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Paper builds ML classifier to detect crypto-ransomware.

problem Detecting crypto-ransomware with high accuracy and low false positives.
method Behavior-based detection using input/output activities and file-content entropy. Deep-learning classifier with adversarial research and Integrated Gradient method for explanation.
result Deep-learning classifier achieves high accuracy and low false positive rate in detecting crypto-ransomware.

Reviews spams are prevalent in e-commerce to manipulate product ranking and customers decisions maliciously. While spams generated based on simple spamming strategy can be detected effectively, hardened spammers can evade regular detectors via more advanced spamming strategies. Previous work gave more attention to evas…

2018-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Information systems have widely been the target of malware attacks. Traditional signature-based malicious program detection algorithms can only detect known malware and are prone to evasion techniques such as binary obfuscation, while behavior-based approaches highly rely on the malware training samples and incur prohi…

2019-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Edge language models show bias over time, especially on resource-constrained devices.

problem Bias in edge language models on resource-constrained devices.
method Comparative analysis of text-based bias across edge, cloud, and desktop environments; optimized Llama-2 model on Raspberry Pi 4; feedback loop mechanism to correct bias.
result Llama-2 on Raspberry Pi 4 shows 43.23% and 21.89% more bias over time compared to cloud and desktop models.

In an analysis of the US, the UK, and the German stock market we find a change in the behavior based on the stock's beta values. Before 2006 risky trades were concentrated on stocks in the IT and technology sector. Afterwards risky trading takes place for stocks from the financial sector. We show that an agent-based mo…

2015-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework analyzes pre-stock jump trading behaviors using multivariate time series analysis.

problem Understanding micro-trading behaviors before stock price jumps.
method Multivariate time series analysis considering temporal information.
result Identifies highly informative attributes for predicting price jumps.

The modified J-flow with Calabi ansatz shows convergence or blow-up behavior based on topological constants.

problem Analyzing the behavior of the modified J-flow with Calabi ansatz.
method Using the Calabi symmetry and studying the singularities of the flow.
result The modified J-flow with Calabi ansatz converges to a solution away from a variety, and blows up along the variety.

We develop a theoretical trading conditioning model subject to price volatility and return information in terms of market psychological behavior, based on analytical transaction volume-price probability wave distributions in which we use transaction volume probability to describe price volatility uncertainty and intens…

2010-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The quantitative aspirations of economists and financial analysts have for many years been based on the belief that it should be possible to build models of economic systems - and financial markets in particular - that are as predictive as those in physics. While this perspective has led to a number of important breakt…

2010-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New insights into ML models' accuracy and generalization for scientific problems.

problem Quantifying accuracy and generalization of ML models in scientific applications.
method Rigorous numerical analysis and theoretical bounds for linear differential equations.
result Different ML models can have opposing generalization behaviors, contrary to intuition.

The paper examines how updates to probabilistic models influence behavior based on evidence.

problem Understanding how updates to probabilistic models influence behavior based on evidence.
method Study of KL-regularized soft updates as Bayesian posterior updates within a single probabilistic model.
result Posterior updates determine relative incentives but not absolute rewards, which are ambiguous up to context-specific baselines.

New CTRL algorithm adapts to varying problem difficulty.

problem Adapting to varying levels of problem difficulty in CTRL.
method MLE with a general function approximator, estimating state marginal density.
result Regret bound scales with reward variance and measurement resolution, independent of measurement strategy.

ALMANACS benchmarks explainability methods on simulatability.

problem Evaluating the effectiveness of explainability methods for language models.
method ALMANACS is a simulatability benchmark that evaluates explainability methods on twelve safety-relevant topics.
result No explainability method outperforms the explanation-free control across all topics.

Adaptive market maker curves minimize arbitrage losses in DeFi.

problem Asset trading prices in AMMs trail behind centralized exchanges, causing LP losses.
method Adapts market maker bonding curves to trader behavior using a differential equation derived from the Glosten-Milgrom model.
result Optimal adaptive curves minimize arbitrage losses while remaining competitive.

Hierarchical clustering is a class of algorithms that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. It has been the dominant approach to constructing embedded classification schemes since it outputs dendrograms, which capture the hierarchical relationship among members at all levels of granularity, simultaneously. Being gree…

2018-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework explains retirement and annuitization decisions under age-dependent mortality.

problem Complexity of annuitization decisions due to longevity risk and labor force participation.
method Stochastic control and optimal stopping framework with habit formation and endogenous labor supply.
result Rich sequence of retirement dynamics, including defensive and aggressive labor supply phases.

Modeling spatial extremes with non-Gaussian fields using SAR models and CNNs.

problem Challenges in modeling spatial data with heavy-tailed distributions and missing cells.
method Spatial autoregressive models with Generalized Extreme Value innovations, combined with CNN for fast parameter estimation.
result Effective modeling of spatial extremes in non-Gaussian fields, demonstrated on precipitation data.

Understanding the representational power of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and how their structural properties (e.g., depth, width, type of activation unit) affect the functions they can compute, has been an important yet challenging question in deep learning and approximation theory. In a seminal paper, Telgarsky highlig…

2019-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

CovidCare uses EMR data to predict patient outcomes in emerging epidemics.

problem Intelligent prognosis for patients with emerging infectious diseases during rapid epidemics.
method Transfer learning and knowledge distillation from existing EMR data.
result CovidCare outperforms baseline methods in predicting patient length of stay.

In the 'Big Data' era, many real-world applications like search involve the ranking problem for a large number of items. It is important to obtain effective ranking results and at the same time obtain the results efficiently in a timely manner for providing good user experience and saving computational costs. Valuable …

2017-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

This work analyzes fairness-accuracy trade-offs using causal methods.

problem Discriminatory behavior in machine learning systems based on sensitive characteristics.
method Introduces path-specific excess loss (PSEL) and causal fairness/utility ratio to quantify trade-offs.
result Shows how enforcing fairness constraints can reduce discrimination while increasing loss.

Graph energy helps detect communities in networks better than traditional methods.

problem Detecting communities in sparse networks where traditional methods fail.
method Using graph energy based on the full spectrum of adjacency matrices.
result The difference in graph energy between a planted partition model and an Erdős--Rényi network has a distinct transition at the detectability threshold.

Develops a method to detect changes in linear systems with temporal correlations.

problem Detect abrupt changes in time series data with temporal correlations.
method Data-dependent threshold for online change point detection in linear dynamical systems.
result Achieves a pre-specified upper bound on the probability of false alarms and provides a finite-sample-based bound for detection probability.

Tackles the computational hardness of HPC detection, conjecturing equivalence to PC detection.

problem Computational hardness of hypergraphic planted clique detection.
method No specific method mentioned; focuses on conjecturing equivalence.
result Equivalence of computational hardness between HPC and PC detection.

Study on detecting hierarchical community structures in networks.

problem Detecting hierarchical community structures in networks.
method Analysis of planted hierarchies of partitions in networks, identifying additional detectability phases.
result There are additional phases in which the presence of multiple consistent partitions can either help or hinder detection of hierarchical structures.

Deep object detection improves mitotic nucleus detection in breast cancer biopsies.

problem Challenges in automated mitotic nucleus detection in breast cancer histopathological images.
method Adapted Mask R-CNN for deep object detection, initially selects candidate regions with maximum recall, refines them with multi-object loss function.
result Improved discrimination ability (F-score of 0.86) and significant precision (0.86) for mitotic nuclei compared to two-stage models.

ECAD detects anomalies without data exchangeability, improving traffic flow detection.

problem Detecting anomalies in spatio-temporal data with missing values.
method ECAD uses conformal prediction to wrap around any regression algorithm, controlling Type-I error without data exchangeability.
result ECAD outperforms other methods in detecting anomalous traffic flow.

Autonomous driving requires 3D perception of vehicles and other objects in the in environment. Much of the current methods support 2D vehicle detection. This paper proposes a flexible pipeline to adopt any 2D detection network and fuse it with a 3D point cloud to generate 3D information with minimum changes of the 2D d…

2018-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper offers a distribution-free method for post-detection changepoint localization.

problem Locating the exact time of a change in distribution after a sequential detection procedure.
method A distribution-free framework using conformal test martingales for sequential change detection and post-detection inference.
result Valid post-detection coverage guarantees and non-asymptotic bounds on confidence set size.

Detects data drift in deep learning models using neural embeddings.

problem Detecting changes in data distribution in deep learning models.
method Formulates drift detection in a sequential decision framework and introduces a loss function to balance false alarms and quick detection.
result Demonstrates improved ability to balance false alarms and quick detection in change detection.

It follows from earlier work of Silver-Williams and the authors that twisted Alexander polynomials detect the unknot and the Hopf link. We now show that twisted Alexander polynomials also detect the trefoil and the figure-8 knot, that twisted Alexander polynomials detect whether a link is split and that twisted Alexand…

2013-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗