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48 results for platform technical issues

Online trading platforms manipulate profits and losses, causing 82% of retail traders to lose money.

problem Manipulation of online trading platforms leading to financial losses for retail traders.
method Independent recording of trade details using REST API responses, comparison with broker reviews.
result 82% of retail traders lose money due to platform technical issues.

The blockchain technology promises to transform finance, money and even governments. However, analyses of blockchain applicability and robustness typically focus on isolated systems whose actors contribute mainly by running the consensus algorithm. Here, we highlight the importance of considering trustless platforms wi…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Collectives can manipulate learning platforms by coordinated data submission, requiring strategic assessments and algorithms.

problem Collectives can influence learning platforms by altering data, posing risks and requiring strategic planning.
method Developed a theoretical and algorithmic framework to understand and mitigate collective manipulation of learning platforms.
result Demonstrated the need for strategic assessments and implementable coordination algorithms to prevent collective manipulation.

Tokenized RWAs face liquidity issues despite promising markets.

problem Low trading volumes and limited investor participation in tokenized assets.
method Empirical analysis of tokenized real estate, private credit, and treasury funds.
result Most tokenized assets exhibit low transfer activity and limited secondary trading.

Predict stock trends using news sentiment and technical indicators in Spark.

problem Predicting the stock market trend is challenging due to multiple influencing factors.
method Created a machine learning classification problem with features from technical indicators and news sentiment scores.
result Random Forest model achieved 63.58% test accuracy in Spark.

TINs use neural networks to interpret technical indicators for trading.

problem Lack of interpretable neural architectures for technical indicators in trading.
method Introduced TINs, a neural architecture that reformulates technical indicators into trainable modules.
result Improved risk-adjusted performance compared to traditional indicator-based strategies.

Shai-am simplifies ML for finance, solving code structure and scalability issues.

problem Challenges in integrating ML for investment strategies, including code structure and scalability.
method Integrates a Python framework with modern open-source technologies to manage containerized pipelines and unified interfaces.
result Facilitates collaborative work in quantitative finance by enhancing reusability and readability.

A new online learning problem, CAB, tackles matching platforms to maximize user satisfaction.

problem Maximizing matches in a matching platform can lead to dissatisfaction and churn.
method Developed CAB, an online learning problem that maximizes arm satisfaction, and analyzed algorithms like UCB and Thompson sampling.
result CAB-UCB achieves higher cumulative satisfaction than baselines in experiments.

RAGuard improves safety in LLMs for offshore wind maintenance.

problem Conventional LLMs fail with specialised or unexpected scenarios in offshore wind maintenance.
method Integrates safety-critical documents alongside technical manuals in RAG framework.
result RAGuard increases safety recall from almost 0% to over 50% while maintaining technical recall above 60%.

Study investigates how machine learning models degrade over time, leading to patient safety issues.

problem Overtime degradation of machine learning models in clinical settings.
method Used MIMIC-IV dataset to train models replicating commercial approaches, observing and analyzing degradation over a decade.
result An RNN model built on Epic features degrades from 0.729 AUC to 0.525 AUC over a decade, highlighting technical and clinical drift as root causes.

High volume of data, perceived as either challenge or opportunity. Deep learning architecture demands high volume of data to effectively back propagate and train the weights without bias. At the same time, large volume of data demands higher capacity of the machine where it could be executed seamlessly. Budding data sc…

2018-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on learning quantum dynamics without direct interaction.

problem Learning quantum dynamics incoherently without direct interaction.
method Analyze sample complexity and prove bounds for incoherent learning.
result Prove that arbitrary measurements allow efficient learning of unitary processes incoherently.

This paper takes a deep learning approach to understand consumer credit risk when e-commerce platforms issue unsecured credit to finance customers' purchase. The "NeuCredit" model can capture both serial dependences in multi-dimensional time series data when event frequencies in each dimension differ. It also captures …

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Data collection in economically constrained countries often necessitates using approximate and biased measurements due to the low-cost of the sensors used. This leads to potentially invalid predictions and poor policies or decision making. This is especially an issue if methods from resource-rich regions are applied wi…

2019-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A matching in a two-sided market often incurs an externality: a matched resource may become unavailable to the other side of the market, at least for a while. This is especially an issue in online platforms involving human experts as the expert resources are often scarce. The efficient utilization of experts in these p…

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm poLinUCB improves online learning in content recommendation platforms.

problem Improving efficiency in content recommendation platforms with post-serving context.
method Novel contextual bandit problem with post-serving contexts and a new algorithm, poLinUCB.
result Achieves tight regret under standard assumptions and significant benefit of utilizing post-serving contexts.

This paper circulated previously in a draft version. Now, upon general request, it is about time to distribute the more detailed (and much longer) version. The main technical issues revolve around the fine structure of the compactification of the moduli spaces of flow lines and the obstruction bundle technique, with re…

1996-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has become an increasingly important issue in the field of machine learning for the development of more accurate forecasting models. In this study, we explore the potential of HPO in modeling stock returns using a deep neural network (DNN). The potential of this approa…

2020-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a powerful framework for leveraging unlabeled data when labels are limited or expensive to obtain. SSL algorithms based on deep neural networks have recently proven successful on standard benchmark tasks. However, we argue that these benchmarks fail to address many issues that th…

2018-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a brief technical note to clarify some of the issues with applying the application of the algorithm posterior sampling for reinforcement learning (PSRL) in environments without fixed episodes. In particular, this paper aims to: - Review some of results which have been proven for finite horizon MDPs (Osband et a…

2016-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach to disentangle utility from impulse in recommendation systems.

problem Difficulty in inferring user utility from engagement signals.
method Generative model based on self-exciting Hawkes process to infer utility from return probability.
result It is possible to disentangle System-1 and System-2 decision processes to optimize content based on user utility.

Consider a platform that wants to learn a personalized policy for each user, but the platform faces the risk of a user abandoning the platform if she is dissatisfied with the actions of the platform. For example, a platform is interested in personalizing the number of newsletters it sends, but faces the risk that the u…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Combining various data types predicts S&P 500 stock prices with high accuracy.

problem Predicting S&P 500 stock prices with high accuracy.
method Combined technical, fundamental, and text data with machine learning models like Random Forest and LSTM.
result Achieved 66.18% accuracy in S&P 500 index prediction and 62.09% in individual stock prediction.

Digital tools may hinder or facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.

problem Challenges in multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
method Study of a precursor SPSTI's digital tools and their impacts.
result Digital tools can act as both brakes and levers for multidisciplinary dynamics.

Public debates are a common platform for presenting and juxtaposing diverging views on important issues. In this work we propose a methodology for tracking how ideas flow between participants throughout a debate. We use this approach in a case study of Oxford-style debates---a competitive format where the winner is det…

2016-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we tackle the issue of clustering trajectories of geolocalized observations. Using clustering technics based on the choice of a distance between the observations, we first provide a comprehensive review of the different distances used in the literature to compare trajectories. Then based on the limitation…

2015-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗