We introduce the C++ application and R package ranger. The software is a fast implementation of random forests for high dimensional data. Ensembles of classification, regression and survival trees are supported. We describe the implementation, provide examples, validate the package with a reference implementation, and …
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Extremely Fast Decision Tree improves accuracy on large datasets.
New algorithms for approximating stochastic processes efficiently.
GPU-optimized ES-RNN boosts time series forecasting speed by 322x.
New method speeds up Gaussian process inference for large datasets.
iPrescribe offers fast online offer recommendations using deep learning.
We consider efficient implementations of the generalized lasso dual path algorithm of Tibshirani and Taylor (2011). We first describe a generic approach that covers any penalty matrix D and any (full column rank) matrix X of predictor variables. We then describe fast implementations for the special cases of trend filte…
Convolutional autoregressive models have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on a number of generation tasks. While fast, parallel training methods have been crucial for their success, generation is typically implemented in a naïve fashion where redundant computations are unnecessarily repeated. This res…
Fast-vollib offers high-performance option pricing and IV computation.
We revisit a pioneer unsupervised learning technique called archetypal analysis, which is related to successful data analysis methods such as sparse coding and non-negative matrix factorization. Since it was proposed, archetypal analysis did not gain a lot of popularity even though it produces more interpretable models…
abess efficiently solves various machine learning problems quickly.
Develops a fast algorithm for fitting multilevel factor models.
Rgtsvm provides a fast and flexible support vector machine (SVM) implementation for the R language. The distinguishing feature of Rgtsvm is that support vector classification and support vector regression tasks are implemented on a graphical processing unit (GPU), allowing the libraries to scale to millions of examples…
GPU-accelerated BART speeds up Bayesian regression.
Fast algorithm for braid group Hecke representation, applied to knot invariants.
A fast method for sparse PCA reduces computation time.
This paper analyses the implementation and calibration of the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model. We first explain how characteristic functions can be used to estimate option prices. Then we consider the implementation of the Heston model, showing that relatively simple solutions can lead to fast and accurate vanilla o…
BlitzWS is a working set algorithm for convex problems with theoretical guarantees.
Enhances Fourier estimator performance for asynchronous event-data.
We speed up Gaussian process cross-validation calculations and improve model diagnostics.
Given a collection of categorical data, we want to find the parameters of a Dirichlet distribution which maximizes the likelihood of that data. Newton's method is typically used for this purpose but current implementations require reading through the entire dataset on each iteration. In this paper, we propose a modific…
Fast variational Bayes methods improve geospatial data analysis speed and accuracy.
The article describes the algorithm used to define the electricity price in day-ahead and itraday energy markets in Italy. Details of Matlab implementation of one of its simplified versions, capable of producing good results in a extremely short time, are then provided and numerical results are discussed.
This report provides an introduction to some Machine Learning tools within the most common development environments. It mainly focuses on practical problems, skipping any theoretical introduction. It is oriented to both students trying to approach Machine Learning and experts looking for new frameworks.
VSML unifies meta learning concepts and enables simple backpropagation.
Speed bumps reduce but do not fully eliminate investment in fast trading technology.
We propose a fast algorithm for computing the economic capital, Value at Risk and Greeks in the Gaussian factor model. The algorithm proposed here is much faster than brute force Monte Carlo simulations or Fourier transform based methods \cite{MD}. While the algorithm of Hull-White \cite{HW} is comparably fast, it assu…
We implement a master-slave parallel genetic algorithm (PGA) with a bespoke log-likelihood fitness function to identify emergent clusters within price evolutions. We use graphics processing units (GPUs) to implement a PGA and visualise the results using disjoint minimal spanning trees (MSTs). We demonstrate that our GP…
Manifold Learning is a class of algorithms seeking a low-dimensional non-linear representation of high-dimensional data. Thus manifold learning algorithms are, at least in theory, most applicable to high-dimensional data and sample sizes to enable accurate estimation of the manifold. Despite this, most existing manifol…
Develops a fast Bayesian optimisation method that reduces computational overhead.
Until recently, research on artificial neural networks was largely restricted to systems with only two types of variable: Neural activities that represent the current or recent input and weights that learn to capture regularities among inputs, outputs and payoffs. There is no good reason for this restriction. Synapses …
FIT is a fast nonparametric test for conditional independence.
Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is a widely used statistical tool with both well established theory and favorable performance for a wide range of machine learning problems. However, computing CCA for huge datasets can be very slow since it involves implementing QR decomposition or singular value decomposition of h…
A new fast algorithm for crowd labeling of sentiment data.
XGBoost accelerates machine learning on GPUs.
Unified neural and associative memory for one-shot learning.
A fast, robust AMP algorithm for quadratic optimization problems.
In this letter, we propose an algorithm for recovery of sparse and low rank components of matrices using an iterative method with adaptive thresholding. In each iteration, the low rank and sparse components are obtained using a thresholding operator. This algorithm is fast and can be implemented easily. We compare it w…
A fast algorithm selects best subsets in high-dimensional models.
Two new algorithms speed up TreeSHAP computation for tree-based models.
Researchers show NN-based communication algorithms can be implemented on hardware without significant performance loss.
BlackJAX simplifies Bayesian inference with modular, fast implementations.
Simple method solves Quanto Skew problem.
Efficiently checks local robustness in neural networks using geometric projections.
Paper develops fast low-rank approximation for smoothing splines.
Efficient trainable front-end for neural speech enhancement.
The performance of sparse signal recovery from noise corrupted, underdetermined measurements can be improved if both sparsity and correlation structure of signals are exploited. One typical correlation structure is the intra-block correlation in block sparse signals. To exploit this structure, a framework, called block…
We propose a novel accelerated exact k-means algorithm, which performs better than the current state-of-the-art low-dimensional algorithm in 18 of 22 experiments, running up to 3 times faster. We also propose a general improvement of existing state-of-the-art accelerated exact k-means algorithms through better estimate…