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.
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.
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.
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…
Homeownership boosts wealth and welfare compared to renting, according to new research.
problem The conventional wisdom that renting is better than owning a home.
method Block-bootstrap lifecycle simulation to compare homeownership and renting strategies.
result Homeownership generates more wealth and welfare gains than renting, especially for households with high labor income.
Consumer Demand Response (DR) is an important research and industry problem, which seeks to categorize, predict and modify consumer's energy consumption. Unfortunately, traditional clustering methods have resulted in many hundreds of clusters, with a given consumer often associated with several clusters, making it diff…
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.
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.
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…
We describe a method to identify poor households in data-scarce countries by leveraging information contained in nationally representative household surveys. It employs standard statistical learning techniques---cross-validation and parameter regularization---which together reduce the extent to which the model is over-…
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.
Decision trees are a popular technique in statistical data classification. They recursively partition the feature space into disjoint sub-regions until each sub-region becomes homogeneous with respect to a particular class. The basic Classification and Regression Tree (CART) algorithm partitions the feature space using…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least…
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…
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.
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.
Recent studies using data on social media and stock markets have mainly focused on predicting stock returns. Instead of predicting stock price movements, we examine the relation between Facebook data and investors' decision making in stock markets with a unique data on investors' transactions on Nokia. We find that the…
The ability to decompose a signal in an orthonormal basis (a set of orthogonal components, each normalized to have unit length) using a fast numerical procedure rests at the heart of many signal processing methods and applications. The classic examples are the Fourier and wavelet transforms that enjoy numerically effic…
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. 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.
Dictionary learning is the task of determining a data-dependent transform that yields a sparse representation of some observed data. The dictionary learning problem is non-convex, and usually solved via computationally complex iterative algorithms. Furthermore, the resulting transforms obtained generally lack structure…
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.
I sketch a program for a microeconomic theory of the main component of the business cycle as a recurring disequilibrium, driven by incompleteness of the financial market and by information asymmetries between borrowers and lenders. This proposal seeks to incorporate five distinct but connected processes that have been …
A new algorithm speeds up matrix operations in Neural Networks.
problem Time-consuming matrix operations in Neural Networks.
method An algorithm that increases the degree of parallelism of matrix multiplication.
result The algorithm speeds up several matrix operations in Neural Networks.
Statistical mechanics explains income and wealth distribution in developed economies.
problem Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in developed economies.
method Derive the distribution from firm dynamics using maximum entropy and mixture aggregation.
result Derive the robust two-class structure of income and wealth distribution.
Hierarchical clustering models capture electricity load patterns from smart meters.
problem Improving efficiency and sustainability of electricity systems.
method Quantile autocovariances and autocorrelations for summarizing time series.
result Clusters identify relevant consumption behaviors and capture geo-demographic segmentation.