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48 results for Moving Average Convergence Divergence

The paper analyzes MACD using operator theory.

problem Understanding the mathematical foundation of MACD.
method Developed a functional-analytic framework interpreting MACD as a phase-corrected, smoothed derivative operator.
result MACD is structurally equivalent to a band-pass filter and can be expressed as a finite difference of delayed and doubly averaged signals.

A new method Expectigrad improves on Adam and RMSProp by reducing divergence and improving performance.

problem Improving the convergence properties of adaptive gradient methods like Adam and RMSProp.
method Adjusts stepsizes using a per-component unweighted mean of all historical gradients and a bias-corrected momentum term.
result Cannot diverge on convex optimization problems that cause Adam to diverge.

Machine learning models outperform traditional technical analysis in Bitcoin trading.

problem Maximizing profits in the Bitcoin market using trading signals.
method Comparison of machine learning models (LightGBM, LSTM) and technical analysis strategies (EMA, MACD+ADX).
result LSTM model achieved a 65.23% cumulative return over a year, significantly outperforming other strategies.

The paper optimizes portfolios using MACD signals derived from price history.

problem Optimizing risky asset portfolios with latent mean-reverting and momentum factors.
method Derives optimal strategies based on MACD signals from EMA processes.
result Establishes admissibility and verification of optimal strategies.

We propose a method for pricing American options whose pay-off depends on the moving average of the underlying asset price. The method uses a finite dimensional approximation of the infinite-dimensional dynamics of the moving average process based on a truncated Laguerre series expansion. The resulting problem is a fin…

2010-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved averaging method for noisy observations converges strongly.

problem Noisy observations from random dynamical systems require stable estimates.
method Introduced pp-EMA, a modified exponential moving average with subharmonic weight decay.
result Stochastic convergence guarantees for pp-EMA under mild assumptions.

Adam and RMSProp are two of the most influential adaptive stochastic algorithms for training deep neural networks, which have been pointed out to be divergent even in the convex setting via a few simple counterexamples. Many attempts, such as decreasing an adaptive learning rate, adopting a big batch size, incorporatin…

2018-11-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We show Vector Autoregressive Moving Average models with scalar Moving Average components could be estimated by generalized least square (GLS) for each fixed moving average polynomial. The conditional variance of the GLS model is the concentrated covariant matrix of the moving average process. Under GLS the likelihood …

2019-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We examine two different techniques for parameter averaging in GAN training. Moving Average (MA) computes the time-average of parameters, whereas Exponential Moving Average (EMA) computes an exponentially discounted sum. Whilst MA is known to lead to convergence in bilinear settings, we provide the -- to our knowledge …

2018-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Several recently proposed stochastic optimization methods that have been successfully used in training deep networks such as RMSProp, Adam, Adadelta, Nadam are based on using gradient updates scaled by square roots of exponential moving averages of squared past gradients. In many applications, e.g. learning with large …

2019-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Rank-statistic method approximates ff-divergences without density-ratio estimation.

problem Approximating ff-divergences without explicit density-ratio estimation.
method Mapping distribution rank histograms to discrete ff-divergence and averaging over random projections.
result The rank-statistic estimator is a lower bound of the true ff-divergence and converges under mild conditions.

PACE optimizes training for averaged language models, improving performance.

problem How to optimize training for averaged language model iterates.
method Formulated as an optimal-control problem, solved for minimizing error of the average with a penalty on intervention size.
result PACE improves the limiting squared error of the iterate-average estimator by an arbitrarily large factor on some instances.

This work proposes a model averaging method for SVM that avoids redundant covariates and achieves asymptotic optimality.

problem Redundant covariates impair SVM performance in high-dimensional settings.
method Frequentist model averaging procedure for SVM using cross-validation to select optimal weights.
result The proposed method achieves asymptotic optimality in SVM model averaging.

In this note we discuss the mathematical tools to define trend indicators which are used to describe market trends. We explain the relation between averages and moving averages on the one hand and the so called exponential moving average (EMA) on the other hand. We present a lot of examples and give the definition of t…

2020-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New adaptive methods solve weakly convex stochastic optimization problems.

problem Solving weakly convex stochastic optimization problems.
method Adaptive first and zeroth-order methods using exponential moving averages.
result Established non-asymptotic convergence rates for nonsmooth and nonconvex problems.

This study uses moving average cluster entropy to analyze financial market dynamics.

problem Understanding long-range dependence in financial markets.
method Moving average cluster entropy approach applied to ARFIMA and FBM processes.
result Long-range positive correlation in financial markets is linked to the cluster entropy behavior.

Study improves MACD trading strategy with volume and price adjustments.

problem Signal lag and false signals in traditional MACD trading rules.
method Develops VP-MACD framework with sensitivity calibration.
result Proposed framework outperforms baseline MACD in profitability and risk-adjusted return.

Paper analyzes SVGD algorithm for non-asymptotic convergence.

problem Optimizing a set of particles to approximate a target probability distribution.
method Finite time analysis of SVGD algorithm, providing descent lemma and convergence rates.
result SVGD algorithm decreases the objective at each iteration and converges to the target distribution.

A new method normalizes flow mixtures for better inference across different data types.

problem Inference failure across diverse posterior geometries in normalizing flows.
method Introduces a two-stage framework with a stable global weighting mechanism based on sEMA.
result Achieves consistent NLL improvements and stable weight trajectories over baselines.

TINs use neural networks to interpret technical indicators for trading.

problem Lack of interpretable neural architectures for technical indicators in trading.
method Introduced TINs, a neural architecture that reformulates technical indicators into trainable modules.
result Improved risk-adjusted performance compared to traditional indicator-based strategies.

GPA improves LLM training speed by 8.71% for Llama-160M models.

problem Training Large Language Models (LLMs) with high memory overhead and slow convergence.
method Generalized Primal Averaging (GPA) extends Nesterov's method to eliminate memory-intensive two-loop structure.
result GPA achieves up to 10.13% speedup over AdamW in training Llama-1B model.

Riesz regression connects to density ratio estimation for causal inference.

problem Estimating average treatment effects in causal inference.
method Riesz regression as a signed density ratio and least-squares importance fitting.
result Riesz regression and DRE are equivalent, allowing transfer of DRE results.

The Hurst exponent HH of long range correlated series can be estimated by means of the Detrending Moving Average (DMA) method. A computational tool defined within the algorithm is the generalized variance σDMA2=1/(Nn)i[y(i)y~n(i)]2 σ_{DMA}^2={1}/{(N-n)}\sum_i [y(i)-\widetilde{y}_n(i)]^2\:, with y~n(i)=1/nky(ik)\widetilde{y}_n(i)= {1}/{n}\sum_{k}y(i-k) the…

2006-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The possibility that price dynamics is affected by its distance from a moving average has been recently introduced as new statistical tool. The purpose is to identify the tendency of the price dynamics to be attractive or repulsive with respect to its own moving average. We consider a number of tests for various models…

2006-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a simple algorithm, True Asymptotic Natural Gradient Optimization (TANGO), that converges to a true natural gradient descent in the limit of small learning rates, without explicit Fisher matrix estimation. For quadratic models the algorithm is also an instance of averaged stochastic gradient, where the par…

2017-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper predicts cryptocurrency bull and bear phases using Bitcoin's moving averages.

problem Determining cryptocurrency bull and bear phases based on Bitcoin performance.
method Employing predictive algorithms to forecast Bitcoin's 50 Day and 200 Day Moving Averages.
result Predicted data from Bitcoin's moving averages helps identify potential bull and bear phases.

New method estimates velocity fields for minimizing ff-divergences without overfitting.

problem Minimizing statistical discrepancies between target and particle distributions.
method Directly estimate velocity fields using interpolation techniques, proving consistency under mild conditions.
result Consistent estimators of velocity fields improve accuracy in applications like domain adaptation and missing data imputation.

New algorithms solve complex multi-level optimization problems with improved efficiency.

problem Smooth stochastic multi-level composition optimization problems.
method Two algorithms using moving-average and linearized stochastic estimates.
result Achieved sample complexities of O(1/ε^4) and O(1/ε^6).

Study improves reinforcement learning for stable long-term performance.

problem Distributionally robust average-reward reinforcement learning for stable long-term performance.
method Proposes two algorithms to achieve near-optimal sample complexity.
result Achieves a sample complexity of O(SAtmix2ε2)O(|\mathbf{S}||\mathbf{A}| t_{\mathrm{mix}}^2\varepsilon^{-2}) for estimating optimal policy and robust average reward.

While classic work in convex-concave min-max optimization relies on average-iterate convergence results, the emergence of nonconvex applications such as training Generative Adversarial Networks has led to renewed interest in last-iterate convergence guarantees. Proving last-iterate convergence is challenging because ma…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal algorithms for Riemannian optimization with reduced complexity.

problem Stochastic optimization on Riemannian manifolds with limited data.
method Zeroth-order Riemannian Averaging Stochastic Approximation algorithms using Riemannian moving-average estimators and novel geometric conditions.
result Achieves optimal sample complexities for generating approximate first-order stationary solutions.

Optimal weight windows are found by projecting the origin onto a convex polytope.

problem Finding the best weight windows for a weighted moving average smoother.
method Formulated as a quadratic program and projection onto a convex polytope.
result Optimal weight windows are symmetrical and decrease in weight away from the center.

Efficient method for pricing Bermudan moving average options using GPR-GHQ.

problem High-dimensional pricing of Bermudan moving average options in energy markets.
method Gaussian Process Regression and Gauss-Hermite quadrature.
result GPR-GHQ method efficiently handles long windows and high dimensionality.

Geometric tempering improves sampling from distributions, with exponential convergence rates.

problem Sampling from probability distributions using gradient flow dynamics.
method Geometric tempering of the target distribution in Wasserstein and Fisher-Rao gradient flows.
result Exponential convergence in continuous and discrete time for geometric tempering.