Mathematical analysis shows Brexit affects EU voting power in unexpected ways.
problem Effects of Brexit on EU voting power and distribution of power.
method Mathematical analysis using Penrose--Banzhaf Index and normal approximation.
result Non-monotonic effects of Brexit on EU voting power, exacerbated by EU population vector.
A thermodynamic theory explains EU election vote distributions.
problem Describing EU election vote distributions.
method Tracing parallels between system energies of coupled nonlinear oscillators and party vote fractions.
result The Rayleigh-Jeans (RJ) theory well depicts EU vote results and candidate vote dispersion.
One unexamined assumption in foreign ownership regulation is the notion that majority voting rights translate to 'effective control'. This assumption is so deeply entrenched in foreign investments law that possession of majority voting rights can determine the nationality of a corporation and its capacity to engage in …
The paper develops a test for EU portfolio efficiency in high dimensions.
problem Testing the efficiency of the EU portfolio in high-dimensional settings.
method Shrinkage-based approach for portfolio weights and random matrix theory.
result Asymptotic behavior of the test statistic under high-dimensional conditions.
Study analyzes EU ETS carbon market dynamics, revealing inefficiencies and anomalies.
problem Inefficiencies and anomalies in EU ETS trading and pricing mechanisms.
method Empirical analysis using AR-GARCH model and weighted network analysis.
result Heterogeneous and sometimes counter-intuitive elasticities in price-volume relationships.
The recently announced Energy Union by the European Commission is the most recent step in a series of developments aiming at integrating the EU's gas markets to increase social welfare (SW) and security of gas supply. Based on a spatial partial equilibrium model, we analyze the changes in consumption, prices, and SW up…
Research examines impact of Brexit on GBP/EUR exchange rate.
problem Impact of Brexit on GBP/EUR exchange rate.
method Investigates financial market reactions to Brexit news.
result Magnitude and direction of impact on GBP/EUR exchange rate.
New voting rules protect against strategic voting by robust statistics.
problem Strategic voting can skew election outcomes.
method Revisit Mallows model, develop robust estimator.
result Efficient estimator achieves nearly optimal robustness.
Study analyzes EU in variational inference for Bayesian deep learning.
problem Analyzing epistemic uncertainty in variational inference for Bayesian deep learning.
method Theoretical analysis and derivation of relations between generalization error and EU measurements. Proposing a new objective function for VI.
result Proposed new objective function significantly improves EU evaluation over existing VI methods.
Proposes using DII to identify non-linear causal relationships in EU Allowances returns.
problem Identifying causal relationships in non-linear data of EU Allowances returns.
method Uses Differentiable Information Imbalance (DII) for non-parametric causal discovery compared to multivariate Granger causality.
result Significant overlap and differences in causal variables identified by linear and non-linear methods.
The aim of the present article is to offer a strictly mathematical, statistical treatment of the current account balances in EU and in the Eurozone. Based on Eurostat data, an overview of the total and annual balances is first made for different collections among the EU countries. Then, using the Mathematica technical …
Study identifies clusters of EU countries with similar young mortality patterns.
problem Identify clusters of EU countries with similar mortality patterns in young population.
method Symbolic data analysis (SDA) with age, gender, and main causes of death dimensions.
result Identified clusters of EU countries with similar mortality patterns in young population.
This study analyzes EU ETS literature trends using bibliometric methods.
problem Understanding the evolving research landscape of EU ETS.
method Bibliometric analysis of Scopus database, focusing on publication trends, themes, influential authors, and journals.
result Notable increase in research activity over two decades, particularly during policy changes and economic events.
Crowdsourcing has become an effective and popular tool for human-powered computation to label large datasets. Since the workers can be unreliable, it is common in crowdsourcing to assign multiple workers to one task, and to aggregate the labels in order to obtain results of high quality. In this paper, we provide finit…
China and EU race to develop hydrogen for energy transition.
problem Developing hydrogen for sustainable energy systems.
method Comparative analysis framework using key factors.
result Customized solutions for local hydrogen industries.
CreDRO learns credal ensembles via distributionally robust optimization, improving EU quantification.
problem Quantifying predictive epistemic uncertainty in credal models.
method Distributionally robust optimization to capture EU from training randomness and potential distribution shifts.
result Empirically, CreDRO outperforms existing credal methods on various tasks.
Most of the analytical techniques used in the business cycle synchronisation literature rely upon the estimation of an empirical correlation matrix of time series data of macroeconomic aggregates, real GDP usually being the key variable. But the small number of available observations and small number of economies mean …
Study uses non-parametric method to analyze EU ETS price determinants.
problem Understanding price determinants of EU ETS to inform policy.
method Non-parametric measure (Information Imbalance) to study variables.
result Commodity variables are most informative in Phase 3, while financial variables become more important in Phase 4.
Ensemble learning is a powerful approach to construct a strong learner from multiple base learners. The most popular way to aggregate an ensemble of classifiers is majority voting, which assigns a sample to the class that most base classifiers vote for. However, improved performance can be obtained by assigning weights…
REGOMAX analyzes EU economies' sensitivity to petroleum and gas trade from major exporters.
problem Analyzing EU economies' sensitivity to petroleum and gas trade from major exporters.
method Reduced Google matrix (REGOMAX) algorithm applied to UN COMTRADE data.
result Shows sensitivity of each EU country to petroleum and gas trade from Russia, USA, Saudi Arabia, and Norway.
New inequality for ternary variables improves on existing measures.
problem Analyzing excess losses and weighted majority votes with ternary random variables.
method Developed a split-kl inequality and its PAC-Bayes extension.
result Outperforms existing inequalities in certain regimes.
Examines financial risks' impact on EU-15 economic growth.
problem The impact of financial risks on economic growth in EU-15.
method Panel estimated generalized least squares method with additional control variables.
result Financial risks significantly impact economic growth in EU-15.
Delegated votes in Uniswap DAO favor parties with less self-owned votes and a16z-affiliated entities.
problem Incentives for vote delegation in decentralized governance systems.
method Analysis of Uniswap governance DAO using vote delegation data.
result Vote delegation patterns suggest window-dressing around decentralization and merit-based delegation.
Maker Protocol manages Dai stable coin on Ethereum blockchain.
problem Managing decentralized finance applications on blockchain.
method Analyzes Maker Protocol's components and governance.
result Maker Protocol is a significant decentralized finance application.
Online voting is an emerging feature in social networks, in which users can express their attitudes toward various issues and show their unique interest. Online voting imposes new challenges on recommendation, because the propagation of votings heavily depends on the structure of social networks as well as the content …
MakerDAO's governance is centralized despite its decentralized claim.
problem Decentralization illusion in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) governance.
method Empirical analysis using financial, transaction, network, and sentiment indicators.
result Centralized governance impacts Maker protocol and voting power distribution.
Crowdsourcing is an effective tool for human-powered computation on many tasks challenging for computers. In this paper, we provide finite-sample exponential bounds on the error rate (in probability and in expectation) of hyperplane binary labeling rules under the Dawid-Skene crowdsourcing model. The bounds can be appl…
Study generalization of voting classifiers using margin-based bounds.
problem Understanding the generalization of ensemble classifiers like voting.
method Proved margin-based generalization bounds using PAC-Bayes theory and Dirichlet posteriors.
result Provided state-of-the-art guarantees on classification tasks.
Boosting improves accuracy by combining weak learners into a voting classifier.
problem Boosting's theoretical performance is sub-optimal, especially for voting classifiers.
method Proposes a randomized boosting algorithm that outputs voting classifiers with a single logarithmic dependency on sample size.
result Randomized boosting achieves a generalization error with a single logarithmic dependency on the sample size.
Unified framework for causal inference with reliable uncertainty quantification.
problem Causal inference under unobserved confounding with unreliable uncertainty quantification.
method Deconditional Gaussian Process (DGP) framework for uncertainty-aware causal learning.
result Strong predictive performance and informative uncertainty quantification.
We combine fine-grained spatially referenced census data with the vote outcomes from the 2016 US presidential election. Using this dataset, we perform ecological inference using distribution regression (Flaxman et al, KDD 2015) with a multinomial-logit regression so as to model the vote outcome Trump, Clinton, Other / …
SBO uses dual voting to build consensus in noisy feedback settings.
problem Collective decision-making under social influence.
method Dual voting system with noisy public votes and private interviews.
result Efficient consensus-building through noisy public votes, debiased by estimated social graph.
Majority-of-Three is Optimal
problem Optimality of Voting Learners
method Majority vote of three classifiers
result Proves optimality for the simplest voting scheme
First European crop map created using satellite data.
problem Need for detailed parcel-level crop type mapping for EU.
method Used Sentinel-1 radar observations and LUCAS in-situ data.
result 80.3% overall accuracy for 19 crop types, highest for rape and turnip rape.
In acoustic scene classification researches, audio segment is usually split into multiple samples. Majority voting is then utilized to ensemble the results of the samples. In this paper, we propose a punishment voting algorithm based on the super categories construction method for acoustic scene classification. Specifi…
New voting strategies show committee-based consensus can scale efficiently.
problem Ensuring honest committees in committee-based consensus protocols.
method Empirical analysis of simpler voting strategies and their convergence to optimality.
result Simpler voting strategies converge to optimality exponentially quickly, ensuring robustness and efficiency.
Optimal number of voters for a voting ensemble can be estimated from the distribution of classifier errors.
problem Finding the optimal number of voters for a voting ensemble to minimize error rate.
method Estimate the distribution of classifier errors and infer error rates for different numbers of voters.
result Lower-variance estimates of error rates can be obtained by inferring them for different numbers of voters.
In this paper we bring to bear some new tools from statistical learning on the analysis of roll call data. We present a new data-driven model for roll call voting that is geometric in nature. We construct the model by adapting the "Partition Decoupling Method," an unsupervised learning technique originally developed fo…
The paper studies a stochastic majority vote approach to improve classifier accuracy.
problem Improving classifier accuracy over ensembles of classifiers.
method Minimizing a PAC-Bayes generalization bound with Dirichlet distributions.
result Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and tight generalization bounds.
DDSTN improves breast cancer diagnosis by leveraging imbalanced ultrasound modalities.
problem Imbalanced ultrasound modalities in diagnosing breast cancer.
method Integrates LUPI and MMD into a deep transfer learning framework.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in BUS-based CAD.
We tackle the issue of classifier combinations when observations have multiple views. Our method jointly learns view-specific weighted majority vote classifiers (i.e. for each view) over a set of base voters, and a second weighted majority vote classifier over the set of these view-specific weighted majority vote class…
Active learning suffers from biased non-response, which this paper addresses.
problem Active learning's effectiveness is compromised by biased non-response in real-world contexts.
method Proposes a cost-based correction to the sampling strategy, UCB-EU, to mitigate the impact of biased non-response.
result UCB-EU successfully reduces the harm from labelling non-response in many settings.
Novel analysis improves weighted majority vote in multiclass classification.
problem Improving the performance of weighted majority vote in multiclass classification.
method Analyzes expected risk of weighted majority vote, considering prediction correlations and provides a bound for efficient minimization.
result Minimization of the new bound typically does not degrade the test error of the ensemble.
In this paper, we propose majority voting neural networks for sparse signal recovery in binary compressed sensing. The majority voting neural network is composed of several independently trained feedforward neural networks employing the sigmoid function as an activation function. Our empirical study shows that a choice…
New algorithms minimize PAC-Bayesian C-Bound for majority voting, leading to scalable and accurate predictors.
problem Improving majority vote classifiers using PAC-Bayesian bounds.
method Directly optimizing PAC-Bayesian guarantees on the C-Bound with gradient descent.
result Self-bounding majority vote learning algorithms with scalable and accurate predictors.
Paper proposes a voting-based MARL approach for IoT systems.
problem Maximizing globally averaged returns in multi-agent IoT systems.
method Formulated as linear programming, proposed distributed primal-dual algorithm, voting mechanism for convergence.
result Distributed learning achieves sublinear convergence rate similar to centralized learning.
In his seminal work, Schapire (1990) proved that weak classifiers could be improved to achieve arbitrarily high accuracy, but he never implied that a simple majority-vote mechanism could always do the trick. By comparing the asymptotic misclassification error of the majority-vote classifier with the average individual …
Study assesses sugar beet yields under EU's neonicotinoids ban and climate change.
problem Impact of yellow virus on sugar beet yields under neonicotinoids ban and climate change.
method Modeling using climate datasets and simulations of aphid flight and abundance.
result Reconstructs sugar beet yields using 'as if' approach without neonicotinoids.