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48 results for proportional losses

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.

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.

New methods for time-to-event prediction are proposed by extending the Cox proportional hazards model with neural networks. Building on methodology from nested case-control studies, we propose a loss function that scales well to large data sets, and enables fitting of both proportional and non-proportional extensions o…

2019-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A censored transformed model for proportional outcomes with boundary mass and an application to loss given default modeling.

problem Modeling proportional outcomes with boundary mass in loss given default (LGD) modeling.
method Zero-one censored transformed normal (ZOC-TN) model.
result Captures a wider range of qualitative density shapes than benchmark models while being parsimonious, computationally efficient, and numerically stable.

Easyllp simplifies LLP, achieving low task loss at individual instance level.

problem Weakly supervised classification with label proportions.
method Flexible debiasing approach based on aggregate labels, operating on arbitrary loss functions.
result Accurately estimates expected loss at individual level, with provable guarantees.

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.

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…

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Datasets with significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels present challenges for training accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose a new perspective for understanding DNN generalization for such datasets, by investigating the dimensionality of the deep representation subspace of training samples. …

2018-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New optimization methods improve Cox Proportional Hazards model training for high-dimensional data.

problem Vanishing second order derivatives in Newton method prevent convergence for high-dimensional CPH model training.
method Construct and minimize surrogate functions exploiting hidden mathematical structures of CPH model.
result Global convergence and monotonic loss decrease, leading to sparse and high-quality models.

We consider the problem of option hedging in a market with proportional transaction costs. Since super-replication is very costly in such markets, we replace perfect hedging with an expected loss constraint. Asymptotic analysis for small transactions is used to obtain a tractable model. A general expansion theory is de…

2013-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper optimizes insurance strategies for two collaborating business lines.

problem Maximizing dividends and managing risk for two collaborating business lines.
method Closed-form solutions for optimal strategies, including dividend payout, reinsurance, and capital injection.
result Optimal strategies involve pure excess-of-loss reinsurance and transferring reserves to prevent ruin.

Paper compares different models for time-to-event analysis.

problem Comparing models for time-to-event analysis.
method Experimental comparison of semi-parametric, parametric, and machine learning models.
result Models' performance evaluated using concordance index.

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.

Proposes a deep ordinal regression framework using optimal transport loss and unimodal output probabilities.

problem Lack of unimodal output probabilities in recent ordinal regression models.
method Introduces a deep learning framework based on optimal transport loss and unimodal output distribution, inspired by the Proportional Odds model.
result Demonstrates improved performance and unimodal output probabilities on real-world datasets compared to existing methods.

Study minimax rates for density estimation under Huber contamination and Besov IPM losses.

problem Minimax convergence rates of nonparametric density estimation under Huber contamination model with outliers.
method Re-scaled thresholding wavelet series estimator and GAN architectures.
result Achieves minimax optimal convergence rates under Besov IPM losses.

We study optimal investment with multiple assets in the presence of small proportional transaction costs. Rather than computing an asymptotically optimal no-trade region, we optimize over suitable trading frequencies. We derive explicit formulas for these and the associated welfare losses due to small transaction costs…

2015-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper optimizes insurance reinsurance design under solvency constraints.

problem Optimizing risk transfer from an insurance company to a reinsurer under solvency constraints.
method Martingale method to derive optimal reinsurance design maximizing terminal value of surplus.
result Optimal reinsurance designs include a combination of proportional and stop-loss protection.

We propose a sampling scheme suitable for reducing a data set prior to selecting a hypothesis with minimum empirical risk. The sampling only considers a subset of the ultimate (unknown) hypothesis set, but can nonetheless guarantee that the final excess risk will compare favorably with utilizing the entire original dat…

2013-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Investigates optimal PPI strategies in jump-diffusion models to mitigate downside risk.

problem Gap risk in PPI strategies due to jumps in asset price dynamics.
method Optimization problem with S-shaped utility functions, solved via martingale approach in a jump-diffusion framework.
result Determines optimal PPI strategy to maximize expected utility of terminal wealth.

We develop a model for contagion in reinsurance networks by which primary insurers' losses are spread through the network. Our model handles general reinsurance contracts, such as typical excess of loss contracts. We show that simpler models existing in the literature--namely proportional reinsurance--greatly underesti…

2018-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explains the method used in the segmentation challenge (Task 1) in the International Skin Imaging Collaboration's (ISIC) Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection challenge held in 2018. We have trained a U-Net network to perform the segmentation. The key elements for the training were first to adjust …

2018-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a diffusion approximation to an insurance risk model where an external driver models a stochastic environment. The insurer can buy reinsurance. Moreover, investment in a financial market is possible. The financial market is also driven by the environmental process. Our goal is to maximise terminal expected …

2019-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

SGD noise helps select flat minima by concentrating in sharp directions and being proportional to loss value.

problem Understanding the implicit regularization of SGD and selecting flat minima in over-parameterized models.
method Relating SGD's linear stability to the Frobenius norm of the Hessian and analyzing the alignment property of SGD noise.
result Flat minima are linearly stable for SGD, and their sharpness is bounded independently of model size and sample size.

The paper introduces CoCoCat bonds for multi-region natural catastrophes, accounting for complex dependencies.

problem Valuation of multi-region contingent convertible bonds under complex dependencies.
method Developed a model accounting for inter-regional dependencies using change-of-measure techniques.
result Significant impact of inter-regional dependencies on CoCoCat bond pricing.

Investors suffer welfare loss despite having better information.

problem Welfare loss among investors with absolute information advantages.
method Examined financial markets with heterogenous investors and objective measures of welfare.
result Investors incur welfare loss even with better information, revealing a double loss phenomenon.

SGD with large learning rates can achieve better test accuracy than expected.

problem SGD with large learning rates often outperforms expected convergence bounds.
method Proved that SGD with small learning rates stays close to gradient flow path on modified loss.
result Explicitly adding an implicit regularizer to the loss improves test accuracy.

The paper analyzes the risk of bagging regularized M-estimators under proportional asymptotics.

problem Characterizing the risk of ensemble estimators trained with subsamples and regularizers.
method Developed a consistent estimator for the risk of ensemble estimators under proportional asymptotics.
result Optimal subsample size kk^\star tends to be in the overparameterized regime for the full-ensemble estimator.