Paper introduces efficient orthonormal transformations using Householder reflectors.
problem Fast numerical procedures for orthonormal transformations are computationally expensive.
method Develops orthonormal matrices using Householder reflectors to approximate any orthonormal or symmetric transform.
result Approximations of orthonormal or symmetric transforms using a few Householder reflectors are accurate and computationally efficient.
This paper develops fast orthonormal dictionaries using Householder reflectors.
problem Learning sparse representations with non-convex and computationally complex dictionaries.
method Develops orthonormal dictionaries from products of Householder reflectors, proposing sequential and simultaneous update algorithms.
result Proposed algorithms achieve low computational complexity and converge to local minimum points.
A new flow-based method improves VAE flexibility.
problem Limited flexibility of VAE latent distributions.
method Householder flow for more flexible variational posterior.
result More flexible variational posterior leads to better results.
We solve Bayesian PCA's rotational symmetry issue by rotation-invariant parameterization.
problem Bayesian PCA's rotational symmetry complicates inference and interpretation.
method Rotation-invariant Householder parameterization using random matrix theory.
result Efficient rotation-invariant probabilistic PCA implementation.
Efficiently optimizes orthogonal and Stiefel matrices on parallel units.
problem Optimization over orthogonal groups on parallel units.
method CWY and T-CWY transforms for parametrization and optimization.
result CWY and T-CWY methods lead to convergence on parallel units.
Study on Spanish households' investment choices in housing, deposits, and stocks.
problem Investment decisions of Spanish households in housing, deposits, and stocks.
method Theoretical model considering indivisible and illiquid housing assets, financial constraints, and actual choices compared.
result Households underinvest in stocks and deposits compared to optimal choices, but mortgage investments are efficient.
HD algorithm simulates dynamics on random matrix ensembles without generating full matrices.
problem Simulating dynamics on dense random matrix ensembles with high space and time complexity.
method Householder reflectors for adaptive and recursive construction, deferring decisions.
result Significant reductions in runtime and memory footprint for practical T≪n. Machine learning identifies poor households with simple survey questions.
problem Classifying poor households in data-scarce countries.
method Cross-validation and parameter regularization to reduce overfitting.
result The model accurately predicts poverty using only ten survey questions.
Credit expansion led to stronger household leverage cycles during the U.S. business cycle.
problem Understanding the role of credit supply in the U.S. business cycle.
method Causal evidence from 1999-2010 U.S. business cycle data.
result Credit expansion, particularly in private-label mortgages, caused stronger household leverage cycles.
Investment herding can reduce household consumption, a phenomenon called crowding-out effect.
problem Investment herding's impact on household consumption.
method Optimal control theory to model and solve for household investment and consumption decisions.
result Existence of crowding-out effect due to investment herding.
Financial planners helped preserve and increase household net financial assets during the Great Recession.
problem Impact of financial planners on household net financial assets during the Great Recession.
method Utilized 2007-2009 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) panel dataset, analyzed 3,862 respondents.
result Starting to use a financial planner during the Great Recession had a positive impact on preserving and increasing household net financial assets.
Study shows household inequality accounts for 30% of total global income inequality.
problem Intra-household inequality is often overlooked in studies of income inequality.
method Used LIS micro data to analyze inequality trends in 1973-2013 across multiple countries.
result At least 30% of total global income inequality is due to intra-household inequality.
In this article we present an alternative model for the distribution of household incomes in the United States. We provide arguments from two differing perspectives which both yield the proposed income distribution curve, and then fit this curve to empirical data on household income distribution obtained from the Unite…
This paper considers an optimal life insurance for a householder subject to mortality risk. The household receives a wage income continuously, which is terminated by unexpected (premature) loss of earning power or (planned and intended) retirement, whichever happens first. In order to hedge the risk of losing income st…
The 1/3 Financial Rule helps prevent household bankruptcy through balanced spending, savings, and debt repayment.
problem Reducing household bankruptcy risk through effective financial planning.
method Mathematical modeling, game theory, behavioral finance, and technological analysis.
result The 1/3 Financial Rule emerges as a robust solution for supporting household financial stability.
Model analyzes mortgage relief during financial hardship.
problem Understanding and optimizing mortgage relief during financial distress.
method Agent-based model of households and servicers.
result Model replicates real-world mortgage studies and provides fine-grained insights.
Develops a two-layer model to design mortgage assistance products.
problem Designing effective mortgage assistance products to improve household resilience.
method Two-layer approach: simulation and optimization.
result Shows how the approach can design and evaluate mortgage assistance products.
Model shows how past consumption affects household confidence, leading to varied economic outcomes.
problem Exploring how past consumption impacts current confidence and economic activity in a multi-household model.
method Developed a DSGE model where past consumption influences individual household confidence and consumption propensity.
result The model demonstrates a range of economic outcomes including high output with no crises, high output with increased volatility, and alternation of high and low output states.
Study analyzes household capital risk and poverty trapping, deriving a new function for capital deficit distribution.
problem Analyzing the risk of household capital falling into poverty.
method Introduced a new Gerber-Shiu function to model trapping time and capital deficit distribution.
result Derived a model for capital deficit distribution at trapping using GB distributions.
A database of objects discovered in houses in the Roman city of Pompeii provides a unique view of ordinary life in an ancient city. Experts have used this collection to study the structure of Roman households, exploring the distribution and variability of tasks in architectural spaces, but such approaches are necessari…
Enhanced deep learning model forecasts household leverage series accurately.
problem Forecasting household leverage series due to complex temporal-spatial dynamics.
method TSEN model with multiple RNN-based layers and an attention layer.
result Captures temporal-spatial dynamics and provides more accurate predictions.
Study on stock portfolio concentration among Finnish households and investors.
problem Understanding the concentration of stock portfolios owned by Finnish households and investors.
method Analysis of stock portfolios using Herfindahl-Hirschman index over 20 years.
result High portfolio concentration observed in Finnish retail investors, similar to institutional investors.
Model shows how confidence feedback can lead to different crisis outcomes.
problem Characterizing the impact of economic recessions on different social strata.
method A self-reflexive DSGE model with heterogeneous households, varying parameters to analyze crisis typologies.
result Crisis propagation can be confined to high or low income households, depending on social network structure and income inequality.
We found a unified formula for description of the household incomes of all society classes, for instance, of those of the European Union in year 2007. This formula is a stationary solution of the threshold Fokker-Planck equation (derived from the threshold nonlinear Langevin one). The formula is more general than the w…
New method for disaggregate electricity demand forecasting at household level.
problem Challenges in forecasting electricity demand at individual household level.
method Additive stacking method for probabilistic disaggregate electricity demand forecasting.
result Improved accuracy in disaggregate electricity demand forecasting.
Examines how extending home loan durations affects French households financially.
problem Financial implications for households with extended home loan durations.
method Analysis of French and international home loan systems, including bullet loans and Japanese home loans.
result Extending home loan durations can reduce monthly payments but raises financial risks.
We found a unified formula for description of the household incomes of all society classes, for instance, for the European Union in years 2005-2010. The formula is more general than well known that of Yakovenko et al. because, it satisfactorily describes not only the household incomes of low- and medium-income society …
New measure predicts Dutch housing market downturns.
problem Understanding causes of Dutch housing boom and bust.
method Modelled household lending capacity using bank formulas.
result New measure outperforms traditional measures in forecasting housing prices.
The paper develops a method for forecasting power consumption at various levels of aggregation.
problem Forecasting power consumption at different levels of household aggregation.
method Three-step process: feature generation, aggregation, and projection.
result The method provides theoretical guarantees on prediction error and performs well on real data.
Study optimal portfolio for households with two goals: random and fixed deadlines.
problem Optimal portfolio choice for households managing random and fixed deadlines.
method Maximizes weighted sum of probabilities of funding both goals in a Black-Scholes market.
result Non-monotonic value function due to interaction between goals under forced funding.
We investigate the distribution function and the cumulative probability for Korean household incomes, i.e., the current, labor, and property incomes. For our case, the distribution functions are consistent with a power law. It is also showed that the probability density of income growth rates almost has the form of a e…
Paper presents a shape-based approach for better household load curve clustering and prediction.
problem Difficulty in classifying and predicting consumer energy consumption due to many clusters.
method Shape-based approach using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to align energy consumption patterns.
result Reduces the number of representative groups by 50% and improves prediction accuracy.
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.
We determine the optimal amount of life insurance for a household of two wage earners. We consider the simple case of exponential utility, thereby removing wealth as a factor in buying life insurance, while retaining the relationship among life insurance, income, and the probability of dying and thus losing that income…
This paper reports on our analysis of the 2011 CAMRa Challenge dataset (Track 2) for context-aware movie recommendation systems. The train dataset comprises 4,536,891 ratings provided by 171,670 users on 23,974$ movies, as well as the household groupings of a subset of the users. The test dataset comprises 5,450 rating…
Framework predicts household incomes using common indicators across regions.
problem Finding a single policy for multiple regions with diverse issues.
method Regression analysis and Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle.
result Framework identifies largest regions with common indicators for efficient income prediction.
Deep RL agent predicts malaria likelihood from household surveys.
problem Predicting malaria likelihood from household surveys.
method Deep Reinforcement Learning (DQN) agent learns to ask adaptive questions.
result 80% accuracy with 2.5 questions, vs. 6 questions for supervised learning.
Smart grid uses deep learning to optimize household energy use.
problem Optimizing household energy use under real-time pricing schemes.
method Multi-agent deep actor-critic learning for decentralized agents with partial observability.
result Deep reinforcement learning reduces peak-to-average energy consumption and costs.
Subsidized insurance reduces poverty by providing social benefits and lowering government costs.
problem Reducing poverty through effective social protection mechanisms.
method Modeling household capital dynamics under four insurance frameworks (uninsured, insured, insured with subsidies, insured with flexible premiums) to assess poverty reduction and governmental costs.
result Subsidized insurance schemes provide maximum social benefits while reducing governmental costs, effectively reducing poverty.
One reflection suffices for orthogonal weights, reducing GPU usage.
problem Efficiently computing orthogonal weight matrices without high GPU utilization.
method Use an auxiliary neural network to compute one reflection instead of many.
result One reflection is sufficient for orthogonal weights, improving GPU utilization.
ELM struggles with real data, new methods improve performance and speed.
problem Low convergence of SVD in ELM for real-life large data.
method Replaced SVD with 5 methods: lower upper triangularization, Hessenberg decomposition, Schur decomposition, modified Gram Schmidt algorithm, and Householder reflection.
result Hessenberg decomposition for training pace, Householder reflection for performance in EEG-based brain-computer interface.
LOFT separates subspace rotation and transformation for orthogonal fine-tuning.
problem Conflating subspace rotation and transformation in orthogonal fine-tuning.
method LOFT explicitly separates subspace rotation and transformation, using task-aware support selection.
result LOFT recovers principal-subspace orthogonal adaptation and improves efficiency-performance trade-off.
PCGS-TF uses a Transformer to adaptively control expert switching in non-stationary environments.
problem Static regret is insufficient for strictly online prediction in non-stationary settings.
method Policy-Controlled Generalized Share (PCGS) with a Transformer as an update controller.
result PCGS-TF achieves the lowest dynamic regret in non-stationary families and expert pools.
Consumers with low demand, like households, are generally supplied single-phase power by connecting their service mains to one of the phases of a distribution transformer. The distribution companies face the problem of keeping a record of consumer connectivity to a phase due to uninformed changes that happen. The exact…
Facebook influences passive investors' stock decisions.
problem Understanding how social media affects passive investors' stock market behavior.
method Examined Nokia investors' transactions data to analyze the impact of Facebook on buying and selling decisions.
result Passive investors and nonprofit organizations are influenced by Facebook data, while sophisticated investors are not.
Model explains capital allocation and wealth distribution dynamics in a frictional economy.
problem Understanding capital allocation and wealth distribution dynamics in a frictional economy.
method Mean-field game approach to model interactions between expert and household groups.
result Experts accumulate capital during booms and quickly reverse behavior in busts, even without macro-shocks.
New method clusters travel behavior data from 1990-2017.
problem Challenges in analyzing large-scale travel data.
method Divide and Combine K-means clustering on time series data.
result Activity-travel patterns can be grouped into three clusters.
A fast method for sparse PCA reduces computation time.
problem Time-consuming implementation of SPCA on high-dimensional data.
method Subspace projections using Household QR factorization for efficient deflation.
result Developed SPCA-SP method maintains good tradeoffs between various criteria.