We provide a new extension of Breiman's Theorem on computing tail probabilities of a product of random variables to a multivariate setting. In particular, we give a complete characterization of regular variation on cones in under random linear transformations. This allows us to compute probabilities of a…
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New insights into tail behavior of heavy-tailed random vectors and processes.
Introduces Polar Depth for analyzing multivariate heavy-tailed data extremes.
Investigates a new measure PELVE_n for risk assessment.
We examine random variables in the power law/regularly varying class with stochastic tail exponent, the exponent having its own distribution. We show the effect of stochasticity of on the expectation and higher moments of the random variable. For instance, the moments of a right-tailed or right-asymmetric varia…
We develop importance sampling based efficient simulation techniques for three commonly encountered rare event probabilities associated with random walks having i.i.d. regularly varying increments; namely, 1) the large deviation probabilities, 2) the level crossing probabilities, and 3) the level crossing probabilities…
The study shows how geometric Weyl bulk-density exponent rigidifies spectral encodings in O-regularly varying classes.
Develops statistical framework for analyzing functional data extremes.
Given samples from a population of individuals belonging to different types with unknown proportions, how do we estimate the probability of discovering a new type at the -th draw? This is a classical problem in statistics, commonly referred to as the missing mass estimation problem. Recent results by Ohannes…
We develop a new statistical test for comparing variables with varying scales.
Study free energy in spherical spin glasses, proving universality dichotomy.
We study the asymptotic behavior of the difference as , where is a risk measure equipped with a confidence level parameter , and where and are non-negative random variables whose tail probability functions are regularly varying. The case where …
New framework for tracking varying bounds in time series forecasting.
Bayesian nonparametric approaches, in particular the Pitman-Yor process and the associated two-parameter Chinese Restaurant process, have been successfully used in applications where the data exhibit a power-law behavior. Examples include natural language processing, natural images or networks. There is also growing em…
For a Riemann surface and the moduli of regularly stable -bundles , there is a naturally occuring "" vector bundle over . One can take the determinant of this vector bundle with respect to the projection map onto . Our aim here is to study the curvature of the determinant bundle as the…
In this paper, we face the problem of simulating discrete random variables with general and varying distributions in a scalable framework, where fully parallelizable operations should be preferred. The new paradigm is inspired by the context of discrete choice models. Compared to classical algorithms, we add paralleliz…
Regular variation provides a convenient theoretical framework to study large events. In the multivariate setting, the dependence structure of the positive extremes is characterized by a measure - the spectral measure - defined on the positive orthant of the unit sphere. This measure gathers information on the localizat…
A new notion of stochastic ordering is introduced to compare multivariate stochastic risk models with respect to extreme portfolio losses. In the framework of multivariate regular variation comparison criteria are derived in terms of ordering conditions on the spectral measures, which allows for analytical or numerical…
We introduce an approximate search algorithm for fast maximum a posteriori probability estimation in probabilistic programs, which we call Bayesian ascent Monte Carlo (BaMC). Probabilistic programs represent probabilistic models with varying number of mutually dependent finite, countable, and continuous random variable…
Characterizes term structure models driven by Lévy processes.
In financial markets, not only prices and returns can be considered as random variables, but also the waiting time between two transactions varies randomly. In the following, we analyse the statistical properties of General Electric stock prices, traded at NYSE, in October 1999. These properties are critically revised …
Conditions for geometric ergodicity of multivariate autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) processes, with the so-called BEKK (Baba, Engle, Kraft, and Kroner) parametrization, are considered. We show for a class of BEKK-ARCH processes that the invariant distribution is regularly varying. In order to accou…
New features from early battery cycles predict lifetime with high accuracy.
Efficiently infers time-varying sparse MRFs with strong statistical guarantees.
Random forest predicts catastrophe bond spreads with 93% accuracy.
Develops ML tool for macroeconomic forecasting with clear interpretations.
Novel Orlicz regrets consistently bound environmental variable statistics.
This paper analyzes the variability of Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs).
Network models have been popular for modeling and representing complex relationships and dependencies between observed variables. When data comes from a dynamic stochastic process, a single static network model cannot adequately capture transient dependencies, such as, gene regulatory dependencies throughout a developm…
This paper analyzes M-estimators under infinite-variance noise in high dimensions.
Proposes a method for interpreting time-varying causal effect moderation in high-dimensional data.
New method improves variable importance in random forests.
FastForest boosts Random Forest speed by 24%.
We give three formulas expressing the Smale invariant of an immersion f of a (4k-1)-sphere into (4k+1)-space. The terms of the formulas are geometric characteristics of any generic smooth map g of any oriented 4k-dimensional manifold, where g restricted to the boundary is an immersion regularly homotopic to f in (6k-1)…
Modeling financial returns as conditionally independent random variables explains power-law tails.
This paper proposes a parsimoniously time varying parameter vector autoregressive model (with exogenous variables, VARX) and studies the properties of the Lasso and adaptive Lasso as estimators of this model. The parameters of the model are assumed to follow parsimonious random walks, where parsimony stems from the ass…
VIDON learns operators with variable sensors, overcoming sensor limitations.
Gaussian copulas are widely used in the industry to correlate two random variables when there is no prior knowledge about the co-dependence between them. The perturbed Gaussian copula approach allows introducing the skew information of both random variables into the co-dependence structure. The analytical expression of…
Tree ensembles, such as random forests and AdaBoost, are ubiquitous machine learning models known for achieving strong predictive performance across a wide variety of domains. However, this strong performance comes at the cost of interpretability (i.e. users are unable to understand the relationships a trained random f…
A novel tracking algorithm models dynamic objects as ellipsoids with time-varying orientation.
New protocol evaluates synthetic data for temporal consistency.
We consider a general class of high order weak approximation schemes for stochastic differential equations driven by Lévy processes with infinite activity. These schemes combine a compound Poisson approximation for the jump part of the Lévy process with a high order scheme for the Brownian driven component, applied bet…
Efficiently infers gene regulatory networks from spatial data.
Proposes SGM for modeling complex dependencies in high-dimensional systems.
We consider the problem of learning predictive models from longitudinal data, consisting of irregularly repeated, sparse observations from a set of individuals over time. Such data often exhibit {\em longitudinal correlation} (LC) (correlations among observations for each individual over time), {\em cluster correlation…
Quantile regression using random forest proximities improves prediction and uncertainty quantification.
Develops a Bayesian non-parametric approach for signal separation with varying components.
The paper proposes a new model for predicting and analyzing economic variables.