AnChain.AI detects NFT wash trading with 0.14% of transactions flagged.
problem NFT market manipulation through wash trading.
method Algorithm flags transactions within 30 days of repurchase.
result 0.14% of NFT transactions are involved in wash trading.
Study reveals risks of investing in new crypto-tokens in decentralized exchanges.
problem Risks associated with investing in newly created tokens in decentralized exchanges.
method Analysis of financial impact, market dynamics, profitability, and liquidity manipulations.
result Significant market liquidity trapped in honeypots, reducing market efficiency and misleading investors.
MaskGAN fills in text blanks more flexibly and effectively.
problem Handling complex manipulations on given tokens in conditional text generation.
method Decomposed conditional text generation into make-a-blank and fill-in-the-blank tasks, and used hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning.
result The model produces realistic texts without compromising quality and diversity.
SOM-VQ tokenizes discrete models with semantic structure and navigable topology.
problem Lack of semantic structure in vector quantized representations limits interpretable human control.
method Combines vector quantization with Self-Organizing Maps to learn discrete codebooks with explicit topology.
result SOM-VQ produces more learnable token sequences and provides an explicit navigable geometry in code space.
Study reveals widespread manipulation of meme coins, leading to significant economic losses.
problem Widespread manipulation of meme coins leading to economic losses.
method Cross-chain analysis of 34,988 tokens across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, and Base.
result 82.8% of high-return tokens show evidence of artificial growth strategies.
Study predicts success of crypto-tokens on Pump.fun platform.
problem Identify factors affecting the success of new crypto-tokens.
method Build predictive models using bonding curve mechanism and structural/behavioral variables.
result Conditional variables significantly improve the predictive power of token success.
Article examines NFT market microstructure and trading risks.
problem Difficulty in distinguishing genuine NFTs from fads and scams.
method Analyzes price formation, market structure, and transparency.
result Provides due-diligence pointers to mitigate NFT trading risk.
Paper introduces a method to assess liquidity risk in meme tokens using entity-linked address analysis.
problem High market volatility and vulnerability to manipulation in meme tokens.
method Multi-dimensional approach integrating fund flow analysis, behavioral similarity, and anomalous transaction detection.
result Significant disparities between apparent and actual liquidity in meme token markets.
New framework TVR assesses true DeFi value, revealing substantial double counting.
problem TVL is easily manipulated and inflated in DeFi, leading to unreliable metrics.
method Proposed a new framework TVR to assess true underlying value of DeFi.
result TVR reveals substantial double counting in DeFi, with a gap of $139.87 billion at peak.
Study analyzes cryptocurrency pump-and-dump dynamics using minute-level data.
problem Identifying and quantifying insider trading in cryptocurrency markets.
method Algorithmic identification of insider volume spikes, conservative profit bounds calculation, social-media verification.
result Median returns above 100%, upper-quartile returns exceeding 2000% for insider profits.
This paper explains how to optimize prompts for model adaptation.
problem Understanding and optimizing prompt tuning for model adaptation.
method Bayesian view and meta-learning to explain prompt optimization.
result Optimal prompting can be studied formally as conditioning Bayesian predictors.
Neural sequence generation is typically performed token-by-token and left-to-right. Whenever a token is generated only previously produced tokens are taken into consideration. In contrast, for problems such as sequence classification, bidirectional attention, which takes both past and future tokens into consideration, …
LLMs can be tricked into recalling facts based on context clues.
problem Manipulation of LLMs' factual recall through context changes.
method Mathematical exploration of transformers' associative memory properties.
result Transformers use self-attention and value matrix for associative memory.
Paper reduces vocabulary losslessly for language model cooperation.
problem Language models struggle to cooperate with different tokenizations.
method Established a theoretical framework for lossless vocabulary reduction.
result Efficiently converts models with different tokenizations to cooperate with maximal common vocabulary.
This research improves capital efficiency and impermanent loss in cryptocurrency markets using multi-token trading pools.
problem Poor impermanent loss and capital efficiency in automated market makers.
method Analysis and construction of a multi-token token proactive market maker (MPMM).
result MPMM shows better impermanent loss and capital efficiency than comparable market makers.
This study examines whether tokenized assets improve liquidity and finds significant differences across categories.
problem Improving liquidity for real-world assets through tokenization.
method Examined tokenized real-world assets using Ethereum-based data, measuring liquidity through turnover, active addresses, and active-month indicator.
result Gold-backed tokens show more persistent on-chain activity than Treasury and private-credit-related products, but asset value alone does not reliably predict liquidity.
Study examines revenue from scam tokens on Ethereum, revealing key characteristics and market factors.
problem Revenue from scam tokens on Ethereum blockchain.
method Empirical analysis of Uniswap, examining characteristics and market factors.
result Revenue from scam tokens is influenced by market economic factors and community engagement.
Blockchain-based exchanges adopt based on token pair volatility and personal use.
problem Token value loss and arbitrage issues in decentralized exchanges.
method Investigation of Automated Market Makers (AMMs) using transaction-level data.
result AMMs are adopted for high personal use or highly correlated token price movements.
Blockchain fan tokens boost sports fan engagement by 50%.
problem Low fan engagement in sports decisions.
method Analyzed 3,576 fan token polls to identify determinants of participation.
result Fan tokens engage 4,003 participants per poll, 50% of token holders.
DOS improves language model generation by considering inter-token dependencies.
problem Lack of sequence-level information and inter-token dependencies in existing decoding strategies.
method Dependency-Oriented Sampler (DOS) that uses attention matrices to approximate inter-token dependencies.
result DOS consistently achieves superior performance on code generation and mathematical reasoning tasks.
Proving that next-token prediction makes language models generate coherent long documents.
problem Understanding why language models generate coherent documents despite focusing on next-token prediction.
method Proving the power of next-token prediction in learning longer-range structure using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN).
result Optimizing next-token prediction in RNNs yields a model that closely approximates the training distribution, even for long-range coherence.
Expands MLM by masking token positions, improving performance and convergence.
problem Improving language model performance and convergence.
method Masking token positions along with [MASK] tokens, using a fully connected classifier stage.
result Shows .3% improvement and 50% faster convergence for BERT Base with position masking.
This paper compares token and equity financing for startups.
problem Understanding differences in return rates between token and equity financing.
method Developed a three-period model to analyze liquidity and return differences.
result Entrepreneurs can achieve higher payoffs by issuing tokens, especially for risk-averse investors with liquidity needs.
QA-Token improves tokenization for noisy data, boosting model performance.
problem Tokenization ignores data quality, limiting model effectiveness on noisy corpora.
method QA-Token combines signal quality with vocabulary construction through bilevel optimization and reinforcement learning.
result QA-Token achieves state-of-the-art performance on genomic and financial datasets.
Minimal token perturbations reveal how Transformer models process information.
problem Understanding information propagation in Transformer models for interpretability.
method Study of minimal token perturbations on embedding space.
result Rare tokens cause larger shifts, and input information mixes deeper.
LLM-as-a-service prices vary arbitrarily due to tokenization multiplicity.
problem Arbitrary price variation in LLM-as-a-service due to multiple tokenizations of the same output.
method Introduce canonical generation to restrict LLMs to unique tokenizations and develop an efficient sampling algorithm.
result Our sampling algorithm for canonical generation solves tokenization multiplicity and maintains comparable performance and runtime to standard sampling.
Traditional centralized energy systems have the disadvantages of difficult management and insufficient incentives. Blockchain is an emerging technology, which can be utilized in energy systems to enhance their management and control. Integrating token economy and blockchain technology, token economic systems in energy …
New insights show stochastic initialization prevents token clustering in deep Transformers.
problem Understanding token dynamics in deep stochastic Transformers.
method Analysis of deep Transformers with random initialization noise, proving convergence to an interacting-particle system on the sphere.
result Initialization noise prevents token clustering, leading to antipodal formations.
The paper analyzes risk spillovers between AI ETFs, AI tokens, and green markets.
problem Risk spillovers among AI ETFs, AI tokens, and green markets.
method R2 decomposition method
result AI ETFs and clean energy act as risk transmitters, while AI tokens and green assets act as receivers.
AI learns market manipulation through simulation, suggesting regulation.
problem Regulating AI to prevent market manipulation.
method Used a genetic algorithm in an artificial market simulation.
result AI discovered market manipulation as an optimal strategy.
Tokenized RWAs face liquidity issues despite promising markets.
problem Low trading volumes and limited investor participation in tokenized assets.
method Empirical analysis of tokenized real estate, private credit, and treasury funds.
result Most tokenized assets exhibit low transfer activity and limited secondary trading.
Fan tokens surged before World Cup matches, but declined during them, revealing cognitive biases.
problem Analyzing the impact of FIFA World Cup matches on fan tokens.
method Event study and intraday analysis of blockchain-based fan tokens.
result Fan tokens experienced a surge in returns six months before the World Cup, followed by a decline during the matches, revealing asymmetries in performance.
NFM models time-series data directly in the Fourier domain, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
problem Traditional time-series analysis focuses on the time domain, limiting flexibility.
method NFM models time-series data in the Fourier domain, using frequency extrapolation and interpolation.
result NFM achieves state-of-the-art performance on various time-series tasks.
We empirically verify that the market capitalisations of coins and tokens in the cryptocurrency universe follow power-law distributions with significantly different values, with the tail exponent falling between 0.5 and 0.7 for coins, and between 1.0 and 1.3 for tokens. We provide a rationale for this, based on a simpl…
In distributed function computation, each node has an initial value and the goal is to compute a function of these values in a distributed manner. In this paper, we propose a novel token-based approach to compute a wide class of target functions to which we refer as "Token-based function Computation with Memory" (TCM) …
The paper analyzes how leverage affects manipulation in event-linked markets, offering new insights into regulation.
problem Manipulation and insider information in leveraged event-linked markets.
method Develops a two-axis manipulation taxonomy and analyzes leverage's effects on market-price and outcome manipulation.
result Leverage scales market-price manipulation linearly but shifts the cost-benefit threshold for outcome manipulation.
Decoding strategies often exclude human-like tokens, creating a detectable gap in generated text.
problem Decoding strategies exclude contextually appropriate but statistically rare tokens, creating a detectable gap in generated text.
method Analysis of 1.8 million texts across 8 language models, 5 decoding strategies, and 53 hyperparameter configurations.
result 8-18% of human-selected tokens fall outside typical truncation boundaries, indicating a detectable gap.
Method reveals hidden token embeddings of large language models.
problem Understanding hidden token embeddings in large language models.
method Structured prompts to expose token input embeddings up to homeomorphism.
result Mathematical proof for generic LLMs shows effectiveness of method.
Paper develops a risk scoring framework for tokenized RWA markets.
problem Tokenized assets may not reflect true risk due to illiquidity and concentration.
method Develops a risk scoring framework based on observable indicators.
result Assets with limited transfer activity and concentrated ownership have high empirical risk.
New model improves neural network robustness against input manipulations.
problem Improving neural network robustness against input manipulations.
method Causal view and deep causal manipulation augmented model (deep CAMA) with data augmentation and test-time fine-tuning.
result Deep CAMA shows superior robustness against unseen manipulations compared to traditional models.
Transformers can predict new tokens based on any number of context tokens, approximating continuous mappings with fixed resources.
problem Handling an arbitrarily large number of context tokens in transformers.
method Mathematical analysis of transformer's expressivity using Wasserstein distance and continuous mappings.
result Deep transformers are universal and can approximate continuous in-context mappings to arbitrary precision, uniformly over compact token domains.
STRATA generates code adversarial examples efficiently without gradients.
problem Generating adversarial examples for code that retains functional meaning.
method Uses token frequency statistics to construct gradient-free adversarial examples.
result Empirically outperforms gradient-based methods with less information and effort.
Gradient-trained embeddings select important tokens in text.
problem Understanding the theoretical structure of token embeddings.
method One-layer softmax attention model with gradient descent.
result Gradient-trained embeddings align with important tokens based on frequency.
User surveys for Quality of Experience (QoE) are a critical source of information. In addition to the common "star rating" used to estimate Mean Opinion Score (MOS), more detailed survey questions (problem tokens) about specific areas provide valuable insight into the factors impacting QoE. This paper explores two aspe…
This paper studies poisoning attacks in episodic RL and discovers their effectiveness depends on reward bounds.
problem Understanding security threats to RL algorithms through poisoning attacks.
method Examined two types of poisoning attacks: reward and action manipulation, in bounded and unbounded reward settings.
result The effectiveness of poisoning attacks depends on reward bounds, with different attack costs and success rates.
Manipulating video content is easier than ever. Due to the misuse potential of manipulated content, multiple detection techniques that analyze the pixel data from the videos have been proposed. However, clever manipulators should also carefully forge the metadata and auxiliary header information, which is harder to do …
Analyzes how economic policies affect wealth distribution in Bitcoin token economy.
problem Impact of economic policies on wealth distribution in token economies.
method Eliminated noise in wealth distribution data using macroeconomic and microeconomic time series. Causality analysis between BIPs and wealth distribution data.
result Proposed a structure for economic policy taxonomy in token economies.
Researchers analyze the structure of token spaces in large language models.
problem Understanding the geometric and topological structure of token spaces in large language models.
method Developed estimators for the dimension and Ricci scalar curvature of the token subspace and applied them to three large language models.
result The token subspace is not a manifold but a stratified manifold with significantly negative Ricci curvature.