We introduce the concept of coverage risk as an error measure for density ridge estimation. The coverage risk generalizes the mean integrated square error to set estimation. We propose two risk estimators for the coverage risk and we show that we can select tuning parameters by minimizing the estimated risk. We study t…
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Tuning into Climate Risks: Extracting Innovation from Television News for Clean Energy Firmsq-fin.ST
Study uses TV news to measure climate risks affecting clean energy firms.
problem Understanding how climate risks impact clean energy firms' financial stability.
method Developed climate risk measures from TV news coverage and analyzed their effects on clean energy firms' risks.
result Increased TV news coverage of climate risks correlates with higher systematic risk and lower idiosyncratic risk for clean energy firms.
New metrics improve understanding of predictive system reliability.
problem Evaluating conditional coverage of predictive systems.
method Casting conditional coverage estimation as a classification problem, using excess risk of the target coverage (ERT) metrics.
result Modern classifiers provide higher statistical power for estimating conditional coverage.
Method predicts NAFLD risk with high accuracy and distribution-free coverage guarantees.
problem Insufficient population-level screening tools for NAFLD.
method Gradient-boosted decision trees with conformal prediction.
result Method achieves AUROC of 0.912 internally and 0.891 externally, superior to other models.
Proposes methods for online conformal prediction with nested prediction sets across multiple confidence levels.
problem Need for uncertainty quantification with multiple confidence levels in diverse applications.
method Online optimization perspective to enforce nestedness of prediction sets while controlling quantile estimation error.
result Achieves stable coverage across all levels, strictly nested prediction sets, and improved efficiency.
Optimal decision-making using prediction sets to minimize risk.
problem Using prediction sets optimally for decision-making in uncertain scenarios.
method Decision-theoretic framework that seeks to minimize expected loss against a worst-case distribution.
result ROCP algorithm reduces critical mistakes compared to baselines, especially in costly out-of-set errors.
A framework to quantify deployment risk in ML systems, especially for rare states.
problem Under-supported rare states in ML models lead to unreliable performance in unseen data.
method Blind-Spot Mass (B_n(tau)) using Good-Turing unseen-species estimation.
result Identifies and quantifies the risk of under-supported states in ML models.
Develops optimal decision-making framework for uncertain counterfactuals.
problem Ensuring reliability of predictions in high-stakes decisions.
method Policy-Coupled Risk-Averse Conformal Prediction (PC-RACP).
result Optimal prediction sets for counterfactual decisions with valid coverage.
Aggregate Cyber-Risk Management in the IoT Age: Cautionary Statistics for (Re)Insurers and Likescs.PF
The paper examines the feasibility of managing aggregate cyber-risk in IoT environments.
problem Determining sustainable conditions for providing aggregate cyber-risk coverage.
method Developed a rigorous general theory and validated it with real data.
result Conditions for sustainable aggregate cyber-risk management under heavy-tailed distributions.
This paper maps the insurability of AI risks across various insurance products.
problem Emerging AI risks and their implications for insurance coverage.
method Coding 55 AI threat classes against 26 insurance products using public carrier materials and threat catalogs.
result Identification of a four-tier insurability frontier: affirmatively insured, silent-AI exposures, actively excluded, and unstructured perils.
Bayesian method improves extreme quantile estimation with zero coverage error.
problem Estimating extreme quantiles with zero coverage error in small samples.
method Bayesian quantile estimation using Jeffreys prior.
result Bayesian method results in zero coverage error, unlike maximum likelihood.
PersonalizedUS assesses breast cancer risk with local coverage guarantees.
problem Manual BI-RADS scoring leads to unnecessary biopsies and mental health burden.
method Conformal prediction for precise, personalized risk estimates.
result Local coverage guarantees with high sensitivity and specificity.
Adaptive Conformal Prediction via Bayesian Uncertainty Weighting for Hierarchical Healthcare Datacs.LG
Hybrid Bayesian-conformal framework improves uncertainty quantification in healthcare predictions.
problem Jointly satisfying distribution-free coverage guarantees and risk-adaptive precision in clinical decision-making.
method Integrates Bayesian hierarchical random forests with group-aware conformal calibration, using posterior uncertainties to weight conformity scores.
result Achieves target coverage (94.3% vs 95% target) with adaptive precision, 21% narrower intervals for low-uncertainty cases.
A new method for selective classification trades off accuracy for coverage.
problem Selective classification allows a classifier to abstain from predicting some instances.
method Optimizes a collection of class-wise decoupled one-sided empirical risks.
result The method achieves near-optimal coverage in high target accuracy regimes.
This paper aims to optimize incident-specific cyber insurance design.
problem Complexity in determining optimal risk retention and transfer.
method Economic foundation for incident-specific cyber insurance with Pareto optimality.
result Illustrates feasibility of designing incident-specific indemnities for both parties.
Four geometries govern sequential and distribution-free inference.
problem Sequential and distribution-free inference challenges.
method Four distinct admissibility geometries.
result Four classes of admissible procedures are pairwise non-nested.
The paper derives uniform stability-based coverage bounds for conformal prediction methods.
problem Establishing theoretical guarantees for conformal prediction methods.
method Uniform stability perspective applied to full-conformal, jackknife+, and CV+ prediction regions.
result Coverage bounds for finite-dimensional models derived using a concentration argument.
This paper addresses the identification of insurance models with multidimensional screening where insurees have private information about their risk and risk aversion. The model includes a random damage and the possibility of several claims. Screening of insurees relies on their certainty equivalence. The paper then in…
We formalize AURC and develop estimators for SC systems.
problem Evaluation of SC systems' performance.
method Formal statistical formulation, Monte Carlo methods, plug-in estimators.
result Plug-in estimators are consistent, with low bias and bounded MSE.
New framework calibrates decision robustness using inverse conformal risk control.
problem Inadequate robustness levels in decision-making due to ad hoc choices.
method Constructs valid estimators to trace miscoverage-regret Pareto frontier.
result Provides distribution-free, finite-sample guarantees on robustness levels.
Generalizes conformal prediction to multiple learnable parameters for efficient prediction sets.
problem Learning valid and efficient prediction sets with low-capacity function classes.
method Constrained empirical risk minimization (ERM) with gradient-based optimization of differentiable surrogate losses and Lagrangians.
result Achieves approximate valid population coverage and near-optimal efficiency within class.
New method predicts sets under unknown covariate shift with high confidence.
problem Adapting to unknown covariate shift in prediction sets.
method PredSet-1Step, a flexible distribution-free method.
result Achieves asymptotic probably approximately correct coverage.
Study of insurance market equilibria with risk-averse policyholders.
problem Analyzing optimal insurance contracts in a monopoly market with risk-averse policyholders.
method Modeling Stackelberg equilibria with a profit-maximizing insurer and a risk-averse policyholder.
result Equilibrium contracts exhibit a layer-type structure, providing full insurance over pessimistic loss layers and no coverage over optimistic ones.
Conformal Prediction Assessment: A Framework for Conditional Coverage Evaluation and Selectionstat.ME
CPA framework assesses conditional validity of conformal prediction.
problem Challenges in evaluating conditional validity of conformal prediction.
method Reframes conditional coverage evaluation as a supervised learning task.
result Establishes convergence rates and proves CVI consistency.
Optimal insurance contracts are designed to screen risk preferences and risk types under asymmetric information.
problem Designing optimal insurance contracts under asymmetric information and risk types.
method Constructing a menu of contracts that maximizes mean-variance utilities, subject to truth-telling constraints.
result Equilibrium contracts exhibit nonlinear pricing with decreasing risk loadings, inducing self-selection.
Selective prediction framework reduces errors in molecular structure identification from MS/MS.
problem High-stakes applications require reliable molecular structure identification from MS/MS data.
method Selective prediction framework using risk-coverage tradeoff and uncertainty quantification.
result First-order confidence measures and retrieval-level aleatoric uncertainty achieve strong risk-coverage tradeoffs.
Develops methods for dynamic pricing in incomplete data settings.
problem Incomplete historical data makes optimal pricing difficult.
method Nonparametric partial identification framework for offline dynamic pricing.
result Pessimistic and opportunistic policies with regret bounds.
New benchmark predicts cardiometabolic risk from accelerometer data, with varying accuracy.
problem Lack of accurate tabular benchmarks for cardiometabolic risk from accelerometer data.
method Tabular learning methods (ridge regression, XGBoost, TabPFN v2) applied to NHANES data.
result TabPFN v2 achieves best performance, but triglycerides remain largely unpredictable.
RAGIC predicts stock intervals with risk considerations, improving prediction accuracy and coverage.
problem Limited success in predicting stock market outcomes due to stochastic nature and risk oversight.
method RAGIC uses a GAN with a risk module and temporal module to generate risk-sensitive stock intervals.
result RAGIC achieves a consistent 95% coverage with narrow interval widths, balancing accuracy and risk.
New methods adapt conformal prediction to unknown subpopulation shifts.
problem Failure of conformal prediction under unknown subpopulation shifts.
method Proposes new methods that adapt conformal prediction to unknown subpopulation shifts without explicit subpopulation labels.
result Ensures valid coverage guarantees without explicit knowledge of subpopulation structure.
Neural-SDE model accurately simulates option risks.
problem Estimating accurate risk scenarios for option portfolios.
method Arbitrage-free neural-SDE market model for joint option dynamics.
result Models produce more efficient and accurate VaR evaluations.
Locally Valid and Discriminative prediction intervals for deep learning models.
problem Efficient and theoretically sound uncertainty quantification for deep learning models.
method Locally Valid and Discriminative prediction intervals (LVD) using kernel regression.
result Locally Valid and Discriminative prediction intervals (LVD) offer better performance and scalability compared to existing methods.
Optimal Investment, Consumption, and Insurance with Durable Goods under Stochastic Depreciation Riskecon.GN
We study an infinite-horizon optimal investment, consumption and insurance problem for an economic agent who consumes a perishable and a durable good. The agent trades in a risk-free asset, a risky asset, and a durable good whose price follows a correlated diffusion, while the stock of the durable good depreciates dete…
Conformal Risk Controlstat.ME
Extends conformal prediction for controlling expected risk of monotone loss functions.
problem Controlling expected risk of monotone loss functions.
method Generalizes split conformal prediction with coverage guarantee, extending to distribution shift, quantile risk, multiple, adversarial, and expectations of U-statistics.
result Tight up to an factor, with worked examples in computer vision and natural language processing.
Method certifies edge predictions with cloud-level reliability.
problem Ensuring reliability of edge intelligence models.
method Conformal alignment-based cascading mechanism.
result Certifies conditional coverage with user control over risk level.
CRC method provides tighter uncertainty intervals for CT images.
problem Expressing uncertainty in CT images in clinically meaningful terms.
method Semantically adaptive CRC procedure leveraging length minimization.
result Valid coverage of ground-truth images with tighter uncertainty intervals.
DS-CP improves reliability of uncertainty quantification for large language models under domain shift.
problem Overconfident and factually incorrect outputs (hallucinations) from large language models.
method Adapts conformal prediction to large language models under domain shift by reweighting calibration samples.
result DS-CP delivers more reliable coverage than standard conformal prediction, especially under substantial distribution shifts.
ICP provides interval predictions with high confidence coverage.
problem High-risk settings where true output must be highly probable.
method ICP is a distribution-free, model-agnostic algorithm.
result ICP outputs prediction intervals with high coverage probability.
The paper addresses selection bias in conformal prediction for focal units.
problem Selection bias in marginally valid conformal prediction intervals for focal units.
method A general framework for constructing selection-conditional coverage prediction sets.
result Efficient methods for various selection rules with exact finite-sample coverage.
A new conformal prediction framework for two-stage models identifies stage-wise uncertainty.
problem Limited coverage guarantees and lack of modular structure understanding in existing conformal prediction methods.
method Decomposes prediction residuals into stage-specific components, calibrates parameters using FWER control, and adapts to non-stationary settings.
result Improves coverage and identifies stage-wise error contributions compared to standard conformal methods.
A new method combines multiple bounds and betting strategies for selective prediction, improving risk coverage in data-scarce settings.
problem Selective prediction with risk control in data-scarce domains.
method Combines concentration inequalities, multiple-testing corrections, and betting-based confidence sequences.
result Transfer-Informed Betting achieves tighter bounds and better coverage in data-scarce settings.
The paper introduces recklessness to improve recommendation quality and quantity.
problem The reliability/coverage dilemma in recommender systems limits the number of recommended items.
method Incorporates a new term (recklessness) into matrix factorization-based recommender systems to address the dilemma.
result Recklessness improves the quantity and quality of recommendations by allowing for risk regulation.
Liquidity Stress Testing in Asset Management -- Part 3. Managing the Asset-Liability Liquidity Riskq-fin.RM
Third part of a study on liquidity risk in asset management, focusing on managing the asset-liability liquidity risk.
problem Managing the asset-liability liquidity risk in asset management.
method Develops a methodological and practical framework for liquidity stress testing programs.
result Proposes measurement, management, and monitoring tools for controlling the liquidity gap.
Paper discusses optimal CP for second-order predictions.
problem How to incorporate second-order predictions into conformal prediction.
method Introduces Bernoulli prediction sets (BPS) for second-order predictions and applies conformal risk control for compromised validity.
result BPS provides the smallest prediction sets with conditional coverage.
Modeling reinsurance market, we find subgame perfect Nash equilibria.
problem Optimizing reinsurance market with multiple insurers and reinsurers.
method Sequential game with Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria analysis.
result Characterized subgame perfect Nash equilibria in some market cases.
Paper introduces a framework for managing cyber risk with insurance and cybersecurity models.
problem Pervasive challenges in managing cyber risk, especially for capital allocation.
method Combines insurance frequency-severity models with cybersecurity cascade models for comprehensive cyber risk assessment. Facilitates informed capital allocation through a two-pillar framework.
result Demonstrates the necessity of comprehensive cost-benefit analysis for budget-constrained companies.
New method calibrates classifier probabilities with guaranteed coverage.
problem Inaccurate probability estimates by classifiers in high-risk applications.
method Adaptive temperature scaling algorithm for conformal prediction.
result Improves calibration error measures and standard metrics across various tasks.
A neural network estimates sampling distributions for hard problems where classical methods fail.
problem Bootstrap failure in estimating sampling distributions for specific statistics.
method Neural network trained on simulated datasets using pinball loss.
result Neural network attains 95% nominal coverage and 97% improvement over classical methods on four bootstrap-failure problems.