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48 results for drift term

Uniqueness found for elliptic equations with drift on manifolds.

problem Finding unique solutions to elliptic equations with drift on manifolds.
method Investigation in weighted Lebesgue spaces, focusing on conditions for uniqueness.
result Sharp conditions on drift term for uniqueness in polynomial volume growth manifolds.

In this paper, we study term structure movements in the spirit of Heath, Jarrow, and Morton [Econometrica 60(1), 77-105] under volatility uncertainty. We model the instantaneous forward rate as a diffusion process driven by a G-Brownian motion. The G-Brownian motion represents the uncertainty about the volatility. With…

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows physical drift affects put-call parity enforcement, not just option payoffs.

problem Inconsistency between quoted put-call parity and actual market behavior.
method Examined SPX and RUT index options, used drift-preserving GBM term to improve fit.
result Physical drift enters the enforcement of risk-neutral parity, not just option payoffs.

Unified geometric framework for Brownian motion on various manifolds.

problem Modeling Brownian motion on complex Riemannian manifolds.
method Constructing stochastic differential equations with noise and drift terms aligned with Laplace-Beltrami operators.
result Geometrically transparent and mathematically consistent foundation for diffusion processes.

A conservative drifting method improves generative modeling by using KDE gradients, proving convergence rates.

problem Improving generative modeling by addressing non-conservatism issues.
method Proposes a conservative drifting method using kernel density estimator gradients to address non-conservatism.
result Proves finite-particle convergence rates for the conservative method, providing explicit quadrature constants.

CURIE uses cellular automata to detect concept drift in data streams.

problem Detecting changes in data distribution (concept drift) in data streams.
method CURIE represents data stream distribution in a cellular automata grid and uses its neighborhood rule to detect changes.
result CURIE, when hybridized with base learners, performs competitively in detection metrics and classification accuracy.

Classifiers operating in a dynamic, real world environment, are vulnerable to adversarial activity, which causes the data distribution to change over time. These changes are traditionally referred to as concept drift, and several approaches have been developed in literature to deal with the problem of drift handling an…

2018-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves survival analysis for credit risk by accounting for data drift.

problem Survival analysis in credit risk assumes a stationary data-generating process, but real-world data drift affects model performance.
method Proposes a dynamic joint modelling framework integrating longitudinal behavioural markers and hazard formulations, combined with drift-adaptive techniques.
result Proposed model outperforms classical survival models and drift-adaptive learners in various data drift scenarios.

We consider a Bayesian financial market with one bond and one stock where the aim is to maximize the expected power utility from terminal wealth. The solution of this problem is known, however there are some conjectures in the literature about the long-term behavior of the optimal strategy. In this paper we prove now t…

2017-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops a neural network method for estimating drift functions of diffusion processes from discrete observations.

problem Nonparametric estimation of drift function for diffusion processes from high-frequency discrete observations.
method Neural network-based estimator for drift function estimation.
result Derives a non-asymptotic convergence rate for the neural network estimator.

In accessibility tests for digital preservation, over time we experience drifts of localized and labelled content in statistical models of evolving semantics represented as a vector field. This articulates the need to detect, measure, interpret and model outcomes of knowledge dynamics. To this end we employ a high-perf…

2016-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The existence of the pricing kernel is shown to imply the existence of an ambient information process that generates market filtration. This information process consists of a signal component concerning the value of the random variable X that can be interpreted as the timing of future cash demand, and an independent no…

2011-03-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper solves a Bayes sequential impulse control problem for a diffusion, whose drift has an unobservable parameter with a change point. The partially-observed problem is reformulated into one with full observations, via a change of probability measure which removes the drift. The optimal impulse controls can be ex…

2014-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a new analysis of the problem of learning with drifting distributions in the batch setting using the notion of discrepancy. We prove learning bounds based on the Rademacher complexity of the hypothesis set and the discrepancy of distributions both for a drifting PAC scenario and a tracking scenario. Our boun…

2012-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The study improves Monte Carlo simulations for long-term investments using advanced financial models.

problem Improving the accuracy of long-term investment simulations.
method Developed a multivariate process incorporating recent financial models and probabilistic forecasts.
result Increased accuracy in predicting portfolio values over decades.

We use drifted Brownian motion in warped product model spaces as comparison constructions to show pp-hyperbolicity of a large class of submanifolds for p2p\ge 2. The condition for pp-hyperbolicity is expressed in terms of upper support functions for the radial sectional curvatures of the ambient space and for the rad…

2006-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes prediction error in nonstationary settings using weighted risk minimization.

problem Prediction under distribution drift and nonstationary conditions.
method General decomposition of excess risk into learning and drift terms, proving oracle inequalities under mixing conditions.
result Oracle inequalities for the learning error, providing bounds that hold uniformly over arbitrary weight classes.

Common statistical prediction models often require and assume stationarity in the data. However, in many practical applications, changes in the relationship of the response and predictor variables are regularly observed over time, resulting in the deterioration of the predictive performance of these models. This paper …

2015-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

DRIFT uses neural flows to replace distributional regression models.

problem Lack of neural network representations for distributional regression models.
method Inverse flow transformations (DRIFT) for distributional regression.
result Neural representations in DRIFT match classical statistical methods in performance.

The behavior of stock market returns over a period of 1-60 days has been investigated for S&P 500 and Nasdaq within the framework of nonextensive Tsallis statistics. Even for such long terms, the distributions of the returns are non-Gaussian. They have fat tails indicating that the stock returns do not follow a random …

2016-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning monitors detect motor overheating, adapting to concept drift.

problem Early detection of motor overheating in ships' propulsion systems.
method Machine learning and statistical methods using historical data to adapt to concept drift.
result The proposed monitors provide early detection of overheating during and after concept drifts.

New budget quantifies drift in closed-loop learning, improving reproducibility.

problem Characterizing statistical learning under distributional drift in closed-loop settings.
method Introduces an intrinsic drift budget CTC_T quantifying cumulative information-geometric motion of the data distribution.
result Proves a drift-feedback bound of order T1/2+CT/TT^{-1/2}+C_T/T for prequential reproducibility, up to controlled second-order remainder terms.

Estimates time-series drifts from i.i.d. data using a direct Nadaraya-Watson plug-in method.

problem Nonparametric estimation of Schrödinger bridge drifts from single time interval data.
method Direct Nadaraya-Watson plug-in estimator based on kernelized numerator and denominator terms.
result Uniform non-asymptotic bound, CLT under undersmoothing, and adaptive bandwidth selector.

This paper refines bounds on random walk speed in Teichmüller space.

problem Understanding the speed of random walks on Teichmüller space.
method Analyzing Jenkins-Strebel directions and Lebesgue geodesics.
result The drift of random walks grows exponentially for typical geodesics and oscillates between linear and exponential for some geodesics.

Graphs approximate semigroups for diffusion on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Approximating semigroups for diffusion on Riemannian manifolds.
method Discretized approximation using random walks on proximity graphs.
result Quantitative error estimates for convergence of discrete semigroups to continuous semigroups.

Motivated by empirical data, we develop a statistical description of the queue dynamics for large tick assets based on a two-dimensional Fokker-Planck (diffusion) equation, that explicitly includes state dependence, i.e. the fact that the drift and diffusion depends on the volume present on both sides of the spread. "J…

2013-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Investment strategy in uncertain markets improved by learning and risk-ambiguity preferences.

problem Investment in financial markets with unknown drift coefficients.
method Optimization under KMM approach, considering risk and ambiguity preferences.
result Optimal investment strategy can be adjusted based on prior drift distribution.

Online distributional prediction with latent cluster geometry

problem Predicting the full data-generating distribution in non-stationary streams
method Representing candidate laws as latent cluster geometry and using Gibbs quasi-posterior
result Achieving sublinear cumulative Wasserstein regret under bounded support and stable latent geometry

Study online conformal prediction for non-stationary data with optimal training-conditional regret.

problem Online prediction for non-stationary data streams with unknown distribution drift.
method Proposes split-conformal and full-conformal algorithms that adapt to drift detection and incorporate stability for online learning.
result Proves minimax-optimal regret for online full conformal algorithm under appropriate restrictions.

New method calculates geometric Brownian motion with affine drift and its integral.

problem Calculating the distribution of geometric Brownian motion with affine drift and its integral.
method Laplace transform approach and Heun differential equation.
result Joint distribution of geometric Brownian motion with affine drift and its integral can be determined.

Paper uses sparse learning to estimate quasi-potential and drift components in stochastic systems.

problem Estimating quasi-potential and drift components in stochastic systems.
method Sparse identification of non-linear dynamics (SINDy) combined with action minimization methods.
result Evaluation of quasi-potential landscape from a single trajectory.

Online class imbalance learning constitutes a new problem and an emerging research topic that focusses on the challenges of online learning under class imbalance and concept drift. Class imbalance deals with data streams that have very skewed distributions while concept drift deals with changes in the class imbalance s…

2018-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents a novel one-factor stochastic volatility model where the instantaneous volatility of the asset log-return is a diffusion with a quadratic drift and a linear dispersion function. The instantaneous volatility mean reverts around a constant level, with a speed of mean reversion that is affine in the in…

2019-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗