The Gaussian mechanism is an essential building block used in multitude of differentially private data analysis algorithms. In this paper we revisit the Gaussian mechanism and show that the original analysis has several important limitations. Our analysis reveals that the variance formula for the original mechanism is …
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Study finds price impact follows a 'double' square-root law, suggesting mechanical origin.
Novel compression method preserves privacy while reducing communication costs.
In Hamiltonian mechanics, a (continuous) symmetry leads to conserved quantity, which is a function on (extended) phase space. In Nambu mechanics, a straightforward consequence of symmetry is just a relative integral invariant, a differential form which only upon integration over a cycle provides a conserved real number…
Paper proposes a new hierarchical attention mechanism for multi-scale data.
New model suggests universe emerges from single particle quantum mechanics.
The paper analyzes errors in mechanical systems with external forces.
We have successfully implemented the "Learn to Pay Attention" model of attention mechanism in convolutional neural networks, and have replicated the results of the original paper in the categories of image classification and fine-grained recognition.
Unified framework for subsampling mechanisms with tighter privacy guarantees.
Geometric mechanics approach to constrained and floating multibody systems using Hamel's equations.
This paper presents a new mechanism for producing sanitized statistical summaries that achieve \emph{differential privacy}, called the \emph{K-Norm Gradient} Mechanism, or KNG. This new approach maintains the strong flexibility of the exponential mechanism, while achieving the powerful utility performance of objective …
The Sampled Gaussian Mechanism's noise level decreases with larger subsampling rates, improving privacy-utility trade-offs.
OpFlow predicts robust OD flows by learning choice potentials conditioned on spatial exposures.
A new spectrum attention mechanism improves time series classification.
Privacy-preserving binary classification using locally differential private data.
The paper connects calculus, gauge theory, and noncommutative worlds.
Privacy preserving mechanisms such as differential privacy inject additional randomness in the form of noise in the data, beyond the sampling mechanism. Ignoring this additional noise can lead to inaccurate and invalid inferences. In this paper, we incorporate the privacy mechanism explicitly into the likelihood functi…
In the last two decades, significant effort has been put in understanding and designing so-called structure-preserving numerical methods for the simulation of mechanical systems. Geometric integrators attempt to preserve the geometry associated to the original system as much as possible, such as the structure of the co…
Releasing full data records is one of the most challenging problems in data privacy. On the one hand, many of the popular techniques such as data de-identification are problematic because of their dependence on the background knowledge of adversaries. On the other hand, rigorous methods such as the exponential mechanis…
A modification of the confidence screening mechanism based on adaptive weighing of every training instance at each cascade level of the Deep Forest is proposed. The idea underlying the modification is very simple and stems from the confidence screening mechanism idea proposed by Pang et al. to simplify the Deep Forest …
The paper provides a geometric framework for understanding non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
IMA improves representation learning even when assumptions are violated.
We present a simple agent-based model to study the development of a bubble and the consequential crash and investigate how their proximate triggering factor might relate to their fundamental mechanism, and vice versa. Our agents invest according to their opinion on future price movements, which is based on three source…
In this work, we study abstractive text summarization by exploring different models such as LSTM-encoder-decoder with attention, pointer-generator networks, coverage mechanisms, and transformers. Upon extensive and careful hyperparameter tuning we compare the proposed architectures against each other for the abstractiv…
New technique improves imitation learning by preventing local minima and exploring states.
An original method, assuming potential and kinetic energy for prices and conservation of their sum is developed for forecasting exchanges. Connections with power law are shown. Semiempirical applications on S&P500, DJIA, and NASDAQ predict a coming recession in them. An emerging market, Istanbul Stock Exchange index IS…
Paper uses second-order differential geometry to study stochastic mechanics.
Hebbian learning derived from maximum entropy principles.
New approach uses isotropic geometry to solve Euclidean problems.
Study explains Zipf's law using geometric mechanisms from a finite alphabet.
We discuss several multi-agent models that have their origin in the kinetic exchange theory of statistical mechanics and have been recently applied to a variety of problems in the social sciences. This class of models can be easily adapted for simulations in areas other than physics, such as the modeling of income and …
TradeMech nets trades without changing counterparty relationships.
Enhanced Momentum Transformer outperforms traditional trading strategies.
Geometrically transforms nonconservative dynamics to linearize Kepler and Manev systems.
A new method for private query release using Johnson-Lindenstrauss projection.
Geometrically represents the Jacobian for a mechanical system with symmetry.
In this paper, we propose an AdaBoost-assisted extreme learning machine for efficient online sequential classification (AOS-ELM). In order to achieve better accuracy in online sequential learning scenarios, we utilize the cost-sensitive algorithm-AdaBoost, which diversifying the weak classifiers, and adding the forgett…
Predicting absolute magnitude of fluctuations of price, even if their sign remains unknown, is important for risk analysis and for option prices. In the present work, we display our predictions about absolute magnitude of daily fluctuations of the Dow Jones Industrials Average (DJIA), utilizing the original theory of c…
Neural network based models for collaborative filtering have started to gain attention recently. One branch of research is based on using deep generative models to model user preferences where variational autoencoders were shown to produce state-of-the-art results. However, there are some potentially problematic charac…
This paper presents a normalization mechanism called Instance-Level Meta Normalization (ILM~Norm) to address a learning-to-normalize problem. ILM~Norm learns to predict the normalization parameters via both the feature feed-forward and the gradient back-propagation paths. ILM~Norm provides a meta normalization mechanis…
The weighted and directed network of countries based on the number of overseas banks is analyzed in terms of its fragility to the banking crisis of one country. We use two different models to describe transmission of shocks, one local and the other global. Depending on the original source of the crisis, the overall siz…
This paper is concerned with the defense of deep models against adversarial attacks. Inspired by the certificate defense approach, we propose a maximal adversarial distortion (MAD) optimization method for robustifying deep networks. MAD captures the idea of increasing separability of class clusters in the embedding spa…
Exact 1-Wasserstein distance between location-scale distributions derived, with privacy effects studied.
This study links blockchain design to cryptos' distributional characteristics.
We argue that an important contributing factor into market inefficiency is the lack of a robust mechanism for the stock price to rise if a company has good earnings, e.g., via buybacks/dividends. Instead, the stock price is prone to volatility due to rather random perception/interpretation of earnings announcements (am…
We use standard perturbation techniques originally formulated in quantum (statistical) mechanics in the analysis of a toy model of a stock market which is given in terms of bosonic operators. In particular we discuss the probability of transition from a given value of the {\em portfolio} of a certain trader to a differ…
Paper introduces RPWithPrior for efficient label differential privacy in regression.
New memory models improve LSSVM's generalization and reduce time cost.