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This paper examines interest rates and market efficiency in DeFi loanable funds protocols.

problem Equilibrium of supply and demand for loanable funds in DeFi protocols.
method Review of interest rate mechanisms in Compound, Aave, and dYdX; empirical analysis of market efficiency and inter-connectedness.
result Interest rate rules in DeFi protocols do not always equilibrate supply and demand.

CutMix training technique improves spatial locality in Vision Transformers.

problem Improving spatial locality in Vision Transformers trained from scratch.
method Comparison of Baseline and Modern training protocols on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Tiny-ImageNet.
result CutMix training component significantly reduces Mean Attention Distance (MAD) in early layers of Vision Transformers.

The study analyzes how cross-chain interoperability affects decentralized lending protocols' performance.

problem Understudied cross-chain elements in DeFi lending risk management.
method Panel regression fixed effects and OLS models applied to empirical analysis.
result Cross-chain activity impacts protocol performance, with bridge volume being a critical driver.

The paper examines how decentralized credit curators have taken over risk management from traditional protocols.

problem Risk management in decentralized credit has shifted from centralized protocols to decentralized curators.
method Analysis of ERC 4626 vaults and third-party curators, focusing on capital utilization, concentration, and fee margins.
result Curators have a significant impact on the risk profile of decentralized credit systems, with a small set of curators handling a disproportionate share of system TVL.

The paper analyzes risks and revenue dynamics of a liquid restaking protocol in decentralized finance.

problem Interconnected risks and revenue dynamics of a liquid restaking protocol in decentralized finance.
method Empirical analysis using OLS regression, Granger-causality, and random forest feature importance tests.
result Revenue is primarily driven by value locked in the ecosystem, yield of liquid restaking token, and multi-blockchain expansion.

We study the quantum synchronization between a pair of two-level systems inside two coupled cavities. By using a digital-analog decomposition of the master equation that rules the system dynamics, we show that this approach leads to quantum synchronization between both two-level systems. Moreover, we can identify in th…

2017-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent findings in neuroscience suggest that the human brain represents information in a geometric structure (for instance, through conceptual spaces). In order to communicate, we flatten the complex representation of entities and their attributes into a single word or a sentence. In this paper we use graph convolution…

2020-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces supervised and unsupervised TAM models for binary neurons.

problem Learning and retrieval of structured triplets of patterns in neural networks.
method Extends Hebbian paradigm to supervised and unsupervised protocols, using glassy statistical mechanical techniques.
result Obtained self-consistency equations for critical dataset sizes and retrieval performance.

New cooperative dynamics enhances retrieval performance in neural networks.

problem Understanding emergent computational capabilities in disordered systems.
method Leveraging statistical mechanics, extended neural network architecture for hetero-associative memory.
result Layers trained with less informative datasets develop retrieval regions of the same amplitude, leading to optimal performance.

Survey examines distillation methods for large language models.

problem Efficiently compress large language models while preserving their capabilities.
method Knowledge Distillation and Dataset Distillation techniques.
result Integrating KD and DD can produce more effective and scalable compression strategies.

We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to previously queried users. The vast majority of exist…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New federated learning protocols resist Byzantine failures and offer privacy guarantees.

problem Resisting Byzantine failures in federated learning.
method Proposes robust federated learning protocols with optimal statistical rates and privacy guarantees.
result Achieves nearly optimal statistical rates and tight rate in terms of all parameters for strongly convex losses.

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.

The paper analyzes how mutable blockchain protocols affect miner behavior and strategic stability.

problem The mutability of blockchain protocols undermines long-term planning and cooperative equilibria.
method Integrates Austrian capital theory with repeated game theory to examine miner behavior under different institutional conditions.
result Effective time preference increases when protocol rules are mutable, leading to political rent-seeking and undermining strategic coherence.

This study measures liquidity risks in Aave, a blockchain lending protocol.

problem Liquidity risks in lending protocols, especially in Aave.
method Measurements of liquidity risks using Aave as a case study, focusing on available liquidity and market concentration.
result Liquidity risks in Aave are volatile and affect the protocol negatively, especially for repeat borrowers.

Study analyzes risk management in Aave and Compound lending protocols, finding v3 better than v2.

problem Risk management in decentralized lending protocols.
method Cross-version and cross-chain analysis using fixed effects model.
result v3 protocols have better risk management, with stronger impact on L2 blockchains.

The paper gives bounds for how long it takes for gossip protocols to spread information in networks.

problem Understanding the diffusion time in asynchronous gossip protocols.
method Provides non-asymptotic bounds for the number of messages needed for consensus in asynchronous gossip protocols.
result Explicit formula and approximation for the number of messages needed for consensus in different types of graphs.

Paper explores how to design federated learning protocols that benefit all participants while maintaining privacy.

problem Privacy concerns undermine the accuracy benefits of federated learning in privacy-sensitive domains.
method The paper provides conditions for mutually beneficial federated learning protocols and designs protocols that maximize total utility and accuracy.
result The paper demonstrates that federated learning can be designed to be mutually beneficial, striking a balance between privacy and model accuracy.

A scalable protocol for federated averaging with privacy and correctness guarantees.

problem Privacy and correctness in federated learning from multiple parties.
method Scalable protocol using correlated and independent Gaussian noise, analyzed for differential privacy and graph topology.
result Nearly matches trusted curator model's utility with minimal communication.

In recent work, Cheu et al. (Eurocrypt 2019) proposed a protocol for nn-party real summation in the shuffle model of differential privacy with Oε,δ(1)O_{ε, δ}(1) error and Θ(εn)Θ(ε\sqrt{n}) one-bit messages per party. In contrast, every local model protocol for real summation must incur error Ω(1/n)Ω(1/\sqrt{n}), and there exist …

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework explains neural network bias in solving differential equations.

problem Understanding and controlling the bias in PINNs for differential equations.
method Deriving an integro-differential equation from PINNs and GPR equivalence.
result PINN predictions are influenced by a kernel term reflecting architecture choices.

This study aims to improve communication between fragmented blockchain systems in finance.

problem Inefficient and insecure communication in fragmented blockchain systems.
method Analysis of cross-chain interoperability protocols and their properties.
result Comparison and evaluation of cross-chain interoperability protocols.

This work studies differential privacy in the context of the recently proposed shuffle model. Unlike in the local model, where the server collecting privatized data from users can track back an input to a specific user, in the shuffle model users submit their privatized inputs to a server anonymously. This setup yields…

2019-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study analyzes financial intermediation costs in decentralized lending protocols.

problem Understanding the cost of financial intermediation in decentralized lending protocols.
method Analysis of publicly available data on rates, supply, borrow activity, and accounts.
result Ex-post margins are 1% and lower for stablecoin markets.

New protocol reduces communication costs for heterogeneous bandits over complex networks.

problem Minimizing group regret in a multi-agent, heterogeneous bandit setting over complex networks.
method Flooding with Absorption (FwA) protocol for heterogeneous bandits over complex networks.
result FwA protocol significantly reduces communication costs compared to flooding while maintaining similar regret performance.

A contextual care protocol is used by a medical practitioner for patient healthcare, given the context or situation that the specified patient is in. This paper proposes a method to build an automated self-adapting protocol which can help make relevant, early decisions for effective healthcare delivery. The hybrid mode…

2018-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Secure Aggregation protocols allow a collection of mutually distrust parties, each holding a private value, to collaboratively compute the sum of those values without revealing the values themselves. We consider training a deep neural network in the Federated Learning model, using distributed stochastic gradient descen…

2016-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proposes optimal risk-aware interest rates for crypto lending protocols.

problem Determining optimal interest rates for decentralized lending protocols to maximize profit and minimize risk.
method Agent-based model, Riccati-type ODEs for linear behaviors, Monte-Carlo estimator and deep learning for nonlinear behaviors.
result Calibrated model shows superior risk-adjusted performance compared to industry-standard interest rate models.

FinReflectKG - EvalBench benchmarks financial KG extraction from SEC 10-K filings.

problem Lack of universal benchmark and evaluation framework for financial KG construction.
method Agentic and holistic evaluation principles, deterministic commit-then-justify judging protocol, binary and ordinal evaluations.
result Reflection-based extraction outperforms single-pass extraction in comprehensiveness, precision, and relevance.

RLHF uses human feedback to train AI models, posing statistical challenges.

problem Aligning AI models with human preferences using noisy, subjective feedback.
method Supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling, policy optimization, statistical ideas.
result Statistical methods for reward function learning and policy optimization.

Improved distributed learning with reduced communication costs.

problem Efficient communication in resource-constrained environments for distributed learning.
method Proposed a cost-effective partial communication protocol.
result Communication cost is reduced to O(logT)O(\log T), improving significantly on full communication.