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48 results for emergent contribution

New measure EC assesses node contributions in nonlinear, time-varying systems.

problem Existing node contribution measures assume linear, time-invariant dynamics, failing for complex, real-world systems.
method Defined 'emergent contribution (EC)' as a dynamical leverage measure from Jacobians of differentiable models.
result EC diverges from average controllability under persistent regime switching and sign reversal, identifying limits of local linearization.

This paper is a contribution to interweaving two lines of research that have progressed in separate ways: network analyses of international trade and the literature on African trade and development. Gathering empirical data on African countries has important limitations and so does the space occupied by African countri…

2016-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Performing machine learning on structured data is complicated by the fact that such data does not have vectorial form. Therefore, multiple approaches have emerged to construct vectorial representations of structured data, from kernel and distance approaches to recurrent, recursive, and convolutional neural networks. Re…

2019-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explains how language models acquire complex skills through scaling laws and statistical analysis.

problem Understanding how language models acquire new skills as their size and training data increase.
method Statistical framework and mathematical analysis of scaling laws.
result Language models can learn complex skills efficiently due to a strong inductive bias.

We introduce a stochastic model to explain a double power-law distribution which exhibits two different Paretian behaviors in the upper and the lower tail and widely exists in social and economic systems. The model incorporates fitness consideration and noise fluctuation. We find that if the number of variables (e.g. t…

2011-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

MACQ method explains deep learning models by analyzing feature contributions across prediction levels.

problem Explaining deep learning model predictions.
method Global gradient-based, model-agnostic approach focusing on marginal attribution.
result MACQ separates feature contributions from interaction effects and visualizes 3-way relationships.

We give a survey of our joint ongoing work with Ali Chamseddine, Slava Mukhanov and Walter van Suijlekom. We show how a problem purely motivated by "how geometry emerges from the quantum formalism" gives rise to a slightly noncommutative structure and a spectral model of gravity coupled with matter which fits with expe…

2017-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Price without transaction makes no sense. Trading volume authenticates its corresponding price, so there exist mutual information and correlation between price and trading volume. We are curious about fractal features of this correlation and need to know how structures in different scales translate information. To expl…

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows survivorship bias inflates returns in India's small-cap index.

problem Survivorship bias in emerging market small-cap indices.
method Reconstructing historical index composition through market capitalization ranking and comparing equal-weight portfolios of current constituents versus all historical members.
result Survivor-only backtesting overstates returns by 4.94 percentage points and Sharpe ratios by 0.097.

A new distance for mixed-variable, hierarchical datasets with meta variables.

problem Heterogeneous datasets limit generalizability and performance in machine learning and optimization.
method Developed a modeling framework for mixed-variable and hierarchical domains with meta variables, and a novel distance function.
result The novel distance function allows comparison of heterogeneous datasets, improving model performance.

Autoencoder-based learning has emerged as a staple for disciplining representations in unsupervised and semi-supervised settings. This paper analyzes a framework for improving generalization in a purely supervised setting, where the target space is high-dimensional. We motivate and formalize the general framework of ta…

2020-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots discovered by the authors and, independently, Jacob Rasmussen. The discovery of this invariant grew naturally out of studying how a certain three-manifold invariant, Heegaard Floer homology, changes as the three-manifold undergoes Dehn surgery along a knot. Since its origin…

2017-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

This article attempts to place the emergence of probabilistic numerics as a mathematical-statistical research field within its historical context and to explore how its gradual development can be related both to applications and to a modern formal treatment. We highlight in particular the parallel contributions of Sul'…

2019-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A new federated learning framework ensures fairness and robustness.

problem Collaborative fairness and adversarial robustness in federated learning.
method RFFL framework with a reputation mechanism to identify and remove non-contributing or malicious participants.
result RFFL achieves high fairness and robustness to different types of adversaries.

The recent emergence of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum has posed possible alternatives to global payments as well as financial assets around the globe, making investors and financial regulators aware of the importance of modeling them correctly. The Levy's stable distribution is one of the attractive dis…

2018-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study active nematic forces on curved surfaces, revealing new coupling mechanisms.

problem Understanding active nematic forces on curved surfaces.
method Developed a thermodynamically consistent surface model with nematic activity, analyzed topological defects.
result Active defects contribute both tangential and normal forces on curved surfaces.

LLMs show surprising confidence in their answers, beyond just tokens.

problem LLMs lack meaningful confidence estimates for their responses.
method Semantic calibration test based on local loss optimality and equivalence classes.
result Base LLMs are semantically calibrated across tasks, contrary to expectations.

Study on heat content for domains with fractal boundaries.

problem Analyzing short-time asymptotics of heat content for domains with fractal boundaries.
method Developing mathematical analysis on de Gennes' hypothesis and exploring fractal curvatures.
result Fractal curvatures and their scaling exponents may emerge in the short-time heat content asymptotics of domains with fractal boundaries.

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have been successfully applied to a range of challenging control tasks. However, these methods typically struggle with achieving effective exploration and are extremely sensitive to the choice of hyperparameters. One reason is that most approaches use a noisy version of their oper…

2019-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper analyzes voter coalitions in MakerDAO's decentralized governance.

problem Understanding the governance structure and influence of voter coalitions in DAOs.
method Applied clustering algorithm to voting history of MakerDAO to identify voter coalitions.
result The emergence of a dominant voter coalition signals governance centralization in DAOs.

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging collaborative machine learning method to train models on distributed datasets with privacy concerns. To properly incentivize data owners to contribute their efforts, Shapley Value (SV) is often adopted to fairly assess their contribution. However, the calculation of SV is time-con…

2020-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The global financial crisis in 2007-2009 demonstrated that systemic risk can spread all over the world through a complex web of financial linkages, yet we still lack fundamental knowledge about the evolution of the financial web. In particular, interbank credit networks shape the core of the financial system, in which …

2017-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We show implicit filter level sparsity manifests in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which employ Batch Normalization and ReLU activation, and are trained with adaptive gradient descent techniques and L2 regularization or weight decay. Through an extensive empirical study (Mehta et al., 2019) we hypothesize the mec…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

HERMES model predicts nonstationary fashion trends using social media data.

problem Forecasting nonstationary fashion time series for optimal inventory decisions.
method Hybrid model combining parametric models, seasonal components, and recurrent neural networks with external signals.
result State-of-the-art results on fashion dataset and M4 competition time series.

We show that the emerging field of discrete differential geometry can be usefully brought to bear on crystallization problems. In particular, we give a simplified proof of the Heitmann-Radin crystallization theorem (R. C. Heitmann, C. Radin, J. Stat. Phys. 22, 281-287, 1980), which concerns a system of NN identical at…

2016-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗