New model identifies regimes in non-stationary data.
problem Identifying latent regimes in non-stationary systems with instantaneous effects.
method Identifiable Markov Switching Models with exponential family noise.
result Established identifiability of latent regimes and causal structures.
The paper develops a method to predict the latent deterioration phase in limit order books before stress is observed.
problem Limit order books can transition rapidly from stable to stressed conditions, making it difficult to detect the latent deterioration phase.
method The paper formalizes a three-regime causal data-generating process and proposes a trigger-based detector combining MAX aggregation of complementary signal channels, a rising-edge condition, and adaptive thresholding.
result The proposed method achieves mean lead-time of +18.6 timesteps with perfect precision and moderate coverage, outperforming classical change-point and microstructure baselines.
Develops identifiability theory for multi-lag regime-switching models.
problem Ensuring interpretability of deep latent variable models with multi-lag dependencies.
method Formulates a general theoretical framework for multi-lag Regime-Switching Models (RSMs), proving identifiability of number of regimes and multi-lag transitions.
result Establishes identifiability conditions for multi-lag regime-switching models, including Markov Switching Models and Switching Dynamical Systems.
VAE improves semi-supervised learning in small data.
problem Limited data in biological samples.
method Applied VAE to capture features in a lower-dimension.
result Improved performance in semi-supervised learning.
RAMBO optimizes multi-regime problems by discovering and modeling distinct energy basins.
problem Multi-regime problems in molecular conformation and drug discovery.
method Dirichlet Process Mixture of Gaussian Processes with adaptive hyperparameters and concentration parameters.
result Consistent improvements over state-of-the-art on multi-regime objectives.
HireVAE adapts to market regimes for online stock prediction.
problem Building an online and adaptive factor model for stock prediction.
method HireVAE uses a hierarchical latent space to estimate latent factors from historical market information.
result HireVAE outperforms previous methods in active returns across benchmarks.
This paper uses RL and RNN to optimize trading with latent market information.
problem Optimal trading strategies exploiting latent information in financial markets.
method Blend of RL and RNN, integrating GRU networks for temporal dependencies.
result prob-DDPG achieves superior cumulative rewards and interpretable strategies.
The paper identifies five extreme learning regimes for large linear autoencoders.
problem Understanding the learning dynamics of large weight-tied linear autoencoders.
method Formal loss-expansion hierarchy and analysis of gradient flow.
result Five extreme regimes associated with faces of a triangular prism.
By simulating the easy-to-hard learning manners of humans/animals, the learning regimes called curriculum learning~(CL) and self-paced learning~(SPL) have been recently investigated and invoked broad interests. However, the intrinsic mechanism for analyzing why such learning regimes can work has not been comprehensivel…
BGM-IV uses AI to estimate causal effects in complex data.
problem Estimating causal effects in high-dimensional, nonlinear settings with endogeneity.
method Structured latent generative modeling for posterior inference in a causally structured latent space.
result BGM-IV outperforms existing methods in high-dimensional covariate regimes.
Method adapts frozen models for few-shot tasks without training.
problem Deployment constraints limit model updates, necessitating new adaptation methods.
method Exponential tilting of latent distribution for inference.
result Method outperforms parameter-update methods across benchmarks.
EviTrack improves sequential prediction in delayed disambiguation scenarios.
problem Challenges in sequential prediction with delayed disambiguation where early observations are ambiguous.
method EviTrack operates over latent trajectories, applying evidence- and likelihood-ratio-based selection to delay commitment until supported by data.
result EviTrack outperforms sampling-based baselines in a controlled synthetic benchmark, achieving faster post-disambiguation recovery.
Hybrid model improves traffic flow prediction accuracy.
problem Predicting traffic flow with high accuracy in short-term future.
method A hybrid model combining hidden Markov model and LSTM.
result Significant performance gains over conventional methods.
The article detects market regimes from covariance matrices using VLSTAR and clustering models.
problem Market regime switching is hard to detect due to time-varying correlation coefficients.
method The article applies VLSTAR and unsupervised hierarchical clustering on monthly realized covariance matrices.
result VLSTAR outperforms clustering in detecting market regimes.
The paper analyzes PLS-SVD in high-dimensional data integration, revealing its strengths and limitations.
problem Understanding the behavior of PLS-SVD in high-dimensional data integration.
method Analysis using random matrix theory and singular value decomposition.
result PLS-SVD exhibits counter-intuitive or limiting behavior in certain regimes and outperforms PCA when detecting common latent subspace.
Decomposing market impact into diffusive components
problem Market impact scaling
method Decomposing impact into realized and counterfactual returns
result Implication of square-root law in information-neutral regime
Model for dynamic relational data with regime changes.
problem Handling abrupt changes in dynamic relational data.
method Factorized fusion shrinkage model with global-local shrinkage priors.
result Posterior distribution attains minimax optimal rate up to logarithmic factors.
Bayesian model detects internal bleeding in ICU patients.
problem Late detection of internal bleeding in ICU patients.
method Bayesian regime switching model analyzing vitals and labs.
result Probabilistic assessment of patient's physiological state.
Study proposes adaptive RL for dynamic portfolio optimization.
problem Traditional portfolio optimization models fail to adapt to regime shifts.
method Regime-aware reinforcement learning framework with hybrid observations and constrained reward functions.
result Transformer PPO achieves highest risk-adjusted returns, while LSTM variants offer a good balance.
Generative model identifies temporal count data components with regime-dependent contributions.
problem Modeling temporal count data with regime-dependent dynamics.
method Generative framework combining regime-adaptive dynamics with Poisson log-normal emissions.
result Established identifiability of the model and revealed co-variation patterns and regime shifts.
MARCD uses generative scenarios to improve portfolio decisions during regime shifts.
problem Improving portfolio decisions under regime shifts and drawdowns.
method MARCD employs a Gaussian HMM for regime inference, a diffusion generator for scenario production, and a CVaR allocator with tail-weighted and crisis-aware components.
result MARCD reduces maximum drawdowns by 34% compared to baseline methods over 2020-2025.
LUQ-Learning adapts Q-learning for healthcare decisions considering patient preferences.
problem Optimizing treatment decisions for multivariate outcomes based on individual preferences.
method Latent Utility Q-Learning (LUQ-Learning) framework that adapts Q-learning for composite outcomes.
result LUQ-Learning achieves highly competitive performance compared to alternative methods in simulations.
New property helps SGD learn sparse functions efficiently in neural networks.
problem Characterizing functions learnable by SGD in non-linear neural networks.
method Mean-field analysis, hierarchical merged-staircase property, dimension-free dynamics approximation.
result Merged-staircase property is necessary and nearly sufficient for SGD learnability.
Gradient-based meta-learning techniques are both widely applicable and proficient at solving challenging few-shot learning and fast adaptation problems. However, they have practical difficulties when operating on high-dimensional parameter spaces in extreme low-data regimes. We show that it is possible to bypass these …
LatentNN corrects neural network attenuation bias in astronomical data.
problem Neural networks underestimate extreme values due to measurement errors.
method Jointly optimizes network parameters and latent input values.
result LatentNN reduces attenuation bias across various signal-to-noise ratios.
We solve continuous-time latent SDE identifiability using diffusion shifts.
problem Identifiability of latent SDEs in continuous-time time series.
method Environment-induced shifts in diffusion covariance for additive-noise latent SDEs.
result Two diagonal diffusion regimes with distinct variance ratios identify latent coordinates up to permutation and scaling.
A new model captures variability in time series data.
problem Capturing high variability in time series data.
method Temporal latent variables and dynamic weight modifications.
result Demonstrated efficacy on various sequential data.
Latent order book models have allowed for significant progress in our understanding of price formation in financial markets. In particular they are able to reproduce a number of stylized facts, such as the square-root impact law. An important question that is raised -- if one is to bring such models closer to real mark…
New method identifies physical constants from video data alone.
problem Identifying physical constants from video data.
method Proves level-set slope-coverage condition ensures local affine mapping to true physical state, enabling exact parameter recovery.
result Underdamped systems identifiable from a single video clip, other regimes require three diverse trajectories.
We present a novel analysis of the dynamics of tensor power iterations in the overcomplete regime where the tensor CP rank is larger than the input dimension. Finding the CP decomposition of an overcomplete tensor is NP-hard in general. We consider the case where the tensor components are randomly drawn, and show that …
Paper improves variational inference for complex models.
problem Improving statistical accuracy of variational inference in high-dimensional models.
method Developed a general framework for MFVI and proposed a partially grouped VI algorithm.
result Proposed algorithm works and outperforms vanilla MFVI in mixed membership stochastic blockmodel.
We propose an efficient inference method for switching nonlinear dynamical systems. The key idea is to learn an inference network which can be used as a proposal distribution for the continuous latent variables, while performing exact marginalization of the discrete latent variables. This allows us to use the reparamet…
DeRegiME forecasts with regime structure, improving probabilistic predictions across various time series.
problem Probabilistic forecasting discards residual uncertainty, and distribution shifts are hard to capture.
method DeRegiME uses a sparse variational Gaussian process with a nonstationary regime-mixing kernel to separate latent uncertainty regimes.
result DeRegiME improves NLPD by 20.3% on average across benchmarks, with gains on CRPS and MSE.
Overcomplete latent representations have been very popular for unsupervised feature learning in recent years. In this paper, we specify which overcomplete models can be identified given observable moments of a certain order. We consider probabilistic admixture or topic models in the overcomplete regime, where the numbe…
Framework models multiscale dynamics with Bayesian learning for regime changes.
problem Analyzing complex interactions between fast and slow processes.
method Hierarchical state-space modeling with Sequential Monte Carlo.
result Bayesian approach accurately tracks state transitions and identifies switching dynamics.
Sharp large deviations and Gibbs conditioning for portfolio credit risk models.
problem Analyzing the risk of default in financial portfolios with dependent factors.
method Sharp large deviation estimates and conditional Bahadur-Rao estimates for threshold models with diverging latent factors.
result Conditioned on a large exceedance event, default indicators become asymptotically i.i.d., and loss-given-default is exponentially tilted.
This work extends identifiability analysis to sequential latent variable models, focusing on Switching Dynamical Systems.
problem Identifying latent variables in sequential data models.
method Proved identifiability of Markov Switching Models and established conditions for Switching Dynamical Systems.
result Identifiability of latent variables and non-linear mappings in Switching Dynamical Systems up to affine transformations.
The discovery of causal relationships is a fundamental problem in science and medicine. In recent years, many elegant approaches to discovering causal relationships between two variables from observational data have been proposed. However, most of these deal only with purely directed causal relationships and cannot det…
Corrected whitening restores orthogonality in high-dimensional spherical Gaussian mixtures.
problem In high-dimensional data, standard whitening fails to preserve orthogonality of mixture means.
method Derived exact limits for whitened means dot products using random matrix theory, constructed a corrected whitening matrix.
result Corrected whitening allows for improved estimation of spherical Gaussian mixtures in the large-dimensional regime.
Proposes a new latent variable model for hyperspherical latent spaces.
problem Efficiently modeling heavy-tailed distributions in hyperspherical latent spaces.
method Introduces spherical Cauchy (spCauchy) latent variables and applies Möbius transformations.
result Shows spCauchy recovers vMF geometry in high-concentration limits and avoids complex evaluations.
A new framework predicts hidden Markov model regimes online.
problem Efficiently identify hidden Markov model regimes in streaming data.
method Develops a predictive-first optimisation framework for streaming HMMs, approximating the full posterior predictive distribution.
result The method provides competitive prequential performance compared to Online EM and Sequential Monte Carlo.
Develops a flexible model for regime transitions in time series data.
problem Nonlinear and context-dependent regime transitions in time series data.
method Semi-parametric state-space model with learned transition functions.
result Improved recovery of nonlinear transition dynamics and earlier detection of regime changes.
We introduce Bayesian Poisson Tucker decomposition (BPTD) for modeling country--country interaction event data. These data consist of interaction events of the form "country i took action a toward country j at time t." BPTD discovers overlapping country--community memberships, including the number of latent com…
Geometric interpretation improves VAE performance and robustness.
problem Improving Variational Autoencoder performance and robustness.
method Introducing a geometric perspective on VAEs, sampling from the Riemannian latent space.
result Improved generation and interpolations with competitive or better performance on benchmark datasets.
StrTransformer recovers sources without labels by optimizing latent matrices and enforcing structural constraints.
problem Unsupervised blind source recovery in signal processing.
method Source-wise structured Transformer framework with latent source matrix optimization, structural regularization, and branch-specific weights.
result StrTransformer learns distinct temporal-scale structures and recovers source-aligned latent trajectories.
New method recovers latent confounders from high-dimensional proxy variables.
problem Detecting latent confounders from high-dimensional proxy variables.
method Proxy Confounder Factorization (PCF) framework using ICA-PCF and GD-PCF.
result ICA-PCF recovers confounders with high correlation and low error in synthetic and real-world data.
Proposes GPLFR for predicting high-dimensional outputs with few data.
problem Predicting high-dimensional outputs from limited data.
method GPLFR combines Gaussian process and linear-Gaussian decoding for high-dimensional prediction.
result GPLFR outperforms existing methods in predicting high-dimensional outputs.
SEMASIA provides a large dataset of latent representations for model comparison.
problem Difficulty in comparing semantic structures across different neural network models.
method Collection of latent representations from 1700 pretrained models across various benchmarks.
result Consistent semantic organization across models and datasets.