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48 results for spending distribution

This paper improves credit line impact analysis by considering spending as a distribution.

problem Previous studies on credit lines' impact on spending have overlooked the distributional nature of spending.
method Developed a distribution-valued estimator framework to extend existing real-valued estimators.
result Credit lines positively influence spending across all quantiles, but more towards luxuries as they increase.

The effects of saving and spending patterns on holding time distribution of money are investigated based on the ideal gas-like models. We show the steady-state distribution obeys an exponential law when the saving factor is set uniformly, and a power law when the saving factor is set diversely. The power distribution c…

2005-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework guides resource usage to achieve sublinear regret in adversarial settings.

problem Achieving sublinear regret in online decision making with changing reward and cost distributions.
method General primal-dual methods guided by spending plans that ensure balanced resource usage.
result Achieves sublinear regret with respect to spending plans that balance resource usage.

For the first time ever, we analyze a unique public procurement database, which includes information about a number of bidders for a contract, a final price, an identification of a winner and an identification of a contracting authority for each of more than 40,000 public procurements in the Czech Republic between 2006…

2013-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Investors adjust spending based on a social norm, spending less during losses and more during gains.

problem Managing spending and portfolio decisions while adhering to a social norm.
method Formulated a preference ordering with two CRRA preference orderings, solved analytically and numerically.
result Annual spending should be lower than expected financial return and procyclical, with spending cuts following losses.

The distribution of health care payments to insurance plans has substantial consequences for social policy. Risk adjustment formulas predict spending in health insurance markets in order to provide fair benefits and health care coverage for all enrollees, regardless of their health status. Unfortunately, current risk a…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Automating the customer analytics process is crucial for companies that manage distinct customer bases. In such data-rich and dynamic environments, visualization plays a key role in understanding events of interest. These ideas have led to the popularity of analytics dashboards, yet academic research has paid scant att…

2015-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes retirement spending and asset allocation to maximize withdrawals and shortfall.

problem Risk of depleting retirement savings with constant withdrawal rules.
method Dynamic asset allocation to maximize weighted EW and ES.
result Dynamic strategy outperforms constant withdrawal and asset allocation rules.

Study optimal consumption for loss-averse agents considering past spending peaks.

problem Optimal consumption for loss-averse agents with reference to past spending maximum.
method Adopted S-shaped utility, concave envelope, HJB variational inequality, dual transform, and smooth-fit conditions.
result Obtained piecewise closed-form solutions for optimal consumption and investment control.

This paper solves the problem of optimal dynamic consumption, investment, and healthcare spending with isoelastic utility, when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect Gompertz' law and investment opportunities are constant. Healthcare slows the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility from c…

2019-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

During the Great Recession, Democrats in the United States argued that government spending could be utilized to "grease the wheels" of the economy in order to create wealth and to increase employment; Republicans, on the other hand, contended that government spending is wasteful and discouraged investment, thereby incr…

2014-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates causal effect of managed care plans on NYC Medicaid spending.

problem Generalizing causal estimates to a target population not well-represented by randomized studies.
method Conditional cross-design synthesis estimators combining randomized and observational data.
result Estimates causal effect of managed care plans on health care spending.

Many probabilistic models introduce strong dependencies between variables using a latent multivariate Gaussian distribution or a Gaussian process. We present a new Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for performing inference in models with multivariate Gaussian priors. Its key properties are: 1) it has simple, generic c…

2009-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 <Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation> at the Center for Data Science , New York University in Fall, 2015. As the name of the course suggests, this lecture note introduces readers to a neural network based approach to natural language understand…

2015-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Understanding consumption dynamics and its impact on the whole economy and welfare within the present economic crisis is not an easy task. Indeed the level of consumer demand for different goods varies with the prices, consumer incomes and demographic factors. Furthermore crisis may trigger different behaviors which re…

2017-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves retail demand forecasting by integrating macroeconomic data.

problem Lack of accurate demand forecasting due to incomplete data.
method Enriched time series data with macroeconomic variables; compared regression and machine learning models.
result Improved accuracy in predicting retail demand through comprehensive data integration.

Proposes a variational autoencoder for long-term customer revenue forecasting.

problem Predicting long-term customer revenue from sparse and irregular transaction data.
method Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with flexible latent representation.
result Improves upon latest benchmarks in multiple real-world datasets.

We show that if Teichmüller geodesics spend enough time in the thick part of moduli space, they display CAT(-1)-type properties. In particular, they exponentially contract along strongly stable leaves. As an application we prove two closing lemmas.

2018-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We compute the asymptotic growth rate of the number N(C, R) of closed geodesics of length less than R in a connected component C of a stratum of quadratic differentials. We prove that for any 0 < θ< 1, the number of closed geodesics of length at most R that spend at least θ-fraction of time outside of a compact subset …

2012-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A major challenge in Bayesian Optimization is the boundary issue (Swersky, 2017) where an algorithm spends too many evaluations near the boundary of its search space. In this paper, we propose BOCK, Bayesian Optimization with Cylindrical Kernels, whose basic idea is to transform the ball geometry of the search space us…

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) training process, in most cases, apply Uniform or Gaussian sampling methods in the latent space, which probably spends most of the computation on examples that can be properly handled and easy to generate. Theoretically, importance sampling speeds up stochastic optimization in supe…

2019-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores fairness metrics in automated decision-making and their limitations.

problem Discrimination in automated resource allocation decisions.
method Analysis of fairness metrics and distributive justice principles.
result Prominent fairness metrics fail to address egalitarian and sufficiency concerns in resource allocation.

While all kinds of mixed data -from personal data, over panel and scientific data, to public and commercial data- are collected and stored, building probabilistic graphical models for these hybrid domains becomes more difficult. Users spend significant amounts of time in identifying the parametric form of the random va…

2017-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper addresses treatment recommendation problems by optimizing distributional characteristics.

problem Optimizing treatment recommendations based on distributional targets.
method Characterizes the problem's difficulty and proposes near-optimal policies.
result Characterizes the difficulty of the problem and proposes near-regret optimal policies.

Bitcoin mining costs remain stable despite increased activity.

problem Stability of Bitcoin mining costs despite rising energy consumption.
method Estimation of global energy cost over a decade, considering changing oil costs and technological improvements.
result The cost of Bitcoin mining has remained relatively stable since 2010, relative to the volume of transactions.

We consider the problem where an agent wants to find a hidden object that is randomly located in some vertex of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) according to a fixed but possibly unknown distribution. The agent can only examine vertices whose in-neighbors have already been examined. In this paper, we address a learning s…

2018-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes optimal consumption with past spending maximum as a reference.

problem Optimal consumption with past spending maximum as a reference.
method Path-dependent exponential utility, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, dual transform, smooth-fit principle.
result Closed-form solutions for optimal investment and consumption strategies in each region.

A model explains why 4% is a safe retirement withdrawal rate.

problem Determining a safe withdrawal rate for American retirees.
method Discrete-time model of stochastic returns on assets and their moments.
result The 4% rule emerges from adjusting high expected rates of return for various risks.

We study investment strategy in different models of financial markets, where the investors cannot reach a perfect knowledge about available assets. The investor spends a certain effort to get information; this allows him to better choose the investment strategy, and puts a selective pressure upon assets. The best strat…

1999-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Exact optimality achieved in distributed mean estimation with shared randomness.

problem Achieving optimal communication, privacy, and utility tradeoffs in distributed mean estimation.
method Utilization of a rotationally symmetric shared random codebook and a kk-closest encoding mechanism.
result Proposed mechanism achieves exact optimality for randomly rotated simplex codebook.

DE is a new exploration method that limits resource usage based on expected improvement and surprise.

problem Limited exploration in large action spaces when resources are scarce.
method Delight-gated exploration (DE) that limits exploration actions based on a gate price set by the product of expected improvement and surprise.
result DE outperforms ε\varepsilon-greedy and Thompson Sampling in terms of regret across various bandit and MDP settings.

Bayesian optimization (BO) methods often rely on the assumption that the objective function is well-behaved, but in practice, this is seldom true for real-world objectives even if noise-free observations can be collected. Common approaches, which try to model the objective as precisely as possible, often fail to make p…

2019-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper optimizes retirement spending considering habit formation and pension income.

problem Optimizing lifetime consumption under habit formation and pension income.
method Time inhomogeneous stochastic control problem with numerical solution using finite difference scheme.
result Consumption patterns change over time based on habit and optimal strategy.

Paper studies optimal investing for retirees with risk constraints.

problem Retirees' longevity and living standard risks in a fluctuating market.
method Formulated as a portfolio choice problem under time-varying risk capacity constraint. Derived optimal investment strategy using differential equations. Demonstrated endogenous spending measure and active investment strategy.
result Time-varying risk capacity constraint impacts asset allocation in retirement.

Estimates missing distributions using nearest neighbors with kernel methods.

problem Missing data and unobserved confounding in multivariate distributions.
method Distributional matrix completion framework with kernel nearest neighbors.
result Consistent recovery of underlying distributions with missing data.