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Recent work has shown that a country's productive structure constrains its level of economic growth and income inequality. Here, we compare the productive structure of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with that of China and other High-Performing Asian Economies (HPAE) to expose the increasing gap in t…

2017-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper evaluates investment risks in LATAM AI startups using DCF method.

problem Unique challenges and risks faced by LATAM tech startups.
method Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Available Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) metrics; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method.
result Developed a ranking of emerging powers in Latin America for tech startup investment.

This paper forecasts renewable energy prospects in South America through cross-border interconnection.

problem Lack of renewable energy integration across South American countries.
method Long-term scenario forecasting methodology applied to raw data from typical countries.
result Promoting cross-border interconnection towards renewables can optimize energy supply, reduce costs, and balance the energy matrix.

A tailored HTR system improves CER to 0.015 for medieval Latin.

problem Digitizing handwritten medieval Latin records for a low-resource language.
method End-to-end pipeline using image segmentation and transformer-based models with extensive data augmentation.
result Best-performing setup achieved CER of 0.015, superior to commercial models.

This article offers an introductory look at Khovanov homology and its historical context.

problem Classifying knot embeddings and understanding their homology.
method Expository presentation of Khovanov homology and its historical development.
result Introduction and popularization of knot theory and Khovanov homology in Colombia and Latin America.

Data describing historical growth of income per capita [Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP/cap)] for the world economic growth and for the growth in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, former USSR, Africa and Latin America are analysed. They follow closely the linearly-modulated hyperbolic distributions represent…

2016-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves maize yield prediction using BNs with mixed-effects models.

problem Limited causal inference in agronomic data models.
method Integrates random effects into Bayesian networks, leveraging hierarchical data structure.
result Significantly reduces maize yield prediction error from 28% to 17%.

Defined by Joyce and Matveev, the fundamental quandle is a complete invariant of oriented classical knots. We consider invariants of knots defined from quotients of the fundamental quandle. In particular, we introduce the fundamental Latin Alexander quandle of a knot and consider its Gröbner basis-valued invariants, wh…

2014-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study applies HRP to Latin American markets, showing smoother risk-return profile.

problem Lack of empirical analyses of HRP in Latin American markets.
method Hierarchical Risk Parity (HRP) with hierarchical clustering and recursive bisection.
result HRP portfolio outperforms Max Sharpe portfolio in NUAM markets, with smoother risk-return profile.

We consider the problem of estimating E[f(U1,,Ud)]\mathbb{E} [f(U^1, \ldots, U^d)], where (U1,,Ud)(U^1, \ldots, U^d) denotes a random vector with uniformly distributed marginals. In general, Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) is a powerful tool for solving this kind of high-dimensional numerical integration problem. In the case of depende…

2013-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer model outperforms classical methods in childhood anemia prediction across diverse countries.

problem Generalizing childhood anemia prediction models across different countries and data scarcity.
method Transformer-based tabular foundation model compared to classical supervised methods using DHS data.
result Transformer model achieves lower Brier score and ECE in low-data settings, outperforming classical models.

A quandle is a self-distributive algebraic structure that appears in quasi-group and knot theories. For each abelian group A and c \in A we define a quandle G(A, c) on \Z_3 \times A. These quandles are generalizations of a class of non-medial Latin quandles defined by V. M. Galkin so we call them Galkin quandles. Each …

2011-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses RL to optimize credit card limits, achieving better results than traditional methods.

problem Optimizing credit card limit adjustments in banking.
method Reinforcement learning with offline learning strategy.
result Double Q-learning agent outperforms other strategies in generating optimal policy.

The paper explores zero-divisors and idempotents in quandle rings, proving their absence in certain cases.

problem Understanding zero-divisors and idempotents in quandle rings.
method Development of quandle rings theory, definition of orderability, computation of idempotents, and analysis of automorphism groups.
result Quandle rings of left or right orderable quandles with semi-latin structure have no zero-divisors.

Introduces challenges and techniques for creating machine translation for indigenous languages.

problem Limited data for machine translation of indigenous languages.
method Introduction to challenges, concepts, and techniques for creating MT systems.
result Discussion of recent advances and open questions in NLP for these languages.

Survival analysis models predict economic convergence across Americas.

problem Analyzing GDP per capita trajectories and convergence across the Americas.
method Survival analysis, machine learning, economic interpretation.
result DeepSurv captures non-linear interactions in GDP per capita trajectories.

Surveying mean curvature flow on solvmanifolds, focusing on translating solutions.

problem Understanding translating solutions on solvmanifolds.
method Exploration of mean curvature flow, introduction of translating solutions, discussion of solvmanifolds.
result Equations describing translating solutions on the family of 3D solvmanifolds.

This article is an expanded version of the talk given by Ch. O. at the Second Latin Congress on "Symmetries in Geometry and Physics" in Curitiba, Brazil in December 2010. In this version we explain the topological and gauge-theoretical aspects of our paper "Abelian Yang-Mills theory on Real tori and Theta divisors of K…

2011-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

RL controls small soccer robots in a real league, beating human-designed policies.

problem Training robots to play complex, real-world sports.
method Sim-to-Real RL approach, training in simulated environment, applying to real-world robots.
result Robots learned policies to compete effectively, beating human-designed strategies.

Using transfer entropy, we observed the strength and direction of information flow between stock indices. We uncovered that the biggest source of information flow is America. In contrast, the Asia/Pacific region the biggest is receives the most information. According to the minimum spanning tree, the GSPC is located at…

2008-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

A new sampling strategy improves reliability and robustness optimization for complex designs.

problem High sample requirements for optimizing reliability and robustness in complex designs.
method Local Latin Hypercube Refinement (LoLHR) for multi-objective design uncertainty optimization.
result LoLHR achieves better results compared to other surrogate-based strategies.

The paper uses CNNs to classify road conditions in real-time.

problem Classifying road conditions in real-time using images from cameras across North America.
method Used state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (VGG-16, ResNet50, Xception, InceptionResNetV2, EfficientNet-B0 and EfficientNet-B4) to classify images by road condition.
result EfficientNet-B4 framework achieved validation accuracy of 90.6% in real-time map building.

Sampling strategies significantly affect feature approximations in ELA, impacting classifier accuracy.

problem The impact of sampling strategies on feature approximations in ELA.
method Analysis of feature approximations from different sampling strategies and sample sizes.
result Feature approximations from different sampling strategies do not converge, affecting classifier accuracy.

ISOMORPH creates a digital twin for supply chain logistics, advancing time-series forecasting benchmarks.

problem Lack of public benchmarks for supply chain logistics time-series forecasting.
method Developed a digital twin simulator with interpretable parameters and modular topology, generating datasets and verifying conservation laws.
result Foundation models achieve MASE values exceeding public benchmarks at low-to-moderate horizons, supporting UQ.

In many scenarios of a language identification task, the user will specify a small set of languages which he/she can speak instead of a large set of all possible languages. We want to model such prior knowledge into the way we train our neural networks, by replacing the commonly used softmax loss function with a novel …

2018-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Power load forecast with Machine Learning is a fairly mature application of artificial intelligence and it is indispensable in operation, control and planning. Data selection techniqies have been hardly used in this application. However, the use of such techniques could be beneficial provided the assumption that the da…

2019-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Chagas disease is a neglected disease, and information about its geographical spread is very scarse. We analyze here mobility and calling patterns in order to identify potential risk zones for the disease, by using public health information and mobile phone records. Geolocalized call records are rich in social and mobi…

2018-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This article presents a preliminary approach towards characterizing political fake news on Twitter through the analysis of their meta-data. In particular, we focus on more than 1.5M tweets collected on the day of the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States of America. We use the meta-data embedd…

2017-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗