Method tracks conversational flow in debates.
problem Understanding how ideas flow in debates.
method Tracking interactive component of debates.
result Winners use interactive component better than losers.
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With a point of departure in the concept "uncomfortable knowledge," this article presents a case study of how the American Planning Association (APA) deals with such knowledge. APA was found to actively suppress publicity of malpractice concerns and bad planning in order to sustain a boosterish image of planning. In th…
Machine learning aids in bridging international news gaps.
problem Limited global understanding due to segmented news and language barriers.
method Combining machine learning, journalism studies, and statistics.
result Improved global perspective on international issues.
Paper uses neural word embeddings to analyze UN speeches for policy preferences and voting behavior.
problem Analyzing policy preferences and paradigm shifts in international politics.
method Applied neural word embeddings (Word2vec) to UN General Debate speeches.
result Found statistical relation between speech semantic content and voting behavior, contrary to hypothesis.
Article calls for data scientists to join ethics debate.
problem Impact of data science on society and ethics.
method Systematic approach from CNIL, established ethical guidelines.
result Data science requires professional ethics to build trust.
PEAR dynamically reconfigures agent roles to prevent persistent biases in multi-agent debates.
problem Persistent positional biases and sensitivity to role assignments in fixed topologies.
method Dynamic reconfiguration of agent roles and sparse topologies based on evolving agent states.
result Significantly improves average accuracy over debate baselines across multiple reasoning benchmarks.
Economics debated as a natural science.
problem Whether Economics should be considered a natural science.
method Discussion of the debate in a special issue of Euro. Phys. J. Special Topic.
result Economics remains a social science, not a natural science.
Climate policy debate is complex due to various interests.
problem Complex climate policy debate due to multiple interests.
method Analyzes motivations of different groups involved in climate debate.
result Climate policy will become simpler as Paris Agreement shifts focus to national governments.
Italy's vaccine coverage fell, leading to political debates and online social media discussions.
problem Low vaccine coverage and political debates on immunization in Italy.
method Sentiment analysis of tweets in Italian during 2018 to assess public opinion on vaccines.
result There was disorientation among the public due to political announcements, as evidenced by Twitter data.
The UN General Debate Corpus analyzes speeches from UN member states to reveal their political positions.
problem Lack of data on state preferences in international politics.
method Text analysis of over 7,700 speeches from 1970-2016.
result Demonstrates how the UN General Debate Corpus can reveal country positions on various policy dimensions.
A novel fact-checking method using debate dynamics on knowledge graphs.
problem Fact-checking on knowledge graphs with user comprehension and interactive reasoning.
method Reinforcement learning agents debate on paths in the graph to classify facts as true or false.
result Interactive reasoning and user understanding of AI decisions on knowledge graphs.
The study shows that achieving fairness in risk scores is impossible.
problem Achieving fairness in risk scores is impossible due to inherent trade-offs.
method Formalized three fairness conditions and proved that they cannot be satisfied simultaneously.
result There is no method that can satisfy all three fairness conditions simultaneously.
Advocates for Marr's levels of analysis to unify machine learning debates.
problem Challenges in aligning perspectives among machine learning researchers.
method Introduces Marr's levels of analysis from cognitive science and neuroscience.
result Marr's levels facilitate understanding and dissection of machine learning methods.
AI safety via debatestat.ML
AI systems learn complex goals via debate with human judges.
problem Complex human goals and preferences for AI systems.
method Training agents via self-play on a debate game, where humans judge which agent gives more true, useful information.
result Boosted classifier accuracy from 48.2% to 85.2% given 4 pixels, and from 59.4% to 88.9% given 6 pixels.
A method for reasoning on knowledge graphs using debate dynamics.
problem Automatic reasoning on knowledge graphs with interpretability.
method Reinforcement learning agents debate over facts, judge decides truth.
result Method outperforms baselines on triple classification and link prediction tasks.
Valuation of Zyngaq-fin.GN
On December 16, Zynga, the well-known social game developing company went public. This event is following other recent IPOs in the world of social networking companies, such as Groupon, Linkedin or Pandora to cite a few. With a valuation close to 7 billion USD at the time when it went public, Zynga has become the bigge…
Paper explores econophysics applications to monetary economics.
problem Unequal distribution of money due to entropy increase.
method Statistical physics applied to economic agents.
result Highly unequal money distribution due to entropy.
Finding Social Media Trolls: Dynamic Keyword Selection Methods for Rapidly-Evolving Online Debatescs.LG
Paper proposes using word embeddings to detect trolls in social media debates.
problem Preventing online harassment through rapid detection of offensive posts.
method Word embedding models for identifying fast-changing topics and negative content.
result GloVe model helps in discovering new keywords for trolling detection.
Simplified LSTM models improve sentiment analysis on Twitter debate data.
problem Performing sentiment analysis on long sequence data from Twitter debates.
method Developed six parameter-reduced LSTM models (slim LSTM) for faster training and reduced computational cost.
result Slim LSTM models outperform standard LSTM model in sentiment analysis of GOP Debate Twitter dataset.
Meta-analysis finds people value insurance for low-probability risks more than expected.
problem Low-probability risks insurance demand is lower than expected.
method Conducted a meta-analysis of contingent valuation studies.
result Average stated willingness to pay (WTP) for insurance is 87% of expected losses.
The paper explores how machine learning personalization aligns with humanistic views of the person.
problem Aligning machine learning personalization with humanistic views of the person.
method Explicating the concept of personalization and contrasting it with humanistic views of the person.
result Proposes dimensions for evaluating the degree of personalization of ML personalized scores.
Crowd opinions in microblogs can predict event outcomes, matching with expert opinions.
problem Utilizing crowd wisdom for event outcome prediction in microblogs.
method Multi-label sentiment classification of tweets to gauge crowd opinion and compare with expert predictions.
result Crowd opinions in microblogs often match with expert opinions, especially in non-debate events.
Basel II for Physicists: A Discussion Papercond-mat.other
On June 26th, 2004, Central bank governors and the heads of bank supervisory authorities in the Group of Ten (G10) countries issued a press release and endorsed the publication of "International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: a Revised Framework", the new capital adequacy framework commonly k…
This study examines gender bias in Dutch newspapers from 1950-1990 using word embeddings.
problem Examining gender bias in historical newspapers.
method Word embeddings to measure bias changes over time.
result Clear differences in gender bias and changes within newspapers over time.
This study models FOMC policy decisions using debate-based LLMs.
problem Accurately predicting central bank policy decisions, especially FOMC's, is challenging.
method A novel framework that simulates FOMC's collective decision-making process through iterative rounds of LLMs interacting as agents.
result The debate-based approach significantly outperforms standard LLMs in prediction accuracy.
ICT intensification impacts employment across sectors in India.
problem Impact of ICT on employment in Indian sectors.
method Analysis of ICT investment intensity across sectors.
result ICT intensification correlates with employment changes across sectors.
On December 16th, 2011, Zynga, the well-known social game developing company went public. This event followed other recent IPOs in the world of social networking companies, such as Groupon or Linkedin among others. With a valuation close to 7 billion USD at the time when it went public, Zynga became one of the biggest …
The logic of uncertainty as a logic of experience and chance and the co~event-based Bayes' theoremq-fin.GN
New theory of co~events resolves debates between Bayesianists and frequentists.
problem Fierce debates between Bayesianists and frequentists over Bayesian scheme.
method Developed new co~event axiomatics and theory to study experience and chance as a single co~event.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of new theory in resolving debates over Bayesian scheme.
Paper explores broader bias issues in ML systems beyond training data.
problem Technical and emergent biases in automated decision-making systems.
method Interprets technical bias as epistemological and emergent bias as dynamical.
result Need to reflect on epistemology and use value-sensitive design.
Granger causality reviewed and advanced for complex data.
problem Validity of inferring causal relationships from time series data.
method Recent advances in models for high-dimensional time series, accounting for nonlinear and non-Gaussian observations, and sub-sampled data.
result Improved computational tools for Granger causality.
LLMs add value in commodity portfolio construction when information set and implementation rules are held fixed.
problem Commodity portfolio construction
method Multi-Agent LLM Framework
result LLM strategies outperform Rule Agent in Sharpe terms
Potential Future Exposure (PFE) is a standard risk metric for managing business unit counterparty credit risk but there is debate on how it should be calculated. The debate has been whether to use one of many historical ("physical") measures (one per calibration setup), or one of many risk-neutral measures (one per num…
Study analyzes tweets from Northeastern libraries to understand public relations efforts.
problem Analyzing vast social media data for public relations.
method Computational methods to extract and analyze tweets.
result Libraries use Twitter to represent services and disseminate information.
This expository paper is a tribute to Ekkehart Kröner's results on the intrinsic non-Riemannian geometrical nature of a single crystal filled with point and/or line defects. A new perspective on this old theory is proposed, intended to contribute to the debate around the still open Kröner's question: "what are the dyna…
Crowdsourced investigation shows differing results for technical analysis strategies.
problem Differing results in technical analysis strategies due to lack of method.
method Collaborative scientific computational framework using Monte Carlo simulations and historical back testing.
result Results are not repeatable by other researchers, highlighting the need for transparency and robustness.
The paper explores learning with a mix of private and public data while maintaining privacy.
problem Learning with a mix of private and public data while ensuring differential privacy.
method Designing a learning algorithm that satisfies differential privacy only with respect to private examples.
result A hypothesis class of VC-dimension d can be agnostically learned up to an excess error of α using only (roughly) d/α public examples and d/α^2 private labeled examples.
Decentralization illusion in Decentralized Finance: Evidence from tokenized voting in MakerDAO pollscs.CR
MakerDAO's governance is centralized despite its decentralized claim.
problem Decentralization illusion in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) governance.
method Empirical analysis using financial, transaction, network, and sentiment indicators.
result Centralized governance impacts Maker protocol and voting power distribution.
Study uses few-shot learning to analyze claims and arguments in German debate on arms deliveries.
problem Limited data and computational resources for automated content analysis.
method Multilingual transformer model with adapter extension and few-shot learning.
result Parameter-efficient approach performs well on varying training set sizes.
D-ETM models document topics over time using embeddings and variational inference.
problem Capturing evolving topic patterns in sequential documents.
method Combines D-LDA and word embeddings, using random walk priors and variational inference.
result D-ETM outperforms D-LDA on document completion tasks, learning more diverse and coherent topics.
New framework models uncertainty in classification debates.
problem Weak interpretability of existing uncertainty quantification methods.
method Courtroom analogy and Mixture of Dirichlet Experts (MoDEX) model.
result MoDEX achieves state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification performance.
Study public-data assisted private stochastic optimization with labeled or unlabeled public data.
problem Limits and capability of public-data assisted differentially private (PA-DP) algorithms in stochastic convex optimization.
method Lower bounds for PA-DP mean estimation and novel methods for leveraging public data in private supervised learning.
result Achieved dimension independent rate for GLM with unlabeled public data, showing optimality.
On the Benefits of Public Representations for Private Transfer Learning under Distribution Shiftcs.LG
Public pretraining improves private model training even in extreme distribution shift scenarios.
problem Improving private model training accuracy in settings with large distribution shift.
method Empirical evaluation and theoretical explanation of public representations improving private training accuracy.
result Public representations can improve private training accuracy by up to 67% over private training from scratch in settings with large distribution shift.
This paper reviews bank performance determinants, highlighting future research areas.
problem Understanding bank performance factors to improve sector efficiency and knowledge.
method Analysis of 54 studies in peer-reviewed journals.
result Bank performance factors remain largely unexplored, especially post-COVID-19.
Private estimation with public data reduces sample complexity.
problem Estimating private distributions with limited public data.
method Differentially private estimation with public data under constraints of pure or concentrated DP.
result Public data can significantly reduce private sample complexity for estimation.
Study tests UK FTSE-listed companies' financial data for Benford's Law conformity.
problem Ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection and reducing tax avoidance risks.
method Utilised pre-tax income and total assets data from 567 FTSE companies, tested for Benford's Laws conformity using and MAD tests.
result MAD test rejects Benford's Laws conformity, suggesting potential issues with reported financial data.
Algorithm selects public datasets for private machine learning.
problem Choosing the most suitable public dataset for private machine learning.
method Measures gradient subspace distance between public and private datasets.
result Excess risk scales with the subspace distance between gradients.
Developed Merton's model for public companies using observed liabilities.
problem Estimating default risk for public companies.
method Campbell and Shiller's approximation method for risk-neutral values and default probabilities.
result Formulas and ML estimators for public companies' default probabilities.
Private distribution learning with public data, leveraging sample compression schemes.
problem Private distribution learning with public and private samples under differential privacy constraints.
method Connection to sample compression schemes and list learning.
result At least d public samples are necessary for private learnability of Gaussians in R^d.