Study examines how war impacts financial entropy.
problem Analyzing sudden events' impact on financial markets.
method Investigates entropy changes in Polish stock market data.
result Entropy analysis reveals market changes due to extreme events.
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Graph-based multi-view model predicts trading volume movement from various sources.
problem Lack of comprehensive understanding of trading volume movement from different sources.
method Graph-based approach incorporating long-term, short-term, and sudden event information.
result Our method outperforms strong baselines by a large margin.
Detecting the intention of drivers is an essential task in self-driving, necessary to anticipate sudden events like lane changes and stops. Turn signals and emergency flashers communicate such intentions, providing seconds of potentially critical reaction time. In this paper, we propose to detect these signals in video…
Surprise describes a range of phenomena from unexpected events to behavioral responses. We propose a measure of surprise and use it for surprise-driven learning. Our surprise measure takes into account data likelihood as well as the degree of commitment to a belief via the entropy of the belief distribution. We find th…
Event-based control improves neural network training speed and accuracy.
problem Optimizing learning rate and gradient tuning for CNN convergence.
method Two Event-Based control loops for adjusting learning rate in E/PD algorithm.
result Event-Based E/PD control leads to higher final accuracy and lower final loss.
Uncovering the Sino-US dynamic risk spillovers effects: Evidence from agricultural futures marketsecon.GN
Study measures risk spillovers between US and China's agricultural futures markets.
problem Interconnectedness and risk transmission in agricultural futures markets.
method TVP-VAR-DY model with quantile method.
result CBOT corn, soybean, and wheat are primary risk transmitters; DCE corn and soybean are main receivers.
EVARS-GPR: EVent-triggered Augmented Refitting of Gaussian Process Regression for Seasonal Datacs.LG
EVARS-GPR refines Gaussian Process Regression for seasonal data with sudden scale changes.
problem Challenges in forecasting with changing system behavior over time.
method Combines online change point detection with data augmentation for refitting.
result 20.8% lower RMSE on real-world datasets compared to similar methods.
In online social media systems users are not only posting, consuming, and resharing content, but also creating new and destroying existing connections in the underlying social network. While each of these two types of dynamics has individually been studied in the past, much less is known about the connection between th…
Bayesian model detects sudden changes in stock market correlations during pandemic.
problem Capturing sudden structural changes in financial dependence during global events.
method Develops a Bayesian multivariate stochastic volatility model based on time-varying graphs.
result Captures abrupt changes in dependence structure across US stock portfolios.
Modeling financial crises and cryptocurrency shocks using copulae clustering.
problem Detecting financial crises and shock events in stock and cryptocurrency markets.
method Copulae clustering based on probability distribution distances.
result Successfully detected all past crises and shock events in stock and cryptocurrency markets.
We study the relaxation dynamics of the bid-ask spread and of the midprice after a sudden, large variation of the spread, corresponding to a temporary crisis of liquidity in a double auction financial market. We find that the spread decays very slowly to its normal value as a consequence of the strategic limit order pl…
Study analyzes European energy markets' reactions to 2022 events using Bayesian methods.
problem Detecting structural breakpoints in energy and financial markets during turbulent times.
method Combines Hurst exponent for market efficiency, BEAST for abrupt changes, and seasonal/trend analysis.
result Markets exhibit varied reactions to critical events, affecting their trends and breakpoints.
New model estimates corporate defaults using pure jump processes, capturing extreme events.
problem Estimating corporate defaults using standard diffusion models that underestimate short-term probabilities.
method Introduced pure jump processes with negative jumps only, derived formulas, calibrated parameters, and implemented practical tools.
result Models redistribute credit risk towards shorter maturities, improving short-term default probability estimates.
Study extends Lévy models to capture market propagation delays.
problem Capturing sudden events in related markets with stochastic delays.
method Extend multivariate Lévy models using self-decomposability and multivariate subordination.
result Derived closed-form expressions for characteristic function and implemented Monte Carlo scheme.
Method detects critical events in complex systems by learning latent causal structure.
problem Detecting onset of epileptic seizures, customer churn, or pandemics from hidden causal interactions.
method A machine learning method that learns an optimal feature representation from powers of the empirical covariance or precision matrix.
result Proves structural consistency and demonstrates competitive results in seizure and churn prediction.
Asian option as a fixed-pointq-fin.PR
We characterize the price of an Asian option, a financial contract, as a fixed-point of a non-linear operator. In recent years, there has been interest in incorporating changes of regime into the parameters describing the evolution of the underlying asset price, namely the interest rate and the volatility, to model sud…
Unsupervised and Interpretable Domain Adaptation to Rapidly Filter Tweets for Emergency Servicescs.CL
Unsupervised learning filters tweets for emergency services during crises.
problem Challenges in filtering relevant information from social web data during disasters.
method Multi-task domain adversarial attention network for unsupervised domain adaptation.
result The multi-task model outperforms single task models in filtering relevant tweets.
Cluster analysis aims at separating patients into phenotypically heterogenous groups and defining therapeutically homogeneous patient subclasses. It is an important approach in data-driven disease classification and subtyping. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a syndrome due to sudden decrease of coronary artery blood f…
We consider the pricing of European-style structured credit payoff in a static framework, where the underlying default times are independent given a common factor. A practical application would consist of the pricing of nth-to-default baskets under the Gaussian copula model (GCM). We provide necessary and sufficient co…
This review assesses deep-learning methods for complex sequential data.
problem Lack of robustness and transparency in deep-learning frameworks for irregular sequential data.
method Systematic literature review of existing algorithms.
result Recurrent neural networks dominate in performance evaluation of deep-learning frameworks.
We study the relationship between the sentiment levels of Twitter users and the evolving network structure that the users created by @-mentioning each other. We use a large dataset of tweets to which we apply three sentiment scoring algorithms, including the open source SentiStrength program. Specifically we make three…
SNNs enhance high-frequency price spike forecasting in HFT environments.
problem Conventional financial models fail to capture fine temporal structure in high-frequency price spikes.
method Application of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with hyperparameter tuning via Bayesian Optimization (BO).
result SNN models optimized with PSA achieve significantly higher cumulative returns in backtesting.
Sudden Trust Collapse in Networked Societiesphysics.soc-ph
Trust is a collective, self-fulfilling phenomenon that suggests analogies with phase transitions. We introduce a stylized model for the build-up and collapse of trust in networks, which generically displays a first order transition. The basic assumption of our model is that whereas trust begets trust, panic also begets…
QTIP improves traffic prediction in sudden disruptions.
problem Traffic models fail during sudden disruptions.
method Simulation-based framework for real-time adaptation.
result QTIP improves traffic prediction in critical minutes of incidents.
Galor discovered many mysteries of the growth process. He lists them in his Unified Growth Theory and wonders how they can be explained. Close inspection of his mysteries reveals that they are of his own creation. They do not exist. He created them by his habitually distorted presentation of data. One of his self-creat…
Tax Migration as Social Contagion: A Tipping-Point Model with Application to the Scandinavian Wealth Tax Debatephysics.soc-ph
Model shows wealth taxes can cause sudden emigration waves, impacting GDP.
problem Estimating the economic impact of wealth taxes on emigration.
method Developed a social contagion model with tipping-point dynamics, embedded in Fokker-Planck framework.
result Micro-to-macro extrapolation requires five conditions to hold, violating each.
All the financial practitioners are working in incomplete markets full of unhedgeable risk-factors. Making the situation worse, they are only equipped with the imperfect information on the relevant processes. In addition to the market risk, fund and insurance managers have to be prepared for sudden and possibly contagi…
Transformers exhibit abrupt learning in matrix completion tasks.
problem Understanding abrupt learning in Transformers for matrix completion.
method Formulated matrix completion as MLM task, trained BERT model, analyzed model components.
result Sudden drop in loss despite no changes in training procedure or hyper-parameters.
We present a novel algorithm that predicts the probability that the time derivative of the horizontal component of the ground magnetic field exceeds a specified threshold at a given location. This quantity provides important information that is physically relevant to Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC), whic…
Stockformer uses wavelet transform and multi-task learning to predict stock returns and trends.
problem Challenges in predicting market dynamics due to policy uncertainty and economic events.
method Integrates wavelet transformation and multitask self-attention networks to capture market trends and fluctuations.
result Stockformer outperforms existing models on multiple real stock market datasets, demonstrating exceptional stability and reliability.
The 2006 sudden and immense downturn in U.S. House Prices sparked the 2007 global financial crisis and revived the interest about forecasting such imminent threats for economic stability. In this paper we propose a novel hybrid forecasting methodology that combines the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) from …
STanHop predicts multivariate time series with memory-enhanced capabilities.
problem Predicting multivariate time series with memory-enhanced capabilities.
method Sparse Tandem Hopfield Network (STanHop) with two external memory modules.
result STanHop outperforms dense Hopfield models in memory retrieval error.
The paper proposes a method to analyze categorical feature interactions in large datasets using graph covariance and LLMs.
problem Analyzing complex datasets with numerous categorical features and timestamps.
method Binarization of categorical features using one-hot encoding, computation of graph covariance, identifying significant feature pairs, and using LLMs to generate explanations.
result The method identifies meaningful feature pairs and potential data stories underlying categorical feature interactions.
Motivated by empirical data, we develop a statistical description of the queue dynamics for large tick assets based on a two-dimensional Fokker-Planck (diffusion) equation, that explicitly includes state dependence, i.e. the fact that the drift and diffusion depends on the volume present on both sides of the spread. "J…
An exactly solvable model for emergence and scaling laws in the multitask sparse parity problemcs.LG
Solves a model for sudden problem-solving ability in deep learning.
problem Emergence of new problem-solving abilities in deep learning models.
method Solves a simple multi-linear model in a skill-basis, finding analytic expressions for emergence and scaling laws.
result Simple model captures sigmoidal emergence of multiple new skills in neural networks.
Time series prediction has been studied in a variety of domains. However, it is still challenging to predict future series given historical observations and past exogenous data. Existing methods either fail to consider the interactions among different components of exogenous variables which may affect the prediction ac…
This research improves option pricing models using Heston, GARCH, and jump diffusion models.
problem Inaccurate option pricing due to Black-Scholes assumptions.
method Monte Carlo simulation, GARCH model, Heston model, Merton jump-diffusion model.
result Heston model produces estimates closer to market prices, Merton model performs well for volatile assets, GARCH model improves volatility forecasts.
Financial and economic history is strewn with bubbles and crashes, booms and busts, crises and upheavals of all sorts. Understanding the origin of these events is arguably one of the most important problems in economic theory. In this paper, we review recent efforts to include heterogeneities and interactions in models…
Study shows sudden loss of balance in stock market networks after 2011, reducing predictability.
problem Reduced predictability in stock markets due to structural changes.
method Rank correlations and weighted signed networks to analyze interconnectivity and balance.
result Sudden loss of balance in stock market networks after 2011, leading to decreased predictability.
Social media services such as Twitter are a valuable source of information for decision support systems. Many studies have shown that this also holds for the medical domain, where Twitter is considered a viable tool for public health officials to sift through relevant information for the early detection, management, an…
In this paper, we quantify the statistical coherence between financial time series by means of the Renyi entropy. With the help of Campbell's coding theorem we show that the Renyi entropy selectively emphasizes only certain sectors of the underlying empirical distribution while strongly suppressing others. This accentu…
In this paper, we study the classical problem of maximization of the sum of the utility of the terminal wealth and the utility of the consumption, in a case where a sudden jump in the risk-free interest rate creates incompleteness. The value function of the dual problem is proved to be solution of a BSDE and the dualit…
Within the framework of maximum entropy principle we show that the finite-size long-range Ising model is the adequate model for the description of homogeneous credit portfolios and the computation of credit risk when default correlations between the borrowers are included. The exact analysis of the model suggest that w…
The paper analyzes cryptocurrency trading networks using pairwise and high-order dependencies.
problem Understanding information flows and dependencies in cryptocurrency markets.
method Defined a cryptocurrency trading network using weekly log returns, analyzed using Granger causality and O-information.
result High-order dependencies reveal that stable coins play a major role in high-order effects.
This paper proposes an empirical test of financial contagion in European equity markets during the tumultuous period of 2008-2011. Our analysis shows that traditional GARCH and Gaussian stochastic-volatility models are unable to explain two key stylized features of global markets during presumptive contagion periods: s…
We present a Kalman smoothing framework based on modeling errors using the heavy tailed Student's t distribution, along with algorithms, convergence theory, open-source general implementation, and several important applications. The computational effort per iteration grows linearly with the length of the time series, a…
Behavioral finance has become an increasingly important subfield of finance. However the main parts of behavioral finance, prospect theory included, understand financial markets through individual investment behavior. Behavioral finance thereby ignores any interaction between participants. We introduce a socio-financia…
Develops a neural model to predict event occurrence and timing.
problem Standard event time models ignore the distinction between event occurrence probability and predicted time.
method Introduces a conditional event time model using a neural network with a binary stochastic layer.
result Shows superior event occurrence and timing predictions on various datasets.