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48 results for indicator matrix

The problem of low-rank matrix completion has recently generated a lot of interest leading to several results that offer exact solutions to the problem. However, in order to do so, these methods make assumptions that can be quite restrictive in practice. More specifically, the methods assume that: a) the observed indic…

2014-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A very simple interpretation of matrix completion problem is introduced based on statistical models. Combined with the well-known results from missing data analysis, such interpretation indicates that matrix completion is still a valid and principled estimation procedure even without the missing completely at random (M…

2016-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Reconstruction based subspace clustering methods compute a self reconstruction matrix over the samples and use it for spectral clustering to obtain the final clustering result. Their success largely relies on the assumption that the underlying subspaces are independent, which, however, does not always hold in the appli…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

With the random matrix theory, we study the spatial structure of the Chinese stock market, American stock market and global market indices. After taking into account the signs of the components in the eigenvectors of the cross-correlation matrix, we detect the subsector structure of the financial systems. The positive …

2012-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The successive projection algorithm (SPA) is a fast algorithm to tackle separable nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Given a nonnegative data matrix XX, SPA identifies an index set K\mathcal{K} such that there exists a nonnegative matrix HH with XX(:,K)HX \approx X(:,\mathcal{K})H. SPA has been successfully used as a…

2019-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

EDAs with matrix transpose improve Bayesian structure learning performance.

problem Improving Bayesian structure learning performance.
method Introducing a matrix transpose mutation operator for EDAs in Bayesian structure learning.
result EDAs with transpose mutation give markedly better performance than conventional EDAs.

We propose a new notion of `non-linearity' of a network layer with respect to an input batch that is based on its proximity to a linear system, which is reflected in the non-negative rank of the activation matrix. We measure this non-linearity by applying non-negative factorization to the activation matrix. Considering…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper concerns the problem of matrix completion, which is to estimate a matrix from observations in a small subset of indices. We propose a calibrated spectrum elastic net method with a sum of the nuclear and Frobenius penalties and develop an iterative algorithm to solve the convex minimization problem. The itera…

2012-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The aim of this work is to create systematic trading strategies built upon several financial crisis indicators based on the spectral properties of market dynamics. Within the limitations of our framework and data, we will demonstrate that our systematic trading strategies are able to make money, not as a result of pure…

2017-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyse the structure of the distribution of eigenvalues of the stock market correlation matrix with increasing length of the time series representing the price changes. We use 100 highly-capitalized stocks from the American market and relate result to the corresponding ensemble of Wishart random matrices. It turns …

2005-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Random matrix analysis reveals that neural network weights are mostly random, with some indicating learned information.

problem Understanding how neural networks store information needed for tasks.
method Random matrix theory (RMT) applied to weight matrices of trained deep neural networks.
result Most singular values and eigenvectors of trained neural networks follow universal RMT predictions, suggesting they are random and do not contain system-specific information.

We show how random matrix theory can be applied to develop new algorithms to extract dynamic factors from macroeconomic time series. In particular, we consider a limit where the number of random variables N and the number of consecutive time measurements T are large but the ratio N / T is fixed. In this regime the unde…

2012-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Many similarity-based clustering methods work in two separate steps including similarity matrix computation and subsequent spectral clustering. However, similarity measurement is challenging because it is usually impacted by many factors, e.g., the choice of similarity metric, neighborhood size, scale of data, noise an…

2017-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A widespread approach in machine learning to evaluate the quality of a classifier is to cross -- classify predicted and actual decision classes in a confusion matrix, also called error matrix. A classification tool which does not assume distributional parameters but only information contained in the data is based on th…

2019-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new GPR-HS framework for accurate VCV estimation in global equity indices.

problem Accurate forecasting of Volatility-Covariance Matrix (VCV) for regulatory processes.
method Hybrid Gaussian Process Regression-Historical Simulation (GPR-HS) framework.
result GPR-HS framework achieves regulatory compliance and outperforms static VaR benchmarks.

The paper improves Bayesian precision matrix estimation for high-dimensional sparse data.

problem Estimating sparse precision matrices in high-dimensional settings.
method Tempered posterior with fully specified horseshoe prior.
result Concentration results and theoretical oracle inequality for posterior.

UA-LQE improves value function learning by selectively erasing uncertain entries in Q-matrix.

problem Improving value function learning in complex reinforcement learning tasks.
method Uncertainty-aware low-rank Q-matrix estimation (UA-LQE) algorithm.
result UA-LQE selectively erases uncertain entries in Q-matrix to improve value function approximation.

The paper addresses ill-conditioning in large spatial data, proposing solutions for prediction and likelihood estimation.

problem Ill-conditioning of the kernel matrix in large spatial data sets.
method Introduction of various optimality criteria and solutions for managing large spatial data.
result Solutions for managing large spatial data, addressing ill-conditioning and improving prediction and likelihood estimation.

Novel risk matrix for optimal portfolio choice with tail risk considerations.

problem Optimal portfolio choice with tail risk events.
method Risk matrix with Value-at-Risk and Delta-CoVaR measures, derived conditions for closed-form solution, examination of portfolio risk and centrality, demonstration of asset centrality's impact on optimal weight allocation.
result Portfolio risk is not necessarily increasing with stock centrality and can be improved by high connectivity.

Active learning aims to obtain a classifier of high accuracy by using fewer label requests in comparison to passive learning by selecting effective queries. Many active learning methods have been developed in the past two decades, which sample queries based on informativeness or representativeness of unlabeled data poi…

2015-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We find a novel correlation structure in the residual noise of stock market returns that is remarkably linked to the composition and stability of the top few significant factors driving the returns, and moreover indicates that the noise band is composed of multiple subbands that do not fully mix. Our findings allow us …

2009-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New method estimates missingness probabilities for MNAR matrix completion.

problem Bias in matrix completion due to missing not at random data.
method Estimate missingness probabilities using nuclear norm structure.
result Improved matrix completion accuracy without auxiliary information.

Using a data set which includes all transactions among banks in the Italian money market, we study their trading strategies and the dependence among them. We use the Fourier method to compute the variance-covariance matrix of trading strategies. Our results indicate that well defined patterns arise. Two main communitie…

2006-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph neural networks improve SME credit risk assessment.

problem Improving credit risk assessment for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
method Graph neural networks were used to model the relationships between financial indicators of enterprises, creating a graph structure and embedding representations for credit risk prediction.
result The proposed model accurately predicts enterprise credit levels, demonstrating robustness and effectiveness.

BeMF improves recommendation reliability in recommender systems.

problem Improving reliability in recommender systems beyond accuracy.
method Bernoulli Matrix Factorization (BeMF) for model-based collaborative filtering.
result BeMF selects more reliable predictions, improving recommendation quality.

The paper introduces a penalized matrix estimation procedure aiming at solutions which are sparse and low-rank at the same time. Such structures arise in the context of social networks or protein interactions where underlying graphs have adjacency matrices which are block-diagonal in the appropriate basis. We introduce…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new method to improve clustering ensemble performance.

problem Improving clustering ensemble performance by refining co-association matrix.
method Low-rank tensor approximation to derive coherent-link matrix and refine co-association matrix.
result The proposed method achieves breakthrough in clustering performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.