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48 results for power analysis

Sharp analysis of power iteration for tensor PCA, improving convergence and stopping criteria.

problem Analyzing the power iteration algorithm for tensor PCA to improve convergence and stopping criteria.
method Sharp bounds on the number of iterations, revealing a smaller algorithmic threshold, proposing a stopping criterion.
result Sharp bounds on the number of iterations required for power method to converge, revealing a smaller algorithmic threshold than previously conjectured.

Study non-integer power-law potentials for Schrödinger operators using Lie-Rinehart algebras.

problem Analyzing Schrödinger operators with non-integer power-law potentials.
method Using Lie-Rinehart algebras and microlocal analysis.
result Microlocal analysis can be applied to Schrödinger operators with non-integer power-law potentials.

Proposes a regularization approach to model German power derivative market, identifying significant risk spillovers.

problem Large portfolio of German power derivative contracts, identifying significant risk spillovers.
method Combines high-dimensional variable selection with dynamic network analysis.
result Identifies significant risk contributors and interdependencies between contracts, especially spot contracts.

Cluster algorithms are increasingly popular in biomedical research due to their compelling ability to identify discrete subgroups in data, and their increasing accessibility in mainstream software. While guidelines exist for algorithm selection and outcome evaluation, there are no firmly established ways of computing a…

2020-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-availability of reliable and sustainable electric power is a major problem in the developing world. Renewable energy sources like solar are not very lucrative in the current stage due to various uncertainties like weather, storage, land use among others. There also exists various other issues like mis-commitment of…

2017-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We study finite sample properties of estimators of power-law cross-correlations -- detrended cross-correlation analysis (DCCA), height cross-correlation analysis (HXA) and detrending moving-average cross-correlation analysis (DMCA) -- with a special focus on short-term memory bias as well as power-law coherency. Presen…

2014-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper refutes conjecture on tensor power iteration convergence in overcomplete models.

problem Understanding convergence of tensor power iteration in overcomplete random tensors.
method Analysis of tensor power iteration dynamics from random initialization.
result Polynomially many steps are necessary for convergence, refutes logarithmic conjecture.

The paper analyzes a private likelihood-ratio test for frequency tables under differential privacy constraints.

problem Achieving privacy in statistical data analysis while maintaining statistical utility.
method A rigorous analysis of a private likelihood-ratio (LR) test for goodness-of-fit in frequency tables, considering (ε,δ)(\varepsilon,δ)-differential privacy.
result Characterization of the trade-off between differential privacy parameters (ε,δ)(\varepsilon,δ) and statistical power of the private LR test.

We present a novel analysis of the dynamics of tensor power iterations in the overcomplete regime where the tensor CP rank is larger than the input dimension. Finding the CP decomposition of an overcomplete tensor is NP-hard in general. We consider the case where the tensor components are randomly drawn, and show that …

2014-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive Bayesian model for covariate-dependent power spectra analysis.

problem Estimating complex relationships and interactions between covariates and power spectra.
method Bayesian sum of trees model with local power spectrum estimation and reversible-jump MCMC for tree modifications.
result The method can accurately recover both smooth and abrupt changes in power spectra across multiple covariates.

We consider the noisy power method algorithm, which has wide applications in machine learning and statistics, especially those related to principal component analysis (PCA) under resource (communication, memory or privacy) constraints. Existing analysis of the noisy power method shows an unsatisfactory dependency over …

2016-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We extend our previous study of scaling range properties done for detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) \cite{former_paper} to other techniques of fluctuation analysis (FA). The new technique called Modified Detrended Moving Average Analysis (MDMA) is introduced and its scaling range properties are examined and compared…

2012-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

A method uses ITD and XGBoost for precise power transformer fault diagnosis.

problem Fault diagnosis of power transformers using DGA data.
method Ranking DGA parameters by skewness, extracting ITD features, and using an XGBoost classifier.
result The method achieves over 95% accuracy in classification.

We respond to the issues discussed by Farmer and Lillo (FL) related to our proposed approach to understanding the origin of power-law distributions in stock price fluctuations. First, we extend our previous analysis to 1000 US stocks and perform a new estimation of market impact that accounts for splitting of large ord…

2004-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal sampling reduces power grid data analysis costs.

problem Efficient online analysis of high-speed, correlated IoT data.
method D-optimality criterion-based sampling methods combining Bernoulli and leverage score sampling.
result Leverage score sampling improves computational efficiency and outperforms benchmarks.

Solving power flow (PF) equations is the basis of power flow analysis, which is important in determining the best operation of existing systems, performing security analysis, etc. However, PF equations can be out-of-date or even unavailable due to system dynamics and uncertainties, making traditional numerical approach…

2020-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph Neural Networks outperform the Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm in representation power.

problem Limited representation power of Graph Neural Networks compared to the Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm.
method Algebraic analysis using eigenvalue decomposition of graph operators.
result Graph Neural Networks produce more discriminative representations than the Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm.

New method detects intrinsic cross-correlations in non-stationary time series affected by common factors.

problem Bias in cross-correlation analysis due to common external factors.
method Multifractal temporally weighted detrended partial cross-correlation analysis (MF-TWDPCCA).
result MF-TWDPCCA accurately detects intrinsic cross-correlations between non-stationary time series.

This paper enhances privacy-preserving randomized power method for large datasets.

problem Privacy issues in applying randomized power method to large datasets containing personal information.
method Proposes enhanced privacy-preserving variants of the randomized power method, including a variant with reduced noise and a decentralized framework.
result Tighter convergence bounds and empirical comparisons with previous work in real recommendation datasets.

This paper analyzes and improves convergence in federated learning with biased client selection.

problem Analyzing convergence in federated learning with biased client selection.
method First convergence analysis of federated optimization for biased client selection strategies, proposing Power-of-Choice framework.
result Power-of-Choice strategies converge up to 3 times faster and give 10% higher test accuracy than random selection.

Self-organized criticality has been claimed to play an important role in many natural and social systems. In the present work we empirically investigate the relevance of this theory to stock-market dynamics. Avalanches in stock-market indices are identified using a multi-scale wavelet-filtering analysis designed to rem…

2006-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the statistical properties of volatility---a measure of how much the market is likely to fluctuate. We estimate the volatility by the local average of the absolute price changes. We analyze (a) the S&P 500 stock index for the 13-year period Jan 1984 to Dec 1996 and (b) the market capitalizations of the largest…

1999-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes the variance of different shuffling methods in stochastic gradient descent.

problem Understanding the variance of different shuffling methods in stochastic gradient descent.
method Power spectral density analysis to study the noise sequences of stochastic gradients.
result The stationary variances of iterates decrease in the order of SGD, SGD-RR, and SGD-SO.

The paper proposes a method to identify power system oscillation modes using blind source separation.

problem Accurately identifying oscillation modes in power systems with renewable energy sources.
method A high-order blind source identification (HOBI) algorithm based on copula statistic combined with Hilbert transform and iteration procedure.
result The method can identify all oscillation modes and model order from a single channel of observation signals, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

This work establishes properties on diffeological structures for set-valued maps and measures.

problem Establish rigorous properties on diffeological structures for set-valued maps and measures.
method Using diffeologies, the authors link various structures including set-valued maps, relations, gradients, measures, and shape analysis.
result Established rigorous properties on sample diffeologies.

Data analytics and machine learning techniques are being rapidly adopted into the power system, including power system control as well as electricity market design. In this paper, from an adversarial machine learning point of view, we examine the vulnerability of data-driven electricity market design. More precisely, w…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Method for factor analysis in short panels without assuming sphericity or Gaussianity.

problem Factor analysis in short panels without assuming sphericity or Gaussianity.
method Pseudo maximum likelihood method and asymptotically uniformly most powerful invariant test.
result Systematic risk explains a large part of cross-sectional total variance in bear markets but is not spanned by observed factors.

New analysis shows ROI's predictive power for stock returns weakens significantly.

problem The predictive power of retail order imbalance (ROI) for future stock returns.
method Replicated Boehmer et al. (2021) using a more recent period and analyzed the effect of using alternative quote midpoint (QMP) method.
result Past ROI can no longer predict weekly returns on large-cap stocks, and the long-short strategy based on past ROI is no longer profitable.

In a recent Nature paper, Gabaix et al. \cite{Gabaix03} presented a theory to explain the power law tail of price fluctuations. The main points of their theory are that volume fluctuations, which have a power law tail with exponent roughly -1.5, are modulated by the average market impact function, which describes the r…

2003-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Style Miner generates stable and significant style factors for time series analysis.

problem Finding significant and stable explanatory factors in high-dimensional time series data.
method Proposes a reinforcement learning method to balance explanatory power and stability constraints.
result Outperforms existing methods by a large margin and achieves a 10% gain in R-squared explanatory power.

Power iteration has been generalized to solve many interesting problems in machine learning and statistics. Despite its striking success, theoretical understanding of when and how such an algorithm enjoys good convergence property is limited. In this work, we introduce a new class of optimization problems called scale …

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In exploratory data analysis, we are often interested in identifying promising pairwise associations for further analysis while filtering out weaker, less interesting ones. This can be accomplished by computing a measure of dependence on all variable pairs and examining the highest-scoring pairs, provided the measure o…

2015-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

CoNBONet improves reliability analysis of complex systems with fast, energy-efficient predictions.

problem Time-dependent reliability analysis of nonlinear systems under stochastic excitations is computationally demanding.
method CoNBONet combines deep operator networks with neuroscience-inspired neuron models for fast, energy-efficient inference.
result CoNBONet provides reliable coverage of failure probabilities with theoretical guarantees.

In this paper, we resolve many of the key algorithmic questions regarding robustness, memory efficiency, and differential privacy of tensor decomposition. We propose simple variants of the tensor power method which enjoy these strong properties. We present the first guarantees for online tensor power method which has a…

2016-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider streaming principal component analysis when the stochastic data-generating model is subject to perturbations. While existing models assume a fixed covariance, we adopt a robust perspective where the covariance matrix belongs to a temporal uncertainty set. Under this setting, we provide fundamental limits on…

2019-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗