This work develops a high precision fault diagnosis classifier using XAI insights.
problem Fault diagnosis of steel plates in manufacturing industry.
method Incorporation of XAI insights into Data Science process using SMOTE and medoids.
result 10 fold cross validated performance of 94% achieved.
Visualizes board connections for socially responsible investing insights.
problem Understanding corporate governance and sustainability through board connections.
method Data Visualization tool to reveal connections between Directors and Executives.
result Strength of tool in investigating corporate governance and sustainability.
Industry lacks tools to secure ML systems, study finds.
problem Insufficient security tools for ML systems in industry.
method Interviews with 28 organizations to identify gaps.
result Need revised Security Development Lifecycle for ML.
Study examines how COVID-19 intensified demand variability in U.S. supply chains.
problem The amplification of demand variability (Bullwhip Effect) in supply chains during the pandemic.
method Extensive industry-level data analysis using traditional and advanced empirical techniques.
result COVID-19 significantly amplified the Bullwhip Effect across different U.S. industries.
Study uses Bayesian regression to analyze consumer behavior changes in restaurants post-COVID-19.
problem Impact of COVID-19 on consumer behavior in the restaurant industry.
method Bayesian regression with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
result Estimates change in consumer behavior before and after the pandemic.
Groups of firms often achieve a competitive advantage through the formation of geo-industrial clusters. Although many exemplary clusters, such as Hollywood or Silicon Valley, have been frequently studied, systematic approaches to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of the geo-industrial clusters at the glob…
Industrial-scale podcast recommender system optimizes long-term listening journeys.
problem Optimizing long-term listening experiences in podcast recommendation systems.
method Reinforcement learning approach to optimize user listening journeys over months.
result Significantly improved long-term performance in A/B tests compared to short-term metrics.
Study refines trend-following strategy to improve adaptability.
problem Challenges in practical implementation of historical trend-following strategies.
method Modifications to historical strategy, including T-bills exclusion, alternative allocations, industry exclusions, momentum signals, and Walk-Forward Analysis.
result Persistent challenges in adapting historical strategies to modern markets.
Develops a deep multi-factor model for factor investing with clear financial insights.
problem Lack of interpretability and unclear financial insights in non-linear factor models.
method Industry and market neutralization modules, graph attention modules, factor-attention module.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in factor investing with real-world stock market data.
Survey of deep causal models for industrial applications.
problem Estimating causal effects using deep learning.
method Deep causal models map covariates to a representation space and use objective functions for unbiased counterfactual data estimation.
result Comprehensive overview of deep causal models with industry applications.
Hybrid framework injects TSLM insights into GRLM for robust time-series reasoning.
problem Lack of domain-specific knowledge in large language models for time-series reasoning.
method Hybrid knowledge-injection framework combining RLVR for efficient knowledge transfer.
result Consistently outperforms existing models by 7.9%-26.1% on multivariate time-series benchmarks.
Study analyzes COFCO's acquisition of Mengniu Dairy, revealing financial and non-financial impacts.
problem Understanding the impact of COFCO's acquisition of Mengniu Dairy.
method Analyzes financial and non-financial contributions of Mengniu Dairy to COFCO.
result Provides insights for future corporate M&A activities in the dairy industry.
Generative AI predicts economic activity from corporate transcripts.
problem Predicting economic activity using existing measures like surveys.
method Extracted managerial expectations from transcripts using generative AI.
result AI Economy Score predicts economic activity up to 10 quarters ahead.
This paper explores how NLP enhances insurance data analysis.
problem Traditional insurance data limitations and need for alternative data.
method Application of NLP techniques to transform and analyze unstructured text data.
result NLP techniques improve insurance data analysis and risk assessment.
Tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the world: for many countries it represents the single largest product in their export basket. However, it is a product difficult to chart: "exporters" of tourism do not ship it abroad, but they welcome importers inside the country. Current research uses socia…
Python's tools drive machine learning advancements across industries.
problem Processing and analyzing large data sets for insights.
method Advancements in deep learning, classical ML, and GPU computing.
result Python's dominance in scientific computing boosts machine learning adoption.
Big data transforms accounting and auditing, enhancing insights but posing challenges.
problem Challenges in data privacy and security with increased data sources.
method Utilizing AI and machine learning for efficient data analysis and anomaly detection.
result Enhanced analytics tools and continuous learning are key to overcoming challenges.
Deep learning with neural networks is applied by an increasing number of people outside of classic research environments, due to the vast success of the methodology on a wide range of machine perception tasks. While this interest is fueled by beautiful success stories, practical work in deep learning on novel tasks wit…
The process of exploring and exploiting Oil and Gas (O&G) generates a lot of data that can bring more efficiency to the industry. The opportunities for using data mining techniques in the "digital oil-field" remain largely unexplored or uncharted. With the high rate of data expansion, companies are scrambling to develo…
UniFinEval benchmarks financial models across text, images, and videos.
problem Challenges in evaluating financial multimodal models across text, images, and videos.
method Proposes UniFinEval, a unified multimodal benchmark for financial scenarios.
result Gemini-3-pro-preview achieves best performance but still lags behind experts.
FL improves insurance claims loss prediction without sharing data.
problem Limited data volume and variety due to privacy concerns.
method Federated Learning (FL) to update a global model using local data insights.
result Improved claims loss forecasting compared to individual models.
Predictive models that are developed in a regulated industry or a regulated application, like determination of credit worthiness, must be interpretable and rational (e.g., meaningful improvements in basic credit behavior must result in improved credit worthiness scores). Machine Learning technologies provide very good …
This paper develops a federated approach to learn Granger causality in interdependent industrial clients.
problem Detecting and quantifying interdependencies in large, complex industrial data.
method Linear state space system framework, federated learning, differential privacy.
result Federated Granger causality learning addresses bandwidth and computational limitations.
PIML enhances machine learning for subsurface energy systems.
problem Lack of interpretability and domain-specific knowledge in machine learning models.
method Integrates physics principles into data-driven models using deep learning.
result PIML improves model generalization and adherence to physical laws.
Study examines machine learning competitions' impact on AI development.
problem Fostering innovation and skill development in AI.
method Analysis of major competition platforms, workflows, and participant demographics.
result MLCs promote collaboration, reproducibility, and continuous innovation in AI.
Conversion of raw data into insights and knowledge requires substantial amounts of effort from data scientists. Despite breathtaking advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), data scientists still spend the majority of their effort in understanding and then preparing the raw data for ML/AI. Th…
Experts predict significant adoption of decentralized finance by 2034, with traditional finance adapting.
problem Adoption and integration of decentralized finance (DeFi) in financial services.
method Survey analysis using New Institutional Economics and Dynamic Capabilities Theory.
result Experts expect adoption of DeFi to rise from negligible to 43% by 2034, with traditional finance likely to embrace it.
This research tackles unsupervised topic extraction in noisy social media data.
problem Capturing customer insights from social media data is challenging due to noise and heterogeneity.
method The research presents three nonparametric approaches based on the Variational Autoencoder framework: Embedded Dirichlet Process, Embedded Hierarchical Dirichlet Process, and time-aware Dynamic Embedded Dirichlet Process.
result The models achieve equal to better performance than state-of-the-art methods in topic extraction from noisy social media data.
Numerous engineering problems of interest to the industry are often characterized by expensive black-box objective experiments or computer simulations. Obtaining insight into the problem or performing subsequent optimizations requires hundreds of thousands of evaluations of the objective function which is most often a …
Study on cyber insurance viability using statistical models.
problem Exploring insurability of cyber risk and its factors.
method Regression models (GAMLSS, ordinal regressions) and utility modelling.
result Provides insights into insurability of cyber risk.
Drawing on recent contributions inferring financial interconnectedness from market data, our paper provides new insights on the evolution of the US financial industry over a long period of time by using several tools coming from network science. Following [1] a Time-Varying Parameter Vector AutoRegressive (TVP-VAR) app…
New model predicts multiple future trends from merchant transactions.
problem Predicting multiple future trends from merchant transaction history.
method Convolutional neural networks and encoder-decoder structure.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in predicting multiple future trends.
New method uses deep learning for better monitoring of industrial processes.
problem Monitoring high-dimensional, nonlinear profiles in industrial systems.
method Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for modeling nonlinear manifolds.
result Deep probabilistic models outperform traditional methods in residual-space.
China and EU race to develop hydrogen for energy transition.
problem Developing hydrogen for sustainable energy systems.
method Comparative analysis framework using key factors.
result Customized solutions for local hydrogen industries.
Shai is a 10B model for asset management tasks, outperforming baselines.
problem Improving performance in asset management tasks.
method Continuous pre-training and fine-tuning on asset management-specific data.
result Shai outperforms baseline models in asset management tasks.
We study the structure of inter-industry relationships using networks of money flows between industries in 20 national economies. We find these networks vary around a typical structure characterized by a Weibull link weight distribution, exponential industry size distribution, and a common community structure. The comm…
New ML fairness measure excludes subjective opinions.
problem Lack of adaptation of ML models to specific applications.
method Formalised new notion of unfairness, quantified and visualised.
result Insights into ML systems' functioning to mitigate unfairness.
This paper argues that there has not been enough discussion in the field of applications of Gaussian Process for the fast moving consumer goods industry. Yet, this technique can be important as it e.g., can provide automatic feature relevance determination and the posterior mean can unlock insights on the data. Signifi…
Industry evolution caused by various reasons, among which technology progress driving industry development has been approved, but with the new trend of industry convergence, inter-industry convergence also plays an increasing important role. This paper plans to probe the industry synergetic evolution mechanism based on…
Record companies invest billions of dollars in new talent around the globe each year. Gaining insight into what actually makes a hit song would provide tremendous benefits for the music industry. In this research we tackle this question by focussing on the dance hit song classification problem. A database of dance hit …
Improves industry classification for diversified companies.
problem Traditional industry classification struggles with multi-sector conglomerates.
method Bayesian Non-Parametrics, Markov Updating, and hierarchical modeling.
result MIS-2 provides a measurable improvement over GICS in predicting future correlations.
Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor detects drift in deployed ML models.
problem Ensuring high performance of ML models in production environments.
method Automatically detects data, concept, bias, and feature attribution drift in real-time.
result Maintains high quality models by providing alerts and corrective actions.
Efficiently identifies promising hyperparameters for online learning models.
problem Expensive hyperparameter search for non-stationary model training.
method Two-stage approach: efficient configuration identification followed by full training.
result Up to 10x reduction in hyperparameter search cost on public benchmark.
Over the last few decades, the player recruitment process in professional football has evolved into a multi-billion industry and has thus become of vital importance. To gain insights into the general level of their candidate reinforcements, many professional football clubs have access to extensive video footage and adv…
Study explores fairness in financial deep learning through multi-scale trust quantification.
problem Ensuring fairness in financial deep learning models, especially under regulatory compliance.
method Conducts multi-scale trust quantification on a deep neural network for credit card default prediction.
result Demonstrates the feasibility and utility of multi-scale trust quantification for financial deep learning fairness.
Develops MIS, a probabilistic model for multi-industry classification.
problem GICS's limitation of assigning each firm to exactly one industry, especially for diversified firms.
method Topic modeling to probabilistically assign firms to multiple industries based on business descriptions.
result Demonstrates MIS's ability to flexibly assign firms to multiple industries with relevance probabilities.
Study finds environmental liability insurance reduces industrial carbon emissions.
problem Reduction of industrial carbon emissions.
method Two-way fixed effect model using provincial (city) level panel data from 2010 to 2020.
result Environmental liability insurance reduces industrial carbon emissions at both direct and indirect levels, with varying effects.
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.