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Unified theory explains housing cycle across metros, showing credit expansion impacts.

problem Puzzling correlations between income and mortgage growth across ZIP codes and metros.
method Unified credit expansion theory, double differences, instrumental variables.
result Credit expansion drives housing cycle, affecting boom, bust, and recovery phases.

We introduce a multivariate stochastic volatility model for asset returns that imposes no restrictions to the structure of the volatility matrix and treats all its elements as functions of latent stochastic processes. When the number of assets is prohibitively large, we propose a factor multivariate stochastic volatili…

2015-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop a deep learning model of multi-period mortgage risk and use it to analyze an unprecedented dataset of origination and monthly performance records for over 120 million mortgages originated across the US between 1995 and 2014. Our estimators of term structures of conditional probabilities of prepayment, forecl…

2016-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new nearest-prototype classifier, the prototype vector machine (PVM). It arises from a combinatorial optimization problem which we cast as a variant of the set cover problem. We propose two algorithms for approximating its solution. The PVM selects a relatively small number of representative points which…

2009-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows time matters in automated trading, improving simple strategies over complex ones.

problem Effects of reaction speed and trading urgency on automated trading strategies.
method Simulated financial markets with public limit order book and continuous double auction matching. Examined reaction speed and trading urgency.
result Simple strategies outperform complex ones when considering reaction speed and trading urgency.

We develop a tighter implementation of basic PL topology, which keeps track of some combinatorial structure beyond PL homeomorphism type. With this technique we clarify some aspects of PL transversality and give combinatorial proofs of a number of known results. New results include a combinatorial characterization of c…

2012-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to quantify and decompose disparity in ML models, separating exempt and non-exempt components.

problem Quantifying disparity in ML models, especially when certain features are exempted due to their critical importance.
method Information-theoretic decomposition into exempt and non-exempt components, satisfying desirable properties.
result Proposes a measure of non-exempt disparity that satisfies all desirable properties, and shows impossibility results for observational measures.

This paper improves robot traders' market impact sensitivity.

problem Market impact in automated trading systems.
method Critiqued existing methods, introduced MLOFI, and demonstrated new algorithms.
result New imbalance-sensitive trader-agents exhibit market impact effects.

Bayesian CART models improve insurance claims frequency prediction and interpretation.

problem Improving accuracy and interpretability in insurance pricing models.
method Introducing Bayesian CART models for claims frequency, implementing MCMC algorithm for posterior tree exploration, and using DIC for model selection.
result Bayesian CART models can better classify policy-holders into risk groups.

Many software analysis methods have come to rely on machine learning approaches. Code segmentation - the process of decomposing source code into meaningful blocks - can augment these methods by featurizing code, reducing noise, and limiting the problem space. Traditionally, code segmentation has been done using syntact…

2019-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

TreeCaps improves code comprehension for software developers.

problem Processing code efficiently for software developers.
method Tree-based capsule networks for capturing code syntactical structures and dependencies.
result TreeCaps outperforms other approaches in classifying program functionalities.

Paper proposes graph-based separable transforms for video coding.

problem Improving video coding efficiency by better capturing residual block statistics.
method Derives graph-based separable transforms (GBSTs) from line graphs with weights determined by parameters.
result GBSTs achieve about 0.4% average coding gain over existing transforms in VVC.

Contrastive Code Representation Learning improves code summarization and type inference.

problem Code representations are sensitive to edits, hindering downstream semantic understanding tasks.
method ContraCode: a contrastive pre-training task that learns code functionality.
result Contrastive pre-training improves code summarization and type inference accuracy.

This work tackles runtime complexity prediction for code, using machine learning and a new dataset.

problem Predicting runtime complexity of code is hard and mathematically impossible.
method Modelled as a machine learning task, using feature engineering and code embeddings, with a new dataset.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results in runtime complexity prediction.

Investigates neural codes and their embeddings, proving conjectures and introducing new code types.

problem Analyzing neural codes and their embedding dimensions.
method Combinatorial, topological, and algebraic analysis; proving conjectures; introducing new neural code types.
result Proves conjectures about neural codes and their embeddings, introduces new code types.

Characterization of a patient clinical phenotype is central to biomedical informatics. ICD codes, assigned to inpatient encounters by coders, is important for population health and cohort discovery when clinical information is limited. While ICD codes are assigned to patients by professionals trained and certified in c…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse coding approximates the data sample as a sparse linear combination of some basic codewords and uses the sparse codes as new presentations. In this paper, we investigate learning discriminative sparse codes by sparse coding in a semi-supervised manner, where only a few training samples are labeled. By using the m…

2013-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Inspired by recent work on convex formulations of clustering (Lashkari & Golland, 2008; Nowozin & Bakir, 2008) we investigate a new formulation of the Sparse Coding Problem (Olshausen & Field, 1997). In sparse coding we attempt to simultaneously represent a sequence of data-vectors sparsely (i.e. sparse approximation (…

2012-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Topological theory for qLDPC codes enables non-Clifford gates and magic state injection.

problem Fault-tolerant quantum computation in qLDPC codes with non-Clifford gates and magic state resources.
method Developed a topological theory using simplicial or CW complex structures and deformation retraction.
result Achieved non-Clifford gates and magic state injection in qLDPC codes with constant rate and polynomial distance.

We introduce new definitions of universal and superuniversal computable codes, which are based on a code's ability to approximate Kolmogorov complexity within the prescribed margin for all individual sequences from a given set. Such sets of sequences may be singled out almost surely with respect to certain probability …

2009-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Code search and comprehension have become more difficult in recent years due to the rapid expansion of available source code. Current tools lack a way to label arbitrary code at scale while maintaining up-to-date representations of new programming languages, libraries, and functionalities. Comprehensive labeling of sou…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient coding is a technique for straggler mitigation in distributed learning. In this paper we design novel gradient codes using tools from classical coding theory, namely, cyclic MDS codes, which compare favorably with existing solutions, both in the applicable range of parameters and in the complexity of the invol…

2017-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The design of codes for communicating reliably over a statistically well defined channel is an important endeavor involving deep mathematical research and wide-ranging practical applications. In this work, we present the first family of codes obtained via deep learning, which significantly beats state-of-the-art codes …

2018-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse codes improve optimal control tasks with correlated inputs.

problem Optimal control tasks with correlated feature inputs.
method Used a sparse code to represent natural images in an optimal control task solved with neuro-dynamic programming.
result An over-complete sparse code increases memory capacity and learning speed beyond a complete code.

We discuss Gauss codes of virtual diagrams and virtual doodles. The notion of a left canonical Gauss code is introduced and it is shown that oriented virtual doodles are uniquely presented by left canonical Gauss codes.

2018-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We use Khovanov homology to define families of LDPC quantum error-correcting codes: unknot codes with asymptotical parameters [[3^(2l+1)/sqrt(8πl);1;2^l]]; unlink codes with asymptotical parameters [[sqrt(2/2πl)6^l;2^l;2^l]] and (2,l)-torus link codes with asymptotical parameters [[n;1;d_n]] where d_n>\sqrt(n)/1.62.

2013-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we formalize a combinatorial object for describing link diagrams called a Planar Diagram Code. PD-codes are used by the KnotTheory Mathematica package developed by Bar-Natan, et al. We present the set of PD-codes as a stand alone object and discuss its relationship with link diagrams. We give an explicit …

2013-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse coding, which represents a data point as a sparse reconstruction code with regard to a dictionary, has been a popular data representation method. Meanwhile, in database retrieval problems, learning the ranking scores from data points plays an important role. Up to now, these two problems have always been conside…

2014-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum codes on hyperbolic lattices outperform Euclidean ones with higher rates and lower overhead.

problem Improving quantum error correction performance with hyperbolic lattices.
method Unified framework using Hyperbolic Cycle Basis algorithm for CSS codes construction and benchmarking.
result Achieved higher encoding rates and lower qubit overhead in hyperbolic quantum error correction codes.