New algorithm learns LQR with regret using Langevin dynamics and excitation.
problem Learning LQR with a regret bound.
method Thompson sampling with Langevin dynamics and excitation mechanism.
result Achieved regret bound for LQR learning.
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Ubiquitous power law scaling in nonlinear self-excited Hawkes processescond-mat.stat-mech
New mechanism found for power laws including Zipf's law.
problem Understanding the ubiquity of power law distributions.
method Introduced nonlinear self-excited Hawkes processes with fast-accelerating intensities.
result Wide class of nonlinear Hawkes processes have power law intensity PDFs.
ESE-FN improves elderly activity recognition accuracy.
problem Recognizing individual actions and human-object interactions in elderly activities.
method Exploits multi-modal features from RGB videos and skeleton sequences using ESE attentions and a new Multi-modal Loss.
result ESE-FN achieves best accuracy on ETRI-Activity3D dataset.
Multiplex Network Hawkes model for systemic risk measurement
problem Investigate how contagion in financial networks is affected by different transmission channels
method Multiplex Network Hawkes model
result Sparse contagion pathways, with systemic-risk transmission concentrated in outward flows from a small number of influential institutions
GAttNHP predicts future events in temporal knowledge graphs by encoding long-range dependencies and handling mutual excitation.
problem Forecasting future events in temporal knowledge graphs due to long-range dependencies, mutual excitation, and heavy-tailed inter-arrival times.
method GAttNHP uses a self-attention encoder, semantic soft-grouping, and NCQ regression to address these issues.
result GAttNHP improves entity and time prediction on six benchmark TKG datasets compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
Tiled Squeeze-and-Excite improves channel attention with local spatial context.
problem Improving channel attention mechanisms in neural networks.
method Proposes tiled squeeze-and-excite (TSE) framework for channel attention.
result Local context of 7 rows or columns is sufficient for matching global context performance.
We present an agent behavior based microscopic model that induces jumps, spikes and high volatility phases in the price process of a traded asset. We transfer dynamics of thermally activated jumps of an unexcited/ excited two state system discussed in the context of quantum mechanics to agent socio-economic behavior an…
Attention mechanism is a hot spot in deep learning field. Using channel attention model is an effective method for improving the performance of the convolutional neural network. Squeeze-and-Excitation block takes advantage of the channel dependence, selectively emphasizing the important channels and compressing the rel…
We introduce a Markovian single point process model, with random intensity regulated through a buffer mechanism and a self-exciting effect controlling the arrival stream to the buffer. The model applies the principle of the Hawkes process in which point process jumps generate a shot-noise intensity field. Unlike the Ha…
Machine learning speeds up quantum chemical calculations of excited states.
problem Accurate quantum chemical calculations of excited states are computationally expensive.
method Employing machine learning to speed up and advance excited-state simulations in various fields.
result Machine learning techniques can significantly reduce computational time for excited-state simulations.
New self-exciting random evolutions (SEREs) for modeling traffic and transport processes.
problem Modeling self-exciting and clustering effects in traffic and transport processes.
method Introducing a new process based on a superposition of a Markov chain and a Hawkes process, and constructing self-exciting random evolutions (SEREs).
result Developed new models and limit theorems for SEREs, including averaging and diffusion approximation.
Model detects market anomalies using a Hawkes process with hidden Markov chain.
problem Detecting high-frequency market manipulation in cryptocurrency trades.
method Developed a Markov-modulated Hawkes process with piecewise constant excitation kernels.
result Demonstrated the model's effectiveness in detecting suspicious trading activities.
Direct Mapping Hidden Excited State Interaction Patterns from ab initio Dynamics and Its Implications on Force Field Developmentphysics.chem-ph
The excited states of polyatomic systems are rather complex, and often exhibit meta-stable dynamical behaviors. Static analysis of reaction pathway often fails to sufficiently characterize excited state motions due to their highly non-equilibrium nature. Here, we proposed a time series guided clustering algorithm to ge…
Machine learning and excited-state molecular dynamicsphysics.chem-ph
Machine learning aids excited-state molecular dynamics studies.
problem Challenges in studying electronically excited states of molecules.
method Employing machine learning techniques for excited-state molecular dynamics.
result Highlight successes and challenges in machine learning for excited-state processes.
ARL and Hawkes processes improve market-making strategies with variable volatility.
problem Enhancing market-making strategies to adapt to varying volatility levels and self-exciting behaviors.
method Integrates ARL, Hawkes processes, and variable volatility levels; shifts from Poisson to Hawkes process.
result 4-action MM trained in low-volatility environment adapts to high-volatility conditions, providing stable performance.
Torus quantum vortex knots in the Gross-Pitaevskii model for Bose-Einstein condensatescond-mat.quant-gas
We examine on the static and dynamical properties of quantum knots in a Bose-Einstein condensate. In particular, we consider the Gross-Pitaevskii model and revise a technique to construct ab initio the condensate wave-function of a generic torus knot. After analysing its excitation energy, we study its dynamics relatin…
Optimal reinsurance strategy analyzed for dynamic risk model with self- and externally-excited jumps.
problem Optimal reinsurance in a dynamic contagion model with self-exciting and externally-exciting risks.
method Two methodologies: classical HJB approach and BSDE approach, focusing on Markovian setting.
result Comparison of self-exciting and externally-exciting risks highlights heightened risk from self-exciting component.
Paper presents a method for estimating Hawkes process parameters.
problem Estimating parameters of Hawkes processes with self-excitation or inhibition.
method Maximum likelihood estimation for Hawkes processes with self-excitation or inhibition.
result The proposed estimator provides more accurate estimations in the inhibition context.
In Levin-Wen (LW) models, a wide class of exactly solvable discrete models, for two dimensional topological phases, it is relatively easy to describe only single fluxon excitations, but not the charge and dyonic as well as many-fluxon excitations. To incorporate charged and dyonic excitations in (doubled) topological p…
The paper develops a new model for order book dynamics using Hawkes processes.
problem Capturing the dynamics of order flow and liquidity migration in financial markets.
method Develops a mesoscopic model using Hawkes processes to describe interactions between order arrivals, cancellations, and liquidity movement.
result Derives a diffusive limit for the order book dynamics, providing a unified framework for market microstructure.
3D ConvNets improved with Project & Excite for medical imaging segmentation.
problem Improving segmentation performance in 3D medical imaging.
method Proposed Project & Excite (PE) modules for 3D F-CNNs, extending 2D recalibration methods.
result Project & Excite modules boost segmentation performance up to 0.3 in Dice Score.
Deep Learning for UV Absorption Spectra with SchNarc: First Steps Towards Transferability in Chemical Compound Spacephysics.chem-ph
Paper explores ML for UV spectra, showing transferability in chemical space.
problem Modeling excited states and predicting properties of unseen molecules.
method Adapting charge model for excited states, using SchNarc approach.
result ML models can predict properties of unseen molecules and different excited states.
Electronic excited states in deep variational Monte Carlophysics.chem-ph
Deep QMC method accurately computes electronic excited states.
problem Accurate calculation of electronic excited states in large systems.
method Extends variational QMC with deep neural networks for excited states.
result Consistently achieves high accuracy for low-lying excited states.
Attention is an increasingly popular mechanism used in a wide range of neural architectures. The mechanism itself has been realized in a variety of formats. However, because of the fast-paced advances in this domain, a systematic overview of attention is still missing. In this article, we define a unified model for att…
Repelling Random Walksstat.ML
Repelling random walks improve graph-based sampling efficiency.
problem Efficient graph-based sampling and statistical estimation.
method Induces correlations between trajectories of an ensemble of walkers on a graph, maintaining unbiasedness.
result Improves concentration of statistical estimators on graphs.
In order to disentangle the internal dynamics from exogenous factors within the Autoregressive Conditional Duration (ACD) model, we present an effective measure of endogeneity. Inspired from the Hawkes model, this measure is defined as the average fraction of events that are triggered due to internal feedback mechanism…
A new model predicts discrete events with flexible, nonparametric baseline and excitation.
problem Limited flexibility in discrete Hawkes models for event prediction.
method Gaussian Process Discrete Hawkes Process (GP-DHP) with collapsed latent representation.
result Improves predictive log-likelihood for diverse event patterns.
Price changes are induced by aggressive market orders in stock market. We introduce a bivariate marked Hawkes process to model aggressive market order arrivals at the microstructural level. The order arrival intensity is marked by an exogenous part and two endogenous processes reflecting the self-excitation and cross-e…
Lower bounds and upper bounds on sample complexity for identifying linear dynamical systems.
problem Identifying an unknown linear dynamical system with limited data.
method Sample complexity lower and upper bounds, persistent excitation condition, active learning algorithm.
result Lower and upper bounds share the same dependency on key problem parameters.
Coexisting Hidden and self-excited attractors in an economic system of integer or fractional orderq-fin.GN
Paper analyzes coexisting hidden and self-excited attractors in an economic system.
problem Existence of coexisting hidden and self-excited attractors in economic systems.
method Integer and fractional order analysis of an economic system.
result Integer-order system exhibits multiple combinations of coexisting hidden and self-excited attractors.
This paper concerns the problem of learning control policies for an unknown linear dynamical system to minimize a quadratic cost function. We present a method, based on convex optimization, that accomplishes this task robustly: i.e., we minimize the worst-case cost, accounting for system uncertainty given the observed …
We provide a general probabilistic framework within which we establish scaling limits for a class of continuous-time stochastic volatility models with self-exciting jump dynamics. In the scaling limit, the joint dynamics of asset returns and volatility is driven by independent Gaussian white noises and two independent …
Optimal noise excitation for linear system identification reduces sample complexity.
problem Efficiently identifying linear systems with minimal data.
method Active learning algorithm using ordinary least squares and semidefinite programming.
result The proposed algorithm matches lower bounds on sample complexity for any active learning method.
Excited-state dynamics simulations are a powerful tool to investigate photo-induced reactions of molecules and materials and provide complementary information to experiments. Since the applicability of these simulation techniques is limited by the costs of the underlying electronic structure calculations, we develop an…
Paper forecasts financial trading durations using a new point process model.
problem Forecasting limit order book durations in high-frequency financial data.
method Self-exciting flexible residual point process incorporating empirical distributional features.
result The model achieves strong predictive performance compared to alternative approaches.
Motor control is a set of time-varying muscle excitations which generate desired motions for a biomechanical system. Muscle excitations cannot be directly measured from live subjects. An alternative approach is to estimate muscle activations using inverse motion-driven simulation. In this article, we propose a deep rei…
The Hawkes process is a simple point process, whose intensity function depends on the entire past history and is self-exciting and has the clustering property. The Hawkes process is in general non-Markovian. The linear Hawkes process has immigration-birth representation. Based on that, Fierro et al. recently introduced…
Develops a goodness-of-fit test for self-exciting processes.
problem Quantifying how well generative models capture self-exciting point processes.
method Connects to Quasi-maximum-likelihood estimator (QMLE) theory and develops a non-parametric self-normalizing statistic, the Generalized Score (GS) statistics.
result Validates the proposed GS test's good performance through numerical simulation and real-data experiments.
FinStressTS creates synthetic benchmarks for financial forecasting, revealing model weaknesses.
problem Limited failure attribution in real-world financial benchmarks.
method Synthetic benchmark with 30 diagnostic environments linked to six mechanism families.
result Model performance varies by mechanism type, with autoregressive models often outperforming Transformers.
The paper offers a checklist for comparing human and machine visual perception.
problem Comparing human and machine visual perception.
method Designing, conducting, and interpreting experiments to investigate mechanisms.
result Feedback mechanisms may not be necessary for visual reasoning tasks.
When an online learning algorithm is used to estimate the unknown parameters of a model, the signals interacting with the parameter estimates should not decay too quickly for the optimal values to be discovered correctly. This requirement is referred to as persistency of excitation, and it arises in various contexts, s…
PPPD framework extracts physical characterizations from stochastic mechanical systems.
problem Complex system behavior requires more than probabilistic descriptions of QoI.
method Probabilistic Performance-Pattern Decomposition (PPPD) framework.
result Decomposes system behaviors into meaningful patterns in response space.
Study optimal dividend and capital injection in insurance portfolios with self-exciting claim arrivals.
problem Optimal dividend and capital injection in insurance portfolios with Hawkes process claim arrivals.
method Analytical properties, explicit threshold, HJB variational inequality, finite-difference scheme, policy-gradient, actor-critic methods.
result Learned strategies closely match the PDE benchmark and remain stable across initial conditions.
Paper introduces MSPD for multivariate risk processes with dependencies.
problem Computing risk valuations with dynamic dependencies between frequency and severity.
method Combines Poisson imbedding, pseudo-chaotic expansion, and Malliavin calculus.
result Explicit general correlation formula for MSPDs.
In this paper we consider a mean-field model of interacting diffusions for the monetary reserves in which the reserves are subjected to a self- and cross-exciting shock. This is motivated by the financial acceleration and fire sales observed in the market. We derive a mean-field limit using a weak convergence analysis …
This study defines a multivariate Self--Exciting Threshold Autoregressive with eXogenous input (MSETARX) models and present an estimation procedure for the parameters. The conditions for stationarity of the nonlinear MSETARX models is provided. In particular, the efficiency of an adaptive parameter estimation algorithm…
We propose an extension to Hawkes processes by treating the levels of self-excitation as a stochastic differential equation. Our new point process allows better approximation in application domains where events and intensities accelerate each other with correlated levels of contagion. We generalize a recent algorithm f…
We present a Hawkes model approach to foreign exchange market in which the high frequency price dynamics is affected by a self exciting mechanism and an exogenous component, generated by the pre-announced arrival of macroeconomic news. By focusing on time windows around the news announcement, we find that the model is …