New features capture the order of data streams.
problem Handling ordered moments in massive data streams.
method Introducing features for ordered moments.
result Theoretical guarantees for learning algorithms.
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Enhanced Adam uses higher-order moments for better performance.
problem Improving the performance of Adam optimization algorithm.
method Proposes HAdam, an extension of Adam using higher-order moments of the stochastic gradient.
result Higher-order moments of the stochastic gradient can lead to better performance than vanilla Adam.
Inter-order relations between moments of a Student distribution, with an application to -quantilesmath.ST
The paper derives formulas for moments of a Student t distribution and applies them to quantify -quantiles.
problem Understanding the moments and quantiles of a Student t distribution.
method Developed formulas for partial and complete moments, and derived relationships between -quantiles.
result For a Student t distribution, the -quantile and -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.
New proof of Sobolev inequality with constraints on sphere.
problem Improving Sobolev inequality on sphere with constraints.
method Careful study of extremal problem on sphere.
result Explicit determination of constant in second order moments case.
Deep learning approximates system moments from data.
problem Approximating moments of spatial probabilistic systems.
method Dynamic Boltzmann Distributions (DBDs) with deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs).
result Learned moment closures improve generalization over traditional methods.
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.
Sharp inequalities in unit ball with constraints on moments.
problem Establishing Sobolev trace inequalities with constraints.
method Constructing smooth test functions for higher order moments.
result Almost optimal Sobolev trace inequalities for 2nd and 4th orders.
Developed moment estimators for affine stochastic volatility models.
problem Estimating parameters of affine stochastic volatility models.
method Introduced recursive equations for moments and proposed moment estimators.
result Established a central limit theorem and derived asymptotic covariance matrix.
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.
Improved Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality with constraints on sphere.
problem Improving constant in Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality with constraints.
method Generalization to higher order moments and perturbation method.
result New inequalities with similarity to Lebedev-Milin type inequalities.
The learning of domain-invariant representations in the context of domain adaptation with neural networks is considered. We propose a new regularization method that minimizes the discrepancy between domain-specific latent feature representations directly in the hidden activation space. Although some standard distributi…
A new method calculates fractional moments using the moment-generating function.
problem Computing fractional moments from probability densities.
method Integral framework based on moment-generating function.
result Exact integral expressions for various types of moments.
Paper tackles non-convex optimization for higher moments in portfolio management.
problem Complexity of higher moments in optimization problems.
method Method of successive convex approximation.
result Solves mean-variance-skewness problem using non-convex optimization.
Factorial moments are convenient tools in nuclear physics to characterize the multiplicity distributions when phase-space resolution () becomes small. For uncorrelated particle production within , Gaussian statistics holds and factorial moments are equal to unity for all orders . Correlations between par…
Pseudo-diffusions and Quadratic term structure modelscond-mat.stat-mech
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 …
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.
Sharp comparison for sub-Gaussian random variables in convex order.
problem Comparing sub-Gaussian random variables in convex order.
method Proving dominance using moment generating functions and convex functions.
result Sharp comparison established between specific sub-Gaussian random variables.
Gaussian stochastic volatility models: Scaling regimes, large deviations, and moment explosionsq-fin.MF
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.
Python package ajdmom simplifies moment formula derivation for jump diffusions.
problem Deriving moment formulae for complex jump diffusion processes.
method Automatically generates closed-form expressions and derivatives for any order of moments.
result Enhances usability and usability of affine jump diffusion models.
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.
We consider a stochastic volatility model where the moment generating function of the logarithmic price is finite only on part of the real line. Using a new Tauberian result obtained in [1] and [2], we show that the knowledge of the moment generating function near its critical moment gives a sharp asymptotic expansion …
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 -norm linear regression with heavy-tailed data.
method Exponential mechanism for -norm bounded second moment; relaxation to -norm bounded -th moment; coordinate-wise bounded moments.
result Achieved upper bounds for privacy-preserving linear regression under various moment conditions.
Bandits with heavy tailstat.ML
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 . Surprisingly, moments of order 2 (i.e., finite variance) are suffi…
New ICA method uses third-order moment for better performance.
problem ICA methods often assume kurtosis, which may not always fit data.
method ICA based on Split Generalized Gaussian distribution (SGGD).
result Method works better for heavy-tailed and non-symmetric data.
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 .
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 .
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 to .
result Second-order orthogonality can improve consistency to .
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.
New invariants detect Fano varieties' K-stability.
problem Detecting K-stability in Fano varieties.
method Introducing valuative invariants based on higher moments.
result Can detect K-stability of Fano varieties.
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.
This work provides a computationally efficient and statistically consistent moment-based estimator for mixtures of spherical Gaussians. Under the condition that component means are in general position, a simple spectral decomposition technique yields consistent parameter estimates from low-order observable moments, wit…
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.