American options in a multi-asset market model with proportional transaction costs are studied in the case when the holder of an option is able to exercise it gradually at a so-called mixed (randomised) stopping time. The introduction of gradual exercise leads to tighter bounds on the option price when compared to the …
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Game (Israeli) options in a multi-asset market model with proportional transaction costs are studied in the case when the buyer is allowed to exercise the option and the seller has the right to cancel the option gradually at a mixed (or randomised) stopping time, rather than instantly at an ordinary stopping time. Allo…
Improved analysis of gradual domain adaptation with better generalization bounds.
problem Improving generalization in target domain through intermediate unlabeled domains.
method Analyzed gradual self-training under more general assumptions, proving a new generalization bound.
result Proved a significantly improved generalization bound of ε0 + O(TΔ + T/√n) + ˜O(1/√nT).
New model detects gradual changes in processes more accurately.
problem Traditional change-point models fail to identify gradual changes effectively.
method Introduces a Bayesian change-dynamic model using hierarchical models for gradual change detection.
result The model identifies gradual changes faster and more accurately than traditional models.
Proposes a method for clearer counterfactual explanations of deep networks.
problem Unclear explanations from current counterfactual methods.
method Gradual construction of explanations through masking and composition steps.
result Produces human-friendly, interpretable explanations with fewer modifications.
Self-training improves gradual domain adaptation with unlabeled data.
problem Improving machine learning models' adaptability to gradually shifting data distributions.
method Proved upper bounds on self-training error, highlighted the importance of regularization and label sharpening, and demonstrated algorithmic insights.
result Self-training works well for gradual shifts, especially with small Wasserstein-infinity distance.
In unsupervised learning, there is no apparent straightforward cost function that can capture the significant factors of variations and similarities. Since natural systems have smooth dynamics, an opportunity is lost if an unsupervised objective function remains static during the training process. The absence of concre…
Scales gradual pattern discovery from imprecise data.
problem Managing large collections of gradual patterns from imprecise data.
method Introduces gradualness thresholds and considers attribute value distribution.
result Eliminates noise patterns, showing a smaller set of meaningful patterns.
Gradually Truncated Log-normal distribution - Size distribution of firmscond-mat.stat-mech
Gradually Truncated Log-normal distribution - Size distribution of firms Abstract Many natural and economical phenomena are described through power law or log- normal distributions. In these cases, probability decreases very slowly with step size compared to normal distribution. Thus it is essential to cut-off these di…
IUPM monitors machine learning models under gradual shifts using optimal transport and active labeling.
problem Gradual distribution shifts lead to unnoticed accuracy declines in machine learning models.
method Incremental Uncertainty-aware Performance Monitoring (IUPM) using optimal transport and active labeling.
result IUPM outperforms existing baselines in gradual shift scenarios and guides label acquisition more effectively.
A new method uses normalizing flows for gradual domain adaptation.
problem Difficulty in domain adaptation when source and target domains have a large gap.
method Proposes using normalizing flows to learn a transformation from target to Gaussian mixture distribution.
result Improves classification performance and mitigates the problem of gradual self-training failure.
Usually considered as a classification problem, entity resolution (ER) can be very challenging on real data due to the prevalence of dirty values. The state-of-the-art solutions for ER were built on a variety of learning models (most notably deep neural networks), which require lots of accurately labeled training data.…
The state-of-the-art solutions for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis (ALSA) were built on a variety of deep neural networks (DNN), whose efficacy depends on large amounts of accurately labeled training data. Unfortunately, high-quality labeled training data usually require expensive manual work, and may thus not be readi…
Gradual domain adaptation improves model transfer between domains with intermediate training.
problem Challenges in unsupervised domain adaptation when distribution shifts are large.
method Gradual self-training using intermediate domains along the Wasserstein geodesic.
result GOAT framework generates intermediate domains for improved adaptation.
A cost-effective framework for gradual domain adaptation using multifidelity.
problem Degrading prediction performance due to large domain distance.
method Combines multifidelity and active domain adaptation.
result Improves prediction performance with reduced sample cost.
BRPC online Bayesian calibration handles gradual and abrupt system changes.
problem Aligning model outputs with field observations in evolving systems.
method Bayesian Recursive Projected Calibration (BRPC) for streaming data under simulator mismatch and nonstationarity.
result Improves calibration accuracy under gradual changes and robustness under abrupt regime shifts.
Paper proposes a method to design molecules with specific properties.
problem Designing molecules with desired chemical and biological properties.
method Energy-based model in latent space, SGDS algorithm for gradual distribution shifting.
result Method achieves strong performances on various molecule design tasks.
This paper describes audEERING's submissions as well as additional evaluations for the One-Minute-Gradual (OMG) emotion recognition challenge. We provide the results for audio and video processing on subject (in)dependent evaluations. On the provided Development set, we achieved 0.343 Concordance Correlation Coefficien…
Paper detects gradual changes in cluster structure using MC fusion.
problem Detecting gradual changes in cluster structure over time.
method MC fusion for multiple mixture numbers, examining MC transition.
result Accurately captures cluster structure during transitional periods.
The paper tackles gradual domain adaptation with manifold-constrained DRO, showing error bounds across distributions.
problem Gradual domain adaptation challenge with manifold-constrained data distributions.
method Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) with an adaptive Wasserstein radius.
result Theoretical bounds on classification error across distributions, demonstrating error propagation dynamics.
New concept of mixture complexity helps detect gradual clustering changes.
problem Determining the number of clusters in mixture models with overlaps and weight biases.
method Introducing mixture complexity (MC) as a new measure of cluster size, defined from information theory.
result MC can detect gradual clustering changes, allowing earlier detection and finer distinction.
We introduce a training method for both better word representation and performance, which we call GROVER (Gradual Rumination On the Vector with maskERs). The method is to gradually and iteratively add random noises to word embeddings while training a model. GROVER first starts from conventional training process, and th…
Many real-world time series, such as in health, have changepoints where the system's structure or parameters change. Since changepoints can indicate critical events such as onset of illness, it is highly important to detect them. However, existing methods for changepoint detection (CPD) often require user-specified mod…
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results in many sequence-to-sequence modeling tasks. However, RNNs are difficult to train and tend to suffer from overfitting. Motivated by the Data Processing Inequality (DPI), we formulate the multi-layered network as a Markov chain, introducing a training met…
Automatic Machine Learning (Auto-ML) has attracted more and more attention in recent years, our work is to solve the problem of data drift, which means that the distribution of data will gradually change with the acquisition process, resulting in a worse performance of the auto-ML model. We construct our model based on…
In informationally efficient financial markets, option prices and this implied volatility should immediately be adjusted to new information that arrives along with a jump in underlying's return, whereas gradual changes in implied volatility would indicate market inefficiency. Using minute-by-minute data on S&P 500 inde…
It is challenging for stochastic optimizations to handle large-scale sensitive data safely. Recently, Duchi et al. proposed private sampling strategy to solve privacy leakage in stochastic optimizations. However, this strategy leads to robustness degeneration, since this strategy is equal to the noise injection on each…
First-best climate policy is a uniform carbon tax which gradually rises over time. Civil servants have complicated climate policy to expand bureaucracies, politicians to create rents. Environmentalists have exaggerated climate change to gain influence, other activists have joined the climate bandwagon. Opponents to cli…
We study an optimal execution problem in the presence of market impact where the security price follows a geometric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, which implies the mean-reverting property, and show that the optimal strategy is a mixture of initial/terminal block liquidation and gradual intermediate liquidation. The mean-…
We consider a stochastic game of contribution to the common good in which the players have continuous control over the degree of contribution, and we examine the gradualism arising from the free rider effect. This game belongs to the class of variable concession games which generalize wars of attrition. Previously know…
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In this paper, we investigate a transition from an elastica to a piece-wised elastica whose connected point defines the hinge angle ; we refer the piece-wised elastica -elastica or -elastica. The transition appears in the bending beam experiment; we compress elastic beams gradually and then suddenly du…
Masking diffusion outperforms other discrete diffusion models by incorporating jump times into the model.
problem Improving the performance of discrete diffusion models.
method Conditioning on the jump schedule of discrete Markov processes.
result Schedule-conditioned discrete diffusion (SCUD) models outperform classical and masking diffusion models.
Deep learning models viewed through tame geometry for convergence guarantees.
problem Understanding convergence guarantees in deep learning models.
method Introducing tame geometry concepts and tools for nonsmooth nonconvex settings.
result Illustrates tame geometry as a natural framework for AI systems, especially deep learning.
This paper introduces blind adversarial pruning to balance accuracy, efficiency, and robustness in neural networks.
problem Balancing accuracy, efficiency, and robustness in neural networks with limited resources.
method Adversarial pruning with a cutoff-scale strategy to dynamically adjust the strength of adversarial examples.
result Blind adversarial pruning improves the overall AER of pruned models compared to adversarial pruning.
Optimizes gradual reduction of excess carbon emissions to net-zero.
problem Achieving net-zero carbon emissions through gradual reduction of excess emissions.
method Stochastic control approach to identify optimal emission strategy under constraints.
result Identifies the emission strategy that maximizes future profit from excess emissions.
Generative diffusion models gradually memorize training data, losing independent dimensions.
problem Understanding how generative diffusion models memorize training data, especially on low-dimensional manifolds.
method Measuring latent dimensionality via the learned score field, proposing a geometric memorization theory.
result Generative diffusion models experience a smooth collapse of their capacity to vary across independent directions as data become scarce, leading to near point-wise replication of salient features.
Solving different types of optimization models (including parameters fitting) for support vector machines on large-scale training data is often an expensive computational task. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithmic framework that scales efficiently to very large data sets. Instead of solving the whole training s…
Training deep neural networks using a large batch size has shown promising results and benefits many real-world applications. However, the optimizer converges slowly at early epochs and there is a gap between large-batch deep learning optimization heuristics and theoretical underpinnings. In this paper, we propose a no…
Sequential Least-Squares Estimators with Fast Randomized Sketching for Linear Statistical Modelsstat.ML
A new method for estimating large-scale linear models with improved precision.
problem Estimating large-scale linear statistical models efficiently.
method Sequential Least-Squares Estimators with Fast Randomized Sketching (SLSE-FRS), integrating Sketch-and-Solve and Iterative-Sketching methods.
result SLSE-FRS produces high-precision estimators, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
Multilayer bootstrap network builds a gradually narrowed multilayer nonlinear network from bottom up for unsupervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Each layer of the network is a nonparametric density estimator. It consists of a group of k-centroids clusterings. Each clustering randomly selects data points with r…
A new method guides neural networks to focus on specific features of input data.
problem Training neural networks to consider specific features of input data.
method Focus-and-Expand ( ax) method: Gradual manipulation of input features.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results in bias removal and image classification tasks.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to be a slow imaging modality and undersampling in k-space has been used to increase the imaging speed. However, image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data is an ill-posed inverse problem. Iterative algorithms based on compressed sensing have been used to address the i…
We investigate topology and temporal evolution of the foreign currency exchange market viewed from a weighted network perspective. Based on exchange rates for a set of 46 currencies (including precious metals), we construct different representations of the FX network depending on a choice of the base currency. Our resu…
Gradual pruning reduces inference cost by pruning least important channels during training.
problem Reduction of deep neural network inference cost.
method Gradual channel pruning using feature relevance scores during training.
result Achieved significant model compression with minimal accuracy loss.
This short paper describes our solution to the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence One-Minute Gradual-Emotional Behavior Challenge, whose goal was to estimate continuous arousal and valence values from short videos. We designed four base regression models using visual and audio features, and then use…
Uncertainty in the financial market and application to forecastabnormal financial fluctuationsq-fin.RM
New model predicts financial market abnormalities using stock index uncertainties.
problem Forecasting abnormal financial fluctuations in the market.
method Quantitative analysis of mean and volatility uncertainties, constructing early warning indicators.
result Established a new abnormal fluctuations warning model.
Time-dependent weighted directed networks of cryptocurrency interaction from high-frequency returnsq-fin.TR
Investigate the evolving structure of cryptocurrency interactions using high-frequency returns.
problem Evolution of cryptocurrency interactions
method Construct directed and weighted networks from Granger causal relationships between cryptocurrency log-returns.
result Normalized returns exhibit heavy-tailed distributions.
Motivated by the problem of tuning hyperparameters in machine learning, we present a new approach for gradually and adaptively optimizing an unknown function using estimated gradients. We validate the empirical performance of the proposed idea on both low and high dimensional problems. The experimental results demonstr…