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48 results for fractional kernel

Study asymptotics of Poisson kernel and Green's functions for fractional conformal Laplacian.

problem Asymptotics of Poisson kernel and Green's functions for fractional conformal Laplacian.
method Sharp expansions derived for the Poisson kernel and Green's functions near singularities.
result Sharp expansions of the Green's functions solve the first part of Kim-Musso-Wei's conjecture.

Data-driven discovery of "hidden physics" -- i.e., machine learning of differential equation models underlying observed data -- has recently been approached by embedding the discovery problem into a Gaussian Process regression of spatial data, treating and discovering unknown equation parameters as hyperparameters of a…

2018-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Sharp fractional Sobolev inequalities on closed manifolds identified.

problem Critical fractional Sobolev embedding on closed Riemannian manifolds.
method Intrinsic heat-kernel based framework, determining optimal coefficients, proving sharp inequalities.
result Sharp pp-power inequality and almost sharp inequality established.

Unified analysis of Gaussian Process Thompson Sampling without discretization.

problem Sequential decision-making over continuous action spaces.
method Frequentist regret analysis based on fractional Gaussian process posteriors.
result Unified discretization-free regret bound for various kernel classes.

New rough stochastic volatility models using log-modulated fractional Brownian motion.

problem Analyzing rough stochastic volatility models over the range 0H<1/20 \le H < 1/2.
method Introducing log-modulated fractional Brownian motion (log-fBm) to handle H=0H = 0 and analyze over the full range.
result Obtained skew asymptotics of log(1/T)pTH1/2\log(1/T)^{-p} T^{H-1/2} as To0T o 0 for H0H \ge 0, no flattening of skew as Ho0H o 0.

Study approximates rough stochastic volatility models using diffusion processes.

problem High computational cost in simulating rough stochastic volatility models.
method Approximates stochastic Volterra equations with an N-dimensional diffusion process.
result Approximations converge strongly with superpolynomial rate in N.

New kernel improves MMDs with theoretical guarantees for gradient flows.

problem Non-smoothness of negative distance kernel in MMDs.
method Smoothed 1D absolute value function followed by fractional integral transform.
result Improved theoretical guarantees for Wasserstein gradient flows.

We give a definition of the fractional Laplacian on some noncompact manifolds, through an extension problem introduced by Caffarelli-Silvestre. While this definition in the compact case is straightforward, in the noncompact setting one needs to have a precise control of the behavior of the metric at infinity and geomet…

2012-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Fast simulates Volterra processes using RFF, focusing on S-fBM.

problem Efficiently simulate Volterra processes for fractional Brownian motion.
method Random Fourier Features (RFF) approximation of kernel, spectral representation, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling.
result Quantitative guarantees for RFF approximation, competitive in terms of efficiency and error.

The paper models cryptocurrency price and volatility with jumps and fractional volatility.

problem Empirical evidence shows jumps in cryptocurrency price and volatility.
method Fractional stochastic volatility model with jumps and short-term volatility dependency.
result Fractional stochastic volatility models outperform other models in pricing and hedging cryptocurrency options.

In this paper we consider a punctured Riemann surface endowed with a Hermitian metric which equals the Poincaré metric near the punctures and a holomorphic line bundle which polarizes the metric. We show that the Bergman kernel can be localized around the singularities and its local model is the Bergman kernel of the p…

2016-04-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study approximates weak error for specific stochastic models with rough and Gaussian mean-reverting volatility.

problem Approximating weak error for specific stochastic models with rough and Gaussian mean-reverting volatility.
method Used Euler type scheme with integrated kernels to study weak convergence rate.
result Obtained weak convergence rate of min(3α1,1)\min(3α-1,1) for discretised rough Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and stochastic rough volatility model.

The paper characterizes stochastic completeness on Riemannian manifolds using nonlocal conditions.

problem Stochastic completeness on complete Riemannian manifolds.
method Proves nonlocal characterizations and provides several new conditions equivalent to stochastic completeness.
result Stochastic completeness is equivalent to genuinely nonlocal conditions, including the zero-mean identity and uniqueness of solutions to fractional equations.

A new distribution family extends the α\alpha-stable distribution with a degree of freedom parameter.

problem Lack of moments in the α\alpha-stable distribution.
method Wright function framework to combine and extend distribution families.
result Generalized α\alpha-stable distribution with valid moments.

We investigate the efficiency of k-means in terms of both statistical and computational requirements. More precisely, we study a Nyström approach to kernel k-means. We analyze the statistical properties of the proposed method and show that it achieves the same accuracy of exact kernel k-means with only a fraction of co…

2019-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Clustering is one of the most important unsupervised problems in machine learning and statistics. Among many existing algorithms, kernel k-means has drawn much research attention due to its ability to find non-linear cluster boundaries and its inherent simplicity. There are two main approaches for kernel k-means: SVD o…

2016-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the asymptotic behavior as time goes to infinity of Hawkes processes whose regression kernel has L1L^1 norm close to one and power law tail of the form x(1+α)x^{-(1+α)}, with α(0,1)α\in(0,1). We in particular prove that when α(1/2,1)α\in(1/2,1), after suitable rescaling, their law converges to that of a kind of integr…

2015-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

A random forest is a popular tool for estimating probabilities in machine learning classification tasks. However, the means by which this is accomplished is unprincipled: one simply counts the fraction of trees in a forest that vote for a certain class. In this paper, we forge a connection between random forests and ke…

2018-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

NANSDE-Net models time series with memory using neural ARMA-type noise.

problem Modeling time series with long- or short-memory characteristics.
method Developed NANSDE-Net, a generative model that incorporates Neural Network-kernel ARMA-type noise.
result NANSDE-Net matches or outperforms existing models in reproducing long- and short-memory features of data.

A new simulation method for Volterra processes improves convergence for rough kernels.

problem Simulating Volterra processes with singular kernels.
method iVi (integrated Volterra implicit) scheme based on Inverse Gaussian distribution.
result The iVi scheme achieves weak convergence with few time steps, especially for rough kernels.

Kernel matrices (e.g. Gram or similarity matrices) are essential for many state-of-the-art approaches to classification, clustering, and dimensionality reduction. For large datasets, the cost of forming and factoring such kernel matrices becomes intractable. To address this challenge, we introduce a new adaptive sampli…

2015-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-linear kernel methods can be approximated by fast linear ones using suitable explicit feature maps allowing their application to large scale problems. We investigate how convolution kernels for structured data are composed from base kernels and construct corresponding feature maps. On this basis we propose exact an…

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study models market volatility with persistent and temporary impacts.

problem Microstructure of rough volatility models driven by Poisson measures.
method Existence and uniqueness of solutions for stochastic path-dependent Volterra equations.
result Volatility process converges to fractional Heston model with spikes.

Calibrates Hawkes models for market events, revealing power-law feedback kernels.

problem Estimating the influence of past events and price changes on future market events.
method Proposes a calibration procedure for Quadratic Hawkes models, analyzing the kernel components.
result Empirically calibrated kernel components reveal power-law behavior, suggesting system near critical point.

The study examines the chaos of fractional Brownian fields as Hurst parameter approaches zero.

problem Understanding the chaos of fractional Brownian fields as their Hurst parameter tends to zero.
method Defining normalizing kernels and using Berestycki's ``good points'' approach to derive the limiting measure of multiplicative chaos.
result The limiting measure of multiplicative chaos converges to a log-correlated Gaussian field as the Hurst parameter approaches zero.

New method transforms complex stochastic equations into simpler ones for efficient simulation.

problem Efficient simulation of complex path-dependent stochastic processes.
method Transforms Volterra-type SDEs into standard diffusion processes using convolution kernels.
result Proposes a numerical simulation scheme with a strong convergence rate of 1/2.

Inspired by the LG/CY correspondence, we study the local index theory of the Schrödinger operator associated to a singularity defined on Cn{\mathbb C}^n by a quasi-homogeneous polynomial ff. Under some mild assumption on ff, we show that the small time heat kernel expansion of the corresponding Schrödinger operator e…

2016-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Theoretical analysis explains why models generalize after overfitting in modular addition.

problem Understanding why models generalize after overfitting in modular addition.
method Theoretical analysis and gradient descent behavior of two-layer quadratic networks and Transformers.
result Two-layer quadratic networks and simple Transformers generalize well after initially overfitting, indicating grokking.

FFN addresses spectral bias in neural value approximation, improving reinforcement learning performance.

problem Spectral bias in neural value approximation, leading to slow convergence and poor performance.
method Proposes Fourier feature networks (FFN) to overcome spectral bias by using a composite neural tangent kernel.
result FFN achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging continuous control domains with faster convergence and better stability.

NeuroMem-FHP framework estimates FHP parameters efficiently.

problem Estimating parameters of fractional Hawkes process (FHP) with long-range dependence.
method Developed LSTM and Transformer neural architectures to estimate FHP parameters directly from inter-arrival times.
result Transformer achieves highest estimation accuracy (MSE = 0.1634) compared to classical MLE (MSE = 2.8032).

The paper analyzes the stationarity of stochastic Volterra integral equations and introduces fake stationary regimes.

problem Analyzing the stationarity of non-Markovian dynamical systems described by SVIEs.
method Investigates the properties of SVIE solutions, focusing on stationarity over finite and long time horizons, and introduces a deterministic stabilizer to induce a fake stationary regime.
result SVIEs do not exhibit a strong stationary regime unless the kernel is constant or degenerate, but a fake stationary regime can be achieved with a deterministic stabilizer.

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is powerful classification technique based on the idea of structural risk minimization. Use of kernel function enables curse of dimensionality to be addressed. However, proper kernel function for certain problem is dependent on specific dataset and as such there is no good method on choice …

2014-03-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We suggest that the broad distribution of time scales in financial markets could be a crucial ingredient to reproduce realistic price dynamics in stylised Agent-Based Models. We propose a fractional reaction-diffusion model for the dynamics of latent liquidity in financial markets, where agents are very heterogeneous i…

2017-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New method speeds up uncertainty estimation for large datasets in causal inference.

problem Computational infeasibility of bootstrap-based uncertainty quantification for large datasets.
method Extends cBLB algorithm to kernel methods, combining subsampling and resampling.
result Achieves computational scalability with nominal coverage.