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48 results for normal series

EDAIN layer normalizes time series data for neural networks, improving model performance.

problem Irregularities in time series data degrade model performance in neural networks.
method EDAIN layer learns adaptive normalization parameters during end-to-end training.
result EDAIN layer outperforms conventional normalization methods and adaptive layers.

In every point of a Kähler manifold there exist special holomorphic coordinates well adapted to the underlying geometry. Comparing these Kähler normal coordinates with the Riemannian normal coordinates defined via the exponential map we prove that their difference is a universal power series in the curvature tensor and…

2017-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

GANF uses normalizing flows to detect anomalies in multiple time series.

problem Detecting anomalies in multiple time series with interdependencies.
method Bayesian network integration with normalizing flows for unsupervised anomaly detection.
result GANF effectively detects anomalies and identifies distribution drift in time series data.

Deep Learning (DL) models can be used to tackle time series analysis tasks with great success. However, the performance of DL models can degenerate rapidly if the data are not appropriately normalized. This issue is even more apparent when DL is used for financial time series forecasting tasks, where the non-stationary…

2019-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

EvoMSN tackles time series forecasting under distribution shifts by evolving multi-scale normalization.

problem Accurate long-term time series forecasting under complex distribution shifts.
method EvoMSN framework with multi-scale statistics prediction and adaptive ensembling for collaborative updating.
result Improves forecasting performance of five mainstream methods on benchmark datasets.

Paper proposes RAN for better anomaly detection in time series data.

problem Anomaly detection algorithms often fail to accurately detect anomalies due to incomplete reconstruction of anomaly data.
method RAN uses adversarial learning and latent vector-constrained Autoencoder to ensure consistent reconstruction of anomaly data.
result RAN outperforms other algorithms in detecting meaningful anomalies with higher AUC-ROC scores.

Proposes a new normalization method for deep neural networks in financial forecasting.

problem Deep neural networks are sensitive to input variable range and prone to numerical issues, especially with financial time-series.
method Bilinear input normalization method that handles high-frequency financial time-series without expert knowledge.
result Significant improvements in forecasting future stock price dynamics over other normalization techniques.

FredNormer improves time series forecasting by adapting to frequency domain patterns.

problem Current normalization methods struggle with non-stationary time series due to their time-domain approach.
method FredNormer analyzes frequency components, adapts weights, and improves robustness.
result FredNormer boosts forecasting accuracy by 33.3% on ETTm2 dataset.

Dimofte, Gaiotto and Gukov introduced a powerful invariant, the 3D-index, associated to a suitable ideal triangulation of a 3-manifold with torus boundary components. The 3D-index is a collection of formal power series in q1/2q^{1/2} with integer coefficients. Our goal is to explain how the 3D-index is a generating serie…

2016-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We developed a new approach for the analysis of physiological time series. An iterative convolution filter is used to decompose the time series into various components. Statistics of these components are extracted as features to characterize the mechanisms underlying the time series. Motivated by the studies that show …

2015-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we derive a series expansion for the price of a continuously sampled arithmetic Asian option in the Black-Scholes setting. The expansion is based on polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to the log-normal distribution. All terms in the series are fully explicit and no numerical integration nor any …

2018-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved time series forecasting with multivariate probabilistic models.

problem Improving accuracy in forecasting time series with statistical dependencies.
method Conditioned Normalizing Flows for autoregressive deep learning models.
result Improved performance over state-of-the-art models on real-world data sets.

Fermat-Torricelli points help assess investment risks by smoothing series data.

problem Analyzing investment risks in series with large variance, nonlinear trends, or non-normal distributions.
method Construct Fermat-Torricelli points to reduce random component influence.
result Smoothing series by Fermat-Torricelli points reduces risk assessment errors.

Proves convergence of normal forms for infinite-dimensional Lie pseudo-group actions.

problem Analyzing convergence of normal forms for complex manifolds.
method Equivariant moving frame method and Cartan-Kähler Theorem.
result Proves convergence of normal form power series for infinite-dimensional Lie pseudo-group actions.

A TTA framework improves forecasting accuracy in non-stationary time series.

problem Improving forecasting accuracy in non-stationary time series.
method Normalization-based test-time adaptation for causal timeseries forecasting and direction classification.
result Normalization-based TTA improves forecasting error in synthetic gradual drift and can even hurt in aggressive norm-only adaptation in financial markets.

GAS-Norm improves deep learning time series forecasting in non-stationary settings.

problem Deep learning models struggle with non-stationary time series data.
method Combines GAS model for adaptive normalization with deep neural networks.
result Improves deep learning performance in 21 out of 25 settings.

Enhanced time series forecasting with improved trend and seasonal components.

problem Challenges in real-world time series forecasting, especially in multivariate applications.
method Individual decomposition of trend and seasonal components, using different approaches for each.
result Significant reduction in error values, around 10% MSE average reduction across benchmarks.

In this paper we present an application of the use of autocopulas for modelling financial time series showing serial dependencies that are not necessarily linear. The approach presented here is semi-parametric in that it is characterized by a non-parametric autocopula and parametric marginals. One advantage of using au…

2015-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We model non-stationary volume-price distributions with a log-normal distribution and collect the time series of its two parameters. The time series of the two parameters are shown to be stationary and Markov-like and consequently can be modelled with Langevin equations, which are derived directly from their series of …

2017-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Gaussian Process ODEs enhanced with normalizing flows for improved flexibility and accuracy.

problem Limitations of standard Gaussian Process ODEs in modeling complex scenarios.
method Introducing normalizing flows to reparameterize the ODE vector field, developing a data-driven variational learning algorithm.
result Improved accuracy and uncertainty estimates for Bayesian Gaussian Process ODEs.

TPA-AD detects axle-box bearing anomalies using pseudo anomalies near normal boundaries.

problem Detecting axle-box bearing anomalies with only normal training data.
method Two-stage approach: pseudo anomalies, contrastive learning, KNN.
result Improves anomaly detection separability and sensitivity to degradation.

This paper reviews self-supervised learning methods for time series anomaly detection.

problem Challenges in traditional unsupervised methods for time series anomaly detection.
method Self-supervised learning techniques for time series anomaly detection.
result Enhanced performance of anomaly detectors through self-supervised learning.

New framework for tracking varying bounds in time series forecasting.

problem Forecasting bounded time series with varying bounds.
method Extended log-likelihood estimation, online maximum likelihood estimation, Normalized Gradient Descent (NGD) for quasiconvex optimization.
result Derive an Online Normalized Gradient Descent algorithm for online bound tracking.

This is a survey of our research on geometric structures of projective embeddings and includes some topics of our talks in several symposia during 1990-99. We clarify our main problem, which is to construct a kind of geometric composition series of projective embeddings. The concept of "geometric composition series" is…

2000-01-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Flow-based deep generative models learn data distributions by transforming a simple base distribution into a complex distribution via a set of invertible transformations. Due to the invertibility, such models can score unseen data samples by computing their exact likelihood under the learned distribution. This makes fl…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

ProFITi model forecasts irregular time series with missing values using conditional flows.

problem Probabilistic forecasting of irregularly sampled multivariate time series with missing values.
method ProFITi model uses conditional normalizing flows and invertible layers to learn joint distributions conditioned on past observations and queried channels and times.
result ProFITi model provides 4 times higher likelihood than the previous best model.

Proposes a novel method for generating hard negatives near time series data boundaries.

problem Challenges in generating effective negative samples for time series anomaly detection.
method Reconstruction-driven boundary negative generation framework using reinforcement learning.
result Improves anomaly representation learning and achieves competitive detection performance.

Variational auto-encoders (VAE) are scalable and powerful generative models. However, the choice of the variational posterior determines tractability and flexibility of the VAE. Commonly, latent variables are modeled using the normal distribution with a diagonal covariance matrix. This results in computational efficien…

2016-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles time series imputation by identifying and modeling different missing mechanisms.

problem Different types of missing mechanisms (MAR, MNAR) in time series data.
method Proposes a framework for time series imputation by analyzing data generation processes and modeling latent variables via variational inference and normalizing flow.
result Establishes identifiability results for latent variables under nonlinear independent component analysis, showing that latent variables are identifiable.

This paper compares two methods for training neural ODEs in time-series regression and CNFs.

problem Training neural ODEs for time-series regression and CNFs efficiently.
method Discretize-Optimize (Disc-Opt) vs. Optimize-Discretize (Opt-Disc) approaches.
result Disc-Opt methods can achieve similar performance as Opt-Disc at inference with drastically reduced training costs.

Using classical Taylor series techniques, we develop a unified approach to pricing and implied volatility for European-style options in a general local-stochastic volatility setting. Our price approximations require only a normal CDF and our implied volatility approximations are fully explicit (ie, they require no spec…

2013-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study mapping class groups of cyclic covers, focusing on liftability.

problem Understand liftability of mapping classes under regular cyclic covers.
method Analyze the liftable mapping class group associated with a cover, derive symplectic criteria, and obtain normal series.
result Obtain a normal series and finite generating set for the liftable group.