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48 results for Hawkes processes

Methodology for estimating marked Hawkes processes with neural networks.

problem Estimating conditional intensity of marked Hawkes processes.
method Proposes two models: Shallow Neural Hawkes with marks and Neural Network for Non-Linear Hawkes with Marks.
result Validation on synthetic datasets and real-world cryptocurrency order book data.

The study examines Hawkes processes and their long-term behavior.

problem Understanding the long-term behavior of Hawkes processes.
method Proving functional limit theorems under various conditions on the dispersion of child events.
result Functional limit theorems hold for Hawkes processes with different levels of child event dispersion.

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…

2014-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes first privacy-preserving method for estimating Hawkes processes.

problem Estimating point process models with sensitive personal data raises privacy concerns.
method Proposes differential privacy for event stream data and two optimization algorithms.
result Efficiently estimates Hawkes process models with privacy and utility guarantees.

Study applies Hawkes volatility to mid-price process for real-time risk management.

problem Lack of studies on Hawkes volatility for tick-level price dynamics.
method Derived variance formula for unmarked and marked Hawkes models, applied to mid-price process.
result Reliable results and high predictive power of intraday Hawkes volatility.

Modeling multiple Hawkes processes with shared dynamics using graphons.

problem Modeling multiple multivariate point processes with shared dynamics.
method Leverage graphons to model an uncountable event type space, learn graphon-based Hawkes process model by minimizing hierarchical optimal transport distance.
result Infer underlying relations and simulate event sequences with similar dynamics.

New findings allow infinite mean intensity Hawkes processes to be stable.

problem Stability condition for Hawkes processes with infinite mean intensity.
method Analysis of Quadratic Hawkes processes with infinite mean intensity.
result Quadratic Hawkes processes are always stationary with infinite mean intensity when total endogeneity ratio exceeds unity.

New Hawkes processes model spatiotemporal events with triggering and clustering.

problem Modeling self-excitatory behavior in spatiotemporal data.
method Developed a new class of spatiotemporal Hawkes processes with efficient inference method.
result Efficiently modeled and inferred spatiotemporal events with triggering and clustering.

Paper proposes a neural network for non-parametric Hawkes process kernel estimation.

problem Estimating non-parametric Hawkes process kernels efficiently and interpretably.
method Single hidden layer neural network for unbiased log-likelihood estimation of Hawkes processes.
result Proposed neural network achieves comparable or better performance than existing methods.

The paper studies Hawkes processes under mean-field limits and criticality conditions.

problem Analyzing nearly unstable Hawkes processes in a mean-field regime.
method Extending the method by Jaisson and Rosenbaum, establishing scaling limits and propagation of chaos.
result Scaling limits of Hawkes processes are stochastic Volterra diffusions of affine type, with three distinct limiting regimes.

Hawkes processes are a particularly interesting class of stochastic process that have been applied in diverse areas, from earthquake modelling to financial analysis. They are point processes whose defining characteristic is that they 'self-excite', meaning that each arrival increases the rate of future arrivals for som…

2015-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study differentially private methods for learning Hawkes processes.

problem Lack of thorough analysis on sample complexity for learning Hawkes processes parameters and releasing differentially private versions.
method Developed non-private and differentially private estimators for Hawkes processes parameters.
result Obtained sample complexity results for both private and non-private settings.

We propose a novel fused Gromov-Wasserstein alignment method to jointly learn the Hawkes processes in different event spaces, and align their event types. Given two Hawkes processes, we use fused Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancy to measure their dissimilarity, which considers both the Wasserstein discrepancy based on the…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Exact asymptotic solutions found for nonlinear Hawkes processes.

problem Analytical solutions for nonlinear Hawkes processes with positive and negative feedbacks.
method Field master equation approach to classify steady-state solutions.
result Explicit power law formulas for steady-state intensity distributions Pss(λ)λ1aP_{\mathrm{ss}}(λ)\propto λ^{-1-a}, with aa as a function of parameters.

New scalable variational Bayes methods for Hawkes processes.

problem Computational intractability of Bayesian estimation for generalised nonlinear Hawkes processes.
method Unified variational Bayes framework, adaptive mean-field approximation, sparsity-inducing procedure.
result Adaptive mean-field variational algorithm for sigmoid Hawkes processes is scalable and robust.

Introduces a new Hawkes model with CARMA(p,q) intensity to better model dependence structures.

problem Modeling dependence structures in time series data with realistic autocorrelation functions.
method Develops a Hawkes process with CARMA(p,q) intensity to capture more complex dependencies.
result The CARMA(p,q)-Hawkes model can reproduce more realistic dependence structures and is stationary and positive.

In this paper, we develop an efficient nonparametric Bayesian estimation of the kernel function of Hawkes processes. The non-parametric Bayesian approach is important because it provides flexible Hawkes kernels and quantifies their uncertainty. Our method is based on the cluster representation of Hawkes processes. Util…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

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 this paper, we study various new Hawkes processes. Specifically, we construct general compound Hawkes processes and investigate their properties in limit order books. With regards to these general compound Hawkes processes, we prove a Law of Large Numbers (LLN) and a Functional Central Limit Theorems (FCLT) for seve…

2018-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

As a powerful tool of asynchronous event sequence analysis, point processes have been studied for a long time and achieved numerous successes in different fields. Among various point process models, Hawkes process and its variants attract many researchers in statistics and computer science these years because they capt…

2017-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper focuses on a class of linear Hawkes processes with general immigrants. These are counting processes with shot noise intensity, including self-excited and externally excited patterns. For such processes, we introduce the concept of age pyramid which evolves according to immigration and births. The virtue if t…

2015-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new model for complex multivariate event data.

problem Modeling complex multivariate event data with spatio-temporal dynamics.
method Integrates spatial information into latent state evolution through learned temporal and spatial decay dynamics.
result Successfully recovers sensible temporal and spatial intensity structure in multivariate spatio-temporal point patterns.

The paper develops Hawkes-based models for LOB and applies them to European, spread, and basket option pricing.

problem Developing accurate models for pricing options in the context of limit order books (LOB).
method Introduces multivariate Hawkes processes and their limit theorems, applies to European, spread, and basket options.
result Hawkes-based models provide more market forecast information than classical models.

Study shows how heavy-tailed Hawkes processes can model rough volatility in financial markets.

problem Modeling rough volatility in financial markets with heavy-tailed Hawkes processes.
method Established weak convergence of Hawkes process with power-law kernel, derived scaling limit for financial market model.
result Price-volatility process converges weakly to a rough Heston model after rescaling.

This paper explores neural models to improve modeling of Hawkes process intensity functions.

problem Traditional Hawkes process intensity function's parametrized kernel function biases future event predictions.
method Uses neural models to model the kernel function of Hawkes process intensity function.
result Neural models can better capture future event characteristics using past events data.

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.

This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by reviewing the definitions and the key concepts in point processes. We then introduce the Hawkes process, its event intensity function, as…

2017-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

NNNH uses neural networks to model complex event patterns.

problem Analyzing multi-dimensional nonlinear Hawkes processes with mutual excitation and inhibition.
method NNNH employs feedforward neural networks to model individual kernels and base intensity, optimizing parameters via Stochastic Gradient Descent.
result NNNH accurately captures complexities of nonlinear Hawkes processes, as demonstrated by numerical experiments.

Extends Hawkes process for flexible residual modeling in point processes.

problem Modeling high-frequency financial data with complex residual distributions.
method Introduces self and mutually exciting point process with discretely Markovian dynamics.
result Flexible residual distributions improve intensity modeling and high-frequency data estimation.

The superposition of temporal point processes has been studied for many years, although the usefulness of such models for practical applications has not be fully developed. We investigate superposed Hawkes process as an important class of such models, with properties studied in the framework of least squares estimation…

2017-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we introduce a new model for the risk process based on general compound Hawkes process (GCHP) for the arrival of claims. We call it risk model based on general compound Hawkes process (RMGCHP). The Law of Large Numbers (LLN) and the Functional Central Limit Theorem (FCLT) are proved. We also study the ma…

2017-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel Hawkes Process model captures order sizes in LOBs, improving fit quality and market impact studies.

problem Capturing the variability in order sizes in Limit Order Books (LOBs).
method Compound Hawkes Process with time-varying parameters and non-parametric calibration.
result Improved fit quality and empirical market impact function replication.

Derives a pricing formula for VIX options using a new stochastic volatility model.

problem Pricing VIX options under a new stochastic volatility model with volatility clustering.
method Derives a semi-analytical pricing formula using the Heston-Hawkes model with an independent compound Hawkes process.
result Derives an explicit expression for VIX^2 as a linear combination of variance and Hawkes intensity.

UNHaP removes noise from physiological events using Hawkes processes.

problem Challenges in identifying true events from spurious ones in physiological signal analysis.
method UNHaP uses marked Hawkes processes to distinguish and unmix true events from noise.
result UNHaP significantly reduces false detection rates and enhances event understanding.

Flexible Hawkes model with Gaussian process self-effects for time-dependent data.

problem Modeling time-dependent point processes with history dependence and self-effects.
method Extended Hawkes process with Gaussian process self-effects for both excitatory and inhibitory types, using Bayesian inference and mean-field variational approximation.
result Efficient approximate Bayesian inference achieved via data augmentation and mean-field variational approach.