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.
New framework for resilient bi-criteria optimization under noisy feedback.
The control and sensing of large-scale systems results in combinatorial problems not only for sensor and actuator placement but also for scheduling or observability/controllability. Such combinatorial constraints in system design and implementation can be captured using a structure known as matroids. In particular, the…
Predictive Q-learning algorithm for IoT networks with human operators.
Paper introduces a new index to measure financial and workplace resilience of firms.
Paper tackles Byzantine resilience in distributed multi-task learning.
With a large number of sensors and control units in networked systems, distributed support vector machines (DSVMs) play a fundamental role in scalable and efficient multi-sensor classification and prediction tasks. However, DSVMs are vulnerable to adversaries who can modify and generate data to deceive the system to mi…
We provide a methodology, resilient feature engineering, for creating adversarially resilient classifiers. According to existing work, adversarial attacks identify weakly correlated or non-predictive features learned by the classifier during training and design the adversarial noise to utilize these features. Therefore…
Applications in machine learning, optimization, and control require the sequential selection of a few system elements, such as sensors, data, or actuators, to optimize the system performance across multiple time steps. However, in failure-prone and adversarial environments, sensors get attacked, data get deleted, and a…
Machine learning has begun to play a central role in many applications. A multitude of these applications typically also involve datasets that are distributed across multiple computing devices/machines due to either design constraints (e.g., multiagent systems) or computational/privacy reasons (e.g., learning on smartp…
Novel algorithm resists Byzantine attacks in federated learning for PCA and LRCS.
Measures financial resilience using BSDEs and their properties.
RESIST improves decentralized learning resilience against MITM attacks.
Applications of safety, security, and rescue in robotics, such as multi-robot target tracking, involve the execution of information acquisition tasks by teams of mobile robots. However, in failure-prone or adversarial environments, robots get attacked, their communication channels get jammed, and their sensors may fail…
Python tool assesses European agricultural production resilience.
This paper measures financial market resilience in China and identifies key uncertainties.
Outlier detection is a fundamental task in data mining and has many applications including detecting errors in databases. While there has been extensive prior work on methods for outlier detection, modern datasets often have sizes that are beyond the ability of commonly used methods to process the data within a reasona…
The resilience of low-degree Rademacher chaos is studied, providing probabilistic lower bounds.
COMRADE is a communication-efficient, Byzantine-resilient second-order optimization algorithm.
New model shows negative resilience can improve trading efficiency.
Proposes resilience metrics for large blackout costs with logarithmic resilience.
New distributed clustering algorithms show resilience to initialization issues.
Machine Learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed and are prone to various types of component failures, which can be encompassed in so-called Byzantine behavior. This paper introduces LiuBei, a Byzantine-resilient ML algorithm that does not trust any individual component in the network (neither workers nor serve…
Paper develops Byzantine-resilient algorithms for decentralized learning.
Byzantine-resilient federated learning with local iterations and robust mean estimation.
Distributed Support Vector Machines (DSVM) have been developed to solve large-scale classification problems in networked systems with a large number of sensors and control units. However, the systems become more vulnerable as detection and defense are increasingly difficult and expensive. This work aims to develop secu…
Stocks of more resilient firms outperformed during the pandemic, reflecting disaster risk.
The Resilient Propagation (Rprop) algorithm has been very popular for backpropagation training of multilayer feed-forward neural networks in various applications. The standard Rprop however encounters difficulties in the context of deep neural networks as typically happens with gradient-based learning algorithms. In th…
This paper introduces resilient constrained learning to adapt learning constraints while solving machine learning tasks.
Applying deep neural networks (DNNs) in mobile and safety-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicles, demands a reliable and efficient execution on hardware. Optimized dedicated hardware accelerators are being developed to achieve this. However, the design of efficient and reliable hardware has become increasingly d…
Financial markets can be seen as complex systems that are constantly evolving and sensitive to external disturbance, such as systemic risks and economic instabilities. Analysis of resilient market performance, therefore, becomes useful for investors. From a systems perspective, this paper proposes a novel function-base…
Two algorithms improve federated learning efficiency and resilience.
ResiliNet improves distributed neural network inference resilience.
There has been a surge of interest in using machine learning (ML) to automatically detect malware through their dynamic behaviors. These approaches have achieved significant improvement in detection rates and lower false positive rates at large scale compared with traditional malware analysis methods. ML in threat dete…
New method quantifies resilience of electric distribution systems from historical data.
We propose a new algorithm for training neural networks with binary activations and multi-level weights, which enables efficient processing-in-memory circuits with embedded nonvolatile memories (eNVM). Binary activations obviate costly DACs and ADCs. Multi-level weights leverage multi-level eNVM cells. Compared to exis…
We introduce a criterion, resilience, which allows properties of a dataset (such as its mean or best low rank approximation) to be robustly computed, even in the presence of a large fraction of arbitrary additional data. Resilience is a weaker condition than most other properties considered so far in the literature, an…
Noise-resilient optimization on noisy quantum computers.
Distributed machine learning algorithms enable learning of models from datasets that are distributed over a network without gathering the data at a centralized location. While efficient distributed algorithms have been developed under the assumption of faultless networks, failures that can render these algorithms nonfu…
This paper uses robust optimization to analyze supply chain resilience.
Framework for efficient statistical estimation with privacy guarantees.
Improved deep neural network generalization through noise resilience.
CyBeR-0 optimizes federated learning with Byzantine resilience and reduced communication costs.
Firms' collaboration networks can decline but remain resilient.
A methodology for resilience analysis of Capsule Networks under approximation errors.
Decentralized ranking consensus via gossip for robust and scalable systems.
This paper investigates the resilience and robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies to adversarial perturbations in the state space. We first present an approach for the disentanglement of vulnerabilities caused by representation learning of DRL agents from those that stem from the sensitivity of the DR…
We present a large-scale study of commonality in liquidity and resilience across assets in an ultra high-frequency (millisecond-timestamped) Limit Order Book (LOB) dataset from a pan-European electronic equity trading facility. We first show that extant work in quantifying liquidity commonality through the degree of ex…
Study reveals clusters of resilient and vulnerable Spanish agri-food firms post-Ukraine-Russia war.