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.
Developed a new thresholding method that connects soft and hard thresholding.
The article examines different thresholding methods for improving PAM algorithm in cancer classification.
A new SSL method uses instance-dependent thresholds to improve accuracy.
This paper considers the problem of estimating multiple related Gaussian graphical models from a -dimensional dataset consisting of different classes. Our work is based upon the formulation of this problem as group graphical lasso. This paper proposes a novel hybrid covariance thresholding algorithm that can effecti…
FILTER model uses fusion penalized logistic threshold regression for high-dimensional data with unknown cut points.
New method trains neural networks with threshold activation functions efficiently.
A new algorithm infers causal networks from data using topological thresholds.
In this paper, we propose a new threshold-kernel jump-detection method for jump-diffusion processes, which iteratively applies thresholding and kernel methods in an approximately optimal way to achieve improved finite-sample performance. We use the expected number of jump misclassifications as the objective function to…
Study evaluates thresholds for removing noise from DNN weights using random matrix theory.
In high-dimensional classification settings, we wish to seek a balance between high power and ensuring control over a desired loss function. In many settings, the points most likely to be misclassified are those who lie near the decision boundary of the given classification method. Often, these uninformative points sho…
Paper analyzes robust matrix completion with efficient nonconvex method and leave-one-out analysis.
Iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (ISTA) is a well-studied method for finding sparse solutions to ill-posed inverse problems. In this letter, we present a data-driven scheme for learning optimal thresholding functions for ISTA. The proposed scheme is obtained by relating iterations of ISTA to layers of a simpl…
Paper introduces threshold invariant fairness to ensure equitable predictions across different groups.
Graphical Lasso (GL) is a popular method for learning the structure of an undirected graphical model, which is based on an regularization technique. The objective of this paper is to compare the computationally-heavy GL technique with a numerically-cheap heuristic method that is based on simply thresholding the s…
LTP learns per-layer thresholds for efficient pruning of deep networks.
Class imbalance presents a major hurdle in the application of data mining methods. A common practice to deal with it is to create ensembles of classifiers that learn from resampled balanced data. For example, bagged decision trees combined with random undersampling (RUS) or the synthetic minority oversampling technique…
Iterative thresholding algorithms seek to optimize a differentiable objective function over a sparsity or rank constraint by alternating between gradient steps that reduce the objective, and thresholding steps that enforce the constraint. This work examines the choice of the thresholding operator, and asks whether it i…
This paper proposes an innovative method for segmentation of skin lesions in dermoscopy images developed by the authors, based on fuzzy classification of pixels and histogram thresholding.
Proximal operators are of particular interest in optimization problems dealing with non-smooth objectives because in many practical cases they lead to optimization algorithms whose updates can be computed in closed form or very efficiently. A well-known example is the proximal operator of the vector norm, whic…
We consider a univariate semimartingale model for (the logarithm of) an asset price, containing jumps having possibly infinite activity (IA). The nonparametric threshold estimator of the integrated variance IV proposed in Mancini 2009 is constructed using observations on a discrete time grid, and precisely it sums up t…
Detects crypto pump-and-dump schemes with a thresholding-based model.
New method creates vacuum data at minimal and borderline decay thresholds.
New method optimizes tail dependence coefficient estimation.
Large-scale non-convex sparsity-constrained problems have recently gained extensive attention. Most existing deterministic optimization methods (e.g., GraSP) are not suitable for large-scale and high-dimensional problems, and thus stochastic optimization methods with hard thresholding (e.g., SVRGHT) become more attract…
Proposes a method to choose thresholds for LLM evaluation metrics.
New method corrects bias in CVaR estimation for extreme risks.
Paper provides linear convergence guarantees for KZIHT and KZPT methods.
In this letter, we propose an algorithm for recovery of sparse and low rank components of matrices using an iterative method with adaptive thresholding. In each iteration, the low rank and sparse components are obtained using a thresholding operator. This algorithm is fast and can be implemented easily. We compare it w…
Sharp thresholds and contiguity for community detection in contextual SBM.
The use of M-estimators in generalized linear regression models in high dimensional settings requires risk minimization with hard constraints. Of the known methods, the class of projected gradient descent (also known as iterative hard thresholding (IHT)) methods is known to offer the fastest and most scalable sol…
Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation (SICE) is useful in many practical data analyses. Recovering the connectivity, non-connectivity graph of covariates is classified amongst the most important data mining and learning problems. In this paper, we introduce a novel SICE approach using adaptive thresholding. Our method i…
Hard Thresholding Pursuit (HTP) is an iterative greedy selection procedure for finding sparse solutions of underdetermined linear systems. This method has been shown to have strong theoretical guarantee and impressive numerical performance. In this paper, we generalize HTP from compressive sensing to a generic problem …
Development of stock networks is an important approach to explore the relationship between different stocks in the era of big-data. Although a number of methods have been designed to construct the stock correlation networks, it is still a challenge to balance the selection of prominent correlations and connectivity of …
The interplay between computational efficiency and statistical accuracy in high-dimensional inference has drawn increasing attention in the literature. In this paper, we study computational and statistical boundaries for submatrix localization. Given one observation of (one or multiple non-overlapping) signal submatrix…
Ridge regression is revisited with debiasing and thresholding, offering advantages over Lasso.
In this work, we derive a generic overcomplete frame thresholding scheme based on risk minimization. Overcomplete frames being favored for analysis tasks such as classification, regression or anomaly detection, we provide a way to leverage those optimal representations in real-world applications through the use of thre…
Threshold tests have recently been proposed as a useful method for detecting bias in lending, hiring, and policing decisions. For example, in the case of credit extensions, these tests aim to estimate the bar for granting loans to white and minority applicants, with a higher inferred threshold for minorities indicative…
In this paper, we consider the Graphical Lasso (GL), a popular optimization problem for learning the sparse representations of high-dimensional datasets, which is well-known to be computationally expensive for large-scale problems. Recently, we have shown that the sparsity pattern of the optimal solution of GL is equiv…
Iterative thresholding algorithms are well-suited for high-dimensional problems in sparse recovery and compressive sensing. The performance of this class of algorithms depends heavily on the tuning of certain threshold parameters. In particular, both the final reconstruction error and the convergence rate of the algori…
Spiking neuronal networks are usually simulated with three main simulation schemes: the classical time-driven and event-driven schemes, and the more recent hybrid scheme. All three schemes evolve the state of a neuron through a series of checkpoints: equally spaced in the first scheme and determined neuron-wise by spik…
Bayesian framework forecasts financial tail risks using realized volatility and nonlinear thresholds.
This study optimizes multi-modal learning thresholds and algorithms in high dimensions.
Paper finds exact recovery threshold in general hypergraph model.
Lactate threshold is considered an essential parameter when assessing performance of elite and recreational runners and prescribing training intensities in endurance sports. However, the measurement of blood lactate concentration requires expensive equipment and the extraction of blood samples, which are inconvenient f…
Spectral method detects communities in sparse hypergraphs, achieving detection threshold.
It has been reported repeatedly that discriminative learning of distance metric boosts the pattern recognition performance. A weak point of ITML-based methods is that the distance threshold for similarity/dissimilarity constraints must be determined manually and it is sensitive to generalization performance, although t…
New algorithm for reinforcement learning in uncertain environments with unknown thresholds.
New method learns sparse distributions by thresholding samples, improving performance and efficiency.