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In this paper, we study a fast approximate inference method based on expectation propagation for exploring the posterior probability distribution arising from the Bayesian formulation of nonlinear inverse problems. It is capable of…

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A classical portfolio theory deals with finding the optimal proportion in which an agent invests a wealth in a risk-free asset and a probabilistic risky asset. Formulating and solving the problem depend on how the risk is represented and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-01-28 Irina Georgescu , Jani Kinnunen

We provide analytical results for a static portfolio optimization problem with two coherent risk measures. The use of two risk measures is motivated by joint decision-making for portfolio selection where the risk perception of the portfolio…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-19 Tahsin Deniz Aktürk , Çağın Ararat

In this paper, we revisit the portfolio optimization problems of the minimization/maximization of investment risk under constraints of budget and investment concentration (primal problem) and the maximization/minimization of investment…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-01-17 Daichi Tada , Hisashi Yamamoto , Takashi Shinzato

Considering mean-variance portfolio problems with uncertain model parameters, we contrast the classical absolute robust optimization approach with the relative robust approach based on a maximum regret function. Although the latter problems…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-14 Raphael Hauser , Vijay Krishnamurthy , Reha Tütüncü

We consider an optimal liquidation problem with instantaneous price impact and stochastic resilience for small instantaneous impact factors. Within our modelling framework, the optimal portfolio process converges to the solution of an…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-07 Ulrich Horst , Evgueni Kivman

Inference problems in graphical models can be represented as a constrained optimization of a free energy function. It is known that when the Bethe free energy is used, the fixedpoints of the belief propagation (BP) algorithm correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Tamir Hazan , Amnon Shashua

We examine the problem of optimal portfolio allocation within the framework of utility theory. We apply exponential utility to derive the optimal diversification strategy and logarithmic utility to determine the optimal leverage. We enhance…

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We re-visit the classical problem of optimal payment of dividends and determine the degree to which the diffusion approximation serves as a valid approximation of the classical risk model for this problem. Our results parallel some of those…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Asaf Cohen , Virginia R. Young

We consider a class of spreading processes on networks, which generalize commonly used epidemic models such as the SIR model or the SIS model with a bounded number of re-infections. We analyse the related problem of inference of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-22 D. Ghio , A. L. M. Aragon , I. Biazzo , L. Zdeborova

The Plant Propagation Algorithm, epitomised by the Strawberry Algorithm, has been previously successfully tested on low dimensional continuous optimisation problems. It is a neighborhood search algorithm. In this paper, we introduce, robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Muhammad Sulaiman , Abdellah Salhi , Eric S. Fraga

Inference and optimization of real-value edge variables in sparse graphs are studied using the Bethe approximation and replica method of statistical physics. Equilibrium states of general energy functions involving a large set of real…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Y. Michael Wong , D. Saad

In the frictionless discrete time financial market of Bouchard et al.(2015) we consider a trader who, due to regulatory requirements or internal risk management reasons, is required to hedge a claim $\xi$ in a risk-conservative way relative…

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This paper examines replication portfolio construction in incomplete markets - a key problem in financial engineering with applications in pricing, hedging, balance sheet management, and energy storage planning. We model this as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-09 Matteo Maggiolo , Giuseppe Nuti , Miroslav Štrupl , Oleg Szehr

In this paper, we consider the portfolio optimization problem in a financial market under a general utility function. Empirical results suggest that if a significant market fluctuation occurs, invested wealth tends to have a notable change…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-26 Minglian Lin , Indranil SenGupta

In financial investing, universal portfolios are a means of constructing portfolios which guarantee a certain level of performance relative to a baseline, while making no statistical assumptions about the future market data. They fall under…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Thomas Orton

We study several bayesian inference problems for irreversible stochastic epidemic models on networks from a statistical physics viewpoint. We derive equations which allow to accurately compute the posterior distribution of the time…

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In the present work, the optimal portfolio minimizing the investment risk with cost is discussed analytically, where this objective function is constructed in terms of two negative aspects of investment, the risk and cost. We note the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-05-23 Takashi Shinzato

We study text summarization from the viewpoint of maximum coverage problem. In graph theory, the task of text summarization is regarded as maximum coverage problem on bipartite graph with weighted nodes. In recent study, belief-propagation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hiroki Kitano , Koujin Takeda