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48 results for Scaling properties

Direct proof of Alexander polynomial scaling for L-shaped representations.

problem Proving scaling property of Alexander polynomials for specific representations.
method Direct use of Reshetikhin-Turaev formalism to compute R-matrices.
result Normalized Alexander polynomial for one-hook representations scales with qRq^{|R|}.

Study on learning properties of scale-dependent kernels controlling stability and error.

problem Understanding the learning properties of scale-dependent kernels in nonparametric ridge-less least squares.
method Combines probabilistic results with interpolation theory to analyze stability and error.
result Different regimes of learning error depending on sample size and data dimension.

Network embedding aims to learn the low-dimensional representations of vertexes in a network, while structure and inherent properties of the network is preserved. Existing network embedding works primarily focus on preserving the microscopic structure, such as the first- and second-order proximity of vertexes, while th…

2017-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uncovers scaling laws and spectral properties of shallow neural networks.

problem Understanding scaling laws and spectral properties of shallow neural networks.
method Leveraging connections with matrix compressed sensing and LASSO, derived a phase diagram for excess risk.
result Uncovered crossovers between scaling regimes and plateau behaviors, validated empirical observations.

Temperature scaling improves model uncertainty but not diversity in LLMs.

problem Improving the calibration and stochasticity of probabilistic models.
method Investigates theoretical properties of temperature scaling in classification and LLMs.
result Temperature scaling increases model uncertainty but not diversity in LLMs.

The statistical properties of the increments x(t+T) - x(t) of a financial time series depend on the time resolution T on which the increments are considered. A non-parametric approach is used to study the scale dependence of the empirical distribution of the price increments x(t+T) - x(t) of S&P Index futures, for time…

1997-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep ResNets exhibit distinct scaling properties with depth, challenging neural ODE models.

problem Understanding the scaling properties of deep ResNets and their relation to neural ODEs.
method Detailed numerical experiments on weights trained by stochastic gradient descent.
result Deep ResNets can exhibit different scaling regimes, including stochastic differential equations or neither, challenging the neural ODE model.

We empirically analyze the scaling properties of daily Foreign Exchange rates, Stock Market indices and Bond futures across different financial markets. We study the scaling behaviour of the time series by using a generalized Hurst exponent approach. We verify the robustness of this approach and we compare the results …

2003-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper reviews some of the phenomenological models which have been introduced to incorporate the scaling properties of financial data. It also illustrates a microscopic model, based on heterogeneous interacting agents, which provides a possible explanation for the complex dynamics of markets' returns. Scaling and m…

2000-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The concepts of scale invariance, self-similarity and scaling have been fruitfully applied to the study of price fluctuations in financial markets. After a brief review of the properties of stable Levy distributions and their applications to market data we indicate the shortcomings of such models and describe the trunc…

1997-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Three training regimes found for scale-invariant neural networks on the sphere.

problem Training scale-invariant neural networks on the sphere with varying effective learning rate.
method Investigated three regimes of training: convergence, chaotic equilibrium, and divergence.
result Discovered three distinct training regimes with unique characteristics.

We study the concept of coarse disjointness and large scale nn-to-11 functions. As a byproduct, we obtain an Ostrand-type characterization of asymptotic dimension for coarse structures. It is shown that properties like finite asymptotic dimension, coarse finitism, large scale weak paracompactness, ect. are all invari…

2015-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Wavelet scattering spectra model non-Gaussian time-series, proving scale invariance for self-similar processes.

problem Modeling non-Gaussian time-series with stationary increments.
method Complex wavelet transform for scale variations, joint correlation matrix for scale dependencies, second wavelet transform for diagonalization, maximum entropy models conditioned by scattering spectra coefficients.
result Scattering spectra of self-similar processes are scale invariant, allowing statistical testing and generation of new time-series.

New algorithms estimate Jacobian matrices for large-scale machine learning.

problem Efficiently computing search directions for large nonlinear least squares.
method Exploit low-rank structure in Hessian to estimate Jacobian matrices.
result Two algorithms perform well compared to state-of-the-art methods.

We develop a scale-invariant truncated Lévy (STL) process to describe physical systems characterized by correlated stochastic variables. The STL process exhibits Lévy stability for the probability density, and hence shows scaling properties (as observed in empirical data); it has the advantage that all moments are fini…

1999-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Properties of low-variability periods in the time series are analysed. The theoretical approach is used to show the relationship between the multi-scaling of low-variability periods and multi-affinity of the time series. It is shown that this technically simple method is capable of reveling more details about time-seri…

2004-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework for understanding infinite-width neural networks.

problem Understanding the infinite-width limit behavior of neural networks.
method General framework to study limit behavior of neural models based on hyperparameter scaling.
result Derives scaling for existing mean-field and neural tangent kernel limits and introduces new dynamically stable limits.

Network analysis improves stock return forecasting.

problem Improving stock return forecasting using network properties.
method Network analysis of stock return correlations, using individual and global properties of stocks.
result 50% improvement in R2 score for long-term stock returns forecasting, 3% for short-term.

Financial time-series classification (FTC) is extremely valuable for investment management. In past decades, it draws a lot of attention from a wide extent of research areas, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI). Existing researches majorly focused on exploring the effects of the Multi-Scale (MS) property or the Tem…

2019-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce deep scale-spaces (DSS), a generalization of convolutional neural networks, exploiting the scale symmetry structure of conventional image recognition tasks. Put plainly, the class of an image is invariant to the scale at which it is viewed. We construct scale equivariant cross-correlations based on a princ…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A multi-scale model predicts atomic-scale properties using both local and long-range information.

problem Inability of machine-learning schemes to capture long-range physical effects.
method Combines local and non-local information in a multipole expansion framework.
result Demonstrates the ability to model electrostatics, polarization, and dispersion.

The growth of business firms is an example of a system of complex interacting units that resembles complex interacting systems in nature such as earthquakes. Remarkably, work in econophysics has provided evidence that the statistical properties of the growth of business firms follow the same sorts of power laws that ch…

2017-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, a rich variety of shrinkage priors have been proposed that have great promise in addressing massive regression problems. In general, these new priors can be expressed as scale mixtures of normals, but have more complex forms and better properties than traditional Cauchy and double exponential priors. W…

2011-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-Markovian point process shows power-law scaling, similar to nonlinear Markovian process.

problem Understanding the scaling behavior of non-Markovian point processes.
method Analyzed a confined fractional Brownian motion-driven point process and compared it to a nonlinear Markovian process.
result A nonlinear Markovian process can reproduce the power-law scaling behavior of a non-Markovian point process.

We extend our previous study of scaling range properties done for detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) \cite{former_paper} to other techniques of fluctuation analysis (FA). The new technique called Modified Detrended Moving Average Analysis (MDMA) is introduced and its scaling range properties are examined and compared…

2012-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces new performance measures using scaled utility functions.

problem Performance measurement in financial contexts.
method Certainty equivalents defined via scaled utility functions, well-posed portfolio optimization problem under generic conditions.
result Link between portfolio dynamics, benchmark process, and utility function choice in the long-run setting.

The effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been substantially attributed to their built-in property of translation equivariance. However, CNNs do not have embedded mechanisms to handle other types of transformations. In this work, we pay attention to scale changes, which regularly appear in various t…

2019-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The scaling properties of the time series of asset prices and trading volumes of stock markets are analysed. It is shown that similarly to the asset prices, the trading volume data obey multi-scaling length-distribution of low-variability periods. In the case of asset prices, such scaling behaviour can be used for risk…

2005-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate multifractality in the Korean stock-market index KOSPI. The generalized qqth order height-height correlation function shows multiscaling properties. There are two scaling regimes with a crossover time around tc=40t_c =40 min. We consider the original data sets and the modified data sets obtained by removin…

2004-12-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The Dirac field is studied in a Lyra space-time background by means of the classical Schwinger Variational Principle. We obtain the equations of motion, establish the conservation laws, and get a scale relation relating the energy-momentum and spin tensors. Such scale relation is an intrinsic property for matter fields…

2005-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A new concept, called balanced estimator of diffusion entropy, is proposed to detect scalings in short time series. The effectiveness of the method is verified by means of a large number of artificial fractional Brownian motions. It is used also to detect scaling properties and structural breaks in stock price series o…

2012-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Shallow supervised 1-hidden layer neural networks have a number of favorable properties that make them easier to interpret, analyze, and optimize than their deep counterparts, but lack their representational power. Here we use 1-hidden layer learning problems to sequentially build deep networks layer by layer, which ca…

2018-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

There is a large body of work, built on tools developed in mathematics and physics, demonstrating that financial market prices exhibit self-similarity at different scales. In this paper, we explore the use of analytical topology to characterize financial price series. While wavelet and Fourier transforms decompose a si…

2017-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider strictly stationary heavy tailed time series whose finite-dimensional exponent measures are concentrated on axes, and hence their extremal properties cannot be tackled using classical multivariate regular variation that is suitable for time series with extremal dependence. We recover relevant information ab…

2013-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The coarse category was established by Roe to distill the salient features of the large-scale approach to metric spaces and groups that was started by Gromov. In this paper, we use the language of coarse spaces to define coarse versions of asymptotic property C and decomposition complexity. We prove that coarse propert…

2016-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

PIE-PINN estimates elastic properties from noisy, low-res displacement data.

problem Estimating heterogeneous elastic properties from low-resolution, noisy data.
method Probabilistic Physics-Informed Neural Network (PIE-PINN) framework combining B-spline and hierarchical scale model.
result Robust estimation of Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio from noisy, low-resolution displacement data.