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48 results for Lévy's stable distribution

This paper presents generalized momentum mappings for covariant Hamiltonian field theories. The new momentum mappings arise from a generalization of symplectic geometry to LVYL_VY, the bundle of vertically adapted linear frames over the bundle of field configurations YY. Specifically, the generalized field momentum obs…

2001-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on ruin probabilities for Lévy processes with light-tailed jumps.

problem Determining bounds on ruin probabilities for Lévy processes.
method Analyzing the Laplace exponent of the Lévy process to find bounds on ruin probabilities.
result Identification of a new case not previously considered in the literature.

We provide an empirical investigation aimed at uncovering the statistical properties of intricate stock trading networks based on the order flow data of a highly liquid stock (Shenzhen Development Bank) listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange during the whole year of 2003. By reconstructing the limit order book, we can extra…

2010-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on ruin probability with investment in risky assets modeled as semimartingales.

problem Analyzing ruin probability in a business process with investment in risky assets.
method Investigates ruin probability with investment in a Lévy process and semimartingale return, deriving upper bounds and conditions for ruin.
result Upper bounds on ruin probabilities decrease as a power function with increasing initial capital, and these bounds are asymptotically optimal.

Investigates tempered stable distributions and processes, including density transformations and parameter estimation.

problem Understanding the properties and applications of tempered stable distributions and processes.
method Analysis of limit distributions, parameter estimation, density transformations, and computation of pp-variation indices.
result Computed pp-variation indices for tempered stable processes and discussed exponential stock models driven by these processes.

The paper provides a representation for dynamic risk measures and capital allocations.

problem Representation of dynamic risk measures and capital allocations under Itô-Lévy model.
method Representation theorem for dynamic capital allocation derived from BSDEs with quadratic-exponential growth.
result Derivation of a capital allocation representation for dynamic entropic risk measure and static coherent risk measure.

Stable processes emerge as limits of deep neural networks with symmetric stable distributions.

problem Understanding the behavior of deep neural networks as they become infinitely wide.
method Analyzing fully connected feed-forward deep neural networks with symmetric stable distributions and showing the limit as a stable process.
result The infinite wide limit of the network is a stable process with multivariate stable distributions.

A definition for elliptical tempered stable distribution, based on the characteristic function, have been explained which involve a unique spectral measure. This definition provides a framework for creating a connection between infinite divisible distribution, and particularly elliptical tempered stable distribution, w…

2014-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Heavy-tailed distributions are widely used in robust mixture modelling due to possessing thick tails. As a computationally tractable subclass of the stable distributions, sub-Gaussian αα-stable distribution received much interest in the literature. Here, we introduce a type of expectation maximization algorithm that e…

2017-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A new distribution family extends the α\alpha-stable distribution with a degree of freedom parameter.

problem Lack of moments in the α\alpha-stable distribution.
method Wright function framework to combine and extend distribution families.
result Generalized α\alpha-stable distribution with valid moments.

Failure of the main argument for the use of heavy tailed distribution in Finance is given. More precisely, one cannot observe so many outliers for Cauchy or for symmetric stable distributions as we have in reality. keywords:outliers; financial indexes; heavy tails; Cauchy distribution; stable distributions

2015-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm separates audio sources better using alpha-stable distributions.

problem Improving audio source separation using complex distributions.
method Estimating mixtures of alpha-stable distributions using characteristic function matching.
result Better separation performance than Gaussian-based methods.

This paper models cryptocurrencies using α\alpha-stable distributions, outperforming other models.

problem Modeling the highly speculative and leptokurtic nature of cryptocurrencies.
method Used α\alpha-stable distribution and compared it with other heavy tailed distributions. Employed maximum likelihood method for estimation.
result The α\alpha-stable distribution fits cryptocurrency return data better than other models.

Study of deep Stable neural networks with various activation functions.

problem Characterizing the infinitely wide limits of deep Stable neural networks.
method Investigation of large-width properties of deep Stable NNs with a generalized central limit theorem for heavy tails.
result Extension of characterization to a broader class of activation functions, including sub-linear, asymptotically linear, and super-linear functions.

Stock market price fluctuations follow Lévy's stable distribution over long term.

problem Understanding the stability of stock market price fluctuations over different time scales.
method Estimated Lévy's stable parameters from four stock markets over long and short term.
result Stable parameters from different stock markets showed a unique value over long term, but fluctuated with correlation in short term.

Deep neural networks with heavy-tailed weights converge to stable distributions.

problem Understanding the convergence of heavy-tailed weights in infinitely-wide neural networks.
method Analyzing infinitely-wide multi-layer perceptrons with i.i.d. symmetric αα-stable weight distributions.
result The vector of pre-activation values converges to i.i.d. symmetric αα-stable distributions.

The paper extends stable distribution fitting to cryptocurrencies, comparing it to traditional models.

problem Modelling daily cryptocurrency returns with stable distributions.
method Extended multivariate stable distribution fitting, applied to 10 sections of daily data, with bootstrap tests for validation.
result The proposed method outperforms traditional models in fitting cryptocurrency returns.

This paper characterizes cryptocurrency market behavior using Levy's stable distributions.

problem Modeling price fluctuations in cryptocurrency markets with fat tails and scaling phenomena.
method Characterization using Levy's stable distribution with α1.4α\simeq 1.4 under certain time intervals, employing Parseval's relation and GCLT.
result Price fluctuations in cryptocurrency markets can be well described by Levy's stable distribution.

I-SPEC learns stable models from data without full causal knowledge.

problem Learning models that generalize well across shifts in environment.
method End-to-end framework using partial ancestral graph to learn stable interventional distribution.
result I-SPEC can learn robust models without full causal knowledge.

This paper analyzes deep Stable neural networks, showing convergence rates under different growth settings.

problem Analyzing the behavior of deep Stable neural networks as width increases.
method Large-width asymptotic analysis and convergence rates for fully connected feed-forward deep Stable NNs.
result The rescaled deep Stable NN converges weakly to a Stable SP under joint growth, with sup-norm convergence rates established.

Characterizes Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes linked to tempered stable distributions.

problem Understanding Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and their properties.
method Characterizes the Lévy triplet and deduces transition laws for finite variation Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes associated with tempered stable distributions.
result Provides algorithms for generating skeleton of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes related to exponentially-modulated tempered stable laws.

The study establishes conditions for stratified spaces to satisfy RCD(K, N) curvature-dimension condition.

problem Conditions for stratified spaces to satisfy RCD(K, N) curvature-dimension condition.
method Proves conditions for stratified spaces to satisfy RCD(K, N) using Ricci tensor bounds and cone angles.
result New examples of metric measure spaces satisfying RCD(K, N) curvature-dimension condition.

The multivariate version of the Mixed Tempered Stable is proposed. It is a generalization of the Normal Variance Mean Mixtures. Characteristics of this new distribution and its capacity in fitting tails and capturing dependence structure between components are investigated. We discuss a random number generating procedu…

2016-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines European option pricing using a generalized tempered stable distribution.

problem Investigating the pricing of European options under a generalized tempered stable distribution.
method Fitting the Generalized Tempered Stable (GTS) distribution to S\&P 500 Index returns, applying the Esscher transform, and using the Extended Black-Scholes and Generalized Black-Scholes formulas.
result The GTS distribution yields consistent European option prices for deep OTM and ITM options, but underprices near-the-money and in-the-money options compared to the Black-Scholes model.

This paper illustrates a procedure for fitting financial data with αα-stable distributions. After using all the available methods to evaluate the distribution parameters, one can qualitatively select the best estimate and run some goodness-of-fit tests on this estimate, in order to quantitatively assess its quality. I…

2006-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper sets baselines for reading comprehension benchmarks, finding simple models often perform well.

problem Understanding the difficulty of popular reading comprehension benchmarks.
method Established baselines for bAbI, SQuAD, CBT, CNN, and Who-did-What datasets.
result Simple models often outperform complex models on many benchmarks.

In this paper we introduce a new parametric distribution, the Mixed Tempered Stable. It has the same structure of the Normal Variance Mean Mixtures but the normality assumption leaves place to a semi-heavy tailed distribution. We show that, by choosing appropriately the parameters of the distribution and under the conc…

2014-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines kurtosis in heavy-tailed symmetric stable distributions.

problem Understanding kurtosis in heavy-tailed symmetric stable distributions.
method Empirical study focusing on symmetric stable distributions, investigating sample kurtosis behavior with sample size and tail index.
result Expected value of excess kurtosis divided by sample size is finite for any tail index, and sample estimate increases linearly with sample size and tail index.

This paper studies large-width asymptotics for ReLU neural networks with α-Stable initializations.

problem Characterizing the large-width behavior of ReLU neural networks with α-Stable initializations.
method Analysis of the large-width distributions and training dynamics of ReLU neural networks initialized with α-Stable distributions.
result For ReLU neural networks with α-Stable initializations, the large-width training dynamics achieve zero training error at a linear rate, characterized by a random kernel.

Price fluctuations of commodities like cotton and wheat are thought to display probability distributions of returns that follow a Lévy stable distribution. Recent analysis of stocks and foreign exchange markets show that the probability distributions are not Lévy stable, a plausible result since commodity markets have …

2002-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores Thompson Sampling for heavy-tailed distributions in sequential decision-making.

problem Sequential decision-making with heavy-tailed rewards.
method Revisit Thompson Sampling for symmetric α\alpha-stable distributions, presenting algorithms and proving regret bounds.
result Thompson Sampling outperforms in heavy-tailed reward settings.

The paper evaluates functions of stable Lévy processes and their extrema efficiently.

problem Efficiently evaluating functions of stable Lévy processes and their extrema.
method Integral representations, conformal acceleration technique, simplified trapezoid rule.
result Efficient numerical procedures for cumulative probability distribution functions (cpdfs) are developed.

This paper removes the finite variance assumption for deep convolutional neural networks.

problem Removing the finite variance assumption for deep convolutional neural networks.
method Assuming iid parameters distributed according to a stable distribution, the paper shows that the infinite-channel limit of a deep feed-forward convolutional neural network is a multivariate stable stochastic process.
result The infinite-channel limit of a deep feed-forward convolutional neural network, under suitable scaling, is a multivariate stable stochastic process.

Stable random variables are motivated by the central limit theorem for densities with (potentially) unbounded variance and can be thought of as natural generalizations of the Gaussian distribution to skewed and heavy-tailed phenomenon. In this paper, we introduce stable graphical (SG) models, a class of multivariate st…

2014-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Speech enhancement improved using variational autoencoders and alpha-stable noise models.

problem Improving speech quality in noisy environments.
method Deep generative model using variational autoencoders with alpha-stable noise model.
result The proposed method outperforms conventional approaches in speech intelligibility and quality.

DLPM replaces Gaussian noise with α-stable noise in DDPM, improving data distribution coverage and robustness.

problem Handling mode collapse and class imbalance in datasets with heavy-tailed noise.
method Extending DDPM to use α-stable noise, simplifying the process with elementary proof techniques.
result DLPM yields better coverage of data distribution tails, improved robustness to unbalanced datasets, and faster computation times.

In this paper, we study distribution of the zeros of the Alexander polynomials of knots and links in S^3. We call a knot or link "real stable" (resp. "circular stable") if all the zeros of its Alexander polynomial are real (resp. unit complex). We give a general construction of real stable and circular stable knots and…

2013-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for analyzing stable learning algorithms across different dataset shifts.

problem Analyzing and comparing stability of learning algorithms across various dataset shifts.
method Causal graphical representation to express dataset shifts and a hierarchy of operators to disable shift-causing edges.
result Established conditions for optimal performance and derived new algorithms for finding stable distributions.