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48 results for G-conditional expectation

It has been 35 years since Stanley proved that f-vectors of boundaries of simplicial polytopes satisfy McMullen's conjectured g-conditions. Since then one of the outstanding questions in the realm of face enumeration is whether or not Stanley's proof could be extended to larger classes of spheres. Here we hope to give …

2014-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers the problem of optimal liquidation of a position in a risky security in a financial market, where price evolution are risky and trades have an impact on price as well as uncertainty in the filling orders. The problem is formulated as a continuous time stochastic optimal control problem aiming at ma…

2019-01-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is a fundamental task for Chinese language understanding. Recently, neural network-based models have attained superior performance in solving the in-domain CWS task. Last year, Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT), a new language representation model, has been pr…

2019-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

A method for disentangling text representations without supervision.

problem Challenges in learning disentangled representations of natural language.
method Information-theoretic guidance to induce independent style and content embeddings.
result High quality disentangled representations in terms of content and style preservation.

While learning the maximum likelihood value of parameters of an undirected graphical model is hard, modelling the posterior distribution over parameters given data is harder. Yet, undirected models are ubiquitous in computer vision and text modelling (e.g. conditional random fields). But where Bayesian approaches for d…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework that learns a generative distribution through adversarial training. Recently, their class-conditional extensions (e.g., conditional GAN (cGAN) and auxiliary classifier GAN (AC-GAN)) have attracted much attention owing to their ability to learn the disentangled repr…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A new framework for generative modeling using value-driven transport.

problem Developing efficient methods for generative modeling.
method A discrete-time stochastic control formulation of measure transport, formulated as a linear program with dual variables corresponding to the optimal value function.
result Well-trained VDT policies lead to straight transport paths that can be simulated quickly and robustly.

Develops neural network framework for risk-reward optimization problems.

problem Multi-period risk-reward optimization with constrained policies.
method Neural network framework with two coupled feedforward networks, parametrizing two-step policies.
result Empirical optimum converges to true optimal value as network capacity and training size increase.

Interventional data helps identify latent factors without distributional assumptions.

problem Identifying latent factors from interventional data without distributional assumptions.
method Leveraging geometric signatures of latent factors' support from interventional data.
result Latent causal factors can be identified up to permutation and scaling given data from perfect do-interventions.

The hyperfinite GG-expectation is a nonstandard discrete analogue of GG-expectation (in the sense of Robinsonian nonstandard analysis). A lifting of a continuous-time GG-expectation operator is defined as a hyperfinite GG-expectation which is infinitely close, in the sense of nonstandard topology, to the continuous…

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Active inference minimizes expected free energy for optimal behavior.

problem Understanding and optimizing behavior in complex systems.
method Combines Bayesian decision theory, optimal Bayesian design, and the free energy principle.
result Active inference emerges as a unified framework for information-seeking, utility maximization, and goal-directed behavior.

It is well known that Expected Shortfall (also called Average Value-at-Risk) is a convex risk measure, i. e. Expected Shortfall of a convex linear combination of arbitrary risk positions is not greater than a convex linear combination with the same weights of Expected Shortfalls of the same risk positions. In this shor…

2019-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We provide a general construction of time-consistent sublinear expectations on the space of continuous paths. It yields the existence of the conditional G-expectation of a Borel-measurable (rather than quasi-continuous) random variable, a generalization of the random G-expectation, and an optional sampling theorem that…

2012-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new notion of conditional nonlinear expectation under probability distortion. Such a distorted nonlinear expectation is not sub-additive in general, so it is beyond the scope of Peng's framework of nonlinear expectations. A more fundamental problem when extending the distorted expectation to a dynamic se…

2018-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We refine Expected Shortfall by controlling different tail portions, offering tailored risk assessments.

problem Risk assessment in financial positions, especially in tail regions.
method Introducing adjusted Expected Shortfall measures that control different tail portions.
result Adjusted Expected Shortfall measures ensure risk does not exceed specified thresholds for various probability levels.

A non-Euclidean generalization of conditional expectation is introduced and characterized as the minimizer of expected intrinsic squared-distance from a manifold-valued target. The computational tractable formulation expresses the non-convex optimization problem as transformations of Euclidean conditional expectation. …

2017-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New unbiased gradient estimators for complex optimization problems.

problem Unbiased and variance-limited gradient estimation for conditional stochastic optimization.
method Developed multilevel Monte Carlo gradient estimators for conditional stochastic optimization problems.
result Unbiased and finite variance gradient estimators for conditional stochastic optimization problems.

We study the dynamic indifference pricing with ambiguity preferences. For this, we introduce the dynamic expected utility with ambiguity via the nonlinear expectation--G-expectation, introduced by Peng (2007). We also study the risk aversion and certainty equivalent for the agents with ambiguity. We obtain the dynamic …

2015-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Expected signatures map data streams to lower dimensions, improving ML performance.

problem Leveraging model-free embeddings for domain-agnostic machine learning.
method Expected signatures map data streams to lower dimensions, with convergence results bridging empirical and theoretical estimators.
result A modified expected signature estimator with lower mean squared error for martingale processes.

The paper revisits expected signatures in semimartingale models, providing new formulae and simplifying complexity.

problem Computing expected signatures in semimartingale models.
method Revisits and provides new formulae for computing expected signatures in a general semimartingale setting.
result Log-transform of expected signatures simplifies complexity, leading to signature cumulants.

Research shows that information asymmetry affects how quickly companies adjust their capital structure and expected returns.

problem The relationship between capital structure adjustment speed and expected returns is influenced by information asymmetry.
method A hybrid data regression model was used to test the hypotheses based on data from 120 companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange.
result Information asymmetry positively affects the relationship between capital structure adjustment speed and expected returns.

Expected Shortfall (ES) in several variants has been proposed as remedy for the defi-ciencies of Value-at-Risk (VaR) which in general is not a coherent risk measure. In fact, most definitions of ES lead to the same results when applied to continuous loss distributions. Differences may appear when the underlying loss di…

2001-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper distills Bayesian posterior expectations for deep neural networks.

problem Improving deep neural network performance and uncertainty quantification.
method Develops a framework for distilling expectations from Bayesian posterior distributions using Monte Carlo samples.
result The framework successfully distills posterior predictive distribution and expected entropy.

Distribution and sample models are two popular model choices in model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL). However, learning these models can be intractable, particularly when the state and action spaces are large. Expectation models, on the other hand, are relatively easier to learn due to their compactness and have a…

2019-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we will discuss the optimal risk transfer problems when risk measures are generated by G-expectations, and we present the relationship between inf-convolution of G-expectations and the inf-convolution of drivers G.

2009-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Sublinear functionals of random variables are known as sublinear expectations; they are convex homogeneous functionals on infinite-dimensional linear spaces. We extend this concept for set-valued functionals defined on measurable set-valued functions (which form a nonlinear space), equivalently, on random closed sets. …

2019-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes data-driven methods for estimating conditional expectations.

problem Estimating conditional expectations when underlying density is unknown.
method Data-driven techniques to directly estimate conditional expectations from training data.
result Extends data-driven method to solve nonlinear equations in stochastic optimization.

News on inflation and monetary policy impacts US household inflation expectations.

problem Understanding how news affects inflation expectations.
method Monthly disaggregated US data from 1978 to 2016, controlling for various factors.
result News on rising inflation and easier monetary policy has a stronger impact on inflation expectations.

Paper tackles conditional expectation estimation using compactification operators.

problem Estimating conditional expectations from product of two random variables.
method Operator theoretic approach using kernel integral operators in reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
result Solutions allow numerical approximation and convergence of data-driven implementations.

Paper solves optimization problems with convex expectation constraints using a new algorithm.

problem Minimizing convex expectation functions with inequality convex expectation constraints.
method Stochastic Augmented Lagrangian-Type Algorithm (Stochastic Linearized Proximal Method of Multipliers).
result Algorithm achieves O(K1/2)O(K^{-1/2}) convergence rates for objective reduction and constraint violation.

Variational inference is a powerful concept that underlies many iterative approximation algorithms; expectation propagation, mean-field methods and belief propagations were all central themes at the school that can be perceived from this unifying framework. The lectures of Manfred Opper introduce the archetypal example…

2014-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a random link, which is defined as the closure of a braid obtained from a random walk on the braid group. For such a random link, the expected value for the number of components was calculated by Jiming Ma. In this paper, we determine the most expected number of components for a random link, and further, co…

2015-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗