Algorithm ranks assets in fluctuating markets.
problem Ranking assets in nonstationary time series.
method Naive Bayes asset ranker that adjusts weights based on performance.
result Outperforms traditional methods and S&P 500 index.
The paper proves concentration inequalities for two-sample rank processes and applies them to ranking performance criteria.
problem Measuring the performance of ranking statistics between two populations.
method Proves concentration inequalities for two-sample rank processes indexed by VC classes of scoring functions.
result Generalization capacity of empirical maximizers of ranking performance criteria is investigated.
Ranking recommendation algorithms across datasets using Bradley-Terry model
problem Comparing recommendation algorithms across different datasets
method Introduce a novel data-driven ranking methodology based on Bradley-Terry model
result The obtained ranking depends on key dataset statistics
Improved deep learning performance in financial markets by using rank space.
problem High volatility and low signal-to-noise ratio in equity market dynamics.
method Transformed equity market data from name space to rank space, enabling better learning by DNNs.
result DNNs achieve superior performance in statistical arbitrage in rank space compared to name space.
Develops a method to infer partial rankings from sparse comparisons.
problem Challenges in ranking items with limited and noisy comparisons.
method Nonparametric Bayesian approach for learning partial rankings.
result Finds partial rankings that distinguish meaningful differences only when data supports it.
This paper tackles ranking-based performance normalization for optimization algorithms.
problem Ranking optimization algorithms across diverse numerical scales disrupts performance comparisons.
method Introduces absolute ranking and a sampling-based computational method to address numerical scale variation.
result Provides a more robust framework for assessing performance across multiple algorithms and problems.
Study optimal reward schemes for inducing desired player performance in risky contests.
problem Designing optimal rewards to encourage desired performance levels in risky contests.
method Analyzed the optimal reward schemes for inducing average and specific rank performance.
result Optimal reward schemes can have surprising shapes, not just related to inequality.
Paper extends ranking metrics theory for financial positions.
problem Developing a new class of functionals for evaluating financial positions.
method Axiomatic framework based on monotonicity and cash-quasiconcavity.
result Linking ranking metrics to families of acceptance sets and risk measures.
Paper extends ranking metrics theory for financial positions.
problem Developing a new class of performance evaluation methods.
method Axiomatic framework based on monotonicity and cash-quasiconcavity.
result Linking ranking metrics to families of acceptance sets and risk measures.
We propose a novel way to train ranking models, such as recommender systems, that are both effective and efficient. Knowledge distillation (KD) was shown to be successful in image recognition to achieve both effectiveness and efficiency. We propose a KD technique for learning to rank problems, called \emph{ranking dist…
New approach to handle ranking function variation in zero-shot NAS.
problem Variation in ranking function outputs due to randomness.
method Viewing ranking function output as a random variable and constructing a stochastic ordering.
result Stochastic ordering boosts performance in neural architecture search.
This paper improves model robustness to underrepresented groups using ranking metrics and reweighting.
problem Underrepresented groups suffer from low accuracy in models trained via ERM.
method Proposes Discounted Cumulative Gain (DCG) and Discounted Rank Upweighting (DRU) methods.
result Models trained with DRU show superior generalization to unseen groups.
Label ranking aims to learn a mapping from instances to rankings over a finite number of predefined labels. Random forest is a powerful and one of the most successful general-purpose machine learning algorithms of modern times. In this paper, we present a powerful random forest label ranking method which uses random de…
New algorithm improves asset ranking for better cross-sectional portfolios.
problem Sub-optimal ranking of assets in cross-sectional systematic strategies.
method Learning-to-rank algorithms to enhance portfolio construction.
result Modern machine learning ranking algorithms boost Sharpe Ratios by approximately threefold.
New method compresses neural networks up to 14x with minimal performance loss.
problem Compressing neural networks for real-time applications.
method Post-training rank-selection method called Rank-Tuning.
result High compression rates with minimal performance degradation.
Framework ranks sectors influenced by Indian Union Budgets.
problem Real-time analysis of budgetary impacts on sector-specific equity performance.
method Fine-tuned embeddings and language models for sector identification and performance ranking.
result 0.997 NDCG score in predicting sector ranks based on post-budget performances.
Reduced-rank method improves least-squares regression under output regularity.
problem Least-squares regression with infinite dimensional outputs.
method Reduced-rank method for solving least-squares problems with output regularity assumptions.
result Learning bounds and improved statistical performance compared to full-rank method.
Recently, Factorization Machines (FM) has become more and more popular for recommendation systems, due to its effectiveness in finding informative interactions between features. Usually, the weights for the interactions is learnt as a low rank weight matrix, which is formulated as an inner product of two low rank matri…
Hierarchical framework for model evaluation on leaderboards
problem Uncertainty and variability in model performance across tasks
method Hierarchical framework with task-level and leaderboard-level rank prediction intervals
result Statistically valid and informative model rank intervals
Paper characterizes minimax regret rates for online ranking with top-k feedback.
problem Analyzing online ranking with partial feedback.
method Developed techniques from partial monitoring to characterize minimax regret rates.
result Full characterization of minimax regret rates for Precision@n.
When estimating the relevancy between a query and a document, ranking models largely neglect the mutual information among documents. A common wisdom is that if two documents are similar in terms of the same query, they are more likely to have similar relevance score. To mitigate this problem, in this paper, we propose …
FedLoRU improves FL efficiency by using low-rank updates.
problem Communication inefficiency and performance reduction in Federated Learning.
method Proposes FedLoRU, a low-rank update framework for FL, which reduces communication costs while maintaining performance.
result FedLoRU achieves convergence rates similar to FedAvg and is robust to heterogeneous and large numbers of clients.
The performance of imitation learning is typically upper-bounded by the performance of the demonstrator. While recent empirical results demonstrate that ranked demonstrations allow for better-than-demonstrator performance, preferences over demonstrations may be difficult to obtain, and little is known theoretically abo…
Enhances currency strategy Sharpe ratio by 30% using context-aware Learning to Rank.
problem Sub-optimal ranking of assets during critical market periods.
method Context-aware Learning to Rank model based on Transformer architecture.
result Significantly improves Sharpe ratio and various performance metrics.
New nonconvex regularizer speeds up low-rank matrix completion.
problem Low-rank matrix completion with good theoretical and empirical performance.
method Proposes a new nonconvex regularizer with adaptive shrinkage, scalable, and fast optimization.
result Proposed method achieves state-of-the-art recovery performance and is the fastest.
Replicated and validated Rank-N-Contrast for robust regression.
problem Deep regression models struggle with continuous sample orders.
method Contrastive learning of continuous representations by ranking samples.
result Improved performance and robustness of RNC framework.
Proposes a new query autocompletion method that maximizes retrieval performance.
problem Users often select suboptimal queries due to unknown best retrieval performance.
method Formulates query autocompletion as ranking item rankings, uses counterfactual learning.
result Empirical results show improved query suggestions for better retrieval performance.
In domains like bioinformatics, information retrieval and social network analysis, one can find learning tasks where the goal consists of inferring a ranking of objects, conditioned on a particular target object. We present a general kernel framework for learning conditional rankings from various types of relational da…
Given an incomplete ratings data over a set of users and items, the preference completion problem aims to estimate a personalized total preference order over a subset of the items. In practical settings, a ranked list of top-k items from the estimated preference order is recommended to the end user in the decreasing …
New metrics reveal oversmoothing in GNNs more accurately than traditional methods.
problem Oversmoothing in graph neural networks reduces model performance.
method Rank-based metrics to measure oversmoothing in GNNs.
result Rank-based metrics consistently capture oversmoothing, while energy-based metrics often fail.
Simplifies complex RL policies by ranking important decisions.
problem Complexity in RL policies makes them hard to analyze and interpret.
method Statistical fault localisation to rank states and prune unimportant decisions.
result Pruned policies can perform similarly to original policies, improving interpretability.
Neural architecture search has recently attracted lots of research efforts as it promises to automate the manual design of neural networks. However, it requires a large amount of computing resources and in order to alleviate this, a performance prediction network has been recently proposed that enables efficient archit…
Rank-based Bayesian Optimization improves molecule selection in chemical systems.
problem Optimizing chemical compounds using traditional regression models.
method Introducing Rank-based Bayesian Optimization (RBO) using ranking models.
result RBO outperforms regression-based BO, especially for rough landscapes and activity cliffs.
New ranking models for time series data using GARCH-type approach.
problem Handling time series of ranking data.
method Developed ranking GARCH models based on Mallows distribution and maximum likelihood estimation.
result The proposed models capture temporal dynamics of rankings effectively.
Compressing DNNs is important for the real-world applications operating on resource-constrained devices. However, we typically observe drastic performance deterioration when changing model size after training is completed. Therefore, retraining is required to resume the performance of the compressed models suitable for…
New spectral methods improve matrix estimation in RL with low-rank structure.
problem Estimating matrices with low-rank structure in reinforcement learning.
method Spectral-based matrix estimation approaches.
result Spectral methods efficiently recover singular subspaces and minimize entry-wise error.
Factorization machines (FM) are a popular model class to learn pairwise interactions by a low-rank approximation. Different from existing FM-based approaches which use a fixed rank for all features, this paper proposes a Rank-Aware FM (RaFM) model which adopts pairwise interactions from embeddings with different ranks.…
The optimal ranking score between precision and recall is rarely F1 and can be found using specific methods.
problem Finding a meaningful and optimal compromise between precision and recall scores.
method Established a shortest path between precision- and recall-induced rankings, framed the problem as an optimization problem, and provided theoretical tools to find the optimal β.
result F1 and its skew-insensitive version are not optimal tradeoffs between precision and recall scores.
Study ranks of elliptic curves via prime averages.
problem Classifying elliptic curves by rank.
method Average Frobenius trace over primes, data science experiments.
result Oscillating pattern in average trace values, correlates with rank.
New PFPPs based on rank-dependent utility for better performance control.
problem Improving performance prediction in systems with short-term control.
method Introduces rank-dependent PFPPs, solves integral equations via Volterra theory.
result Existence of rank-dependent PFPPs under specific market conditions.
FUJI scores similarity of ranked lists more robustly.
problem Improving similarity assessment of ranked lists.
method Integrates a membership function into Jaccard index for better rank consideration.
result More stable and accurate similarity estimates.
New tensor completion method reduces impact of outliers.
problem Recover tensors from incomplete data with outliers.
method Proposes a new correntropy-based objective function and half-quadratic minimization.
result Demonstrates robust performance with real and synthetic data.
We study the model selection problem in conditional average treatment effect (CATE) prediction. Unlike previous works on this topic, we focus on preserving the rank order of the performance of candidate CATE predictors to enable accurate and stable model selection. To this end, we analyze the model performance ranking …
We study the problem of rank aggregation: given a set of ranked lists, we want to form a consensus ranking. Furthermore, we consider the case of extreme lists: i.e., only the rank of the best or worst elements are known. We impute missing ranks by the average value and generalise Spearman's ρto extreme ranks. Our main …
Proposes a low-rank PGD attack for more efficient adversarial training.
problem Efficiency and effectiveness of adversarial training methods.
method Variation of PGD to compute low-rank perturbations.
result Low-rank PGD attacks are more efficient and comparable to traditional attacks.
This work analyzes tree-based methods from a ranking perspective, providing insights and new statistics.
problem Understanding the effectiveness of tree-based methods in finite-sample settings, especially symbolic feature selection.
method Local ranking perspective, finite-sample analysis, oracle bounds, posterior contraction results, concordant divergence statistics.
result New insights and statistics for evaluating symbolic feature mappings.
Proposes a low-rank bilinear pooling model for link prediction in knowledge graphs.
problem Link prediction in incomplete knowledge graphs.
method Factorized bilinear pooling model with Tucker decomposition constraints.
result Efficient and parameter-efficient model with low-rank approximation.
Rank-based metrics are some of the most widely used criteria for performance evaluation of computer vision models. Despite years of effort, direct optimization for these metrics remains a challenge due to their non-differentiable and non-decomposable nature. We present an efficient, theoretically sound, and general met…