Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,657 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

6491,2991,9482,597 · Jun 202019922001200920172026
48 results for rates of convergence

Study shows convergence rates for BSDEs approximated by compound Poisson processes.

problem Analyzing convergence rates of BSDEs driven by Lévy processes.
method Approximating Lévy processes by compound Poisson processes and studying BSDEs.
result Optimal convergence rates derived for BSDEs in L2\mathbb L^2-norm and Wasserstein distance.

Paper establishes convergence rates and concentration bounds for stochastic approximation and reinforcement learning with Markovian noise.

problem Analyzing convergence rates and concentration bounds for stochastic approximation and reinforcement learning with Markovian noise.
method Novel discretization of the mean ODE of stochastic approximation algorithms using intervals with diminishing length.
result First almost sure convergence rate and maximal concentration bound with exponential tails for contractive stochastic approximation algorithms with Markovian noise.

We study convergence rates of variational posterior distributions for nonparametric and high-dimensional inference. We formulate general conditions on prior, likelihood, and variational class that characterize the convergence rates. Under similar "prior mass and testing" conditions considered in the literature, the rat…

2017-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper analyzes faster convergence rates for reinforcement learning from offline data.

problem Analyzing faster convergence rates for reinforcement learning from offline data.
method Fine analysis of reinforcement learning from offline data, providing fast rates for regret convergence.
result The paper provides fast rates for the regret convergence, showing that the level of exponentiation depends on the noise in the decision-making problem.

Gradient descent achieves exact linear convergence rate for symmetric matrix completion.

problem Low-rank symmetric matrix completion using gradient descent.
method Local analysis of gradient descent for symmetric matrices without additional assumptions.
result Closed-form expression of exact linear convergence rate matches practice.

Averaged SGD achieves optimal convergence rate for neural networks in the NTK regime.

problem Convergence analysis of averaged stochastic gradient descent for neural networks.
method Analyzed convergence of averaged stochastic gradient descent for overparameterized two-layer neural networks.
result Achieved minimax optimal convergence rate with global convergence guarantee.

Improved convergence rates for MLE in mixture models using penalized log-likelihood.

problem Convergence rates for MLE in finite mixture models.
method Penalizing log-likelihood to discourage vanishing mixing weights, using Wasserstein distance and new loss functions.
result Improved convergence rates for some mixture components, faster than traditional methods.

Simpler, parameter-free AdaGrad and Adam variants with convergence guarantees.

problem Inefficiencies in ad-hoc learning rate tuning for optimization algorithms.
method Developed AdaGrad++ and Adam++ without predefined learning rates and proved their convergence.
result AdaGrad++ and Adam++ achieve comparable convergence rates to AdaGrad and Adam respectively.

Paper revisits set membership estimation for linear systems with relaxed disturbance bounds.

problem Set membership estimation for linear systems with disturbances bounded by convex sets.
method Adopted block-martingale small-ball condition and random perturbed control policies to establish convergence rates.
result Established convergence rates for disturbances bounded by general convex sets.

The paper analyzes convergence rates for SGD and SHB methods.

problem Analyzing convergence rates for stochastic gradient descent and heavy ball methods.
method Stochastic gradient descent and stochastic heavy ball method for general stochastic approximation problems.
result The last iterate of SHB converges almost surely to a minimizer and has faster convergence rates than SGD.

Polynomial networks converge to Gaussian processes at a rate of O(n^(-1/2)).

problem Understanding the convergence rate of polynomial networks to Gaussian processes.
method Examined one-hidden-layer neural networks with random weights, focusing on polynomial activations and their convergence rate in the 2-Wasserstein metric.
result The rate of convergence for polynomial networks to Gaussian processes is $O(n^{- rac{1}{2}})$.

Improves understanding of stochastic NGVI convergence rates.

problem Lack of knowledge about non-asymptotic convergence rates in stochastic NGVI.
method Proved non-asymptotic convergence rates for conjugate likelihoods and showed implicit optimization for non-conjugate likelihoods.
result First O(1T)\mathcal{O}(\frac{1}{T}) non-asymptotic convergence rate for stochastic NGVI in conjugate likelihoods.

Semi-supervised EM improves convergence rate with labeled samples.

problem Improving convergence rate in EM algorithm with labeled and unlabeled data.
method Analysis of semi-supervised EM algorithm for Gaussian mixture models.
result Labeled samples significantly improve the convergence rate for the EM algorithm.

New method improves simulation efficiency in high dimensions.

problem Efficiency in estimating functionals of conditional expectations in high dimensions.
method Kernel ridge regression exploiting smoothness of conditional expectation.
result Effective reduction of the curse of dimensionality, bridging convergence rates.

Study shows rate of convergence for particle approximation of PDEs in Wasserstein space.

problem Analyzing convergence rates for particle approximations of PDEs in Wasserstein space.
method Backward stochastic differential equations techniques.
result Proved a rate of convergence of order 1/N for pathwise error and 1/sqrt(N) for L2-error on the derivative.

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks achieve optimal convergence rates in nonparametric regression.

problem Nonparametric function approximation in multivariate settings.
method Structured additive and multiplicative KANs using B-splines.
result Achieve minimax-optimal convergence rate O(n2r/(2r+1))O(n^{-2r/(2r+1)}) for Sobolev space functions.

We estimate from above the rate at which a solution to the normalized Ricci flow on a closed manifold may converge to a limit soliton. Our main result implies that any solution which converges modulo diffeomorphisms to a soliton faster than any fixed exponential rate must itself be self-similar.

2020-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper analyzes TD(λλ) convergence rates for arbitrary features.

problem Convergence rates for linear TD(λλ) under arbitrary features.
method Developed a novel stochastic approximation result for arbitrary features.
result Established L2L^2 convergence rates for linear TD(λλ) without linearly independent features assumption.

The article calculates the F\mathbb{F}-convergence rate for Ricci flows with closed and smooth tangent flows.

problem Analyzing the convergence rate of Ricci flows with specific tangent flows.
method Calculating the F\mathbb{F}-convergence rate for Ricci flows with closed and smooth tangent flows.
result A Ricci flow with closed and smooth tangent flow is logλθ|\log λ|^{-θ} close to its tangent flow in the F\mathbb{F}-sense.

Study on interest rate model with jumps, proving strong convergence in simulations.

problem Analytical solutions for complex interest rate models with jumps are difficult.
method Employed truncated Euler-Maruyama techniques to prove strong convergence.
result Justified strong convergence for Monte Carlo calibration and valuation.

Bayesian method with Gaussian process priors achieves optimal convergence rates for regression function and its derivatives.

problem Estimating the regression function and its derivatives in nonparametric regression.
method Bayesian approach with Gaussian process priors, focusing on convergence rates and plug-in property.
result Equivalence of convergence rates of posterior distributions and Bayes estimators for regression function and its derivatives.

Study proves convergence of interest rate model approximations.

problem Investigating convergence of stochastic interest rate models.
method Developed analytical tools for true and truncated EM solutions, proving convergence in probability.
result True solution converges in probability to truncated EM solution as step size approaches zero.

Active data collection improves convergence rates in operator learning.

problem Improving convergence rates in operator learning with linear target and stochastic input.
method Active data collection strategies with mean-zero stochastic process and continuous covariance kernels.
result Achieves arbitrarily fast error convergence rates with eigenvalue decay of covariance kernels.

New theorem for generalized group sparsity improves consistency and convergence rates.

problem Improving statistical inference in high-dimensional data with element-wise and group-wise sparsity.
method Developed a generalized version of Sparse-Group Lasso and proved a universal theorem for consistency and convergence rates.
result Obtained results on consistency and convergence rates for different forms of double sparsity regularization.

This work analyzes the convergence rate of unrolling for optimizing quadratic objectives.

problem The challenge of accurately computing Jacobians through optimization.
method Non-asymptotic convergence-rate analysis of unrolled differentiation for gradient descent and Chebyshev method.
result There is a trade-off between fast asymptotic convergence and immediate but slower convergence due to the learning rate.

Step decay schedules improve convergence in non-convex optimization.

problem Improving convergence in non-convex optimization problems.
method Analyzing convergence rates of step decay schedules in non-convex, convex, and strongly convex problems.
result Step decay schedules achieve O(lnT/T)\mathcal{O}(\ln T/\sqrt{T}) convergence rates in various optimization scenarios.

Convolutional neural networks improve image classification accuracy.

problem Improving accuracy in image classification.
method Analyzing the convergence rate of misclassification risk for image classifiers.
result A rate of convergence independent of image dimension proves the effectiveness of CNNs.

Study improves convergence rates for GVI under prior misspecification.

problem Improving convergence rates for GVI under prior misspecification.
method Proves rates of convergence and robustness to prior misspecification in GVI framework.
result Establishes sufficient conditions for existence and uniqueness of GVI posteriors.

Paper proposes a quasi-Newton method for nonlinear equations with global convergence guarantees.

problem Solving smooth and monotone nonlinear equations efficiently and globally.
method Hybrid proximal extragradient framework combined with online learning for Jacobian approximation.
result First global convergence results showing quasi-Newton method's advantage over extragradient method.