The control of the costs, as soon as possible of the product life cycle, became a major asset in the competitiveness of the companies confronted with the universalization of competition. After having proposed the problems related this control difficulties, we will present an approach defining a concept of cost entity r…
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Two-layer model studies reinsurance contracts and competition between insurer and reinsurers.
problem Modeling and analyzing reinsurance contracts and competition between insurer and reinsurers.
method Two-layer stochastic game model with insurer negotiating with reinsurers, and reinsurers competing for business.
result Existence and uniqueness of equilibrium strategies for the insurer and reinsurers, characterized in semiclosed form.
In the early phases of the product life cycle, the costs controls became a major decision tool in the competitiveness of the companies due to the world competition. After defining the problems related to this control difficulties, we will present an approach using a concept of cost entity related to the design and real…
The availability of massive data about sports activities offers nowadays the opportunity to quantify the relation between performance and success. In this study, we analyze more than 6,000 games and 10 million events in six European leagues and investigate this relation in soccer competitions. We discover that a team's…
Researchers improved Minecraft game performance using imitation learning.
problem Achieving state-of-the-art performance in immersive environments like Minecraft.
method Applied imitation learning to Minecraft, optimizing network architecture, loss function, and data augmentation.
result Reported stronger results than previous experiments, reaching second place in a competition.
We present a simplistic model of the competition between different currencies. Each individual is free to choose the currency that minimizes his transaction costs, which arise whenever his exchanging relations have chosen a different currency. We show that competition between currencies does not necessarily converge to…
It seems that what has been said by now about market and competitiveness do not fit perfectly with competences of getting the best of profit. Sometimes, the classical methods of fundamentals of management do not apply to individual companies that face irregular accommodation on the market. It is high time to replace th…
Sentiment analysis (SA) is a task related to understanding people's feelings in written text; the starting point would be to identify the polarity level (positive, neutral or negative) of a given text, moving on to identify emotions or whether a text is humorous or not. This task has been the subject of several researc…
Linear models like EASE and SLIM are competitive in recommendation, and this work explores their theoretical relationship.
problem Understanding the relationship between linear models and matrix factorization in recommendation systems.
method Derivation and analysis of closed-form solutions for regression and matrix factorization approaches.
result Linear models and matrix factorization approaches are related but diverge in scaling singular values.
Develops a deep learning framework to predict future tech directions for high-tech companies.
problem Difficult task in predicting future R&D trends for high-tech companies due to complexity and variety of factors.
method Deep Technology Forecasting (DTF) framework with three components: PCR, CTR, and DTT neural network.
result DTF framework precisely predicts future tech emphasis of companies using hybrid factors.
-player and Mean-field Games in Itô-diffusion Markets with Competitive or Homophilous Interactionq-fin.MF
Study -player and mean-field games in Itô-diffusion markets with competitive or homophilous interactions.
problem Optimal portfolio choice in a common market with interacting players.
method Analyzes -player and mean-field games in incomplete and complete markets with CARA utilities and random risk tolerances.
result Derives explicit or closed-form solutions for equilibrium processes and game values.
HMCNAS generates competitive neural architectures without human-defined parameters.
problem Lack of human-defined parameters in Neural Architecture Search.
method Combines Hidden Markov Chains and Bayesian Optimization for autonomous search space generation and competitive model generation.
result HMCNAS generates competitive models in a short time without human-defined parameters.
This paper uses NARX neural networks for macroeconomic forecasting and goal setting.
problem Improving accuracy in macroeconomic forecasting and goal setting.
method Literature review and construction of specific NARX neural networks for macroeconomic indicators.
result NARX neural networks can be trained to make accurate predictions for macroeconomic indicators and national goals.
Bayesian deep learning faces posterior collapse due to likelihood vs. prior competition.
problem Posterior collapse in Bayesian deep learning models.
method Identified competition between likelihood and prior regularization in a linear latent variable model.
result Posterior collapse is related to neural and dimensional collapse, suggesting a broader learning issue.
Implicit discourse relation classification is of great challenge due to the lack of connectives as strong linguistic cues, which motivates the use of annotated implicit connectives to improve the recognition. We propose a feature imitation framework in which an implicit relation network is driven to learn from another …
We present a Few-Shot Relation Classification Dataset (FewRel), consisting of 70, 000 sentences on 100 relations derived from Wikipedia and annotated by crowdworkers. The relation of each sentence is first recognized by distant supervision methods, and then filtered by crowdworkers. We adapt the most recent state-of-th…
Study shows unique linear equilibrium in market with constrained trader.
problem Unique equilibrium in financial market with constrained trader.
method Linear equilibrium model with competitive market makers and noise traders.
result Equilibrium uniquely determined by two state variables.
Bayesian meta-learning on relation graphs improves few-shot relation extraction.
problem Predicting relations in sentences with limited labeled examples.
method Bayesian meta-learning on a global relation graph, using graph neural networks and Langevin dynamics.
result Framework effectively learns and generalizes to new relations.
We introduce a conceptually simple and effective method to quantify the similarity between relations in knowledge bases. Specifically, our approach is based on the divergence between the conditional probability distributions over entity pairs. In this paper, these distributions are parameterized by a very simple neural…
A bag-of-concepts model improves relation extraction in a narrow knowledge domain with limited datacs.LG
This paper focuses on a traditional relation extraction task in the context of limited annotated data and a narrow knowledge domain. We explore this task with a clinical corpus consisting of 200 breast cancer follow-up treatment letters in which 16 distinct types of relations are annotated. We experiment with an approa…
Micro-economic Analysis of the Physical Constrained Markets: Game Theory Application to Competitive Electricity Marketsphysics.soc-ph
Competition has been introduced in the electricity markets with the goal of reducing prices and improving efficiency. The basic idea which stays behind this choice is that, in competitive markets, a greater quantity of the good is exchanged at a lower and a lower price, leading to higher market efficiency. Electricity …
Proposes a novel SAM operator for separate item and relational memories.
problem Limited memory interactions in neural networks.
method Introduces a Self-attentive Associative Memory (SAM) operator to separate item and relational memories.
result Achieves competitive results in various tasks, including geometry, graph, reinforcement learning, and question answering.
One of the most important applications of seismic reflection is the hydrocarbon exploration which is closely related to salt deposits analysis. This problem is very important even nowadays due to it's non-linear nature. Taking into account the recent developments in deep learning networks TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company …
Deep Matrix Factorization (DMF) is an emerging approach to the problem of matrix completion. Recent works have established that gradient descent applied to a DMF model induces an implicit regularization on the rank of the recovered matrix. In this work we interpret the DMF model through the lens of spectral geometry. T…
Text classification on drug SMILES strings yields competitive drug type classification results.
problem Classifying drug types using conventional text classification methods.
method Treated drug SMILES as sentences and applied basic NLP methods for classification.
result Competitive drug type classification results achieved.
The paper analyzes performance criteria for competing fund managers in Ito-diffusion markets.
problem Analyzing performance of competing fund managers in Ito-diffusion markets.
method Developed forward relative performance criteria and forward Nash equilibrium for passive and competitive cases.
result Extended performance criteria for investment problems in Ito-diffusion markets.
Untangling the complexity of market competition in consumer goods -A complex Hilbert PCA analysisq-fin.GN
Novel method CHPCA simplifies complex market dynamics.
problem Quantifying interactions in rapidly evolving consumer goods markets.
method Complex Hilbert Principal Component Analysis (CHPCA) and Hodge decomposition.
result Revealed comovements and customer heterogeneity in consumer choice process.
We propose a probabilistic framework for modelling and exploring the latent structure of relational data. Given feature information for the nodes in a network, the scalable deep generative relational model (SDREM) builds a deep network architecture that can approximate potential nonlinear mappings between nodes' featur…
Proposes CoPO, a new policy optimization method for competitive games.
problem Designing efficient optimization methods for competitive Markov decision processes.
method Competitive policy optimization (CoPO) approach that exploits game-theoretic nature of competitive games.
result Stable optimization, convergence to sophisticated strategies, and higher scores compared to baseline methods.
Lifted Relational Neural Networks (LRNNs) describe relational domains using weighted first-order rules which act as templates for constructing feed-forward neural networks. While previous work has shown that using LRNNs can lead to state-of-the-art results in various ILP tasks, these results depended on hand-crafted ru…
US firms improve ESG performance in response to China trade shock.
problem Impact of China trade shock on US ESG performance.
method Trade policy experiment exploiting tariff changes.
result Greater import competition from China increases US firm ESG performance.
Kaggle competitions offer valuable insights for business forecasting.
problem Lack of attention to Kaggle competitions in academic forecasting studies.
method Review of results from six Kaggle competitions featuring real-life business forecasting tasks.
result Global ensemble models outperform local single models in Kaggle competitions.
Diabetic Retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the world. At least 90\% of new cases can be reduced with proper treatment and monitoring of the eyes. However, scanning the entire population of patients is a difficult endeavor. Computer-aided diagnosis tools in retinal image analysis can make the process scal…
Study competition in OTC CDS market through CCP and interdealer choice models.
problem Analyze competition dynamics in OTC credit default swap market.
method Developed models for CCP choice and interdealer counterpart selection using semi-supervised learning and game theory.
result Introduced novel metrics and algorithms for understanding market dynamics.
ML4CO uses machine learning to improve combinatorial optimization solvers.
problem Solving combinatorial problems in practice often involves related data distributions.
method Replacing heuristic components with machine learning approaches.
result Improved state-of-the-art combinatorial optimization solvers.
Neural network based architectures used for sound recognition are usually adapted from other application domains, which may not harness sound related properties. The ConditionaL Neural Network (CLNN) is designed to consider the relational properties across frames in a temporal signal, and its extension the Masked Condi…
Scattering networks are a class of designed Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with fixed weights. We argue they can serve as generic representations for modelling images. In particular, by working in scattering space, we achieve competitive results both for supervised and unsupervised learning tasks, while making pr…
Framework for few-shot relation classification with minimal training data.
problem Few-shot relation classification with limited training data.
method Meta-learning framework that combines instance and support knowledge.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art results and achieves competitive performance with large training data.
The number of methods available for classification of multi-label data has increased rapidly over recent years, yet relatively few links have been made with the related task of classification of sequential data. If labels indices are considered as time indices, the problems can often be seen as equivalent. In this pape…
We introduce a new algorithm for reinforcement learning called Maximum aposteriori Policy Optimisation (MPO) based on coordinate ascent on a relative entropy objective. We show that several existing methods can directly be related to our derivation. We develop two off-policy algorithms and demonstrate that they are com…
The origin of economic crises is a key problem for economics. We present a model of long-run competitive markets to show that the multiplicity of behaviors in an economic system, over a long time scale, emerge as statistical regularities (perfectly competitive markets obey Bose-Einstein statistics and purely monopolist…
Paper improves BN structure learning from incomplete data.
problem Learning BN structure from incomplete data.
method Node-Average Likelihood (NAL) approach.
result NAL proves consistent and identifiable for conditional Gaussian BNs.
New framework promotes reproducible, domain-agnostic reinforcement learning algorithms.
problem Domain-specific, compute-resource-maximizing, and non-reproducible participant solutions in reinforcement learning competitions.
method Submission retraining, domain randomization, desemantization through domain obfuscation, and compute/environment-sample budget limitation.
result Participant submissions are reproducible, non-specific to the competition environment, and sample/resource efficient.
Gradient boosting of regression trees is a competitive procedure for learning predictive models of continuous data that fits the data with an additive non-parametric model. The classic version of gradient boosting assumes that the data is independent and identically distributed. However, relational data with interdepen…
Multi-view Multi-instance Multi-label Learning(M3L) deals with complex objects encompassing diverse instances, represented with different feature views, and annotated with multiple labels. Existing M3L solutions only partially explore the inter or intra relations between objects (or bags), instances, and labels, which …
The real estate is a pillar industry of China's national economy. Due to changes in policy and market conditions, the real estate companies are facing greater pressures to survive in a competitive environment. They must improve their financial competitiveness. Based on the conceptual framework of financial competitiven…
Learning the disentangled representation of interpretable generative factors of data is one of the foundations to allow artificial intelligence to think like people. In this paper, we propose the analogical training strategy for the unsupervised disentangled representation learning in generative models. The analogy is …
Study examines ridesourcing patterns in Chicago using K-prototypes segmentation.
problem Limited data on ridesourcing trips hinders research on urban mobility.
method Utilized K-prototypes algorithm for mixed data types segmentation.
result Six ridesourcing user segments identified based on various factors.