The paper uses LSM to solve complex monetary utility functions.
problem Computing dynamic monetary utility functions with high dimensions.
method Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) algorithm.
result LSM algorithm successfully applied to recursive Cost-of-Capital valuation.
We present an approach to market-consistent multi-period valuation of insurance liability cash flows based on a two-stage valuation procedure. First, a portfolio of traded financial instrument aimed at replicating the liability cash flow is fixed. Then the residual cash flow is managed by repeated one-period replicatio…
This study examines how risky investments affect insurance capital valuation.
problem Standard cost-of-capital assumptions do not account for risky investments.
method Analyzed effects of allowing buffer capital investments in risky assets.
result Decomposition of buffer capital contributions varies with riskiness.
Proposes a new method for determining LGD discount rates based on cost of capital.
problem Determining an appropriate discount rate for LGD estimation.
method Market-consistent pricing of defaulted loan portfolios to infer discount rates.
result Discount rates reflect both undiversifiable risk and time value of money.
A Kalman filter reduces valuation risk in business valuation models.
problem Reducing valuation risk in business valuation models.
method Recursive FCFF model with Kalman filtering to adjust WACC.
result Significant reduction in valuation risk by implementing Kalman filter.
Dynamic reinsurance minimizes insurer's cost of capital over time.
problem Minimizing insurer's cost of capital in a dynamic reinsurance setting.
method Dynamic extension of the static optimal reinsurance problem, viewed as a risk-sensitive Markov Decision Process.
result Existence of a stationary Markovian optimal reinsurance policy under an infinite planning horizon.
A new XVA strategy rooted in balance sheet perspective improves equity process for bank shareholders.
problem Counterparty risk valuation adjustments (XVAs) in financial derivatives.
method Develops a cost-of-capital XVA strategy in a balance sheet perspective, solving explicitly in static setup and dynamically in trade context.
result Ensures a submartingale equity process corresponding to a target hurdle rate on capital at risk.
This paper investigates market-consistent valuation of insurance liabilities in the context of, for instance, Solvency II and to some extent IFRS 4. We propose an explicit and consistent framework for the valuation of insurance liabilities which incorporates the Solvency II approach as a special case. The proposed fram…
We discuss and clarify the XVA modelling framework specified in the paper "MVA by replication and regression" (Risk Magazine, May 2015) for including bilateral credit risk and funding costs in derivative pricing, and in doing so we rectify two key errors in the valuation adjustments accounting for costs of capital and …
Credit (CVA), Debit (DVA) and Funding Valuation Adjustments (FVA) are now familiar valuation adjustments made to the value of a portfolio of derivatives to account for credit risks and funding costs. However, recent changes in the regulatory regime and the increases in regulatory capital requirements has led many banks…
Recursive neural networks have widely been used by researchers to handle applications with recursively or hierarchically structured data. However, embedded control flow deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe2, and MXNet fail to efficiently represent and execute such neural networks, due to lack of s…
Recent theoretical results establish that time-consistent valuations (i.e. pricing operators) can be created by backward iteration of one-period valuations. In this paper we investigate the continuous-time limits of well-known actuarial premium principles when such backward iteration procedures are applied. We show tha…
Paper defines Farey Recursive Functions and explores their properties.
problem Understanding recursive functions on rationals.
method Defined and studied Farey Recursive Functions using Farey graph.
result Farey Recursive Functions naturally connect to 2-bridge knots and links.
The paper explores generalizations of Mirzakhani's recursion and computes volumes for physical gravity models.
problem Computing volumes for physical gravity models.
method Topological recursion and physical two-dimensional gravity models.
result Derivation of Virasoro constraints and cut-and-join equations for generalized Mirzakhani's recursions.
We study the optimal financing and dividend distribution problem with restricted dividend rates in a diffusion type surplus model where the drift and volatility coefficients are general functions of the level of surplus and the external environment regime. The environment regime is modeled by a Markov process. Both cap…
Tab-TRM uses recursive model for insurance pricing on tabular data.
problem Insurance pricing on tabular data.
method Adapts recursive latent reasoning to insurance modeling using a compact, parameter-efficient network.
result Improves insurance pricing accuracy using iterative refinement of latent tokens.
The strengthening of capital requirements has induced banks and traders to consider charging a so called capital valuation adjustment (KVA) to the clients in OTC transactions. This roughly corresponds to charge the clients ex-ante the profit requirement that is asked to the trading desk. In the following we try to deli…
New recursion formula for non-orientable surfaces resolves divergences.
problem Computing volumes of moduli spaces for non-orientable surfaces.
method Generalization of Mirzakhani's recursion to non-orientable surfaces, handling divergences with integral kernels.
result Regularized volumes can be computed with a cutoff on crosscap size.
In the aftermath of the 2007 global financial crisis, banks started reflecting into derivative pricing the cost of capital and collateral funding through XVA metrics. Here XVA is a catch-all acronym whereby X is replaced by a letter such as C for credit, D for debt, F for funding, K for capital and so on, and VA stands…
Harer and Zagier proved a recursion to enumerate gluings of a 2d-gon that result in an orientable genus g surface, in their work on Euler characteristics of moduli spaces of curves. Analogous results have been discovered for other enumerative problems, so it is natural to pose the following question: how large is t…
In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for a company whose surplus process evolves as an upward jump diffusion with random return on investment. Three types of practical optimization problems faced by a company that can control its liquid reserves by paying dividends and injecting capital. In the first pro…
This paper studies recursive ensembles driven by Fibonacci updates, improving learning dynamics.
problem Improving learning dynamics in recursive ensemble learning.
method Develops second-order recursive architectures with Fibonacci-type update flows.
result Establishes global convergence conditions and generalization bounds for recursive ensembles.
The article improves prediction by aggregating Kalman recursions online.
problem Improving expert aggregation in prediction models.
method Using exponential weights and state-space models to aggregate Kalman recursions.
result New algorithms outperform existing methods in Kalman recursion expert aggregation.
Solves a recursion for Gromov-Witten invariants of the unknot.
problem Determining Gromov-Witten invariants for a specific Lagrangian brane.
method Uses a skein-theoretic recursion and geometric solutions.
result Solves the recursion to find the expected hook-content formula.
New recursion found for hyperbolic sphere volumes.
problem Volume calculation of hyperbolic sphere moduli spaces.
method Proved a non-linear recursive relation.
result Generalized Zograf's result for conical points and geodesic boundaries.
This work generalizes a formula linking Seiberg-Witten prepotential and topological recursion.
problem Analyzing the relationship between Seiberg-Witten curves and topological recursion.
method Analytical approach using Seiberg-Witten family of curves.
result A generalized formula relating Seiberg-Witten prepotential to the genus zero part of topological recursion on a Seiberg-Witten curve.
LASER compresses recursive model activations by exploiting their low-dimensional structure.
problem Understanding and optimizing the geometric structure of recursive reasoning trajectories.
method Dynamic low-rank basis tracking via matrix-free subspace tracking with a fidelity-triggered reset mechanism.
result Recursive activations occupy a linear, low-dimensional subspace that can be compressed efficiently.
We describe a method for recursively calculating Gromov-Witten invariants of all blowups of the projective plane. This recursive formula is different from the recursive formulas due to Göttsche and Pandharipande in the zero genus case, and Caporaso and Harris in the case of no blowups. We use tropical curves and a recu…
Topological recursion recovers a specific partition function for colored knots.
problem Recovering the extended Ooguri-Vafa partition function for colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials of torus knots.
method Applying topological recursion to the spectral curve of colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials of torus knots.
result Topological recursion reproduces the n-point functions of the extended Ooguri-Vafa partition function.
We derive the Do and Norbury recursion formula for the one-loop mean of an irregular spectral curve from a variant of replica method by Brezín and Hikami. We express this recursion in special times in which all terms W1(g) of the genus expansion of the one-loop mean are polynomials. We find a generalization of th…
This paper concerns the recursive utility maximization problem under partial information. We first transform our problem under partial information into the one under full information. When the generator of the recursive utility is concave, we adopt the variational formulation of the recursive utility which leads to a s…
We derive a recursion relation for hyperbolic string vertices and apply it to string field theory.
problem Deriving a recursion relation for hyperbolic string vertices and its implications for string field theory.
method Using systolic volumes and a modified Mirzakhani's recursion, we construct a higher-order vertex determination for hyperbolic string field theory.
result The higher order vertices in hyperbolic string field theory are determined by the cubic vertex iteratively for any background.
Benchmarking recursive collapse claims with a new framework under false-positive control.
problem Evaluating recursive systems for failure patterns and warning claims.
method Developed Loopzero framework for testing recursive failures, specified claim boundaries in Lean, evaluated under FP constraint, and compared with standard detectors.
result No standard detectors or Loopzero's pre-registered quantile detector achieved the required operating point under the false-positive contract.
SRRM improves recursive transport surrogates in the small-discrepancy regime.
problem Insufficient understanding of recursive partitioning methods' statistical behavior and resolution in the small-discrepancy regime.
method Introduced Selective Recursive Rank Matching (SRRM) to improve the resolution of Recursive Rank Matching (RRM).
result SRRM yields a higher-fidelity practical surrogate for the Wasserstein distance at moderate additional computational cost.
ERM uses energy-based selection to improve recursive reasoning.
problem Lack of principled inference mechanism in recursive models.
method Energy-guided Recursive Model (ERM) introduces Hopfield energies for trajectory selection.
result ERM achieves optimal solutions on various puzzles.
Study uses reinforcement learning to optimize portfolios under recursive utility.
problem Improving portfolio allocation using risk-sensitive objectives.
method Approximated certainty equivalent via Monte Carlo, trained actor-critic algorithms (PPO, A2C).
result Recursive-utility agent outperforms discounted baseline in Sharpe ratio, max drawdown, and cumulative return.
The paper studies risk-sensitive MDPs with recursive risk measures.
problem Risk-sensitive decision-making in MDPs with unbounded costs.
method Recursive application of static risk measures, Bellman equation derivation, existence of optimal policies.
result Existence of Markovian optimal policies for infinite planning horizons, contractive model for stationary optimal policy.
New recursive relation found for a specific torus knot.
problem Finding a recursive relation for a specific torus knot.
method Extending colored Jones polynomials to knots in (2p+1,2) torus knot complements and examining a particular knot. result An analogous recursive relation exists for a specific (2p+1,2) torus knot. We propose a general theory for constructing functorial assignments Σ⟼ΩΣ∈E(Σ) for a large class of functors E from a certain category of bordered surfaces to a suitable target category of topological vector spaces. The construction proceeds by successive excisions of homotopy classes of embedded pai…
Recursive training of generative models can lead to model collapse, and the recursion converges to a unique limiting distribution.
problem Model collapse in recursive training of generative models
method Recursive training on their own outputs
result Recursive training converges to a unique limiting distribution
Paper presents novel online MTL methods using WRLS and OSLSSVR.
problem Online Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Regression Problems
method Develops recursive versions of WRLS and OSLSSVR for MTL.
result Achieves exact and approximate recursions with quadratic cost.
We study topological recursion on the irregular spectral curve xy2−xy+1=0, which produces a weighted count of dessins d'enfant. This analysis is then applied to topological recursion on the spectral curve xy2=1, which takes the place of the Airy curve x=y2 to describe asymptotic behaviour of enumerative proble…
We give an overview of the proof for Mirzakhani's volume recursion for the Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli spaces of genus g hyperbolic surfaces with n labeled geodesic boundary components, and her application of this recursion to Witten's conjecture and the study of simple geodesic length spectrum growth rate…
New formula simplifies interior polynomial calculation.
problem Calculating interior polynomial efficiently.
method New recursion formula based on non-expanding sets.
result Clearer combinatorial interpretation of interior polynomial.
We extend topological recursion to twisted Higgs bundles with singularities.
problem Computing Taylor expansions of period matrices for twisted Higgs bundles.
method We introduce a twisted topological recursion on the spectral curve of a twisted Higgs bundle, encoding singularities and performing the recursion explicitly.
result The g=0 twisted Eynard-Orantin differentials compute the Taylor expansion of the spectral curve's period matrix, independent of the ambient space. Theoretical study on AI models' resilience to data contamination during recursive training.
problem Data contamination in recursive training of generative AI models.
method General framework with minimal assumptions on real data distribution and flexible generative models.
result Contaminated recursive training converges with a rate equal to the minimum of baseline model's rate and contamination fraction.
Paper studies metric ribbon graphs and provides a recursion for their volumes.
problem Calculating volumes of combinatorial moduli spaces of directed metric ribbon graphs.
method Decomposes directed ribbon graphs into simpler graphs with one vertex, proving a canonical recursion scheme for volumes.
result Explicit recursion for volumes of four-valent metric ribbon graphs provided.
Formula counts rational curves with a specific singular point in projective space.
problem Counting rational degree d curves with an m-fold point in CP2. method Recursive formula derived from Kontsevich's recursion formula, considering a family version.
result Obtained a recursive formula for the number of curves.