arXiv research

A wild bootstrap method for nonparametric hypothesis tests based on kernel distribution embeddings is proposed. This bootstrap method is used to construct provably consistent tests that apply to random processes, for which the naive permutation-based bootstrap fails. It applies to a large group of kernel tests based on…

Efficiently refits black box predictions with wild refitting method.

Data augmented bootstrap unifies various confidence interval construction methods.

We apply a wild bootstrap method to the Lancaster three-variable interaction measure in order to detect factorisation of the joint distribution on three variables forming a stationary random process, for which the existing permutation bootstrap method fails. As in the i.i.d. case, the Lancaster test is found to outperf…

New method for estimating high-dimensional binary time series coefficients.

The paper introduces Shapley curves for measuring variable importance in nonparametric settings.

New method for inference on covariates in NMF with random effects.

Ridge regression is revisited with debiasing and thresholding, offering advantages over Lasso.

MMD test detects adversarial attacks by addressing kernel limitations and non-independence issues.

Proposes a new data augmentation method for imbalanced datasets in both classification and regression.

tsbootstrap handles time series uncertainty without assuming independence.

China's stock market is the largest emerging market all over the world. It is widely accepted that the Chinese stock market is far from efficiency and it possesses possible linear and nonlinear dependence. We study the predictability of returns in the Chinese stock market by employing the wild bootstrap automatic varia…

Efficient tests for various statistical problems using incomplete U-statistics.

KSDAgg combines multiple KSD tests to improve goodness-of-fit testing without splitting data.

We study (i) asymptotic behaviour of wild harmonic bundles, (ii) the relation between semisimple meromorphic flat connections and wild harmonic bundles, (iii) the relation between wild harmonic bundles and polarized wild pure twistor $D$-modules. As an application, we show the hard Lefschetz theorem for algebraic semis…

Two-sample tests using MMD control type I error and achieve optimal power.

Constructs infinitely many non-equivalent wild knots in Menger sponge.

New method uses mosaics to study wild knots.

This paper constructs wild knots from beaded necklaces using a Schottky group.

Injectivity proven for measure homology of certain wild spaces.

Study of wild mapping class groups on complex reflection groups.

We propose a nonparametric statistical test for goodness-of-fit: given a set of samples, the test determines how likely it is that these were generated from a target density function. The measure of goodness-of-fit is a divergence constructed via Stein's method using functions from a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. O…

Generative models predict page quality without training, useful for low-resource settings.

Study of wild mapping class groups and their cabled braids.

The Gauss-Bonnet formula for classical translation surfaces relates the cone angle of the singularities (geometry) to the genus of the surface (topology). When considering more general translation surfaces, we observe so-called wild singularities for which the notion of cone angle is not applicable any more. We study w…

LoD improves model safety by integrating unlabeled wild data, reducing OOD misclassification.

We will construct twisted versions of the wild character varieties.

In this paper we study kleinian groups of Schottky type whose limit set is a wild knot in the sense of Artin and Fox. We show that, if the ``original knot'' fibers over the circle then the wild knot $Λ$ also fibers over the circle. As a consequence, the universal covering of $\mathbb{S}^{3}-Λ$ is $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. We p…

WILDS 2.0 expands benchmark datasets for unsupervised adaptation.

We prove the Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence between good wild harmonic bundles and polystable good filtered $λ$-flat bundles satisfying a vanishing condition. We also study the correspondence for good wild harmonic bundles with the homogeneity with respect to a group action, which is expected to provide another way t…

We introduce a general non-parametric independence test between right-censored survival times and covariates, which may be multivariate. Our test statistic has a dual interpretation, first in terms of the supremum of a potentially infinite collection of weight-indexed log-rank tests, with weight functions belonging to …

This is the next step of uncovering the relation between string theory and exotic smooth R^4. Exotic smoothness of R^4 is correlated with D6 brane charges in IIA string theory. We construct wild embeddings of spheres and relate them to a class of topological quantum Dp-branes as well to KK theory. These branes emerge w…

Using methods of descriptive theory it is shown that the classification problem for wild knots is strictly harder than that for countable structures.

Automatic understanding of human affect using visual signals is of great importance in everyday human-machine interactions. Appraising human emotional states, behaviors and reactions displayed in real-world settings, can be accomplished using latent continuous dimensions (e.g., the circumplex model of affect). Valence …

New method estimates model risk without knowing function class.

In this paper we prove that a wild knot $K$ which is the limit set of a Kleinian group acting conformally on the unit 3-sphere, with its standard metric, is homogeneous: given two points $p, q\in{K}$ there exists a homeomorphism $f$ of the sphere such that $f(K)=K$ and $f(p)=q$. We also show that if the wild knot is a …

We will give several descriptions of some basic examples of wild character varieties, including a discussion of links to work of Sibuya, Calabi and Euler, amongst others.

New method refines model-free evaluation of complex machine learning models.

The paper revisits the investment simulation based on strategies exhibited by Generalized (m,2)-Zipf law to present an interesting characterization of the wildness in financial time series. The investigations of dominant strategies on each specific time series shows that longer words dominant in larger time scale exhib…

In this paper we construct infinitely many wild knots, $\mathbb{S}^{n}\hookrightarrow\mathbb{S}^{n+2}$, for $n=2,3,4$ and 5, each of which is a limit set of a geometrically finite Kleinian group. We also describe some of their properties

New embeddings show answer to Baker-Laidacker question can be yes or no.

Every countable compact subset of sphere is tame.

The purpose of this paper is to construct an example of a 2-knot wildly embedded in $\mathbb{S}^{4}$ as the limit set of a Kleinian group. We find that this type of wild 2-knots has very interesting topological properties.

Let $C$ and $D$ be a pair of crumpled $n$-cubes and $h$ a homeomorphism of $\text{Bd }C$ to $\text{Bd }D$ for which there exists a map $f_h: C\to D$ such that $f_h|\text{Bd }C =h$ and $f_{h}^{-1}(\text{Bd }D)=\text{Bd }C$. In our view the presence of such a triple $(C,D,h)$ suggests that $C$ is "at least as wild as" $D…

WILD-SCAV benchmarks AI in complex 3D FPS environments.

Optimizes a small set of centroid points to approximate bootstrap distribution.

Human affect recognition is an essential part of natural human-computer interaction. However, current methods are still in their infancy, especially for in-the-wild data. In this work, we introduce our submission to the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2020 competition. We propose a two-stream aural-visua…

4-manifolds have special topological properties which can be used to get a different view on quantum mechanics. One important property (connected with exotic smoothness) is the natural appearance of 3-manifold wild embeddings (Alexanders horned sphere) which can be interpreted as quantum states. This relation can be co…