GenAI offers financial benefits but requires risk management.
problem Managing risks in financial applications of AI.
method Balancing AI's potential with risk control strategies.
result Proper risk management is essential for AI growth in finance.
GPI uses GenAI models to infer causal and predictive effects from unstructured data.
problem Estimating causal and predictive effects from unstructured data like text and images.
method Leverages open-source GenAI models to generate and represent unstructured data, applying machine learning to these representations.
result GPI efficiently estimates causal and predictive effects with quantified uncertainty, without fine-tuning.
GenAI improves actuarial practices through case studies.
problem Improving actuarial practices using AI.
method Four case studies using LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and vision-enabled LLMs.
result GenAI enhances claim cost prediction, market comparisons, and car damage classification.
GAMBITTS uses GenAI for adaptive interventions, improving decision-making.
problem Adaptive interventions with GenAI-generated content.
method Generator-mediated bandit-Thompson sampling (GAMBITTS).
result GAMBITTS outperforms standard bandit methods in mobile health interventions.
This paper formalizes AI safety using hypothesis testing in GenAI.
problem Ensuring safety of generative AI tools that create realistic content.
method Formalization of computational safety through hypothesis testing and signal processing.
result Demonstrates how AI safety can be assessed quantitatively using mathematical frameworks.
GenAI adoption paradoxically lowers ROE for U.S. banks, with spillovers but systemic risk concerns.
problem Productivity paradox and implementation costs in U.S. banking sector with AI adoption.
method Dynamic Spatial Durbin Models (DSDM) and Synthetic Difference-in-Differences (SDID) for causal inference.
result AI adoption leads to a 428-basis-point decline in ROE for banks, with spillovers but systemic risk implications.
Proposes a method to choose thresholds for LLM evaluation metrics.
problem Ensuring reliable large language models (LLMs) with correct threshold selection.
method Identify risks, stakeholders' risk tolerance, and use ground-truth data to determine thresholds.
result Demonstrates a concrete example with the Faithfulness metric and HaluBench dataset.
StockGPT predicts stock returns using AI, outperforming traditional strategies.
problem Making accurate stock predictions and trading decisions.
method Trains an autoregressive model on historical stock returns, using attention mechanisms to learn patterns.
result StockGPT's portfolios outperform traditional strategies, yielding significant alphas.
TSFMs outperform traditional models in electricity price forecasting.
problem Accurate electricity price forecasting for effective decision-making.
method Benchmarking several TSFMs against traditional models using real-world data.
result MSTL model consistently outperforms TSFMs across countries and metrics.
New framework uses OR to ensure AI systems make safe decisions.
problem Ensuring generative AI systems make safe decisions as they gain autonomy.
method Developed a conceptual framework combining flow-based models and adversarial robustness.
result Increased autonomy requires new OR approaches for feasibility, robustness, and stress testing.
FinRobot AI agent for equity research provides comprehensive insights.
problem Narrow focus and limited discretion in AI solutions for equity research.
method Multi-agent Chain of Thought system integrating quantitative and qualitative analyses.
result FinRobot delivers insights comparable to major brokerage firms.
Flow-based models use ODEs to generate complex data distributions.
problem Generating high-dimensional data with complex probability distributions.
method Flow-based models use invertible mappings governed by ODEs to capture these distributions.
result Flow-based models provide exact likelihood estimation and efficient sampling.
LOB-Bench benchmarks generative AI for financial data, outperforming traditional models.
problem Lack of consensus on evaluating generative AI models for financial data.
method Python-based benchmark with LOB statistics and market impact metrics.
result Generative autoregressive models outperform traditional models in LOB data.
Enhances financial analysis with multi-agent collaboration.
problem Limited use of AI-agent collaboration in financial research.
method Proposes a multi-agent system for financial investment research.
result Multi-agent system outperforms single-agent models.
Self-play fine-tuning improves diffusion models for text-to-image generation.
problem Plateauing performance of diffusion models after data saturation.
method Self-play fine-tuning (SPIN-Diffusion) using competition among model versions.
result Significantly improved model performance and human preference alignment.
This paper compares self-reflection and budget tuning for LLMs, revealing domain-specific performance gains.
problem Improving inference-time performance of LLMs without retraining, balancing quality, cost, and latency.
method Systematic comparison of self-reflection and budget tuning across mathematical reasoning and translation tasks, evaluating various LLMs and model families.
result Substantial domain-dependent variation in self-reflection effectiveness, with up to 220% performance gains in mathematical reasoning.
This paper improves AI defenses against network attacks using ML and adversarial learning.
problem Protecting personal data from sophisticated network attacks.
method Unified multi-modal dataset, machine learning for detection, adversarial learning for synthetic data generation.
result Stable ML models for intrusion detection and high-fidelity synthetic data.
FinDPO uses preference optimization to improve financial sentiment analysis models.
problem Financial sentiment analysis models often fail to generalize to unseen data.
method FinDPO uses Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to align LLMs with human preferences.
result FinDPO achieves state-of-the-art performance and maintains positive returns under realistic trading conditions.
Android and Facebook provide third-party applications with access to users' private data and the ability to perform potentially sensitive operations (e.g., post to a user's wall or place phone calls). As a security measure, these platforms restrict applications' privileges with permission systems: users must approve th…
Existing applications include a huge amount of knowledge that is out of reach for deep neural networks. This paper presents a novel approach for integrating calls to existing applications into deep learning architectures. Using this approach, we estimate each application's functionality with an estimator, which is impl…
Curved flats linked to pairs of Lie applicable surfaces.
problem Understanding curved flats in Lie sphere geometry.
method One-to-one correspondence with pairs of Demoulin families of Lie applicable surfaces via Darboux transformation.
result Curved flats correspond to specific Lie applicable surface pairs.
Interactive applications incorporating high-data rate sensing and computer vision are becoming possible due to novel runtime systems and the use of parallel computation resources. To allow interactive use, such applications require careful tuning of multiple application parameters to meet required fidelity and latency …
An overview of some of the recent developments in the theory of valuations on convex sets and its generalizations to manifolds is given. The exposition is focused towards applications to integral geometry; several of such applications are discussed.
The aim of this paper is to discuss some applications of general topology in computer algorithms including modeling and simulation, and also in computer graphics and image processing. While the progress in these areas heavily depends on advances in computing hardware, the major intellectual achievements are the algorit…
Survey of deep RL in intelligent transportation systems.
problem Optimizing traffic signals and autonomous driving using deep RL.
method Comprehensive review of deep RL applications in traffic control and autonomous driving.
result Summarizes existing works in deep RL-based transportation applications.
TUV Austria proposes certification for ML applications to ensure reliability.
problem Ensuring trust in AI applications to meet societal reliance requirements.
method Holistic approach analyzing security, functionality, data quality, ethics, and criticality levels.
result Certification process for low-risk ML applications in supervised learning.
MetaDVFS uses device and application metadata to improve DVFS efficiency.
problem Improving energy efficiency in mobile platforms with diverse applications and hardware.
method Formulates DVFS as a multi-task reinforcement learning problem and introduces MetaDVFS, leveraging metadata for knowledge transfer.
result MetaDVFS achieves up to 26% improvement in Quality of Experience and up to 17% improvement in Performance-Power Ratio.
Isoparametric hypersurfaces and their application to special geometries
A New Trinomial Recombination Tree Algorithm and Its Applications
This paper reviews Douglas curvature in Finsler geometry.
problem Exploring Douglas curvature in Finsler spaces.
method Historical review, characterizations, generalizations, and applications.
result Significance and applications of Douglas curvature in Finsler geometry.
We present an overview of some recent applications of Higgs bundles and the Hitchin fibration.
Survey of statistical queries and their applications.
problem Understanding statistical queries and their applications.
method Exploration of statistical queries model, definitions, and connections to learnability.
result Connections to learnability and applications in optimization, evolvability, and differential privacy.
A widely applicable Bayesian information criterion (Watanabe, 2013) is applicable for both regular and singular models in the model selection problem. This criterion tends to overestimate the log marginal likelihood. We identify an overestimating term of a widely applicable Bayesian information criterion. Adjustment of…
Multitask learning and transfer learning have proven to be useful in the field of machine learning when additional knowledge is available to help a prediction task. We aim at deriving methods following these paradigms for use in autotuning, where the goal is to find the optimal performance parameters of an application …
We consider an application involving a financial quadratic portfolio of options, when the joint underlying log-returns changes with multivariate elliptic distribution. This motivates the needs for methods for the approximation of multiple integrals over hyperboloids. A transformation is used to reduce the hyperboloid i…
Context-awareness in smart mobile applications is a growing area of study, because of it's intelligence in the applications. In order to build context-aware intelligent applications, mining contextual behavioral rules of individual smartphone users utilizing their phone log data is the key. However, to mine these rules…
We give a survey on eta invariants including methods of computation and applications in differential topology.
Survey of LLMs in finance tasks, highlighting progress and challenges.
problem Transforming financial practices with advanced LLMs.
method Exploration of various financial tasks, categorization, and analysis of methodologies.
result Unlocking novel opportunities for financial applications with LLMs.
We survey the different versions of Floer homology that can be associated to three-manifolds. We also discuss their applications, particularly to questions about surgery, homology cobordism, and four-manifolds with boundary. We then describe Floer stable homotopy types, the related Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Flo…
Novel GLMMNet model tackles high-cardinality categorical features in actuarial applications.
problem Inadequate encoding methods for high-cardinality categorical features in actuarial data.
method Generalised Linear Mixed Model Neural Network (GLMMNet) integrating a generalised linear mixed model in a deep learning framework.
result GLMMNet often outperforms or performs comparably with entity embedded neural networks, providing transparency.
Large multi-tenant production clusters often have to handle a variety of jobs and applications with a variety of complex resource usage characteristics. It is non-trivial and non-optimal to manually create placement rules for scheduling that would decide which applications should co-locate. In this paper, we present De…
Sep-SpectralNet improves SE for broader applicability and scalability.
problem Three main drawbacks of current SE implementations: generalizability, scalability, and eigenvectors separation.
method Sep-SpectralNet extends SpectralNet with an eigenvector separation post-processing step.
result Sep-SpectralNet achieves consistent SE approximation and generalization, enhancing scalability and applicability.
Explains isometric immersions and their applications.
problem Isometric immersions and their applications in math and physics.
method Historical overview and applications.
result Explains the importance and applications of isometric immersions.
Hierarchical beta process has found interesting applications in recent years. In this paper we present a modified hierarchical beta process prior with applications to hierarchical modeling of multiple data sources. The novel use of the prior over a hierarchical factor model allows factors to be shared across different …
A new process model for machine learning applications with quality assurance.
problem Lack of standard process model for machine learning applications.
method Six-phase process model with quality assurance methodology.
result Proposes a new process model for machine learning applications.
In this paper, we consider a problem of failure prediction in the context of predictive maintenance applications. We present a new approach for rare failures prediction, based on a general methodology, which takes into account peculiar properties of technical systems. We illustrate the applicability of the method on th…
Many Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications demand fast and accurate understanding of a few key events in their surrounding environment. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as an effective approach to understand speech, images, and similar high dimensional data types. Algorithmic performance of modern…
Expands Bredon's trick for applications in geometry and topology.
problem Local-to-global extension principles in geometric and topological contexts.
method Novel applications and frameworks for stratified pseudomanifolds, Ricci flow, and persistent homology.
result Establishes Bredon's trick as a unifying framework.