Covariance shrinkage can assess and improve functional connectomes

Honnorat, Nicolas; Habes, Mohamad

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119229

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“…A wide range of domains rely on the analysis of high-dimensional time-series data. For example, this includes medical systems with MRI denoising (Honnorat and Habes, 2022), radar sensors (Kang et al, 2019) post-processing, physics and chemistry, engineering, neuroscience, speech recognition, and quantitative finance (Ledoit and Wolf, 2020b). These applications often require a reliable estimate of the covariance matrix.…”

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Semantic Similarity Covariance Matrix Shrinkage

Becquin,

Esmeir

2023

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

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An accurate estimation of the covariance matrix is a critical component of many applications in finance, including portfolio optimization. The sample covariance suffers from the curse of dimensionality when the number of observations is in the same order or lower than the number of variables. This tends to be the case in portfolio optimization, where a portfolio manager can choose between thousands of stocks using historical daily returns to guide their investment decisions. To address this issue, past works proposed linear covariance shrinkage to regularize the estimated matrix. While effective, the proposed methods relied solely on historical price data and thus ignored company fundamental data. In this work, we propose to utilise semantic similarity derived from textual descriptions or knowledge graphs to improve the covariance estimation. Rather than using the semantic similarity directly as a biased estimator to the covariance, we employ it as a shrinkage target. The resulting covariance estimators leverage both semantic similarity and recent price history, and can be readily adapted to a broad range of financial securities. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated for a period including diverse market conditions and compared with the covariance shrinkage prior art.

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confidence: 99%