The study examines differential singularities in 3D Nijenhuis operators.
problem Characterizing differential singularities in three-dimensional Nijenhuis operators.
method Examined cases of proportional differentials of invariants and fold-type singularities.
result New examples of Nijenhuis operators with specified singularities constructed.
ICODEN models survival data with interval-censored times using neural networks and ODEs.
problem Predicting time-to-event outcomes with interval-censored data, especially when models require strong assumptions or cannot handle high-dimensional predictors.
method ICODEN uses ordinary differential equations and deep neural networks to model the hazard function and cumulative hazard without proportional hazards assumption.
result ICODEN achieves satisfactory predictive accuracy across various simulation and real-world applications, handling high-dimensional predictors robustly.
Develops a method to estimate average hazard under non-proportional hazards without relying on proportional hazards assumption.
problem Estimation of treatment effects when hazards are non-proportional, leading to unstable hazard ratios.
method Semiparametric, doubly robust framework for covariate-adjusted average hazard estimation.
result Valid sqrt{n} inference with small bias and near-nominal confidence-interval coverage across proportional and non-proportional hazards settings.
We propose a learning algorithm capable of learning from label proportions instead of direct data labels. In this scenario, our data are arranged into various bags of a certain size, and only the proportions of each label within a given bag are known. This is a common situation in cases where per-data labeling is lengt…
Study examines how insurance affects households prone to proportional losses, especially those near poverty.
problem Impact of insurance on households susceptible to proportional losses, focusing on poverty traps.
method Modelled proportional capital losses with insurance, derived closed formulae and non-local differential equations.
result New formulae and methods to calculate trapping probability, constraints on parameters to prevent certainty of trapping.
BayTiDe discovers time-delayed differential equations from noisy data.
problem Discovering time-delayed differential equations from data with large delays and noise.
method Bayesian inference with a sparsity-promoting prior.
result BayTiDe accurately identifies time-delayed differential equations with accuracy proportional to data resolution.
A new method for modeling insurance claim frequencies using random proportions.
problem Inaccurate fitting of classical distributions to insurance claim frequency data.
method Modeling claim frequencies using random proportions of insurance contracts and applying goodness-of-fit tests.
result A new statistical approach for better modeling insurance claim frequencies.
Revisits superhedging under proportional costs in continuous time markets.
problem Superhedging in markets with proportional transaction costs.
method Set-valued stochastic analysis, continuous trading schemes, dynamic risk measure.
result Dynamic set-valued risk measure with multi-portfolio time-consistency.
Develops privacy-preserving methods for equivalence testing in healthcare.
problem Protecting patient data in healthcare studies.
method Differential privacy techniques for simulation-based calibration.
result Maintains type-I error control and comparable power to non-private methods.
ALO-CV approximates leave-one-out error in proportional regime.
problem Estimating generalization error in high-dimensional settings.
method Developed new analysis for ALO-CV, showed consistency under strong convexity.
result ALO-CV approximates leave-one-out error up to negligible error.
We recall the well-known Chern-Terng theorem concerning affine minimal surfaces. Next we formulate some complementary (with transversal fields necessarily not parallel) affine Bäcklund theorem. We describe some geometrical conditions which imply the local symmetry of both induced connections. We give also some necessar…
In this paper, we study metallic structures, i.e. polynomial structures with the structure polynomial Q(J)=J2−aJ−bI on manifolds using the metallic ratio, which is a generalization of the Golden proportion. We investigate for integrability and parallelism conditions of metallic structures. Also, we gi…
In Thurston's notes, he gives two different definitions of the Gromov norm (also called simplicial volume) of a manifold and states that they are equal but does not prove it. Gromov proves it in the special case of hyperbolic manifolds as a consequence of his proof that simplicial volume is proportional to volume. We g…
Privacy preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for learning models over user data to protect sensitive information. Motivated by this, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms for training machine learning models have been proposed. At each step, these algorithms modify the gradie…
This article examines arbitrage investment in a mispriced asset when the mispricing follows the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and a credit-constrained investor maximizes a generalization of the Kelly criterion. The optimal differentiable and threshold policies are derived. The optimal differentiable policy is linear with …
The Heston stochastic volatility process is a degenerate diffusion process where the degeneracy in the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the square root of the distance to the boundary of the half-plane. The generator of this process with killing, called the elliptic Heston operator, is a second-order, degenerat…
The abstract proves polygon inscriptions in curves with specific edge ratios.
problem Proving the existence of polygons inscribed in Jordan curves with prescribed edge ratios.
method Using the properties of differentiable curves and proportional side lengths.
result Existence of polygons inscribed in Jordan curves with prescribed edge ratios.
In this work we investigate the optimal proportional reinsurance-investment strategy of an insurance company which wishes to maximize the expected exponential utility of its terminal wealth in a finite time horizon. Our goal is to extend the classical Cramer-Lundberg model introducing a stochastic factor which affects …
The study examines pricing American options with both exogenous and endogenous transaction costs.
problem Pricing American options with transaction costs and liquidity risks.
method Modeling liquidity risks as a mean-reverting process and transaction costs as proportional to trading amount. Two nonlinear PDEs are used to characterize option values. Numerical solution via ADI method and model calibration using maximum likelihood estimation.
result The model incorporating liquidity risks significantly outperforms the Leland model.
Probabilistic models can be defined by an energy function, where the probability of each state is proportional to the exponential of the state's negative energy. This paper considers a generalization of energy-based models in which the probability of a state is proportional to an arbitrary positive, strictly decreasing…
Paper proposes a method to estimate true positive proportion without knowing it.
problem Bias in binary classifier performance due to different positive item proportions.
method Maximum likelihood estimator for true proportion of positives.
result Method accurately estimates true positive proportion in data sets.
Kernel density matrices simplify probabilistic deep learning.
problem Representing joint probability distributions of continuous and discrete variables.
method Extending density matrices to a reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
result Versatile representation for marginal and joint probability distributions.
Study improves understanding of non-differentiable penalties in high-dimensional settings.
problem Theoretical understanding of non-differentiable penalties like generalized LASSO and nuclear norm in high-dimensional settings.
method Proportional high-dimensional regime analysis with finite sample upper bounds on expected squared error.
result LO provides accurate estimation of out-of-sample risk in high-dimensional settings.
The Heston stochastic volatility process, which is widely used as an asset price model in mathematical finance, is a paradigm for a degenerate diffusion process where the degeneracy in the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the square root of the distance to the boundary of the half-plane. The generator of this p…
We suggest an alternative mathematical model for the electron in which the dynamical variables are a coframe (field of orthonormal bases) and a density. The electron mass and external electromagnetic field are incorporated into our model by means of a Kaluza-Klein extension. Our Lagrangian density is proportional to ax…
EGMU optimizes portfolios using KL divergence, ensuring positive solutions.
problem Constructing multi-factor target-exposure portfolios efficiently and accurately.
method Convex optimization framework minimizing KL divergence, with explicit solvers.
result Established feasibility and uniqueness of strictly positive solutions under convex-hull conditions.
Paper improves deep learning for instance-level classification from label proportions.
problem Dealing with noisy pseudo-labeling and high-entropy class distributions in LLP.
method Introducing a two-stage training approach with constrained optimization and mixup strategy.
result Significant performance improvement in instance-level classification.
Learning from Label Proportions (LLP) is a learning setting, where the training data is provided in groups, or "bags", and only the proportion of each class in each bag is known. The task is to learn a model to predict the class labels of the individual instances. LLP has broad applications in political science, market…
The Heston stochastic volatility process, which is widely used as an asset price model in mathematical finance, is a paradigm for a degenerate diffusion process where the degeneracy in the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the square root of the distance to the boundary of the half-plane. The generator of this p…
New learning rules achieve optimal sample complexity for weakly supervised classification.
problem Learning from label proportions in weakly supervised settings.
method Debiased proportional square loss and EasyLLP learning rule.
result Achieves optimal sample complexity in both realizable and agnostic settings.
learn2mix trains neural nets faster by adjusting class proportions dynamically.
problem Training neural nets efficiently with limited resources and imbalanced classes.
method Adaptive class proportion adjustment during training.
result Neural nets trained with learn2mix converge faster than static methods.
We study the problem of learning with label proportions in which the training data is provided in groups and only the proportion of each class in each group is known. We propose a new method called proportion-SVM, or ∝SVM, which explicitly models the latent unknown instance labels together with the known group …
A reinsurance contract should address the conflicting interests of the insurer and reinsurer. Most of existing optimal reinsurance contracts only considers the interests of one party. This article combines the proportional and stop-loss reinsurance contracts and introduces a new reinsurance contract called proportional…
Paper proposes a new method for estimating mixture proportions without irreducibility assumption.
problem Estimating mixture proportions when component distributions are not irreducible.
method Developed a resampling-based meta-algorithm that adapts existing MPE algorithms to non-irreducible settings.
result Empirical results show improved estimation performance compared to baseline methods and regrouping-based algorithms.
Paper improves signal proportion estimation by accounting for variable dependence.
problem Traditional estimators assume independence, limiting applicability in real-world scenarios.
method Integrates arbitrary covariance dependence information using principal factor approximation.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art estimators in accuracy and detection of weaker signals.
RLSbench benchmarks domain adaptation under label proportion shifts, revealing widespread failures and proposing a two-step meta-algorithm.
problem Domain adaptation under label proportion shifts is poorly understood and inconsistent across methods.
method RLSbench introduces a large-scale benchmark with 500 distribution shift pairs. It proposes a two-step meta-algorithm to improve domain adaptation methods under label proportion shifts.
result The two-step meta-algorithm improves domain adaptation methods by 2-10% accuracy points under large label proportion shifts.
Proportional transaction costs present difficult theoretical problems in trading algorithm design, on account of their lack of analytical tractability. The author derives a solution of DT-NT-DT form for an arbitrary model in which the the traded asset has diffusive dynamics described by one or more stochastic risk fact…
A stochastic theory for the toppling activity in sandpile models is developed, based on a simple mean-field assumption about the toppling process. The theory describes the process as an anti-persistent Gaussian walk, where the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the activity. It is formulated as a generalization o…
The paper explores learning from label proportions, showing differences in efficiency between LLP and PAC learning.
problem Learning from label proportions (LLP) in unlabeled data with given label proportions.
method Formal definition and computational complexity analysis of LLP learning.
result LLP learning is more restrictive than PAC learning for finite VC classes, and some classes are uncharacterizable.
Framework simplifies vision-based control and goal discovery.
problem Learning proportional control from visual data.
method Introduces NewtonianVAE for proportional control and goal discovery.
result Dramatic simplification and acceleration of vision-based controllers.
New algorithm reduces privacy breach in posterior sampling.
problem Combining pure DP with MCMC for efficient sampling.
method ASAP algorithm that perturbs MCMC samples with Wasserstein-infinity noise.
result First nearly linear-time algorithm achieving optimal DP-ERM rates.
New framework for weakly supervised learning from label proportions.
problem Lack of consistent learning procedure and theoretical training criterion for LLP.
method Pose LLP as mutual contamination models (MCMs) and establish unbiased losses and generalization error bounds.
result Established novel technical results for MCMs and proposed a new experimental setting.
Introduces MPR to measure and optimize representation across intersectional groups in retrieval.
problem Harmful stereotypes, cultural erasure, and social disparities in image search and retrieval.
method Develops MPR metric, practical estimation methods, theoretical guarantees, and optimization algorithms.
result Optimizing MPR yields more proportional representation across multiple intersectional groups, often with minimal retrieval accuracy compromise.
Training on mixed distributions improves test performance even when components are unrelated.
problem Improving test performance with mismatched training and test distributions.
method Analyzing mixture distributions with different training and test proportions.
result Distribution shift can be beneficial, improving test performance even when components are unrelated.
New MKABSDEs help calculate initial margins in financial contracts.
problem Calculating initial margins in financial contracts with dependencies.
method Introduced MKABSDEs, provided existence and uniqueness, applied to CVaR, used deterministic and Monte-Carlo methods for numerical approximations.
result MKABSDEs provide a new way to solve for initial margins in financial contracts.
This paper proves a central limit theorem for differential privacy in high dimensions.
problem Understanding optimal noise distributions for privacy-accuracy trade-offs in high-dimensional settings.
method Developed a central limit theorem approach to analyze differential privacy mechanisms.
result Gaussian mechanisms achieve the optimal privacy-accuracy trade-off in high dimensions.
FedSel uses local differential privacy to protect data privacy in federated SGD.
problem Privacy leakage from gradients in federated SGD.
method Two-stage framework with top-k dimension selection and gradient accumulation.
result FedSel reduces privacy leakage by privately selecting important dimensions.
Estimates proportions of LLM-generated text in mixed documents.
problem Estimating the proportion of text generated by a pre-specified LLM in mixed documents.
method Developed estimators for two observation regimes: full observation and pivotal reduction, and established sample complexity bounds.
result Full observation estimators require fewer samples than pivotal reduction estimators.