arXiv Machine Learning

FunnelCausalNet: Funnel-aware Joint Conversion-Revenue Uplift for Multi-tier Coupon Allocation

arXiv:2608. 11675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coupon campaigns seek to lift both conversion and revenue, but gross merchandise value (GMV) follows a deterministic funnel from conversion to conditional order value and is zero-inflated and heavy-tailed.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

PaGNet: A Panel-Aware GBDT--Neural Network for Multi-Target Corporate Tax Avoidance Proxy Forecasting

PaGNet is a hybrid panel‑aware model that combines a LightGBM branch with panel‑temporal summaries and a Panel‑MLP branch using attention‑pooled aggregation and shared‑trunk multi‑task learning. It produces predictions for corporate tax avoidance proxies while providing a per‑target diagnostic that indicates which branch contributed most to each forecast. On a panel of 1,754 Korean firms, PaGNet improves explained variance over six baselines by 0.08–0.11 on key accrual targets and demonstrates stable routing and diagnostic consistency across different feature regimes.

By Wonho Song, Hyungjoon Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Beyond Model Ranking: Regime Diagnosis for Distributional-Statistical Misspecification in Industrial Time-Series Forecasting

The paper introduces a regime‑diagnosis framework for industrial time‑series forecasting, highlighting that canonical loss functions embed fixed statistical priors that are violated in real‑world demand regimes such as zero‑inflation, skewness, and high variability. It proposes the Regime‑wise Relative Bias Vector (RBV) as a metric‑agnostic diagnostic that decomposes bias into an intrinsic floor and an excess attributable to training. A large‑scale study across 13 loss objectives and 60,000+ series demonstrates that regime‑aware diagnosis distinguishes optimization‑from‑bias failures and that regime‑aware training can eliminate pooling‑induced bias that mere capacity scaling cannot.

By Pengyu Nie, Chenglang Xu, Yaoshi Chen, Chaogan Ren, Wei Hu, Chao Yang, Jiangong Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

Observational Policy Ranking for SMB Financial Guidance from Multi-Action Accounting Logs

arXiv:2608. 10050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small and medium-sized businesses need timely financial guidance, yet historical accounting logs record self-selected and often co-occurring business changes rather than randomized recommendations.

By Shrutendra Harsola, Vignesh Subrahmaniam, Vikas Raturi, Kamalika Das, Xiang Gao, Kratika Gupta, Ruocheng Guo, Padmaja Jonnalagedda, Ananya Pramod, Sricharan Kumar