FastSecAgg improves federated learning security and efficiency.
problem Privacy leakage in federated learning due to model parameter sharing.
method Introduces FastSecAgg, a secure aggregation protocol with FFT-based multi-secret sharing (FastShare).
result Efficient in computation and communication, robust to client dropouts.
A framework for anonymized risk sharing without revealing identities or preferences.
problem Risk sharing without revealing individual identities or preferences.
method Axiomatic framework with four key axioms: actuarial fairness, risk fairness, risk anonymity, and operational anonymity.
result The conditional mean risk sharing rule is uniquely characterized by these axioms.
The paper optimizes risk-sharing in decentralized networks.
problem Optimizing risk-sharing among networked agents.
method Analyzes actuarially fair risk-sharing rules among friends in a network.
result Characterizes the optimal signed linear risk-sharing rule.
Boosts share routing for multi-task learning with flexible sparse connections.
problem Designing suitable sharing mechanisms among multiple tasks in multi-task learning.
method Proposes MTNAS framework to modularize sharing into sub-networks with sparse connections and gating.
result Demonstrates consistent improvement over single-task and typical multi-task methods while maintaining efficiency.
Paper finds a method to compute fair risk-sharing rules.
problem Finding a fair and understandable risk-sharing rule.
method Established a one-to-one correspondence with a fixed point approach.
result Fast numerical method for computing AFPO risk-sharing rules.
New risk-sharing rules induced by capital allocation principles.
problem Risk sharing in corporate structures.
method Randomizing existing capital allocation principles.
result Derives new risk-sharing rules complementing existing literature.
The paper defines fair profit sharing ratios in Islamic PL contracts.
problem Determining fair profit sharing ratios in Islamic PL contracts.
method Introduces c-fair profit sharing ratios and uses econometrics models to compute or approximate them. result Elucidates the relation between profit sharing ratios and economic factors.
We statistically investigate the distribution of share price and the distributions of three common financial indicators using data from approximately 8,000 companies publicly listed worldwide for the period 2004-2013. We find that the distribution of share price follows Zipf's law; that is, it can be approximated by a …
Through a short sale, a person borrows a share of stock from a lender, sells the borrowed share to a third person at the current price, and purchases an identical share in the market at a future date and at a future price to replace the borrowed share of stock. This only makes sense if the short seller anticipates a do…
This paper aims to explore the mechanical effect of a company's share repurchase on earnings per share (EPS). In particular, while a share repurchase scheme will reduce the overall number of shares, suggesting that the EPS may increase, clearly the expenditure will reduce the net earnings of a company, introducing a tr…
This paper analyzes stock market data to predict share prices using regression models.
problem Predicting stock prices in the share market of Bangladesh.
method Thorough linear regression analysis on Dhaka Stock Exchange data, compared with random forest.
result Random forest model performs better than linear regression for predicting stock prices.
Algorithm learns which weights to share in deep multi-task learning.
problem Difficulty in deciding which weights to share between tasks in deep learning models.
method Combines natural evolution strategy and stochastic gradient descent to learn optimal weight sharing.
result Task-specific networks achieve lower test errors than existing methods on multi-task learning datasets.
There is a growing interest in joint multi-subject fMRI analysis. The challenge of such analysis comes from inherent anatomical and functional variability across subjects. One approach to resolving this is a shared response factor model. This assumes a shared and time synchronized stimulus across subjects. Such a model…
Model improves covariance estimation from shared and distinct datasets.
problem Limited sample sizes and shared covariance structure across related datasets.
method Spiked covariance model with shared subspace, closed-form pooling weight, and asymptotic guarantees.
result Improves estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices from related datasets.
The large majority of risk-sharing transactions involve few agents, each of whom can heavily influence the structure and the prices of securities. This paper proposes a game where agents' strategic sets consist of all possible sharing securities and pricing kernels that are consistent with Arrow-Debreu sharing rules. F…
Developed a new algorithm to improve dynamic treatment regimens.
problem Non-convergence of Q-learning-based Q-shared algorithm in dynamic treatment regimens.
method Penalized Q-shared algorithm to address convergence issues.
result The penalized Q-shared algorithm converges and outperforms the original in various settings.
The aim of this study is to investigate quantitatively whether share prices deviated from company fundamentals in the stock market crash of 2008. For this purpose, we use a large database containing the balance sheets and share prices of 7,796 worldwide companies for the period 2004 through 2013. We develop a panel reg…
HCL learns shared and modality-specific latent representations for multimodal data.
problem Binary shared-private decomposition inadequately represents shared information across subsets of modalities.
method Hierarchical Contrastive Learning framework combining latent-variable formulation, structural sparsity, and contrastive objective.
result HCL accurately recovers hierarchical structure and improves predictive performance on multimodal data.
Researchers develop a method to measure treatment effects in settings with shared states.
problem Measuring treatment effects in settings with shared states like prices, recommendations, or social signals.
method Double machine learning (DML) theorem with conditions for efficient inference under shared-state interference.
result Efficient estimation of average direct effect (ADE) and global average treatment effect (GATE) in various models.
Existing deep multitask learning (MTL) approaches align layers shared between tasks in a parallel ordering. Such an organization significantly constricts the types of shared structure that can be learned. The necessity of parallel ordering for deep MTL is first tested by comparing it with permuted ordering of shared la…
The paper studies an oligopolistic equilibrium model of financial agents who aim to share their random endowments. The risk-sharing securities and their prices are endogenously determined as the outcome of a strategic game played among all the participating agents. In the complete-market setting, each agent's set of st…
This thesis identifies share buybacks and predicts their impact on stock performance.
problem Recognizing and predicting the impact of share buybacks on stock performance.
method NLP approaches for automated detection of share buybacks, machine learning models for prediction.
result Most companies underperform after a share buyback, but some significantly outperform.
This work formalizes and extends parameter sharing in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
problem Parameter sharing limits multi-agent learning to a single policy, preventing different tasks or action spaces.
method Introduces agent indication and extends parameter sharing to heterogeneous observation and action spaces.
result Proves convergence to optimal policies for parameter sharing in heterogeneous environments.
With the success of deep neural networks, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as a way of automatic model design has attracted wide attention. As training every child model from scratch is very time-consuming, recent works leverage weight-sharing to speed up the model evaluation procedure. These approaches greatly reduce …
Bayesian interpretations of neural network have a long history, dating back to early work in the 1990's and have recently regained attention because of their desirable properties like uncertainty estimation, model robustness and regularisation. We want to discuss here the application of Bayesian models to knowledge sha…
We study the problem of distributed multi-task learning with shared representation, where each machine aims to learn a separate, but related, task in an unknown shared low-dimensional subspaces, i.e. when the predictor matrix has low rank. We consider a setting where each task is handled by a different machine, with sa…
New method identifies shared components from unpaired multimodal mixtures.
problem Identify shared components from unpaired multimodal mixtures.
method Distribution divergence minimization-based loss with sufficient conditions for identifiability.
result Sufficient conditions for shared component identifiability from unaligned multimodal mixtures.
PerPCA separates unique and shared features from heterogeneous data.
problem Extracting shared and unique features from data collected from different sources with varying trends.
method Personalized PCA (PerPCA) uses orthogonal global and local principal components to encode both unique and shared features.
result PerPCA can identify and recover both unique and shared features under mild conditions.
Improves shared encoder representations for better multi-task learning performance.
problem Improving quality of shared encoder representations in multi-task learning.
method Dummy Gradient norm Regularization (DGR) to decrease gradient norm of dummy task-specific predictors.
result DGR improves multi-task prediction performances and superior performance compared to existing methods.
Margin trading in which investors purchase shares with money borrowed from brokers is blamed to be a major cause of the 2015 Chinese stock market crash. We propose a cascading failure model and examine how an increase in margin trading increases share price vulnerability. The model is based on a bipartite graph of inve…
The paper explores unique properties of Kähler manifolds without shared CR-submanifolds.
problem Characterizing Kähler manifolds with specific CR-submanifolds.
method Analyzing properties of Kähler and CR-submanifolds in complex manifolds.
result Kähler manifolds without shared CR-submanifolds have distinct properties.
Share prices of financial companies from the S&P 500 list have been modeled by a linear function of consumer price indices in the USA. The Johansen and Engle-Granger tests for cointegration both demonstrated the presence of an equilibrium long-term relation between observed and predicted time series. Econometrically, t…
A new framework forecasts stock trends by mining shared information from concepts.
problem Forecasting stock trends using static concept information limits accuracy.
method Proposes a graph-based framework that mines concept-oriented shared information from both predefined and hidden concepts.
result Improves stock trend forecasting performance through dynamic concept relevance and hidden concept information.
A mechanism to share risks and costs with guarantees against extreme outcomes.
problem Softening extreme individual burdens in risk sharing schemes.
method Formalizes Certified Allocation Problem; uses Conformal Risk Sharing with interpretable sharing policy and split conformal calibration.
result Reduces extreme obligations for high-risk agents while controlling harm to others.
Mobile edge learning is an emerging technique that enables distributed edge devices to collaborate in training shared machine learning models by exploiting their local data samples and communication and computation resources. To deal with the straggler dilemma issue faced in this technique, this paper proposes a new de…
Paper provides new bounds for risk aggregation and sharing.
problem Quantitative risk management and robust risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty.
method Established new inequality for RVaR, derived extended convolution bounds, and analyzed risk sharing for averaged quantiles.
result Extended convolution bounds for robust risk aggregation and risk sharing, providing sharpness conditions and explicit expressions.
Weight-sharing (WS) has recently emerged as a paradigm to accelerate the automated search for efficient neural architectures, a process dubbed Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Although very appealing, this framework is not without drawbacks and several works have started to question its capabilities on small hand-craf…
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are commonly applied to clinical time-series data with the goal of learning patient risk stratification models. Their effectiveness is due, in part, to their use of parameter sharing over time (i.e., cells are repeated hence the name recurrent). We hypothesize, however, that this trait …
New model extracts shared brain activity patterns from fMRI data.
problem Challenges in aggregating multi-subject fMRI data due to variability.
method Shared Gaussian Process Factor Analysis (S-GPFA) incorporating temporal information.
result Model reveals ground truth latent structures and replicates experimental performance.
We build a multiassets heterogeneous agents model with fundamentalists and chartists, who make investment decisions by maximizing the constant relative risk aversion utility function. We verify that the model can reproduce the main stylized facts in real markets, such as fat-tailed return distribution and long-term mem…
Study shows automorphisms of Markov surfaces share periodic points if they share a common iterate.
problem Study of unlikely intersections for automorphisms of Markov surfaces with positive entropy.
method Arithmetic equidistribution for adelic line bundles, theory of laminar currents, quasi-Fuchsian representation theory.
result Two automorphisms with positive entropy share a Zariski dense set of periodic points if and only if they share a common iterate.
New risk measures for quantiles under ambiguity improve risk sharing.
problem Risk optimization under ambiguity using quantiles.
method Introducing Choquet quantiles and Choquet Expected Shortfall.
result Optimal allocations for quantile agents under ambiguity.
This paper evaluates heuristics and hyperparameters in weight-sharing NAS methods.
problem Improving the performance of weight-sharing NAS methods.
method Systematic evaluation of heuristics and hyperparameters in weight-sharing NAS algorithms.
result Some heuristics negatively impact super-net and stand-alone performance correlation.
Deep neural networks solve optimal risk sharing problems.
problem Optimally sharing financial positions among agents with different risk measures.
method Neural network-based framework to compute inf-convolution and optimal allocations.
result Convergence of neural network approximations to theoretical values.
New model for multiplex networks learns shared structure.
problem Complex network structures not well modeled by existing methods.
method Latent space model for multiplex networks with shared structure.
result Model recovers latent positions with sufficient separation.
Generalizes risk sharing models to a continuum of agents.
problem Risk sharing among a large number of heterogeneous agents.
method Modeling agents as points in a measure space, using risk measures on a probability space, and deriving dual representations.
result Explicit formulas for specific risk measures (entropic and expected shortfall) and applications to Pareto efficiency.
First-order ANIL learns shared representations even with overparametrization.
problem Lack of theoretical evidence for model-agnostic meta-learning (ANIL) learning shared representations.
method First-order ANIL with a linear two-layer network architecture, showing asymptotically low-rank solutions with overparametrization.
result First-order ANIL learns linear shared representations, even with overparametrization, and performs well in adaptation.
A method for sharing synthetic data without revealing actual data or model parameters.
problem Sharing data privately between enterprises and their clients.
method privGAN architecture with local GANs and a central discriminator.
result Synthetic data leads to better utility than real small datasets.