LDA-Link links sequences with sparse or no common events across data sets.
problem Linking sequences with no common events in different data sets.
method Formalizes sequence linkage problem, uses LDA-Link model based on Split-Document model.
result Robust sequence linkage even when sequences have sparse or no common events.
The plausibility of uncommon events and miracles based on testimony of such an event has been much discussed. When analyzing the probabilities involved, it has mostly been assumed that the common events can be taken as data in the calculations. However, we usually have only testimonies for the common events. While this…
Python package cegpy models processes with asymmetries.
problem Leveraging CEGs for processes with structural asymmetries.
method Developed cegpy, a Python package for CEGs with Bayesian model selection and probability propagation.
result First CEG package in any language that can model symmetric and asymmetric structures.
Random forest models predict CLABSI risk in hospital admissions, with static models performing similarly to dynamic ones.
problem Predicting CLABSI risk in hospital admissions using EHR data with competing risks.
method Comparison of static and dynamic random forest models for binary, multinomial, survival, and competing risks outcomes.
result Static and dynamic random forest models perform similarly in predicting CLABSI risk, with multinomial models having the lowest computation times.
Generative model for TPPs using signatures and distributional discrepancies.
problem Limitations of signature methods for TPPs and lack of global sequence-level loss in neural models.
method Introduce interarrival embedding to lift jump paths to continuous paths of bounded variation, enabling signature methods for discrete event sequences. Develop sigTPP, a signature-based generative model trained on path-level loss.
result sigTPP achieves the best average rank across multiple metrics and outperforms or is within a standard error of the strongest baseline in 64% of dataset-metric pairs.
Non-spanning identification of scheduled event risk in option pricing.
problem Separating continuous surface from scheduled jump in option pricing.
method Modeling FOMC decisions, CPI releases, and NFP reports as deterministic-time jumps in risk-neutral option pricing.
result Improves held-out event-spanning pricing with Gaussian and two-component mixture jumps.
We construct an example of a spherically symmetric black hole interior in which there is NO (spherically symmetric) marginally trapped tube asymptotic to the event horizon. The construction uses a self-gravitating massive scalar field matter model, and the key condition we impose is that the scalar field φ be bounded…
Event-triggered learning reduces communication in networked control systems.
problem Reduction of communication in networked control systems.
method Triggered learning experiments when communication performance is poor, using statistical properties of inter-communication times.
result Event-triggered learning improves robustness and communication efficiency.
Paper explores learning patterns in binary sequences, finding no method consistently outperforms others.
problem Learning patterns in infinite binary sequences.
method Various learning methods are compared, finding no method consistently outperforms others.
result No learning method consistently outperforms others in predicting binary sequences.
The study measures systemic risk using common and tail dependence factors.
problem Measuring systemic risk accurately during economic downturns.
method Modeling systemic risk with a common factor for market-wide shocks and a tail dependence factor for extreme events.
result Measures including a tail dependence factor offer better forecasting of financial stress than measures based solely on a common factor.
Induction of common sense knowledge about prototypical sequences of events has recently received much attention. Instead of inducing this knowledge in the form of graphs, as in much of the previous work, in our method, distributed representations of event realizations are computed based on distributed representations o…
Study predicts when ALS patients will lose speech, swallowing, etc. based on covariates.
problem Predicting when ALS patients will experience significant functional decline.
method Multi-event survival analysis, covariate-based models.
result Covariate-based models outperform Kaplan-Meier estimator in predicting time-to-event outcomes.
EvAn detects anomalies in event-based camera data with reduced complexity.
problem Anomaly detection in event-based camera data.
method Dual discriminator cGAN on event data with learned representation.
result Reduction in computational complexity compared to state-of-the-art methods.
This study evaluates methods for clustering mobile game player behavior data.
problem Clustering time series data of player behavior in free-to-play games.
method Evaluation of various similarity measures and dimensionality reduction techniques.
result Identification and validation of temporal patterns of player behavior.
Good predictors of ICU Mortality have the potential to identify high-risk patients earlier, improve ICU resource allocation, or create more accurate population-level risk models. Machine learning practitioners typically make choices about how to represent features in a particular model, but these choices are seldom eva…
New study shows FTRL mechanism works with correlated events.
problem Forecasting competitions with correlated events.
method Introduces block correlation and uses FTRL mechanism.
result FTRL mechanism retains ε-optimal guarantee with O(b2log(n)/ε2) events for correlated events. Study compares and accelerates deep learning for extreme events modeling.
problem Modeling extreme events for better prediction and understanding.
method Asynchronous distributed learning with local SGD.
result Significant training duration reduction up to 8x.
A new algorithm converts staged trees into Chain Event Graphs.
problem Creating explicit representations of structural zeros and conditional independences.
method Iterative backward algorithm transforming a staged tree into a CEG.
result No information is lost in the transformation from staged tree to CEG.
TailCoR measures co-movement of financial crises events.
problem Measuring co-movement of financial crises events.
method Combines linear and non-linear dependencies using tail inter quantile range.
result TailCoR performs well in small samples and no optimisations are needed.
Paper improves Native ads CTR prediction using event embeddings and recurrent networks.
problem Hard CTR prediction for Native ads due to lack of direct query intent.
method Proposes a large-scale event embedding scheme and a recurrent neural network model.
result Significantly outperforms baseline and variants in CTR prediction.
Develops a neural model to predict event occurrence and timing.
problem Standard event time models ignore the distinction between event occurrence probability and predicted time.
method Introduces a conditional event time model using a neural network with a binary stochastic layer.
result Shows superior event occurrence and timing predictions on various datasets.
New algorithm embeds crime events using RBMs with feature selection.
problem Capturing complex crime data features for event embedding.
method Regularized RBMs with ℓ1 penalty for feature selection. result Improved event embedding with interpretable selected features.
Anomaly detection plays an important role in modern data-driven security applications, such as detecting suspicious access to a socket from a process. In many cases, such events can be described as a collection of categorical values that are considered as entities of different types, which we call heterogeneous categor…
The paper challenges the assumption of a unique global time in financial markets, highlighting market incompleteness.
problem The assumption of a unique global time in financial markets is challenged.
method The paper contrasts event-time, renewal, point-process, and order-flow descriptions of financial markets.
result Non-uniqueness of time leads to a more foundational form of market incompleteness.
Proposes a deep neural network for event intensity estimation.
problem Modeling irregular event sequences with historical dependencies.
method Non-parametric deep neural network with multi-channel RNN and fake event epochs.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on model fitting tasks.
Paper proposes a hierarchical approach for early anomaly detection in time series data for critical health events.
problem Early detection of critical health events in intensive care units.
method A layered learning architecture that breaks the problem into pre-conditional and event layers.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for critical health episode prediction.
Crypto crashes show no consistent early warning signal, suggesting they are abrupt shocks rather than critical transitions.
problem Identifying early warning signals for crypto crashes.
method Analysis of seven major BTC liquidation cascades using minute-level price and leverage/order-flow data.
result No variable is event-invariant, and the critical-slowing-down signature is present in only five out of seven events.
The paper analyzes logistic regression for rare events data, deriving new insights on estimator efficiency and sampling strategies.
problem Binary logistic regression for rare events data with significantly fewer events than controls.
method Derives asymptotic distribution of MLE, proves under-sampling advantage, and compares over-sampling efficiency.
result Under-sampling a small proportion of nonevents can improve efficiency in rare events data analysis.
EventFlow forecasts event sequences without autoregression, improving accuracy.
problem Forecasting errors in autoregressive models for event sequences.
method EventFlow uses flow matching to learn joint distributions over event times directly.
result EventFlow reduces forecast error by 20%-53% compared to baselines.
AUC is unreliable in rare event settings but stable with moderate numbers of events.
problem Misleading performance metrics in rare event settings.
method Simulation study varying dataset sizes and event rates.
result AUC is unreliable in rare event settings but stable with moderate numbers of events.
Parallelizes MCMC for spatially dependent models.
problem Inference in models with spatially determined conditional independence.
method Coloring a factor graph over regions of latent space.
result Significant speedups achieved with no loss in inference quality.
No-regret learning with strategic experts, incentivized.
problem Online learning with strategic experts who misreport beliefs.
method Building on wagering mechanisms, we provide algorithms for no-regret and incentive compatibility in both full and partial information settings.
result Our algorithms achieve no regret and incentive compatibility for myopic experts, with comparable regret to classic no-regret algorithms and diminishing regret for forward-looking agents.
We uniquely and explicitly reconstruct the instantaneous intrinsic metric of the Kerr-Newman Event Horizon from the spectrum of its Laplacian. In the process we find that the angular momentum parameter, radius, area; and in the uncharged case, mass, can be written in terms of these eigenvalues. In the uncharged case th…
Machine learning tools are commonly used in modern high energy physics (HEP) experiments. Different models, such as boosted decision trees (BDT) and artificial neural networks (ANN), are widely used in analyses and even in the software triggers. In most cases, these are classification models used to select the "signal"…
Bayesian method corrects timing misalignment in recurrent event studies.
problem Estimating differences in event rates under two treatments with timing misalignment.
method g-computation procedure with joint semiparametric Bayesian model.
result Correctly estimates average causal effects under right-censoring.
MISTR improves HTE estimation in survival data with heavy censoring and instrumental variables.
problem Estimating HTE in survival data with censoring and unobserved confounders.
method MISTR uses recursively imputed survival trees to handle censoring and instrumental variables.
result MISTR outperforms existing methods under heavy censoring and instrumental variable settings.
Paper predicts urban dispersal events using deep survival analysis on mobility data.
problem Predicting abnormal dispersal events in urban areas to mitigate congestion and safety risks.
method Formulated as a survival analysis problem, developed a two-stage deep learning framework (DILSA).
result DILSA predicts dispersal events with F1-score of 0.7 and average time error of 18 minutes.
Improved neural models for diverse user event sequences.
problem Challenges in modeling diverse user event sequences.
method Mixtures of latent embeddings with amortized variational inference.
result Systematic improvements over existing work for various predictive metrics.
Proposes a method to improve rare event prediction in healthcare.
problem Rare event classification in healthcare with low prevalence labels.
method Variational disentanglement approach to semi-parametric learning.
result Outperforms existing alternatives in mortality prediction on COVID-19 cohort.
Study shows how common noise can trigger or prevent blow-ups in a mean-field system.
problem Exploring blow-ups in a mean-field system with common noise.
method Introduced a model with continuous driving dynamics and common Brownian motion noise.
result Global solutions exist and can be realized through a particle system with common noise, and blow-ups can be triggered or prevented by noise.
We consider the pricing of European-style structured credit payoff in a static framework, where the underlying default times are independent given a common factor. A practical application would consist of the pricing of nth-to-default baskets under the Gaussian copula model (GCM). We provide necessary and sufficient co…
Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim of extracting insights in processes. Applying process mining techniques on data from smart home environments has the potential to provide valuable insights in (un)healthy habits and to contribute to ambient assisted living solutions. …
Study shows foreign institutional investment increases liquidity commonality in large Australian stocks.
problem Impact of foreign institutional investment on liquidity commonality in Australian stocks.
method Cross-sectional and time-series analysis of Australian equity market data.
result Foreign institutional investment contributes to increased exposure of large stocks to unexpected liquidity events.
Proposes a test for shared information between time series and events.
problem Detecting extreme events in time series data.
method Non-parametric statistical test using multiple two-sample testing at increasing lags.
result Outperforms or matches related tests on various datasets.
This paper evaluates data enrichment techniques for rare event detection in manufacturing.
problem Rare events in manufacturing lead to unplanned downtime and high energy consumption.
method Time series data augmentation, sampling, and imputation techniques combined with supervised machine learning.
result Data enrichment enhances rare failure event detection and prediction by up to 48%.
No time-periodic Majorana fermions found in Kerr-Newman spacetimes with nontrivial charge.
problem Existence of Majorana fermions in Kerr-Newman spacetimes with nontrivial charge.
method Analysis of Dirac equation in Kerr-Newman spacetimes, leading to algebraic identities.
result No differentiable time-periodic Majorana fermions in Kerr-Newman spacetimes with nontrivial charge.
Method trains deep neural networks on weakly labeled audio data efficiently.
problem Limited training data and lack of temporal labels for audio event detection.
method Multi-instance learning with a new loss function for stacked CNN-RNN.
result Improved performance on low-resource audio datasets.
Model predicts epileptic seizures with high accuracy using EEG signals.
problem Predicting epileptic seizures with high accuracy for diagnosis and treatment.
method Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient with a linear classifier on generalized Gaussian modeling.
result 100% effectiveness for sensitivity and specificity greater than 83%.