Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,695 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

151302453604 · Jun 202019922001200920172026
48 results for Online Multiple Testing

New algorithms control FDX while achieving more power in online multiple testing.

problem Problems with previous online multiple testing methods, including high FDX and low power.
method Developed new dynamic algorithms that adjust testing levels based on accumulated wealth.
result SupLORD algorithm achieves higher power and FDR control in synthetic experiments.

Private online FDR control for adaptive testing under differential privacy.

problem Controlling false discoveries in adaptive multiple hypothesis testing with privacy constraints.
method Private online algorithms based on non-private results, ensuring privacy and statistical performance.
result Strong guarantees for privacy and statistical performance in FDR and power.

A new metric, Weighted Regret, unifies FDR and power evaluation in online multiple testing.

problem The asymmetric costs of false positives and false negatives in automated pipelines.
method Introducing Weighted Regret and Decoupled-OMT (DOMT) to unify FDR and power evaluation.
result DOMT achieves an order-optimal sublinear mitigation of threshold depletion in bursty environments.

Biological research often involves testing a growing number of null hypotheses as new data is accumulated over time. We study the problem of online control of the familywise error rate (FWER), that is testing an apriori unbounded sequence of hypotheses (p-values) one by one over time without knowing the future, such th…

2019-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of asynchronous online testing, aimed at providing control of the false discovery rate (FDR) during a continual stream of data collection and testing, where each test may be a sequential test that can start and stop at arbitrary times. This setting increasingly characterizes real-world applicati…

2018-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Multiple hypothesis testing, a situation when we wish to consider many hypotheses, is a core problem in statistical inference that arises in almost every scientific field. In this setting, controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), which is the expected proportion of type I error, is an important challenge for making …

2019-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an alternative framework to existing setups for controlling false alarms when multiple A/B tests are run over time. This setup arises in many practical applications, e.g. when pharmaceutical companies test new treatment options against control pills for different diseases, or when internet companies test the…

2017-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

One important partition of algorithms for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple testing is into offline and online algorithms. The first generally achieve significantly higher power of discovery, while the latter allow making decisions sequentially as well as adaptively formulating hypotheses based on …

2019-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

A method for efficient statistical inference from online algorithms.

problem Computational constraints in online algorithms make traditional variance estimation difficult.
method HulC method that wraps around online algorithms to produce valid confidence regions.
result The HulC method produces asymptotically valid confidence regions for online algorithms.

aLTT selects hyperparameters efficiently with statistical guarantees.

problem Statistical validity and efficiency in hyperparameter selection.
method Sequential data-dependent multiple hypothesis testing with early termination.
result Reduces testing rounds while maintaining statistical validity.

Multiple hypothesis testing is a core problem in statistical inference and arises in almost every scientific field. Given a set of null hypotheses H(n)=(H1,,Hn)\mathcal{H}(n) = (H_1,\dotsc, H_n), Benjamini and Hochberg introduced the false discovery rate (FDR), which is the expected proportion of false positives among rejected nu…

2016-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A new family of conformal test martingales based on Legendre polynomials for online exchangeability testing.

problem Detecting variance, skewness, and higher-order deviations from uniformity in online data.
method A family of conformal test martingales based on shifted Legendre polynomials.
result The Variational Legendre Jumper reduces exponential scaling to linear time with minimal loss in power.

A/B testing improves marketing decisions by selecting effective stratification variables.

problem Improving the sensitivity of A/B testing through stratified sampling.
method Designing an algorithm to select a subset of stratification variables for variance reduction.
result The subset selection method outperforms other variance reduction techniques in A/B testing.

Decentralized Gaussian processes for multi-agent systems.

problem Scalable and flexible learning solutions for multi-agent systems.
method Asymptotically exact decentralized solution to Gaussian processes, with online Bayesian model averaging for hyperparameter selection.
result Asymptotically exact decentralized Gaussian process approximation and online Bayesian model averaging.

Online change-point detection (OCPD) is important for application in various areas such as finance, biology, and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, OCPD faces major challenges due to high-dimensionality, and it is still rarely studied in literature. In this paper, we propose a novel, online, graph-based, change-poi…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm detects changes in high-dimensional data with mean and variance.

problem Challenges in detecting changes in high-dimensional data with mean and variance.
method Complete graph-based approach to detect changes of mean and variance from low to high-dimensional online data.
result The proposed method outperforms existing methods in terms of detection power.

Proposes PEMI for online selective conformal prediction with asymmetric rules.

problem Challenges of handling asymmetric selection mechanisms in online selective conformal prediction.
method PEMI: permutation-based framework for selective conformal prediction with arbitrary asymmetric selection rules.
result Achieves exact selection-conditional coverage for any asymmetric selection mechanism and any prediction model.

New method controls false discoveries in online testing with deadlines.

problem Controlling false discoveries in online hypothesis testing with decision deadlines.
method Benjamini-Hochberg-type procedure over a moving window of hypotheses with adaptive threshold parameters.
result Controls false discovery rate at every stage and adaptively chosen stopping times.

We propose an adaptive sampling approach for multiple testing which aims to maximize statistical power while ensuring anytime false discovery control. We consider nn distributions whose means are partitioned by whether they are below or equal to a baseline (nulls), versus above the baseline (actual positives). In addi…

2018-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a nonparametric sequential test that aims to address two practical problems pertinent to online randomized experiments: (i) how to do a hypothesis test for complex metrics; (ii) how to prevent type 11 error inflation under continuous monitoring. The proposed test does not require knowledge of the underlying…

2016-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New method controls false discoveries in real-time data streams.

problem Online testing of hypotheses with strict error constraints and no future data.
method Structure-adaptive sequential testing (SAST) with alpha-investment algorithm.
result Substantial power gain over existing online testing rules.

We introduce a local volatility model for the valuation of options on commodity futures by using European vanilla option prices. The corresponding calibration problem is addressed within an online framework, allowing the use of multiple price surfaces. Since uncertainty in the observation of the underlying future price…

2016-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New methods improve LLM preference optimization by intelligently weighting multiple reference models.

problem Improving LLM preference optimization with multiple reference models.
method Introducing four new weighting strategies for multiple-reference preference optimization.
result All four new weighting strategies outperform current methods on preference accuracy.

New active learning method for kernel selection improves efficiency and accuracy.

problem Real-world applications where acquiring true labels is costly or time-consuming.
method Active Multiple Kernel Learning (AMKL) with adaptive kernel selection (AMKL-AKS).
result AMKL-AKS achieves optimal sublinear regret and better performance with fewer labeled data.

Paper proposes methods to handle missing data in online RL, improving efficiency and uncertainty capture.

problem Missing data in online RL poses challenges due to the need to impute and act at each time step.
method Proposes fully online imputation ensembles and multiple imputation pathways to balance uncertainty and efficiency.
result Preliminary evidence suggests multiple imputation pathways can be a useful framework for simple and efficient online missing data RL methods.

New findings control FDR for online testing methods under positive dependence.

problem Maintaining FDR control for online testing methods under positive dependence.
method Developed new methods to control FDR for online testing procedures under positive dependence.
result SAFFRON and LORD control FDR under positive dependence, not just conditional superuniformity.

In the online multiple testing problem, p-values corresponding to different null hypotheses are observed one by one, and the decision of whether or not to reject the current hypothesis must be made immediately, after which the next p-value is observed. Alpha-investing algorithms to control the false discovery rate (FDR…

2017-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

It is well known that the historical logs are used for evaluating and learning policies in interactive systems, e.g. recommendation, search, and online advertising. Since direct online policy learning usually harms user experiences, it is more crucial to apply off-policy learning in real-world applications instead. Tho…

2019-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a method to detect changes in linear systems with temporal correlations.

problem Detect abrupt changes in time series data with temporal correlations.
method Data-dependent threshold for online change point detection in linear dynamical systems.
result Achieves a pre-specified upper bound on the probability of false alarms and provides a finite-sample-based bound for detection probability.

A new approach for test-time adaptation detects and reacts to distribution shifts.

problem Improving test-time accuracy under distribution shifts.
method Online self-training with a detection tool based on entropy values and betting martingales.
result The classifier's entropy values match those of the source domain, building invariance to distribution shifts.

Framework for online resource allocation using social welfare functions.

problem Optimal allocation of resources over time steps in a population.
method Confidence sequence framework for SWF-based online learning and inference, valid for any monotonic, concave, and Lipschitz-continuous SWF.
result Achieves near-optimal regret of ildeO(n+nkT) ilde{O}(n+\sqrt{nkT}) for SWF-agnostic algorithm SWF-UCB.

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework for A/B testing with dynamic causal effects.

problem Challenges in online experiments with sequential treatments and long-term impacts.
method Reinforcement learning framework for sequential monitoring and updating.
result Demonstrates improved treatment effect evaluation over current methods.

New algorithms detect and react to multiple change points in online learning.

problem Learning under multiple change points in environments with unknown and frequent shifts.
method Proposed Anytime Tracking CUSUM (ATC) algorithms that balance detection of significant shifts.
result Properly tuned ATC algorithms achieve nearly minimax-optimal performance.