Summary of A Note on Asynchronous Challenges: Unveiling Formulaic Bias and Data Loss in the Hayashi-yoshida Estimator, by Evangelos Georgiadis
A Note on Asynchronous Challenges: Unveiling Formulaic Bias and Data Loss in the Hayashi-Yoshida Estimator
by Evangelos Georgiadis
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Combinatorics (math.CO); Probability (math.PR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The Hayashi-Yoshida (HY)-estimator, a machine learning algorithm, has an inherent computational bias that can lead to significant data loss. This paper aims to formalize and quantify this bias, which is characterized by cancelling out relevant data points. The authors demonstrate the existence of non-existent data points through a concrete example and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the bias to occur. They also introduce the (a,b)-asynchronous adversary, which generates inputs according to independent Poisson processes. The paper determines the minimal average cumulative data loss over both inputs and presents an algorithm to compute the exact number of non-existent data points given the inputs. Finally, it compares the HY-estimator’s cumulative average data loss using simulated data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Hayashi-Yoshida estimators can lose data because they cancel out important information. This paper explains how this happens and shows that some data is lost forever. The authors use a simple example to demonstrate this problem and then describe when it occurs. They also create an “adversary” that generates fake inputs to test the HY-estimator’s performance. The goal of the paper is to understand why and how much data is lost, and they provide some new methods to calculate this loss. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
