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Fair lending needs explainable models for responsible recommendation
The financial services industry has unique explainability and fairness
challenges arising from compliance and ethical considerations in credit
decisioning. These challenges complicate the use of model machine learning and
artificial intelligence methods in business decision processes.Comment: 4 pages, position paper accepted for FATREC 2018 conference at ACM
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Constructing Financial Sentimental Factors in Chinese Market Using Natural Language Processing
In this paper, we design an integrated algorithm to evaluate the sentiment of
Chinese market. Firstly, with the help of the web browser automation, we crawl
a lot of news and comments from several influential financial websites
automatically. Secondly, we use techniques of Natural Language Processing(NLP)
under Chinese context, including tokenization, Word2vec word embedding and
semantic database WordNet, to compute Senti-scores of these news and comments,
and then construct the sentimental factor. Here, we build a finance-specific
sentimental lexicon so that the sentimental factor can reflect the sentiment of
financial market but not the general sentiments as happiness, sadness, etc.
Thirdly, we also implement an adjustment of the standard sentimental factor.
Our experimental performance shows that there is a significant correlation
between our standard sentimental factor and the Chinese market, and the
adjusted factor is even more informative, having a stronger correlation with
the Chinese market. Therefore, our sentimental factors can be important
references when making investment decisions. Especially during the Chinese
market crash in 2015, the Pearson correlation coefficient of adjusted
sentimental factor with SSE is 0.5844, which suggests that our model can
provide a solid guidance, especially in the special period when the market is
influenced greatly by public sentiment
Graph Laplacian Regularization for Image Denoising: Analysis in the Continuous Domain
Inverse imaging problems are inherently under-determined, and hence it is
important to employ appropriate image priors for regularization. One recent
popular prior---the graph Laplacian regularizer---assumes that the target pixel
patch is smooth with respect to an appropriately chosen graph. However, the
mechanisms and implications of imposing the graph Laplacian regularizer on the
original inverse problem are not well understood. To address this problem, in
this paper we interpret neighborhood graphs of pixel patches as discrete
counterparts of Riemannian manifolds and perform analysis in the continuous
domain, providing insights into several fundamental aspects of graph Laplacian
regularization for image denoising. Specifically, we first show the convergence
of the graph Laplacian regularizer to a continuous-domain functional,
integrating a norm measured in a locally adaptive metric space. Focusing on
image denoising, we derive an optimal metric space assuming non-local
self-similarity of pixel patches, leading to an optimal graph Laplacian
regularizer for denoising in the discrete domain. We then interpret graph
Laplacian regularization as an anisotropic diffusion scheme to explain its
behavior during iterations, e.g., its tendency to promote piecewise smooth
signals under certain settings. To verify our analysis, an iterative image
denoising algorithm is developed. Experimental results show that our algorithm
performs competitively with state-of-the-art denoising methods such as BM3D for
natural images, and outperforms them significantly for piecewise smooth images.Comment: More discussions and results are provide
Numerical Evidence of Small Coherent Subsystems at Low Temperatures in Light Harvesting Complex II
The extent of exciton coherence in protein-pigment complexes has significant
implications for the initial light harvesting step in photosynthetic organisms.
In this work we model the main antenna protein of photosystem II, namely light
harvesting complex II (LHC-II), with a single-exciton Hamiltonian with sites
coupled via dipole-dipole interaction, with linear coupling to a dissipative
phonon bath. With appropriate parameters, Monte Carlo path integral (MCPI)
results of the exciton coherence length from 1 K to 500 K show that at
thermodynamic equilibrium, an exciton in LHC-II is localized mostly on 2 single
chlorophyll pigment sites, with persistent short-range coherence over the A2-B2
pair, A3-B3 pair and B1-B5-B6 triplet. Quasi-adiabatic path integral (QUAPI)
calculations of the subsystems mentioned above show a smooth, incoherent
relaxation towards thermodynamic equilibrium. The results obtained imply that
with the exception of small coherent subsystems at cryogenic temperatures,
excitons in LHC-II are more localized than in the analogous light harvesting
complex II (LH-II) of the purple bacterium Rs. molischianum, which may be
expected from the lower symmetry of the former.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figures, summary of JC's BSc thesi
Regionally proximal relation and null systems
In this paper, it is shown that if a dynamical system is null and distal,
then it is equicontinuous. It turns out that a null system with closed proximal
relation is mean equicontinuous. As a direct application, it follows that a
null dynamical system with dense minimal points is also mean equicontinuous.
Meanwhile, a distal system with trivial -pairs, and a
non-trivial regionally proximal relation of order is constructed.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1312.7663 by other author
Size-extensive polarizabilities with intermolecular charge transfer in a fluctuating-charge model
Fluctuating-charge models have been used to model polarization effects in
molecular mechanics methods. However, they overestimate polarizabilities in
large systems. Previous attempts to remedy this have been at the expense of
forbidding intermolecular charge-transfer. Here, we investigate this lack of
size-extensivity and show that the neglect of terms arising from charge
conservation is partly responsible; these terms are also vital for maintaining
the correct translational symmetries of the dipole moment and polarizability
that classical electrostatic theory requires. Also, QTPIE demonstrates
linear-scaling polarizabilities when coupling the external electric field in a
manner that treats its potential as a perturbation of the atomic
electronegativities. Thus for the first time, we have a fluctuating-charge
model that predicts size-extensive dipole polarizabilities, yet allows
intermolecular charge-transfer.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
A unified theoretical framework for fluctuating-charge models in atom-space and in bond-space
Our previously introduced QTPIE (charge transfer with polarization current
equilibration) model (J. Chen and T. J. Martinez, Chem. Phys. Lett. 438, 315
(2007)) is a fluctuating-charge model with correct asymptotic behavior. Unlike
most other fluctuating-charge models, QTPIE is formulated in terms of
charge-transfer variables and pairwise electronegativities, not atomic charge
variables and electronegativities. The pairwise character of the
electronegativities in QTPIE avoids spurious charge transfer when bonds are
broken. However, the increased number of variables leads to considerable
computational expense and a rank-deficient set of working equations, which is
numerically inconvenient. Here, we show that QTPIE can be exactly reformulated
in terms of atomic charge variables, leading to a considerable reduction in
computational complexity. The transformation between atomic and bond variables
is generally applicable to arbitrary fluctuating charge models, and uncovers an
underlying topological framework that can be used to understand the relation
between fluctuating-charge models and the classical theory of electrical
circuits.Comment: 36 pages, 7 figures; submitted to J. Chem. Phy
Hopf algebras arising from dg manifolds
Let be a dg manifold. The space of vector fields with
shifted degrees is a Lie algebra object
in the homology category
of dg modules
over , the Atiyah class being its Lie
bracket. The triple
is also a Lie algebra object in the Gabriel-Zisman homotopy category
.
In this paper, we describe the universal enveloping algebra of
and prove that it
is a Hopf algebra object in
. As an application,
we study Fedosov dg Lie algebroids and recover a result of Sti\'enon, Xu, and
the second author on the Hopf algebra arising from a Lie pair.Comment: 37 pages, revised according to referees' comment
Multiparameter estimation via an ensemble of spinor atoms
Multiparameter estimation, which aims to simultaneously determine multiple
parameters in the same measurement procedure, attracts extensive interests in
measurement science and technologies. Here, we propose a multimode many-body
quantum interferometry for simultaneously estimating linear and quadratic
Zeeman coefficients via an ensemble of spinor atoms. Different from the scheme
with individual atoms, by using an -atom multimode GHZ state, the
measurement precisions of the two parameters can simultaneously attain the
Heisenberg limit, and they respectively depend on the hyperfine spin number
in the form of and .
Moreover, the simultaneous estimation can provide better precision than the
individual estimation. Further, by taking a three-mode interferometry with Bose
condensed spin-1 atoms for an example, we show how to perform the simultaneous
estimation of and . Our scheme provides a novel paradigm for
implementing multiparameter estimation with multimode quantum correlated
states.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Direct computation of stresses in linear elasticity
We present a new finite element method based on the formulation introduced by
Philippe G.~Ciarlet and Patrick Ciarlet, Jr. in [{\em Math. Models Methods
Appl. Sci., 15 (2005), pp. 259--571}], which approximates strain tensor
directly. We also show the convergence rate of strain tensor is optimal. This
work is a non-trivial generalization of its two dimensional analogue in [{\em
Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 19 (2009), pp. 1043--1064}
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