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48 results for ordered moments

The paper derives formulas for moments of a Student t distribution and applies them to quantify LpL_p-quantiles.

problem Understanding the moments and quantiles of a Student t distribution.
method Developed formulas for partial and complete moments, and derived relationships between LpL_p-quantiles.
result For a Student t distribution, the Lnj+1L_{n-j+1}-quantile and LjL_j-quantile coincide at any confidence level.

This paper introduces generalized betas accounting for higher order co-moment effects.

problem Financial returns data often deviate from normal assumptions in terms of higher order moments and contain outliers.
method Introduces CAPI and PP framework to calculate generalized betas optimizing the CAPI objective.
result Generalized betas optimize the CAPI objective, accounting for higher order co-moment effects.

Paper tackles stochastic control with mean and higher-order moments, finding Nash equilibria.

problem Time-inconsistent stochastic control problems with mean and higher-order moments.
method Developed closed-loop and open-loop Nash equilibrium controls using PDEs and maximum principles.
result Identical closed-loop and open-loop Nash equilibria controls, independent of state value and random path.

Improved GAN performance using higher-order Wasserstein moments.

problem Stabilizing and enhancing GANs for better mode coverage and stability.
method Deriving and training a GAN with a modified Wasserstein distance using higher-order moments.
result Training a GAN with higher-order Wasserstein moments improves performance, even with increased computational cost.

Paper proposes an efficient algorithm to handle high-order portfolio moments.

problem Designing portfolios with high-order moments (skewness and kurtosis) is computationally challenging.
method Proposes a SCA algorithm framework for solving high-order portfolios efficiently.
result Demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed algorithm through numerical experiments.

The paper examines higher moments in insurance, focusing on coskewness and its impact on actuarial quantities.

problem The impact of higher-order moments on actuarial applications, particularly expected shortfall and life annuity valuation.
method Derives analytical bounds for mixed moments under unspecified dependence structure, applies copula-based mixture model.
result Coskewness and odd-order mixed moments exhibit a monotonic relationship with expected shortfall and annuity premiums.

Learning rate needs to decrease with higher data moments for effective ICA in high dimensions.

problem Slower convergence of ICA in high-dimensional data with high-order moments.
method High-dimensional ODE analysis of ICA algorithm under controlled moment structure.
result Critical learning rate threshold for effective ICA when moments are high.

The paper proves that Gaussian field critical points have finite moments.

problem Proving the finiteness of moments for Gaussian field critical points.
method General approach not specific to critical points, using Taylor polynomial non-degeneracy.
result The finiteness of moments of the number of critical points of Gaussian fields.

Expands newsvendor model with moment constraints using Wasserstein distance.

problem Optimizing order quantity under distributional ambiguity.
method Formulates infinite dimensional primal problem, derives finite dimensional dual problem using problem of moments duality.
result Distributional ambiguity affects optimal order quantity and profits/costs.

Approximates discounted moments for financial products using polynomial expansions.

problem Approximating discounted moments of stochastic processes for financial applications.
method High-order power series expansion of the infinitesimal generator.
result Error decreases to around 10 to 100 times machine precision for higher orders.

Paper provides Edgeworth expansions for network moments, improving accuracy of sampling distributions.

problem Accurate descriptions of sampling distributions of network moment statistics.
method Edgeworth expansion applied to studentized network moment statistics.
result Higher-order accurate approximation to sampling CDF of network moment statistics.

Factorial moments are convenient tools in nuclear physics to characterize the multiplicity distributions when phase-space resolution (ΔΔ) becomes small. For uncorrelated particle production within ΔΔ, Gaussian statistics holds and factorial moments FqF_q are equal to unity for all orders qq. Correlations between par…

2011-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The non-gaussianity of processes observed in financial markets and relatively good performance of gaussian models can be reconciled by replacing the Brownian motion with Levy processes whose Levy densities decay as exp(-lambda|x|) or faster, where lambda>0 is large. This leads to asymptotic pricing models. The leading …

2002-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper characterizes equilibrium strategies for stochastic control with higher-order moments.

problem Stochastic control problems with higher-order moments.
method Novel characterization of time-consistent control problems, deriving equilibrium conditions via BSDEs.
result Derives sufficient and necessary conditions for an open-loop Nash equilibrium control (ONEC) in a novel way.

Optimizes mixture models without parametrizing distributions using tensor decomposition.

problem Estimating conditionally-independent mixture models in high dimensions.
method Alternating least squares optimization scheme for tensor decomposition.
result Competitive performance and applicability to various models and applications.

Study on Gaussian models reveals moment explosions under certain volatility conditions.

problem Understanding the behavior of asset price processes in Gaussian stochastic volatility models.
method Established large and moderate deviation principles, analyzed exit probabilities, and proved moment explosion results.
result If volatility grows faster than linearly, all moments of order greater than one are infinite for asset price processes.

Study on martingale property and moment explosions in signature volatility models.

problem Analyzing the martingale property and moment explosions in signature volatility models.
method Fine analysis of the explosion time of a signature stochastic differential equation.
result The price process is a true martingale if and only if the order of the linear form is odd and a correlation parameter is negative.

Paper derives analytical formulas for NLD-CEV moments with regime switching.

problem Analytical tractability of NLD-CEV models under stochastic regimes.
method Hybrid system approach using Feynman-Kac formula for solving interconnected PDEs.
result Exact closed-form expressions for fractional-order conditional moments.

Proposes DWMD for better matching of hidden representations across domains.

problem Measuring data distribution discrepancy between semantically related domains for feature representation matching.
method DWMD, a moment-based probability distribution metric that explicitly orders and weights higher-order moments.
result DWMD is error-free and can strictly reflect distribution differences without feature distribution assumptions.

A novel method for learning DAGs from positive-valued data.

problem Causal discovery from observational data of positive-valued variables.
method Hybrid Moment-Ratio Scoring (H-MRS) algorithm combining moment-based scoring and log-scale regression.
result H-MRS integrates log-scale Ridge regression for moment-ratio estimation with a greedy ordering procedure based on raw-scale moment ratios, followed by Elastic Net-based parent selection.

A new method of moments estimator goes beyond data reweighting.

problem Estimation of moment restrictions and conditional moment restrictions.
method Kernel Method of Moments (KMM) based on maximum mean discrepancy.
result KMM achieves competitive performance on conditional moment restriction tasks.

AdamNX improves Adam's stability by adjusting its learning rate.

problem Adam's tendency to converge to non-flat minima in large-scale models.
method Proposes a novel exponential decay mechanism for Adam's second-order moment estimate.
result AdamNX outperforms Adam and its variants in stability and performance.

MOMENT selects and estimates mixed-effects models using moment identities.

problem Selecting and estimating random-effects covariance matrix and fixed-effects coefficients in multiresponse linear mixed-effects models.
method MOMENT is a stage-wise moment-based framework that reduces the random-effects selection problem to a smooth constrained convex optimization problem.
result MOMENT performs competitively and can outperform separate univariate analyses for correlated responses.

Study differentially private linear regression with heavy-tailed data.

problem Differentially private 1\ell_1-norm linear regression with heavy-tailed data.
method Exponential mechanism for 2\ell_2-norm bounded second moment; relaxation to 2\ell_2-norm bounded θθ-th moment; coordinate-wise bounded moments.
result Achieved upper bounds for privacy-preserving linear regression under various moment conditions.

The stochastic multi-armed bandit problem is well understood when the reward distributions are sub-Gaussian. In this paper we examine the bandit problem under the weaker assumption that the distributions have moments of order 1+ε, for some ε(0,1]ε\in (0,1]. Surprisingly, moments of order 2 (i.e., finite variance) are suffi…

2012-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper examines risk measure expansions under FGM dependence, improving accuracy at extreme levels.

problem Capturing higher-order tail behavior and dependence effects in risk measures.
method Second-order asymptotic expansions using extreme value theory and regular variation theory.
result Second-order approximations reduce approximation errors, especially at extreme confidence levels.

Corrected moment-based methods improve inference in topic model regression.

problem Inferential difficulties in topic model plug-in workflow for regression.
method Corrected spectral moment methods for LDA, response-weighted word moments.
result Direct identification of regression coefficients without estimating topic shares.

The hidden tail of empirical distributions is analyzed using extreme value theory.

problem Understanding the bias between in-sample mean and true statistical mean for large nn.
method Extreme value theory applied to empirical distributions and their moments.
result The hidden moment of order 0 for power law distributions follows an exponential distribution with expectation 1/n1/n.

Improves machine learning consistency with orthogonal moment equations.

problem Improving consistency of machine learning estimates with complex nuisance parameters.
method Employing Neyman-orthogonal moment equations to improve consistency from n1/4n^{-1/4} to n1/(2k+2)n^{-1/(2k+2)}.
result Second-order orthogonality can improve consistency to n1/(2k+2)n^{-1/(2k+2)}.

Enhances DyBM for better financial time-series prediction.

problem Limitations of Gaussian DyBM in financial applications.
method Extends DyBM to handle second-order moments and generalized Gaussian distributions.
result Significant performance improvement in predicting financial time-series data.

Normal distributions ensure asymptotic variance reduction in moment matching Monte Carlo.

problem Asymptotic variance reduction in general integration problems.
method Characterization of conditions for asymptotic variance reduction using normal distributions.
result Asymptotic variance reduction is guaranteed for normal distributions in moment matching Monte Carlo.

New method quantifies uncertainty in denoising models.

problem Uncertainty quantification in denoising models.
method Derives a relation between posterior moments and derivatives, uses it for efficient uncertainty quantification.
result Efficient computation of principal components and full marginal distributions of the posterior.