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Forecast combination has been proven to be a very important technique to obtain accurate predictions. In many applications, forecast errors exhibit heavy tail behaviors for various reasons. Unfortunately, to our knowledge, little has been…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-27 Gang Cheng , Sicong Wang , Yuhong Yang

We propose a quantum algorithm based on ridge regression model, which get the optimal fitting parameters w and a regularization hyperparameter {\alpha} by analysing the training dataset. The algorithm consists of two subalgorithms. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Menghan Chen , Chaohua Yu , Gongde Guo , Song Lin

Obesity is a critical global health issue driven by dietary, physiological, and environmental factors, and is strongly associated with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, and cancer. Machine learning has emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Towhidul Islam , Md Sumon Ali

We study online learning settings in which experts act strategically to maximize their influence on the learning algorithm's predictions by potentially misreporting their beliefs about a sequence of binary events. Our goal is twofold.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Rupert Freeman , David M. Pennock , Chara Podimata , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

This paper extends the linear grouped fixed effects (GFE) panel model to allow for heteroskedasticity from a discrete latent group variable. Key features of GFE are preserved, such as individuals belonging to one of a finite number of…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-10-27 Jorge A. Rivero

We are interested in probabilistic prediction in online settings in which data does not follow a probability distribution. Our work seeks to achieve two goals: (1) producing valid probabilities that accurately reflect model confidence; and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shachi Deshpande , Charles Marx , Volodymyr Kuleshov

In a recent paper, while elucidating the links between forecast combination and cross-sectional forecast reconciliation, Hollyman et al. (2021) have proposed a forecast combination-based approach to the reconciliation of a simple hierarchy.…

Applications · Statistics 2021-06-11 Tommaso Di Fonzo , Daniele Girolimetto

In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric estimator of time-varying forecast combination weights. When the number of individual forecasts is small, we study the asymptotic properties of the local linear estimator. When the number of…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-10-21 Bin Chen , Kenwin Maung

We investigate the prediction capability of the orthogonal greedy algorithm (OGA) in high-dimensional regression models with dependent observations. The rates of convergence of the prediction error of OGA are obtained under a variety of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-19 Ching-Kang Ing

We consider the problem of combining a (possibly uncountably infinite) set of affine estimators in non-parametric regression model with heteroscedastic Gaussian noise. Focusing on the exponentially weighted aggregate, we prove a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Arnak Dalalyan , Joseph Salmon

Forecast combination methods have traditionally emphasized symmetric loss functions, particularly squared error loss, with equally weighted combinations often justified as a robust approach under such criteria. However, these justifications…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-08 Henry D. van Eijk , Sujit K. Ghosh

A Halpern-type relaxed inertial inexact progressive hedging algorithm (PHA) is proposed for solving multi-stage stochastic variational inequalities in general probability spaces. The subproblems in this algorithm are allowed to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Jiaxin Chen , Zunjie Huang , Haisen Zhang

Linearly constrained multiple time series may be encountered in many practical contexts, such as the National Accounts (e.g., GDP disaggregated by Income, Expenditure and Output), and multilevel frameworks where the variables are organized…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-05 Daniele Girolimetto , Tommaso Di Fonzo

We propose a novel "tree-averaging" model that utilizes the ensemble of classification and regression trees (CART). Each constituent tree is estimated with a subset of similar data. We treat this grouping of subsets as Bayesian ensemble…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-20 Leo L. Duan , John P. Clancy , Rhonda D. Szczesniak

Ensemble learning is traditionally justified as a variance-reduction strategy, explaining its strong performance for unstable predictors such as decision trees. This explanation, however, does not account for ensembles constructed from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Ernest Fokoué

In this paper is proposed a new heuristic approach belonging to the field of evolutionary Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs). EDAs builds a probability model and a set of solutions is sampled from the model which characterizes the…

Reliable forecasting of multivariate time series under anomalous conditions is crucial in applications such as ATM cash logistics, where sudden demand shifts can disrupt operations. Modern deep forecasters achieve high accuracy on normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Joel Ekstrand , Tor Mattsson , Zahra Taghiyarrenani , Slawomir Nowaczyk , Jens Lundström , Mikael Lindén

Model averaging combines forecasts obtained from a range of models, and it often produces more accurate forecasts than a forecast from a single model. The crucial part of forecast accuracy improvement in using the model averaging lies in…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-01 Han Lin Shang , Steven Haberman

A general framework for principal component analysis (PCA) in the presence of heteroskedastic noise is introduced. We propose an algorithm called HeteroPCA, which involves iteratively imputing the diagonal entries of the sample covariance…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Anru R. Zhang , T. Tony Cai , Yihong Wu

In this workshop, we discuss several algorithms for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). The unifying theme is that MPECs are optimization problems whose feasible set contains a lower-level equilibrium system, often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Jiguang Yu