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48 results for behavioral effects

The goal of this paper is to study organized flocking behavior and systemic risk in heterogeneous mean-field interacting diffusions. We illustrate in a number of case studies the effect of heterogeneity in the behavior of systemic risk in the system, i.e., the risk that several agents default simultaneously as a result…

2016-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Corporate transparency reduces investors' disposition effect by increasing confidence in holding profitable and losing stocks.

problem Irrational disposition effect in investors selling profitable assets too soon and holding onto losing assets for too long.
method Examined the impact of corporate transparency on individual investors' disposition effect.
result Increased corporate transparency significantly reduces the disposition effect.

Investors in Bitcoin exhibit the disposition effect, selling winners and holding losers.

problem The disposition effect in cryptoassets, specifically Bitcoin.
method Using transaction data from cryptoasset exchanges, the study investigated Bitcoin investors' behavior.
result Bitcoin investors exhibit the disposition effect, with intensity varying over time.

Improved probabilistic forecasts using behavioral transformations.

problem Improving accuracy and consistency of probabilistic asset price forecasts.
method Behavioral transformation of fundamental expectations to disentangle sentiment-induced biases.
result Substantial forecast gains across various models and risk-preferences.

AI agents in experimental markets exhibit behavioral patterns that aggregate into market dynamics.

problem Understanding AI trading behavior and its impact on market dynamics.
method Experimental asset markets populated by AI agents trained on Large Language Models (LLMs).
result AI agents' behavior leads to market dynamics similar to human traders, including bubbles.

Social media reduces individual investors' disposition effect through negative information.

problem The disposition effect in individual investors selling profitable assets too early and holding onto losing assets for too long.
method Analysis of post data and trading data from Xueqiu.com.
result Social media information significantly reduces the disposition effect.

The paper extends kernel ridge regression to product kernels and reveals new convergence behaviors.

problem Understanding kernel ridge regression in large dimensions with various kernels.
method Established a broad family of large dimensional kernels and derived convergence rates.
result Revealed new phenomena including minimax optimality, saturation effect, and multiple descent behavior.

Study examines how balancing methods affect model behavior in imbalanced classification problems.

problem Impact of balancing methods on model behavior in imbalanced classification problems.
method Used Explainable Artificial Intelligence tools (variable importance method, partial dependence profile, accumulated local effects) to compare model behavior before and after balancing.
result Significant changes in model behavior due to balancing methods, leading to biased models.

Unintended effects from scaling neural network outputs with adaptive learning rates.

problem Adaptive learning rate optimization's behavior is altered by output scaling, leading to misinterpretation.
method Presented a modified optimization algorithm to mitigate unintended effects.
result Adaptive learning rate's effectiveness is significantly impacted by output scaling, especially for small scaling factors.

Exploration is a key problem in reinforcement learning, since agents can only learn from data they acquire in the environment. With that in mind, maintaining a population of agents is an attractive method, as it allows data be collected with a diverse set of behaviors. This behavioral diversity is often boosted via mul…

2020-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Behavior cloning training instabilities amplified by SGD noise over long horizons.

problem Training instabilities in behavior cloning with deep neural networks.
method Empirical dissection of minibatch SGD updates and their effects on long-horizon rewards.
result Exponential moving average (EMA) of iterates effectively mitigates gradient variance amplification (GVA).

AIPS improves ranking policy evaluation by adapting to diverse user behavior.

problem Inaccurate Off-Policy Evaluation of ranking policies due to high variance under diverse user behavior.
method Developed Adaptive IPS (AIPS) that adapts to different user behaviors and minimizes MSE.
result AIPS achieves minimum variance among unbiased estimators and provides significant empirical accuracy improvement.

A microeconomic approach is proposed to derive the fluctuations of risky asset price, where the market participants are modeled as prospect trading agents. As asset price is generated by the temporary equilibrium between demand and supply, the agents' trading behaviors can affect the price process in turn, which is cal…

2013-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study higher-order spin glass models for social network behavior with peer-group effects.

problem Modeling correlation phenomena on social networks with peer-group effects.
method Inference in higher-order Ising models to recover coefficients and peer-group effects.
result Strong concavity of log pseudo-likelihood implies statistical error rate of sqrt(d/n) for MPLE.

Bistable structures associated with non-linear deformation behavior, exemplified by the Venus flytrap and slap bracelet, can switch between different functional shapes upon actuation. Despite numerous efforts in modeling such large deformation behavior of shells, the roles of mechanical and nonlinear geometric effects …

2012-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses OT to simulate markets, revealing power-law returns are driven by informational effect.

problem Reproduce power-law returns in financial markets using realistic simulations.
method Constructed artificial markets, used optimal transport (OT) to measure similarity, incrementally introduced behavioral components.
result Informational effect of prices is dominant in reproducing power-law returns, and multiple components interact synergistically.

The paper introduces new metrics for evaluating generative models of behavior.

problem Lack of quantitative evaluation criteria for unsupervised behavior discovery.
method Proposed and investigated several metrics for generative models of behavior.
result The proposed metrics correspond with biologists' intuitions and allow for model evaluation and bias understanding.

This paper provides theoretical foundations for using quantized actions in behavior cloning.

problem Applying autoregressive models to continuous control requires discretizing actions through quantization, which is poorly understood.
method The paper analyzes quantization error propagation and statistical sample complexity, and proposes model-based augmentation.
result Behavior cloning with quantized actions achieves optimal sample complexity, matching existing lower bounds.

Model assesses credit risk using behavioral data from Experian and Bank of Italy.

problem Improving credit risk assessment in financial institutions.
method Statistical and machine learning techniques applied to behavioral data from Experian and Bank of Italy.
result Demonstrates transferability of the model from private to central data.

Study shows short exposure and systematic risk exposure affect disposition effect asymmetries.

problem Understanding disposition effect in short vs long exposure positions and systematic risk.
method Generalized Odean measures, introduced Value metric, implemented dispositionEffect R package.
result Short positions exhibit weaker disposition effect than long positions under narrow framing, reversing in integrated framing.

We demonstrate that the lowest possible price change (tick-size) has a large impact on the structure of financial return distributions. It induces a microstructure as well as it can alter the tail behavior. On small return intervals, the tick-size can distort the calculation of correlations. This especially occurs on s…

2010-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals LLM personality patterns but lacks behavioral consistency.

problem Understanding and validating personality traits in LLMs.
method Characterized LLM personality across three dimensions: training dynamics, self-report validity, and intervention effects.
result Self-reported traits do not reliably predict behavior, and instructional alignment affects trait expression but not behavior.

Social media systems rely on user feedback and rating mechanisms for personalization, ranking, and content filtering. However, when users evaluate content contributed by fellow users (e.g., by liking a post or voting on a comment), these evaluations create complex social feedback effects. This paper investigates how ra…

2014-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The study reveals a transition in neural network performance from infinite-width to variance-limited behavior as dataset size increases.

problem Understanding the transition from infinite-width to variance-limited behavior in neural networks.
method Empirical study of the transition from infinite-width to variance-limited behavior as a function of sample size and network width.
result The critical sample size \( P^* \) is approximately \( \sqrt{N} \) for polynomial regression with ReLU networks.

Experimental economics has repeatedly demonstrated that the Nash equilibrium makes inaccurate predictions for a vast set of games. Instead, several alternative theoretical concepts predict behavior that is much more in tune with observed data, with the quantal response equilibrium as the most prominent example. However…

2010-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses Bayesian regression to analyze consumer behavior changes in restaurants post-COVID-19.

problem Impact of COVID-19 on consumer behavior in the restaurant industry.
method Bayesian regression with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
result Estimates change in consumer behavior before and after the pandemic.

We study the role of co-jumps in the interest rate futures markets. To disentangle continuous part of quadratic covariation from co-jumps, we localize the co-jumps precisely through wavelet coefficients and identify statistically significant ones. Using high frequency data about U.S. and European yield curves we quanti…

2019-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗