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48 results for Brakes and levers

Digital tools may hinder or facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.

problem Challenges in multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
method Study of a precursor SPSTI's digital tools and their impacts.
result Digital tools can act as both brakes and levers for multidisciplinary dynamics.

Uber optimizes marketplace levers using machine learning to improve resource allocation efficiency.

problem Optimizing budget allocation for drivers and riders to maximize business value.
method End-to-end machine learning and optimization procedure using feature store, model training, and ADMM.
result Substantially improved Uber's resource allocation efficiency through high-dimensional optimization.

ETFs with 2x and 3x leverage underperformed the S&P 500 index due to compounding and volatility.

problem ETFs with higher leverage failed to match the performance of the underlying index.
method Analyzed the performance of leveraged ETFs compared to the S&P 500 index, accounting for compounding and volatility.
result Two-thirds of the underperformance was due to compounding and volatility, with the rest due to covariance.

This work examines the role of reinforcement learning in reducing the severity of on-road collisions by controlling velocity and steering in situations in which contact is imminent. We construct a model, given camera images as input, that is capable of learning and predicting the dynamics of obstacles, cars and pedestr…

2019-01-03abs ↗pdf ↗

SECRM-2D improves RL-based autonomous driving with safety guarantees.

problem Safety and efficiency trade-offs in RL-based autonomous driving.
method RL-based controller with safety constraints for efficient and comfortable driving.
result SECRM-2D avoids crashes and improves efficiency and comfort compared to baselines.

Innovation is among the key factors driving a country's economic and social growth. But what are the factors that make a country innovative? How do they differ across different parts of the world and different stages of development? In this work done in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), we analyze the …

2016-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper prices and replicates the financial derivative whose payoff at TT is the wealth that would have accrued to a $\$1$ deposit into the best continuously-rebalanced portfolio (or fixed-fraction betting scheme) determined in hindsight. For the single-stock Black-Scholes market, Ordentlich and Cover (1998) only p…

2018-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New formula identifies and quantifies costs for automated market makers.

problem Adverse selection costs faced by liquidity providers in automated market makers.
method Derives a Black-Scholes-like formula for AMMs and identifies loss-versus-rebalancing cost.
result Closed-form expressions for LVR applicable to all automated market makers.

We adopt data structure in the form of cover trees and iteratively apply approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) searches for fast compressed sensing reconstruction of signals living on discrete smooth manifolds. Levering on the recent stability results for the inexact Iterative Projected Gradient (IPG) algorithm and by us…

2017-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies bifurcations in Lagrangian systems and geodesics.

problem Investigating bifurcations in Lagrangian systems with various boundary conditions.
method Using Morse theory and nullity techniques, the paper establishes conditions for bifurcation in three configurations.
result Unified Morse-theoretic framework connecting geometric focal structure and analytic bifurcation behavior.

Isotonic regression binning affects calibration statistics of machine learning models.

problem Isotonic regression binning introduces aleatoric uncertainty in calibration statistics.
method Calibration error statistics are recalibrated using isotonic regression, which produces stratified uncertainties.
result Stratified uncertainties lead to significant differences in bin-based calibration statistics.

Optimizes AMM markets with a new framework reducing complex optimization to simpler root finding.

problem Optimizing routing and arbitrage in AMM markets.
method Restricts search to boundary of optimal space using marginal prices, reducing high-dimensional optimization to lower-dimensional root finding.
result Significantly faster and more robust performance compared to the original convex optimization method.

DeepHybrid uses radar data to classify objects accurately.

problem Challenges in classifying objects using automotive radar sensors.
method Combines radar signal processing and Deep Learning; uses neural architecture search.
result Improves object classification performance compared to models using only spectra.

Data generated by cars is growing at an unprecedented scale. As cars gradually become part of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, several stakeholders discover the value of in-vehicle network logs containing the measurements of the multitude of sensors deployed within the car. This wealth of data is also expected t…

2019-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper detects adversarial examples in LECs for regression in CPS using variational autoencoder.

problem Detecting adversarial examples in learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS).
method Inductive conformal prediction using a variational autoencoder regression model.
result The method effectively detects adversarial examples with a short delay in an emergency braking system simulation.

CurveRL optimizes large model reasoning by reweighting prompts based on their rank and density.

problem Improving large language model reasoning through context reweighting.
method Formulated prompt reweighting as a functional derivative, proposing CurveRL based on quantile coordinate transform.
result CurveRL consistently outperforms existing methods across multiple benchmarks.

The paper analyzes LETF option markets using moneyness scaling to find statistical arbitrage opportunities.

problem Statistical discrepancies between levered and unlevered ETF option implied volatility smiles.
method Bootstrap uniform confidence bands, dynamic semiparametric factor model, moneyness scaling, Heston stochastic volatility.
result Trading opportunities exist on LETF market, and a statistical arbitrage strategy generates positive returns.

Survival strategy for crypto firms in bear markets using BTC-to-sats payments rail.

problem Downside risk in crypto reserves during bear markets.
method Conservative treasury policy, operating line monetizing holdings, BTC-to-sats payments rail.
result Sustained mNAV premium through cycles with disclosed KPIs.

AuON is a linear-time optimizer that improves upon Muon's performance without approximate orthogonal matrices.

problem High memory and computational costs of orthogonal momentum updates.
method AuON uses normalized nonlinear scaling and a 'emergency brake' to handle exploding attention logits.
result AuON achieves strong performance without approximate orthogonal matrices, preserving structural alignment and reconditioning.

Review and benchmark 58 feature selection methods for ML applications.

problem Selecting appropriate features for predictive modeling in ML applications.
method Synthesizes literature on feature selection benchmarking and evaluates 58 methods.
result Well-performing candidate methods identified: random forest, DISR, JIM.

We present another view dealing with the Arnold-Givental conjecture on a real symplectic manifold (M,ω,τ)(M, ω, τ) with nonempty and compact real part L=Fix(τ)L={\rm Fix}(τ). For given Λ(0,+]Λ\in (0, +\infty] and mN{0}m\in\N\cup\{0\} we show the equivalence of the following two claims: (i) (Lφ1H(L))m\sharp(L\capφ^H_1(L))\ge m for any Hamiltonia…

2008-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

SAGE improves memory efficiency by selectively adding, merging, or ignoring new facts.

problem Efficiently managing new facts in agentic LLMs to avoid costly write-time reasoning.
method SAGE uses a von Mises-Fisher-based density estimator to score and route candidate facts.
result SAGE achieves the best average token-F1 on LoCoMo and reduces add-phase API cost by 3.4x on GPT-4o-mini.

Real-time detection of out-of-distribution data in CPS control systems.

problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in CPS control systems for safety.
method Inductive conformal prediction and anomaly detection using variational autoencoders and deep support vector data description.
result Efficient real-time detection with low false alarm rates and comparable execution time.

This paper explains CART random forests using stochastic control theory.

problem Understanding the inner workings of CART random forests.
method Developed a stochastic-control perspective on CART random forests, interpreting feature subsampling as a random feasible action set and the split rule as a policy.
result Established that the CART policy is locally stabilizing but globally suboptimal for the forest objective.