With the growing popularity of wearable devices, the ability to utilize physiological data collected from these devices to predict the wearer's mental state such as mood and stress suggests great clinical applications, yet such a task is extremely challenging. In this paper, we present a general platform for personaliz…
Personalized stress model using transfer learning from 20 participants.
problem Limited generalizability of machine learning models due to individual physiological differences.
method Transfer learning from a base model trained on 20 participants' physiological data collected in real-time.
result Improved model personalization and cross-domain performance.
Research has proven that stress reduces quality of life and causes many diseases. For this reason, several researchers devised stress detection systems based on physiological parameters. However, these systems require that obtrusive sensors are continuously carried by the user. In our paper, we propose an alternative a…
In many mobile health interventions, treatments should only be delivered in a particular context, for example when a user is currently stressed, walking or sedentary. Even in an optimal context, concerns about user burden can restrict which treatments are sent. To diffuse the treatment delivery over times when a user i…
DeFi doesn't fully remove trust, showing run risk and personal character's importance.
problem The need for trust in DeFi despite its code-based approach.
method Natural experiment revealing identities of DeFi participants, including a criminal.
result DeFi doesn't fully remove trust, showing run risk and personal character's relevance.
Two algorithms improve Federated RL in diverse environments.
problem Collaborative learning in environments with varying dynamics.
method Proposed two federated RL algorithms, QAvg and PAvg, and a personalization heuristic.
result Achieved better performance and generalization in diverse environments.
The prevalence of wearable sensors (e.g., smart wristband) is creating unprecedented opportunities to not only inform health and wellness states of individuals, but also assess and infer personal attributes, including demographic and personality attributes. However, the data captured from wearables, such as heart rate …
Adversarial transfer learning improves stress assessment across users.
problem Transfer learning challenges in physiological biosignals.
method Disentangled nuisance-robust representations using adversarial networks.
result Adversarial framework enhances cross-subjects stress assessment.
PhysioMTL learns personalized HRV rhythms from wearable data, improving prediction and counterfactual analysis.
problem Challenges in interpreting HRV measurements due to variability and stressors.
method PhysioMTL combines Optimal Transport and MTL to learn personalized diurnal rhythms from heterogeneous data.
result PhysioMTL outperforms other methods in predicting unseen subjects and generating counterfactual effects.
Proposes a reverse stress testing framework for dynamic models.
problem Finding plausible models under adverse stresses.
method Compound Poisson process, Kullback-Leibler divergence, optimization problem.
result Intensity and severity of process depend on time and state.
Method generates plausible financial stress scenarios using large deviations.
problem Misleading risk management by overlooking or overemphasizing implausible scenarios.
method Exploits large-deviations principle to concentrate risk factors near most likely stress configurations.
result Can generate informative stress scenarios even with limited historical data.
A hybrid model combines diffusion and neural operator methods for stress prediction in hyperelastic materials.
problem Challenges in predicting stress fields in hyperelastic materials with complex microstructures.
method A hybrid surrogate framework combining a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model (cDDPM) and a modified DeepONet.
result The hybrid model consistently outperforms traditional methods by one to two orders of magnitude.
Credit risk stress tests can misrepresent default probabilities due to inconsistent parameterization.
problem Misleading default probability projections in credit risk stress tests.
method Analysis of credit risk stress testing models and their parameterization.
result Current portfolios tend to align with through-the-cycle portfolios, leading to spurious default rate projections.
Paper proposes MAST to identify stress conditions in forecasting models.
problem Improving reliability and transparency of univariate forecasting models under stress.
method Meta-learning and data augmentation approach to predict stress conditions.
result MAST identifies conditions leading to large errors in forecasting models.
The 1/3 Financial Rule helps prevent household bankruptcy through balanced spending, savings, and debt repayment.
problem Reducing household bankruptcy risk through effective financial planning.
method Mathematical modeling, game theory, behavioral finance, and technological analysis.
result The 1/3 Financial Rule emerges as a robust solution for supporting household financial stability.
The dominant automatic lexical stress detection method is to split the utterance into syllable segments using phoneme sequence and their time-aligned boundaries. Then we extract features from syllable to use classification method to classify the lexical stress. However, we can't get very accurate time boundaries of eac…
Reverse sensitivity analysis for risk models under various stresses.
problem Understanding model changes under output stress.
method Deriving the closest stressed distribution and model parameters.
result Numerically efficient method for calculating stressed model.
Deep learning predicts stress levels from mouse hippocampus activity.
problem Stress level in mice under different environments.
method Deep learning combined with neuron decoding.
result Deep learning model accurately predicts stress levels.
Voice-enabled interactions provide more human-like experiences in many popular IoT systems. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract useful information from voice input using speech recognition techniques. The voice signal is a rich resource that discloses several possible states of a speaker, such as emotional sta…
Study reviews machine learning techniques for stress monitoring.
problem Improving accuracy of stress monitoring devices.
method Reviewed machine learning techniques for various stress indicators.
result Choosing the right classifier depends on multiple factors.
Various psychological factors affect how individuals express emotions. Yet, when we collect data intended for use in building emotion recognition systems, we often try to do so by creating paradigms that are designed just with a focus on eliciting emotional behavior. Algorithms trained with these types of data are unli…
This paper uses multivariate probability models to assess financial system risks.
problem Assessing systemic risk in financial systems.
method Computes multivariate conditional probability distributions for elliptical distributions, focusing on Student-t and Normal models.
result Proposes measures of stress impact and systemic risk.
Machine learning improves financial stress testing in Indian markets.
problem Conventional stress testing limitations in Indian financial markets.
method Dimensionality reduction, latent factor modeling, Variational Autoencoders, Monte Carlo simulation.
result Improved flexibility, robustness, and realism in financial stress testing.
Neural networks predict flow and elastic stresses in viscoelastic turbulence.
problem Predicting flow and elastic stresses in viscoelastic turbulent flows using limited experimental data.
method Convolutional neural networks trained on wall-normal velocity and pressure data.
result Neural networks accurately predict flow and elastic stresses, especially during low-drag events.
This paper proposes non-stationary factor models for financial stress in the UK.
problem Managing financial vulnerabilities in the UK's complex financial system.
method Creation of non-stationary factor models to capture financial stress.
result Non-stationary factor models can better capture financial stress, especially tail events.
Shear stress distribution prediction in open channels is of utmost importance in hydraulic structural engineering as it directly affects the design of stable channels. In this study, at first, a series of experimental tests were conducted to assess the shear stress distribution in prismatic compound channels. The shear…
This note improves correlation stress tests using geodesic distance.
problem Improving financial risk management through better covariance stress tests.
method Proposes a new geometrically invariant definition of correlation stress tests.
result Demonstrates a submanifold approach to stress testing covariance matrices.
The entropy models have been recently adopted in many studies to evaluate the distribution of the shear stress in circular channels. However, the uncertainty in their predictions and their reliability remains an open question. We present a novel method to evaluate the uncertainty of four popular entropy models, includi…
Improved algorithm for multidimensional scaling reduces stress.
problem Stress in multidimensional scaling.
method Proposed modifications of the smacof algorithm.
result Convergent majorization algorithm for Kruskal's stress formula two.
The MSPI predicts market stress with machine learning.
problem Estimating the probability of high market stress.
method L1-regularized logistic regression on stock fragility signals.
result MSPI tracks major stress episodes and improves accuracy.
Adaptive Stress Testing detects financial fraud by simulating potential failures.
problem Detecting and mitigating vulnerabilities in financial systems.
method Developed a simplified model using historical data and reinforcement learning.
result Identified the most likely path to system failure and improved fraud detection.
SYNTHONY selects tabular synthesizers based on stress profiling and user intent.
problem Non-uniform performance of tabular generative models across datasets.
method Stress profiling and intent-conditioned tabular synthesis selection.
result Meta-features predict synthesizer performance, improving selection accuracy.
One has not any conventional energy-momentum conservation law in Lagrangian field theory, but relations involving different stress-energy-momentum tensors associated with different connections. It is not obvious how to choose the true energy-momentum tensor. This problem is solved in the framework of the multimomentum …
Develops a method for reverse stress testing in multivariate scenarios.
problem Reconstructing a multivariate stress scenario from a single exogenous shock.
method Maximizing conditional density under three distributional assumptions.
result Simulated scenarios are economically coherent and reproduce risk-reward asymmetry.
Paper improves SVaR estimation for stress testing under macro scenarios using a hybrid GPR-HS framework.
problem Numerical instability in traditional SVaR estimation under extreme shocks.
method Extends GPR-HS framework to forward-looking stress scenarios with SACS for stable covariance.
result Stable SVaR ranges from -2.1020% to -2.2231%, preserving coherence property.
An integrated and extendable approach for stress-testing loan portfolios
problem Stress-testing loan portfolios
method Simulate completed portfolios, generate uncertain cash flow history, compute credit risk metrics
result Enhanced stress-testing practices within any bank
Adaptive personalized federated learning improves local model personalization.
problem Maximizing global model performance limits local model personalization.
method APFL algorithm trains local models while contributing to global model, with optimal mixing parameter and communication-efficient optimization.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of personalization schema and correctness of generalization theories.
EM-GAN uses GANs for fast stress analysis of multi-segment interconnects.
problem Fast and accurate stress analysis for EM failure assessment in multi-segment interconnects.
method Conditional GAN model trained on images of multi-segment wires and current densities.
result EM-GAN provides accurate stress distribution with 6.6% error and 8.3X speedup.
Stress research is a rapidly emerging area in thefield of electroencephalography (EEG) based signal processing.The use of EEG as an objective measure for cost effective andpersonalized stress management becomes important in particularsituations such as the non-availability of mental health facilities.In this study, lon…
Environmental stresses such as drought and heat can cause substantial yield loss in agriculture. As such, hybrid crops that are tolerant to drought and heat stress would produce more consistent yields compared to the hybrids that are not tolerant to these stresses. In the 2019 Syngenta Crop Challenge, Syngenta released…
Analyzes how uncertainty in financial networks affects stability.
problem Understanding how uncertainty in financial networks impacts stability.
method Introduced a minimal stochastic dynamical model of the interbank network with linear interactions. Derived the interaction correction to the stress expectation and studied it on the short-medium timescale.
result Interactions increase the stress expectation on average, highlighting the importance of disclosure.
Develops a method for stress testing correlations of financial portfolios.
problem Stress testing correlations in financial asset portfolios.
method Parametric representation of correlations, Bayesian variable selection, joint distribution of stress scenarios.
result Inference of worst-case correlation scenarios using stress tests.
Paper models cloud outages for cyber insurance stress-testing.
problem Cyber insurance portfolios' vulnerability to simultaneous cloud outages.
method Modeling and calibrating cloud-outage scenarios, measuring diversification.
result Cloud-outage diversification can protect against accumulation risk.
New deep learning method improves financial stress testing accuracy.
problem Traditional stress testing methods are criticized for unrealistic assumptions and estimation errors.
method Proposes a novel Deep Learning approach for Dynamic Balance Sheet Stress Testing.
result Empirical results show significant improvement in accuracy over traditional methods.
Framework generates personalized insulin treatment strategies using deep models.
problem Developing optimal personalized treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
method Combines deep generative time series models with decision theory.
result Demonstrated improved personalized insulin treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
We propose a random walk model of asset returns where the parameters depend on market stress. Stress is measured by, e.g., the value of an implied volatility index. We show that model parameters including standard deviations and correlations can be estimated robustly and that all distributions are approximately normal.…
We derive the stress-energy tensor for polyharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. Moreover, we employ the stress-energy tensor to characterize polyharmonic maps where we pay special attention to triharmonic maps.
New risk factors improve stress testing accuracy.
problem Improving stress testing accuracy with new risk factors.
method Adapted PCA and autoencoders for dimension reduction and interpretation.
result Aggregated risk factors enhance stress testing outcomes.