Study examines cryptoasset service providers in Austria, revealing global integration and distinct responses to market shocks.
problem Understanding cryptoasset integration and stress behavior in national economies.
method Directly identified on-chain addresses of Austrian crypto-asset service providers, reconstructing transaction activity across multiple cryptocurrencies.
result Austrian crypto-asset service providers are globally integrated, with distinct responses to market shocks.
Estimates price sensitivity from transaction data using a novel odds ratio method.
problem Estimate price sensitivity from transaction-level data with partially observed treatment assignments.
method Recursive partitioning procedure with adversarial imputation for robust estimation.
result Validated on synthetic data and applied to three case studies, demonstrating heterogeneity in treatment effects.
Repo dealers' market power affects bond prices by up to 2 percentage points.
problem Market power of repo dealers impacts bond prices and liquidity.
method Proprietary data on repo and reverse-repo trades analyzed.
result Market power of repo dealers accounts for 0.5-1.3 percentage points of bond yield deviation.
This paper analyzes tokenized U.S. Treasuries, revealing patterns and roles in blockchain transactions.
problem Limited empirical analysis of transaction-level behaviors in tokenized U.S. Treasuries.
method Quantitative dissection of U.S. Treasury-backed RWA tokens across multiple chains, introducing a curvature-aware representation learning model for address-level economic role inference.
result Decoded transaction-level patterns reveal the degree of retail participation and distinguish roles in Web3 finance.
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.
Prediction markets can shape political behavior through persistent signals, not just forecast accuracy.
problem The role of prediction markets beyond forecasting.
method Transaction-level evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Signal Credibility Index (SCI).
result Price signals in prediction markets are more influential due to persistence, breadth of trader types, and cross-platform consensus.
We use the database leak of Mt. Gox exchange to analyze the dynamics of the price of bitcoin from June 2011 to November 2013. This gives us a rare opportunity to study an emerging retail-focused, highly speculative and unregulated market with trader identifiers at a tick transaction level. Jumps are frequent events and…
Over-the-counter markets are at the center of the postcrisis global reform of the financial system. We show how the size and structure of such markets can undergo rapid and extensive changes when participants engage in portfolio compression, a post-trade netting technology. Tightly-knit and concentrated trading structu…
The statistical properties of the bid-ask spread of a frequently traded Chinese stock listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange are investigated using the limit-order book data. Three different definitions of spread are considered based on the time right before transactions, the time whenever the highest buying price or th…
Traders adopt different trading strategies to maximize their returns in financial markets. These trading strategies not only results in specific topological structures in trading networks, which connect the traders with the pairwise buy-sell relationships, but also have potential impacts on market dynamics. Here, we pr…
The paper investigates cyclic arbitrage opportunities in decentralized exchanges.
problem Price discrepancies in decentralized exchanges lead to arbitrage opportunities.
method Theoretical framework and analysis of transaction-level data.
result Traders have executed over 292,606 cyclic arbitrages over eleven months, exploiting more than 138 million USD in revenue.
Italian banks use swaps to hedge against rising interest rates, offsetting losses on debt securities.
problem Interest rate risk on Italian banks' debt securities.
method Analysis of granular regulatory data on euro interest rate swap trades.
result Swaps can offset losses on debt securities, reducing interest rate exposure.
Study on liquidity providers' performance in decentralized exchanges.
problem Unclear profitability of liquidity providers in decentralized exchanges.
method Reconstructing LP PnL dynamics from on-chain events, introducing a new metric.
result Only about one out of six LPs avoids losses, suggesting open questions about LP participation motives.
The Mike-Farmer (MF) model was constructed empirically based on the continuous double auction mechanism in an order-driven market, which can successfully reproduce the cubic law of returns and the diffusive behavior of stock prices at the transaction level. However, the volatility (defined by absolute return) in the MF…
Study on-chain peak shaving to reduce Ethereum transaction costs.
problem Reducing transaction costs in blockchain networks, especially during congested periods.
method Analyzing transaction-level data from multiple firms across various industries to understand scheduling responses and cost management strategies.
result Firms' scheduling responses to congestion vary, leading to different fee savings and residual costs.
Polymarket-v1 Database tracks 1.2B trades across 1.3M markets with 100% ground-truth direction.
problem Lack of ground-truth data in prediction markets archives.
method Ground-truth archive of 1.2B trades from Polymarket's CTF Exchange.
result Ground-truth data reveals systematic errors in microstructure metrics.
Big data sets must be carefully partitioned into statistically similar data subsets that can be used as representative samples for big data analysis tasks. In this paper, we propose the random sample partition (RSP) data model to represent a big data set as a set of non-overlapping data subsets, called RSP data blocks,…
A new method for handling imbalanced big data using ensembles and smart data.
problem Imbalanced data distribution in big data scenarios.
method Smart Data driven Decision Trees Ensemble (SD_DeTE) methodology.
result SD_DeTE outperforms Random Forest in handling imbalanced binary classification problems in big data.
Prevents sensitive data generation in diffusion models using labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Generating sensitive data in diffusion models using unlabeled data.
method Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models, approximating ELBO with labeled and unlabeled data.
result Prevents the generation of sensitive data without compromising image quality.
Study reveals Data Shapley's inconsistent performance in data selection tasks.
problem Inconsistency of Data Shapley's performance in data selection across different settings.
method Hypothesis testing framework and identification of utility functions.
result Data Shapley's performance is no better than random selection without specific constraints.
PRRO generates synthetic tabular data that improves SL performance and class distribution.
problem Low SL utility of synthetic data due to class imbalance and overlooked data relationships.
method Data pruning and column reordering to optimize SL utility.
result Synthetic data generated with PRRO enhances predictive performance and class distribution.
Defines data science as a natural ecosystem with challenges and missions.
problem Challenges and missions in data science due to 5D complexities and data life cycle phases.
method Systemic and data-centric view of data science as a fusion of data universe and its challenges, formalizing a general-purpose architecture.
result Essential data science as a natural ecosystem integrating specific disciplines and high-impact applications.
Synthetic data enhances analytics but requires careful volume management.
problem Accuracy of statistical methods on synthetic data vs. raw data.
method Synthetic Data Generation for Analytics framework using tabular diffusion models.
result Error rate decreases with more synthetic data but may stabilize or increase.
Proposes using probabilistic models for privacy-preserving synthetic data.
problem Designing high-quality synthetic data for privacy preservation.
method Formulate the problem through probabilistic modelling, choosing a model for the data.
result Statistical discoveries can be reliably reproduced from synthetic data.
New test ensures quality of shared data in machine learning.
problem Ensuring quality of external data in machine learning tasks.
method Distribution-free two-sample testing procedures grounded in conformal outlier detection.
result Identifies valuable external data agents for model personalization.
Paper creates fair synthetic data ensuring equal predictions across sensitive attributes.
problem Ensuring fair predictions across sensitive attributes in synthetic data.
method Equalizing target probability distributions across sensitive attributes in synthetic data generation.
result Synthetic data provides strong fair predictions, equal across all thresholds.
DPA preserves data distribution in reduced dimensions.
problem Loss of data distribution in dimension reduction.
method DPA combines encoder and decoder to match data distribution.
result DPA successfully reconstructs data distribution.
Efficient synthetic data generation improves model performance on tabular data.
problem Improving model robustness and performance with scarce or low-quality data.
method Hardness characterization to identify high-value training points, generating synthetic data only from these points.
result Synthetic data generated from hardest points outperforms non-targeted methods on tabular datasets.
For most problems in science and engineering we can obtain data sets that describe the observed system from various perspectives and record the behavior of its individual components. Heterogeneous data sets can be collectively mined by data fusion. Fusion can focus on a specific target relation and exploit directly ass…
DAERNN models censored data using neural networks with data augmentation.
problem Handling censored data in expectile regression.
method Data augmentation based Expectile Regression Neural Networks (ERNNs).
result DAERNN outperforms existing censored ERNNs methods and achieves comparable predictive performance to fully observed data.
Data preprocessing techniques are devoted to correct or alleviate errors in data. Discretization and feature selection are two of the most extended data preprocessing techniques. Although we can find many proposals for static Big Data preprocessing, there is little research devoted to the continuous Big Data problem. A…
Data stream classification methods demonstrate promising performance on a single data stream by exploring the cohesion in the data stream. However, multiple data streams that involve several correlated data streams are common in many practical scenarios, which can be viewed as multi-task data streams. Instead of handli…
Data collection is a major bottleneck in machine learning and an active research topic in multiple communities. There are largely two reasons data collection has recently become a critical issue. First, as machine learning is becoming more widely-used, we are seeing new applications that do not necessarily have enough …
This paper quantifies uncertainty in Data Shapley using statistical inference.
problem Uncertainty in data valuation due to dynamic data distribution.
method Established relationship with U-statistics and quantified uncertainty using statistical inference.
result Confidence intervals for Data Shapley estimations are provided.
DCoM uses deep neural networks to detect semantic data types from raw column values.
problem Detecting semantic data types from dirty and unseen data.
method DCoM employs multi-input NLP-based deep neural networks trained on 686,765 data columns.
result DCoM outperforms existing methods significantly on 78 different semantic data types.
Causal inference from observational data is the goal of many data analyses in the health and social sciences. However, academic statistics has often frowned upon data analyses with a causal objective. The introduction of the term "data science" provides a historic opportunity to redefine data analysis in such a way tha…
Task-agnostic data valuation without validation requirements.
problem Valuing data without specific task assumptions.
method Estimating data diversity and relevance through queries without raw data.
result Estimates capture the diversity and relevance of seller's data for the buyer.
Framework generates private synthetic data for unlabeled mixed-type data.
problem Generating private synthetic data for unlabeled mixed-type data.
method Combines autoencoders and GANs for differential privacy.
result Learned model generates synthetic data with similar statistical properties.
Data mining is about obtaining new knowledge from existing datasets. However, the data in the existing datasets can be scattered, noisy, and even incomplete. Although lots of effort is spent on developing or fine-tuning data mining models to make them more robust to the noise of the input data, their qualities still st…
New algorithm improves data imputation for complex multimodal data sets.
problem Artifacts in imputation methods for multimodal distributions.
method Combines kNN and KDE for probabilistic estimates. result Lower imputation errors and higher likelihood estimates.
New algorithms for clustering and synthetic data generation of heterogeneous tabular datasets.
problem Clustering and generating synthetic data from heterogeneous tabular datasets with hidden cluster structure.
method Developed MMM and MMMsynth algorithms for clustering and synthetic data generation.
result MMMsynth algorithm outperforms other literature tabular-data generators and approaches real data performance.
WeMix improves data augmentation by correcting bias in deep learning.
problem Data augmentation's effectiveness is limited by data bias.
method Developed AugDrop and MixLoss algorithms to correct data bias.
result WeMix improves data augmentation performance through bias correction.
A new method reduces data valuation variance for more trustworthy data trading.
problem Data valuation and trustworthy data trading in algorithmic prediction.
method Variance reduced Shapley value estimation using stratified sampling.
result VRDS method reduces estimation variance and improves data marketplace development.
Adapts data analysis for growing data, improving generalization guarantees.
problem Challenges of overfitting and statistical validity in adaptive workflows with growing data.
method Generalizes adaptive analysis on dynamic data, incorporating time-varying empirical accuracy bounds and mechanisms.
result First generalization bounds for adaptive analysis on dynamic data, matching prior works' improvement over data splitting.
This work redefines data-centric AI by unifying categorical and cochain notions.
problem The need to rethink data notions for data-centric AI.
method Proposes unifying principles from categorical and cochain notions of data.
result Unified definition of data impacts machine learning development, implementation, and utilization.
SMOTE-DP enhances synthetic data privacy without sacrificing utility.
problem Balancing privacy and utility in synthetic data generation.
method Integrating SMOTE with differential privacy mechanisms.
result SMOTE-DP produces synthetic data that is both private and useful.
VSAE learns from missing heterogeneous data by modeling latent dependencies.
problem Learning from partially-observed heterogeneous data with missingness.
method Variational selective autoencoder (VSAE) models joint distribution of observed, unobserved, and missing data.
result VSAE improves over state-of-the-art models in data generation and imputation tasks.
Improves anomaly detection with contaminated unlabeled data.
problem Weakness in existing semi-supervised anomaly detection methods when unlabeled data contain anomalies.
method Integrates positive-unlabeled learning with deep anomaly detection models.
result Achieves better detection performance on various datasets.