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Study on investment strategy for agents with periodic preferences and discounting.

problem Investment decisions by agents with periodic S-shaped preferences and present bias.
method Infinite-horizon, continuous-time portfolio selection problem with quasi-hyperbolic discounting.
result Time-consistent planning strategy can be formulated as an equilibrium to a static mean field game.

Simple models outperformed sophisticated ones in forecasting Turkish lira exchange rates.

problem Forecasting Turkish lira exchange rates through univariate techniques.
method Used several models including simple exponential smoothing to predict daily exchange rates.
result Simple exponential smoothing model outperformed all other alternatives.

Investment strategies for rank-dependent utility agents are derived in a continuous-time market.

problem Time inconsistency in rank-dependent utility models.
method Study of consistent planners seeking intra-personal equilibrium strategies.
result Explicit final wealth profile replicating equilibrium strategies, with scaling function derived.

The paper uncovers two key laws of market impact influenced by volume and participation rate.

problem Understanding the roles of volume and participation rate in market price response.
method Extending the no arbitrage approach to include sophisticated market participants, deriving price dynamics from order flow dynamics.
result Recovery of two square root laws governing market impact.

This paper extends the classical consumption and portfolio rules model in continuous time (Merton 1969, 1971) to the framework of decision-makers with time-inconsistent preferences. The model is solved for different utility functions for both, naive and sophisticated agents, and the results are compared. In order to so…

2009-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Sophisticated gated recurrent neural network architectures like LSTMs and GRUs have been shown to be highly effective in a myriad of applications. We develop an un-gated unit, the statistical recurrent unit (SRU), that is able to learn long term dependencies in data by only keeping moving averages of statistics. The SR…

2017-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of AI in finance covering models, strategies, and knowledge systems.

problem Challenges in applying AI to financial markets, especially in high-frequency trading.
method Systematic analysis of financial AI across predictive models, decision frameworks, and knowledge augmentation systems.
result Critical trade-offs and gaps between theoretical advances and practical implementation in financial AI.

This note explores the mathematical theory to solve modern gamblers ruin problems. We establish a ruin framework and solve for the probability of bankruptcy. We also show how this relates to the expected time to bankruptcy and review the risk neutral probabilities associated an adjustment to asymmetrical views.

2014-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows cognitive load impacts financial market efficiency, especially for less sophisticated investors.

problem Cognitive load's effect on financial market information processing.
method Developed a theoretical framework and tested it with exogenous disclosure complexity variation.
result Cognitive load significantly impairs price discovery, particularly for less sophisticated investors.

Study shows accuracy of neural networks depends more on error location than percentage of error.

problem Effect of noise on accuracy in incremental learning neural networks.
method Empirical study using Perceptron, Feed Forward Neural Network, and Radial Basis Function Neural Network.
result Accuracy of neural networks is more dependent on error location than the percentage of error.

Understanding the structure of financial markets deals with suitably determining the functional relation between financial variables. In this respect, important variables are the trading activity, defined here as the number of trades NN, the traded volume VV, the asset price PP, the squared volatility σ2σ^2, the bid…

2018-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Cybersecurity attacks are growing both in frequency and sophistication over the years. This increasing sophistication and complexity call for more advancement and continuous innovation in defensive strategies. Traditional methods of intrusion detection and deep packet inspection, while still largely used and recommende…

2020-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

From the early days of computing, games have been important testbeds for studying how well machines can do sophisticated decision making. In recent years, machine learning has made dramatic advances with artificial agents reaching superhuman performance in challenge domains like Go, Atari, and some variants of poker. A…

2019-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We present RL-VAE, a graph-to-graph variational autoencoder that uses reinforcement learning to decode molecular graphs from latent embeddings. Methods have been described previously for graph-to-graph autoencoding, but these approaches require sophisticated decoders that increase the complexity of training and evaluat…

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Thousands of cryptocurrencies have been issued and publicly exchanged since Bitcoin was invented in 2008. The total cryptocurrency market value exceeds 300 billion US dollars as of 2019. This paper analyzes the prices, volumes, blockchain transactions, coin difficulties and public opinion popularities of 3607 actively …

2019-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Artificial neural networks are simple and efficient machine learning tools. Defined originally in the traditional setting of simple vector data, neural network models have evolved to address more and more difficulties of complex real world problems, ranging from time evolving data to sophisticated data structures such …

2012-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores how black box models can deviate from average performance.

problem Understanding and interpreting predictions from sophisticated black box models.
method Two general approaches to provide interpretable descriptions of black box classification model performance.
result Identifies regions where black box models deviate significantly from their average performance.

Combinatorial auctions are formulated as frustrated lattice gases on sparse random graphs, allowing the determination of the optimal revenue by methods of statistical physics. Transitions between computationally easy and hard regimes are found and interpreted in terms of the geometric structure of the space of solution…

2006-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Shape analysis and compuational anatomy both make use of sophisticated tools from infinite-dimensional differential manifolds and Riemannian geometry on spaces of functions. While comprehensive references for the mathematical foundations exist, it is sometimes difficult to gain an overview how differential geometry and…

2018-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the sparse Gaussian process formulation. Additionally, the computational bottleneck is …

2014-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a general interpretation for long-range correlation effects in the activity and volatility of financial markets. This interpretation is based on the fact that the choice between `active' and `inactive' strategies is subordinated to random-walk like processes. We numerically demonstrate our scenario in the fr…

2001-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Prior to the financial crisis mortgage securitization models increased in sophistication as did products built to insure against losses. Layers of complexity formed upon a foundation that could not support it and as the foundation crumbled the housing market followed. That foundation was the Gaussian copula which faile…

2017-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Sentiment classification is an important process in understanding people's perception towards a product, service, or topic. Many natural language processing models have been proposed to solve the sentiment classification problem. However, most of them have focused on binary sentiment classification. In this paper, we u…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent studies using data on social media and stock markets have mainly focused on predicting stock returns. Instead of predicting stock price movements, we examine the relation between Facebook data and investors' decision making in stock markets with a unique data on investors' transactions on Nokia. We find that the…

2017-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Face recognition systems are vulnerable to composite face reconstruction attacks.

problem Vulnerability of face recognition systems to composite face reconstruction attacks.
method Assumed attacker uses composite face parts to reconstruct faces faster and more efficiently.
result Current face recognition systems are extremely vulnerable to random search attacks.

Several probabilistic models from high-dimensional statistics and machine learning reveal an intriguing --and yet poorly understood-- dichotomy. Either simple local algorithms succeed in estimating the object of interest, or even sophisticated semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxations fail. In order to explore this p…

2016-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a powerful general framework for designing data-dependent optimization algorithms, building upon and unifying recent techniques in adaptive regularization, optimistic gradient predictions, and problem-dependent randomization. We first present a series of new regret guarantees that hold at any time and under …

2015-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗