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48 results for functional laws

Extends results for law-invariant functionals to random variable spaces.

problem Establishing results for a broad class of random variable spaces.
method Using structural results for law-invariant functionals and extending to new spaces.
result Unified perspective on law-invariant functionals, including quantile-based representations.

Counterexamples show failure of uniform laws of large numbers for subdifferentials.

problem Failure of uniform laws of large numbers for subdifferentials under natural assumptions.
method Univariate and bivariate random Lipschitz and convex functions with smooth pieces.
result Counterexamples demonstrate failure of uniform laws of large numbers for subdifferentials.

Employing profits data of Japanese companies in 2002 and 2003, we identify the non-Gibrat's law which holds in the middle profits region. From the law of detailed balance in all regions, Gibrat's law in the high region and the non-Gibrat's law in the middle region, we kinematically derive the profits distribution funct…

2005-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on how certain functionals behave in random variable spaces.

problem Understanding when law-invariant convex functionals simplify to the mean.
method Analyzing a broad class of random variable spaces and mild semicontinuity assumptions.
result The expectation functional is the only law-invariant convex functional that collapses to the mean under certain conditions.

In a recent Nature paper, Gabaix et al. \cite{Gabaix03} presented a theory to explain the power law tail of price fluctuations. The main points of their theory are that volume fluctuations, which have a power law tail with exponent roughly -1.5, are modulated by the average market impact function, which describes the r…

2003-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers develop a method to infer reference measures from observed functionals.

problem Tackles the challenge of identifying or recovering a reference measure from observed functionals.
method Uses the property of law-invariant functionals defining lower or upper supporting sets in dual spaces of signed measures.
result Illustrates the methodology with examples and develops a modification for Value-at-Risk.

The paper explores neural scaling laws for deep operator networks, offering a theoretical foundation.

problem Understanding neural scaling laws in deep operator networks.
method Theoretical analysis of approximation and generalization errors.
result Established a theoretical framework to quantify neural scaling laws for deep operator networks.

New principles for collapsing law-invariant functionals to means, extending beyond convexity.

problem Conditions for law-invariant functionals to reduce to means.
method Establishing collapse to the mean principles for non-convex functionals.
result General principles apply beyond convexity, including quasiconvex and Choquet integrals.

Using a model based on generalised Lotka Volterra dynamics together with some recent results for the solution of generalised Langevin equations, we show that the equilibrium solution for the probability distribution of wealth has two characteristic regimes. For large values of wealth it takes the form of a Pareto style…

2000-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper characterizes law-invariant star-shaped risk measures.

problem Understanding and characterizing law-invariant star-shaped risk measures.
method Developed characterizations for positively homogeneous and star-shaped functionals, derived Kusuoka-type representations, and offered representations of general law-invariant star-shaped functionals.
result Characterizations of law-invariant star-shaped functionals, including their connections to Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall.

We discover scaling laws for kernel regression loss under various learning rate schedules.

problem Understanding loss dynamics and learning rate schedules in kernel regression.
method Theoretical analysis of stochastic gradient descent on a power-law kernel regression model.
result Established a Functional Scaling Law (FSL) capturing the full loss trajectory under arbitrary learning rate schedules.

This work analyzes neural scaling laws using power-law data spectra and derives analytical expressions for generalization error.

problem Understanding how neural network performance scales with key factors like data size and model complexity.
method Statistical mechanics techniques applied to one-pass stochastic gradient descent in a student-teacher framework.
result Derivation of analytical expressions for generalization error under power-law data spectra and identification of conditions for power-law scaling.

New variational principle found for PDEs with symmetries and conservation laws.

problem Finding variational principles for PDEs with symmetries and conservation laws.
method Proving existence of a variational principle for PDEs with symmetries and conservation laws.
result A differential equation with sufficient symmetries and conservation laws leads to a variational functional.

By using numerical simulation, we confirm that Takayasu--Sato--Takayasu (TST) model which leads Pareto's law satisfies the detailed balance under Gibrat's law. In the simulation, we take an exponential tent-shaped function as the growth rate distribution. We also numerically confirm the reflection law equivalent to the…

2008-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on nodal components of random band-limited functions on surfaces, finding a universal law.

problem Distribution of tangencies of nodal components to a vector field on surfaces.
method Analysis of random band-limited functions on smooth compact Riemannian surfaces with vector fields.
result The distribution of tangencies to a vector field on nodal components of random band-limited functions on surfaces follows a universal deterministic law.

Study on RL on volatility surfaces, proving no free lunch for law-seeking methods.

problem Aligning RL agents with no-arbitrage laws in volatile markets.
method Built a law manifold, defined penalties, and used a Goodhart decomposition.
result No free lunch theorem: Law-seeking RL cannot outperform baselines.

We study the volume distribution of nodal domains of random band-limited functions on generic manifolds, and find that in the high energy limit a typical instance obeys a deterministic universal law, independent of the manifold. Some of the basic qualitative properties of this law, such as its support, monotonicity and…

2016-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the distribution function and the cumulative probability for Korean household incomes, i.e., the current, labor, and property incomes. For our case, the distribution functions are consistent with a power law. It is also showed that the probability density of income growth rates almost has the form of a e…

2004-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores closedness properties of convex sets in rearrangement invariant spaces.

problem Closedness properties of law-invariant convex sets in rearrangement invariant spaces.
method Analyzes equivalence of different closedness types in rearrangement invariant spaces.
result Order closedness, σ(X,Xn)σ(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{X}_n^\sim)-closedness and σ(X,L)σ(\mathcal{X},L^\infty)-closedness of a law-invariant convex set are equivalent.

We study higher-order conservation laws of the non-linearizable elliptic Poisson equation 2uzzˉ=f(u) \frac{{\partial}^2 u}{\partial z \partial \bar{z}} = -f(u) as elements of the characteristic cohomology of the associated exterior differential system. The theory of characteristic cohomology determines a normal form for diffe…

2009-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the rigidity of polyhedral surfaces using variational principle. The action functionals are derived from the cosine laws. The main focus of this paper is on the cosine law for a non-triangular region bounded by three possibly disjoint geodesics. Several of these cosine laws were first discovered and used by Fe…

2007-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study convergence of simulated annealing in continuous and discrete settings.

problem Analyzing convergence rate of simulated annealing methods.
method Apply Eyring-Kramers law to prove polynomial decay of tail probabilities.
result Explicit rate of convergence for continuous and discrete simulated annealing.

Model shows feature learning can improve neural scaling laws for hard tasks.

problem Understanding and improving neural network scaling laws for various task difficulties.
method Developed a solvable model of neural scaling laws, identified three scaling regimes, and demonstrated feature learning's impact on scaling exponents.
result Feature learning can improve scaling with training time and compute for hard tasks, nearly doubling the exponent.

Researchers study eigenvalues on singular Riemannian manifolds, showing how curvature affects Weyl's law.

problem Analyzing eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operator on singular Riemannian manifolds with unbounded geometrical invariants.
method Developed a new quantitative estimate for the remainder of the heat trace and Weyl's function on Riemannian manifolds.
result Constructed singular Riemannian metrics with prescribed non-classical Weyl's law for various slowly varying functions.

In his 2011 work, Maas has shown that the law of any time-reversible continuous-time Markov chain with finite state space evolves like a gradient flow of the relative entropy with respect to its stationary distribution. In this work we show the converse to the above by showing that if the relative law of a Markov chain…

2014-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

NN-Turb generates turbulent velocity statistics using neural networks.

problem Creating a 1D field with turbulent velocity statistics.
method Fully-convolutional neural network (NN-Turb) to generate the field.
result NN-Turb generates a 1D field that satisfies Kolmogorov's 2/3 and 4/5 laws, exhibiting intermittency.

Study on gamma-related OU processes with simulation methods.

problem Distributional properties and simulation of gamma-related OU processes.
method Investigation of gamma and bilateral gamma laws, derivation of closed-form densities and characteristic functions, and development of efficient simulation algorithms.
result Efficient algorithms for generating gamma-related OU processes with significantly faster performance than existing methods.

Scaling laws in linear regression explain model performance improvements with size and data.

problem Disagreement between empirical neural scaling laws and conventional wisdom on variance error.
method Infinite dimensional linear regression setup, one-pass SGD, Gaussian prior, power-law spectrum.
result Variance error is dominated by other errors, disappearing from the bound due to SGD's implicit regularization.

The paper characterizes risk measures with the Fatou property in function spaces.

problem Investigating the Fatou property of law-invariant risk measures in function spaces.
method Characterization of the Fatou property using the AOCEA property and dual representations.
result Risk measures with the Fatou property exist under the AOCEA property in most classical model spaces.