286 research outputs found
Quantitative Selection of Long-Short Hedge Funds
We develop a quantitative model to select hedge funds in the long-short equity sector. The selection strategy is verified on a survivorship-bias-free hedge fund database, from January 1990 to September 2002. We focus on the hedge funds acting exclusively in the U.S. market. We identify Fama-French factors and GSCI as the risk factors. Based on the evidence that many hedge funds do not exhibit persistent performance, we believe that persistent alpha is not generated based on publicly available information and opportunistic changes of exposure with respect to the risk factors. Instead we expect moderate exposure funds to be those who establish investment decisions based on special information or proprietary research. A hedge fund selection strategy is introduced and checked with out-of-sample data. A simulation of hedge funds from 1927 to 2002 is conducted. The funds selected according to our strategy demonstrate superior performance persistently.Hedge Fund; Long Short Strategy; Fama-French; Commodity; Performance Persistence; Skewness; Selection
Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Web-Scale Recommender Systems
Recent advancements in deep neural networks for graph-structured data have
led to state-of-the-art performance on recommender system benchmarks. However,
making these methods practical and scalable to web-scale recommendation tasks
with billions of items and hundreds of millions of users remains a challenge.
Here we describe a large-scale deep recommendation engine that we developed and
deployed at Pinterest. We develop a data-efficient Graph Convolutional Network
(GCN) algorithm PinSage, which combines efficient random walks and graph
convolutions to generate embeddings of nodes (i.e., items) that incorporate
both graph structure as well as node feature information. Compared to prior GCN
approaches, we develop a novel method based on highly efficient random walks to
structure the convolutions and design a novel training strategy that relies on
harder-and-harder training examples to improve robustness and convergence of
the model. We also develop an efficient MapReduce model inference algorithm to
generate embeddings using a trained model. We deploy PinSage at Pinterest and
train it on 7.5 billion examples on a graph with 3 billion nodes representing
pins and boards, and 18 billion edges. According to offline metrics, user
studies and A/B tests, PinSage generates higher-quality recommendations than
comparable deep learning and graph-based alternatives. To our knowledge, this
is the largest application of deep graph embeddings to date and paves the way
for a new generation of web-scale recommender systems based on graph
convolutional architectures.Comment: KDD 201
Coexistence Designs of Radar and Communication Systems in a Multi-path Scenario
The focus of this study is on the spectrum sharing between multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) communications and co-located MIMO radar systems in
multi-path environments. The major challenge is to suppress the mutual
interference between the two systems while combining the useful multi-path
components received at each system. We tackle this challenge by jointly
designing the communication precoder, radar transmit waveform and receive
filter. Specifically, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the
radar receiver is maximized subject to constraints on the radar waveform,
communication rate and transmit power. The multi-path propagation complicates
the expressions of the radar SINR and communication rate, leading to a
non-convex problem. To solve it, a sub-optimal algorithm based on the
alternating maximization is used to optimize the precoder, radar transmit
waveform and receive filter iteratively. Simulation results are provided to
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design
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