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In this work we study the non-parametric reconstruction of spatio-temporal dynamical Gaussian processes (GPs) via GP regression from sparse and noisy data. GPs have been mainly applied to spatial regression where they represent one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Marco Todescato , Andrea Carron , Ruggero Carli , Gianluigi Pillonetto , Luca Schenato

We provide an introduction to the signature method, focusing on its theoretical properties and machine learning applications. Our presentation is divided into two parts. In the first part, we present the definition and fundamental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Ilya Chevyrev , Andrey Kormilitzin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have evolved into one of the most popular deep learning architectures. However, GNNs suffer from over-smoothing node information and, therefore, struggle to solve tasks where global graph properties are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Bernhard Schäfl , Lukas Gruber , Johannes Brandstetter , Sepp Hochreiter

Landmark-based human action recognition in videos is a challenging task in computer vision. One key step is to design a generic approach that generates discriminative features for the spatial structure and temporal dynamics. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Weixin Yang , Terry Lyons , Hao Ni , Cordelia Schmid , Lianwen Jin

This paper introduces structured machine learning regressions for high-dimensional time series data potentially sampled at different frequencies. The sparse-group LASSO estimator can take advantage of such time series data structures and…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-12-15 Andrii Babii , Eric Ghysels , Jonas Striaukas

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

State-space mixed-frequency vector autoregressions are now widely used for nowcasting. Despite their popularity, estimating such models can be computationally intensive, especially for large systems with stochastic volatility. To tackle the…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-12-22 Joshua C. C. Chan , Aubrey Poon , Dan Zhu

This paper presents a new way to account for downside and upside risks when producing density nowcasts of GDP growth. The approach relies on modelling location, scale and shape common factors in real-time macroeconomic data. While movements…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-05-29 Paul Labonne

We introduce a novel application of Support Vector Machines (SVM), an important Machine Learning algorithm, to determine the beginning and end of recessions in real time. Nowcasting, "forecasting" a condition about the present time because…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-28 Alexander James , Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa , Xiao Qiao

Spatiotemporal time series nowcasting should preserve temporal and spatial dynamics in the sense that generated new sequences from models respect the covariance relationship from history. Conventional feature extractors are built with deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Bo Feng , Geoffrey Fox

We introduce a new methodology for forecasting which we call Signal Diffusion Mapping. Our approach accommodates features of real world financial data which have been ignored historically in existing forecasting methodologies. Our method…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-24 Paul Gaskell , Frank McGroarty , Thanassis Tiropanis

Many finance, physics, and engineering phenomena are modeled by continuous-time dynamical systems driven by highly irregular (stochastic) inputs. A powerful tool to perform time series analysis in this context is rooted in rough path theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Enea Monzio Compagnoni , Anna Scampicchio , Luca Biggio , Antonio Orvieto , Thomas Hofmann , Josef Teichmann

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

In this article we introduce the insertion method for reconstructing the path from its signature, i.e. inverting the signature of a path. For this purpose, we prove that a converging upper bound exists for the difference between the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Jiawei Chang , Terry Lyons

Regression is typically treated as a curve-fitting process where the goal is to fit a prediction function to data. With the help of conditional generative adversarial networks, we propose to solve this age-old problem in a different way; we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Deddy Jobson , Eddy Hudson

Persistence diagrams (PDs), often characterized as sets of death and birth of homology class, have been known for providing a topological representation of a graph structure, which is often useful in machine learning tasks. Prior works rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Chau Pham , Trung Dang , Peter Chin

The paper uses structured machine learning regressions for nowcasting with panel data consisting of series sampled at different frequencies. Motivated by the problem of predicting corporate earnings for a large cross-section of firms with…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-07-07 Andrii Babii , Ryan T. Ball , Eric Ghysels , Jonas Striaukas

In computational physics, machine learning has now emerged as a powerful complementary tool to explore efficiently candidate designs in engineering studies. Outputs in such supervised problems are signals defined on meshes, and a natural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Raphaël Carpintero Perez , Sébastien da Veiga , Josselin Garnier , Brian Staber

Signatures are iterated path integrals of continuous and discrete-time processes, and their universal nonlinearity linearizes the problem of feature selection in time series data analysis. This paper studies the consistency of signature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Xin Guo , Binnan Wang , Ruixun Zhang , Chaoyi Zhao

Very short-term convective storm forecasting, termed nowcasting, has long been an important issue and has attracted substantial interest. Existing nowcasting methods rely principally on radar images and are limited in terms of nowcasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wei Zhang , Wei Li , Lei Han