The heavy-tail phenomenon in SGD

M Gurbuzbalaban, U Simsekli… - … Conference on Machine …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
… , SGD exhibits a ‘heavy-tail phenomenon’, meaning that the law of the iterates converges to
a heavy-tailed distribution. We rigorously prove that, this phenomenon is not specific to deep …

Tail Index Estimation for Discrete Heavy-Tailed Distributions with Application to Statistical Inference for Regular Markov Chains

P Bertail, S Clémençon, C Fernández - 2023 - hal.science
… Just like the popular Hill estimator in the continuous heavy-tail situation, the estimator ̂β
we propose can be derived by means of a suitable reformulation of the regularly varying …

Risk Theory: A Heavy Tail Approach. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2017, xii+ 494 pp., $169.00 (H), ISBN: 978-9-81-322314-1.

C Zhou - 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… claim size, the ruin probability is still decaying at an exponential speed. Chapter 3 further
handles approximations of the ruin probability: if one approximates the ruin probability by an …

Heavy Tails and Copulas. Topics in Dependence Modelling in Economics and Finance

G Puccetti - 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… loss data, statistical investigation quite often indicates random variables with an heavy tail.
As described in the introductory part (Chapter 1) of the book, many events in the stock market …

Propagation of Input Tail Uncertainty in Rare-Event Estimation: A Light versus Heavy Tail Dichotomy

Z Huang, H Lam, Z Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00172, 2023 - arxiv.org
… In contrast to the heavy tail setting, we do not establish results about unreliable estimation in
… that the estimation problem is harder for the heavy tail case (see the discussion in Section 3)…

A new probability model with application to heavy-tailed hydrological data

T Hussain, HS Bakouch, C Chesneau - … and Ecological Statistics, 2019 - Springer
… a versatile hydrologic probability model with three parameters. The proposed model is a …
From this, it is evident the distribution reflects light and heavy tail behavior. Moreover, it is …

On HeavyTail Phenomena in Some Large‐Deviations Problems

F Augeri - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We show that some heavy-tail phenomena observed in large deviations can be explained
by the same mechanism as for the Wiener chaoses, meaning that the deviations are created, …

Understanding heavy tails of flood peak distributions

B Merz, S Basso, S Fischer, D Lun… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… This heavy tail behavior may surprise flood managers and … Despite its high importance, the
literature on the heavy tail behavior … the statistical conditions for the emergence of heavy tail

Searching for heavy-tailed probability distributions for modeling real-world complex networks

T Chakraborty, S Chattopadhyay, S Das… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
models" (GLM), a new class of heavytailed probability distributions, to describe real networks
than the strict scale-free property. In generalized Lomax models… and heavy-tail behavior) of …

On the impacts of tail model uncertainty in rare-event estimation

Z Huang, H Lam - 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… a heavy-tail rare … of heavy-tail inputs would lead to estimates as if the system is light-tail,
and the ultimate effect could be that the estimation error is as large as the rare-event probability