of-sample tests.
Balances and eliminates base algorithms in bandits and RL to bound total regret.
problem Model selection in bandits and reinforcement learning with unknown optimal regret.
method Balances and eliminates base algorithms based on candidate regret bounds.
result Total regret bound is the best valid candidate regret bound times a small multiplicative factor.
Paper solves learning imperfect-information games with fewer episodes.
problem Learning imperfect-information extensive-form games from bandit feedback.
method Balanced Online Mirror Descent and Balanced Counterfactual Regret Minimization algorithms.
result Achieves near-optimal sample complexity for finding approximate Nash equilibria.
Gradient descent proves global convergence for 4-layer matrix factorization.
problem Global convergence of gradient descent on four-layer matrix factorization under random initialization.
method New techniques to show saddle-avoidance properties and extend eigenvalue theories.
result Polynomial-time global convergence guarantee for randomly initialized gradient descent on four-layer matrix factorization.
KL property of exponent of -norm and DC regularized factorizations for low-rank matrix recoverymath.OC
This paper is concerned with the factorization form of the rank regularized loss minimization problem. To cater for the scenario in which only a coarse estimation is available for the rank of the true matrix, an -norm regularized term is added to the factored loss function to reduce the rank adaptively; and…
Gradient descent solves asymmetric low-rank matrix factorization efficiently.
problem Optimizing asymmetric low-rank matrix factorization with non-convex and non-smoothness issues.
method Randomly initialized gradient descent with new symmetrization and perturbation techniques.
result Gradient descent converges to a global minimum of the asymmetric low-rank factorization problem.
This paper explores how balancing and filtering techniques affect predictive multiplicity in machine learning models.
problem Predictive multiplicity due to Rashomon effect in high-stakes environments.
method Investigates the impact of balancing and filtering techniques on predictive multiplicity using 21 real-world datasets.
result Data-centric AI strategies can mitigate predictive multiplicity, but preprocessing methods may introduce it.
We present a method for performing Hamiltonian Monte Carlo that largely eliminates sample rejection for typical hyperparameters. In situations that would normally lead to rejection, instead a longer trajectory is computed until a new state is reached that can be accepted. This is achieved using Markov chain transitions…
Study constructs balanced datasets for seismic failure prediction.
problem Imbalanced datasets limit machine learning performance in seismic failure prediction.
method Framework with three steps: GMF identification, probability density estimation, and sample transformation.
result Framework improves machine learning performance in seismic failure mode prediction.
New insights into how large learning rates affect transformer training dynamics.
problem Understanding how large learning rates impact the training of transformer models.
method Analyzing a simplified linear transformer model with a two-factor product map.
result Large learning rates can lead to various training outcomes including cycles, chaos, or divergence.
Optimization Method of Multi-factor Investment Model Driven by Deep Learning for Risk Controlq-fin.CP
Optimizes investment model using LSTM for better risk control.
problem Enhancing risk control in multi-factor investment models.
method Combines LSTM with multi-factor investment model for factor selection and weight determination.
result LSTM model outperforms benchmark in risk control metrics.
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to multiclass classification problem. We decompose the problem into a series of regression tasks, that are solved with CART trees. The proposed method works significantly faster than state-of-the-art solutions while giving the same level of model quality. The algorithm is also…
The paper formalizes and analyzes multi-agent Q-learning with value factorization.
problem Understanding and improving the convergence of multi-agent Q-learning with value factorization.
method Formalized a multi-agent fitted Q-iteration framework for analyzing factorized multi-agent Q-learning.
result Multi-agent Q-learning with linear value factorization can converge under certain conditions.
GENIE balances domain-invariant feature learning and gradient alignment for improved DG performance.
problem Domain Generalization (DG) overfitting to domain-specific features
method GENIE (Generalization-ENhancing Iterative Equalizer) optimizer
result Prevents a small subset of parameters from dominating optimization, promoting domain-invariant feature learning
Model for dynamic relational data with regime changes.
problem Handling abrupt changes in dynamic relational data.
method Factorized fusion shrinkage model with global-local shrinkage priors.
result Posterior distribution attains minimax optimal rate up to logarithmic factors.
The PARAFAC tensor decomposition has enjoyed an increasing success in exploratory multi-aspect data mining scenarios. A major challenge remains the estimation of the number of latent factors (i.e., the rank) of the decomposition, which yields high-quality, interpretable results. Previously, we have proposed an automate…
Biases in observational data of treatments pose a major challenge to estimating expected treatment outcomes in different populations. An important technique that accounts for these biases is reweighting samples to minimize the discrepancy between treatment groups. We present a novel reweighting approach that uses bi-le…
Structured prediction can be considered as a generalization of many standard supervised learning tasks, and is usually thought as a simultaneous prediction of multiple labels. One standard approach is to maximize a score function on the space of labels, which decomposes as a sum of unary and pairwise potentials, each d…
Study introduces a new investment strategy model using lazy factor and probability weights.
problem Optimizing investment strategies in volatile markets with transaction costs.
method Combines Price Portfolio Forecasting and Mean-Variance Models with Transaction Costs, using probability weights as laziness factor coefficients.
result Model demonstrates adaptability and generalizability in transforming investment strategies.
Study on multitask learning performance factors.
problem Mixed results in multitask learning performance.
method Task simulator and symbolic regression to learn performance factors.
result Empirical formulas relating model performance to sqrt(n), sqrt(T), and sqrt(AMI).
Community Detection in Political Twitter Networks using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Methodscs.SI
Community detection is a fundamental task in social network analysis. In this paper, first we develop an endorsement filtered user connectivity network by utilizing Heider's structural balance theory and certain Twitter triad patterns. Next, we develop three Nonnegative Matrix Factorization frameworks to investigate th…
EPFGNN models graph connections for better node classification.
problem Graph node classification issues due to feature aggregation.
method EPFGNN models graph as a Markov Random Field with explicit pairwise factors and a GNN backbone.
result EPFGNN improves semi-supervised node classification performance.
New algorithm for low-rank optimal transport with improved interpretability and efficiency.
problem Quadratic scaling of optimal transport coupling matrix for massive datasets.
method Factor Relaxation with Latent Coupling (FRLC) algorithm.
result Superior performance on diverse applications including graph clustering and spatial transcriptomics.
Fair and unbiased machine learning is an important and active field of research, as decision processes are increasingly driven by models that learn from data. Unfortunately, any biases present in the data may be learned by the model, thereby inappropriately transferring that bias into the decision making process. We id…
New skein categories for non-semisimple settings, extending existing theory.
problem Extending skein theory to non-semisimple settings.
method Introducing skein categories based on tensor ideals in linear ribbon categories.
result Skein categories coincide with factorization homology in non-semisimple settings.
Investment strategy for NYSE stocks minimizes market correlation.
problem Minimizing market correlation for steady returns.
method Combining momentum, fundamentals, and analyst recommendations; feature selection; backtesting various portfolio construction methods.
result Risk parity outperformed other methods, offering higher Sharpe ratio and lower beta.
When selecting locations for a set of facilities, standard clustering algorithms may place unfair burden on some individuals and neighborhoods. We formulate a fairness concept that takes local population densities into account. In particular, given facilities to locate and a population of size , we define the "n…
Study on TVL computation in DeFi protocols, proposing verifiable metrics.
problem Lack of standardization and verifiability in TVL computation.
method Systematic study of 939 DeFi projects, analyzing methodologies and proposing vTVL.
result 240 protocols use repeated balance queries, limiting verifiability.
Resonator Networks outperform optimization methods at solving high-dimensional vector factorizationcs.NE
We develop theoretical foundations of Resonator Networks, a new type of recurrent neural network introduced in Frady et al. (2020) to solve a high-dimensional vector factorization problem arising in Vector Symbolic Architectures. Given a composite vector formed by the Hadamard product between a discrete set of high-dim…
The implementation of conventional sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) on high-dimensional data sets has become a time consuming work. In this paper, a series of subspace projections are constructed efficiently by using Household QR factorization. With the aid of these subspace projections, a fast deflation meth…
A robust machine learning approach forecasts U.S. Treasury yields, reducing risk for investors.
problem Noisy and uncertain U.S. Treasury yields pose risk to forecast users.
method Formulates yield curve forecasting as a distributionally robust problem, combining factor models and machine learning.
result Robust forecast combinations improve out-of-sample performance across different maturity periods.
New algorithm balances exploration cost between groups in multi-armed bandits.
problem Balancing exploration cost between groups in multi-armed bandits.
method Introducing Col-UCB algorithm that dynamically coordinates exploration across groups.
result Achieves optimal minimax and instance-dependent collaborative regret up to logarithmic factors.