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Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
We develop a model in which firms hire heterogeneous workers but must offer all workers insurance benefits under similar terms. In equilibrium, some firms offer free health insurance, some require an employee premium payment and some do not offer insurance. Making the employee contribution pre-tax lowers the cost to workers of a given employee premium and encourages more firms to charge. This increases the offer rate, lowers the take-up rate, increases (decreases) coverage among high (low) demand groups, with an indeterminate overall effect. We test the model using the expansion of section 125 plans between 1987 and 1996. The results are generally supportive.
Young wall realization of crystal graphs for U_q(C_n^{(1)})
We give a realization of crystal graphs for basic representations of the
quantum affine algebra U_q(C_n^{(1)}) using combinatorics of Young walls. The
notion of splitting blocks plays a crucial role in the construction of crystal
graphs
Conditional Screening for Ultra-high Dimensional Covariates with Survival Outcomes
Identifying important biomarkers that are predictive for cancer patients'
prognosis is key in gaining better insights into the biological influences on
the disease and has become a critical component of precision medicine. The
emergence of large-scale biomedical survival studies, which typically involve
excessive number of biomarkers, has brought high demand in designing efficient
screening tools for selecting predictive biomarkers. The vast amount of
biomarkers defies any existing variable selection methods via regularization.
The recently developed variable screening methods, though powerful in many
practical setting, fail to incorporate prior information on the importance of
each biomarker and are less powerful in detecting marginally weak while jointly
important signals. We propose a new conditional screening method for survival
outcome data by computing the marginal contribution of each biomarker given
priorly known biological information. This is based on the premise that some
biomarkers are known to be associated with disease outcomes a priori. Our
method possesses sure screening properties and a vanishing false selection
rate. The utility of the proposal is further confirmed with extensive
simulation studies and analysis of a Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
dataset.Comment: 34 pages, 3 figure
Seeing voices and hearing voices: learning discriminative embeddings using cross-modal self-supervision
The goal of this work is to train discriminative cross-modal embeddings
without access to manually annotated data. Recent advances in self-supervised
learning have shown that effective representations can be learnt from natural
cross-modal synchrony. We build on earlier work to train embeddings that are
more discriminative for uni-modal downstream tasks. To this end, we propose a
novel training strategy that not only optimises metrics across modalities, but
also enforces intra-class feature separation within each of the modalities. The
effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on two downstream tasks: lip
reading using the features trained on audio-visual synchronisation, and speaker
recognition using the features trained for cross-modal biometric matching. The
proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised baselines by a
signficant margin.Comment: Under submission as a conference pape
Perfect match: Improved cross-modal embeddings for audio-visual synchronisation
This paper proposes a new strategy for learning powerful cross-modal
embeddings for audio-to-video synchronization. Here, we set up the problem as
one of cross-modal retrieval, where the objective is to find the most relevant
audio segment given a short video clip. The method builds on the recent
advances in learning representations from cross-modal self-supervision.
The main contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) we propose a new
learning strategy where the embeddings are learnt via a multi-way matching
problem, as opposed to a binary classification (matching or non-matching)
problem as proposed by recent papers; (2) we demonstrate that performance of
this method far exceeds the existing baselines on the synchronization task; (3)
we use the learnt embeddings for visual speech recognition in self-supervision,
and show that the performance matches the representations learnt end-to-end in
a fully-supervised manner.Comment: Preprint. Work in progres
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