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Blockchain-Based System for Secure and Efficient Cross-Border Remittances: A Potential Alternative to SWIFT

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Journal of Software Engineering and Applications 2024年第8期17卷 664-712页

作者： Omoshola S. Owolabi Emmanuel Hinneh Prince C. Uche Nathaniel T. Adeniken Jennifer A. Ohaegbulem Samuel Attakorah Oluwabukola G. Emi-Johnson Chinaza S. Belolisa Harold Nwariaku Department of Data Science Carolina University Winston Salem NC USA Patterson School of Business Carolina University Winston Salem NC USA Department of Statistical Sciences Wake Forest University Winston Salem NC USA Department of Computer Science Fisk University Nashville TN USA Harold & Co Procurement and Supply Chain Consulting Lagos Nigeria

This paper proposes a blockchain-based system as a secure, efficient, and cost-effective alternative to SWIFT for cross-border remittances. The current SWIFT system faces challenges, including slow settlement times, high transaction costs, and vulnerability to fraud. Leveraging blockchain technology’s decentralized, transparent, and immutable nature, the proposed system aims to address these limitations. Key features include modular architecture, implementation of microservices, and advanced cryptographic protocols. The system incorporates Proof of Stake consensus with BLS signatures, smart contract execution with dynamic pricing, and a decentralized oracle network for currency conversion. A sophisticated risk-based authentication system utilizes Bayesian networks and machine learning for enhanced security. Mathematical models are presented for critical components, including transaction validation, currency conversion, and regulatory compliance. Simulations demonstrate potential improvements in transaction speed and costs. However, challenges such as regulatory hurdles, user adoption, scalability, and integration with legacy systems must be addressed. The paper provides a comparative analysis between the proposed blockchain system and SWIFT, highlighting advantages in transaction speed, costs, and security. Mitigation strategies are proposed for key challenges. Recommendations are made for further research into scaling solutions, regulatory frameworks, and user-centric designs. The adoption of blockchain-based remittances could significantly impact the financial sector, potentially disrupting traditional models and promoting financial inclusion in underserved markets. However, successful implementation will require collaboration between blockchain innovators, financial institutions, and regulators to create an enabling environment for this transformative system.

关键词： Interoperability Tokens AML/KYC Compliance Peer-to-Peer Transfers Financial Inclusion

Position: Bayesian Deep Learning is Needed in the Age of Large-Scale AI 41

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Position: Bayesian Deep Learning is Needed in the Age of Lar...

41st International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2024

作者： Papamarkou, Theodore Skoularidou, Maria Palla, Konstantina Aitchison, Laurence Arbel, Julyan Dunson, David Filippone, Maurizio Fortuin, Vincent Hennig, Philipp Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel Hubin, Aliaksandr Immer, Alexander Karaletsos, Theofanis Khan, Mohammad Emtiyaz Kristiadi, Agustinus Li, Yingzhen Mandt, Stephan Nemeth, Christopher Osborne, Michael A. Rudner, Tim G.J. Rügamer, David Teh, Yee Whye Welling, Max Wilson, Andrew Gordon Zhang, Ruqi Department of Mathematics The University of Manchester Manchester United Kingdom Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Cambridge United States Spotify London United Kingdom Computational Neuroscience Unit University of Bristol Bristol United Kingdom Centre Inria de l'Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble France Department of Statistical Science Duke University United States Statistics Program KAUST Saudi Arabia Helmholtz AI Munich Germany Department of Computer Science Technical University of Munich Munich Germany Munich Center for Machine Learning Munich Germany Tübingen AI Center University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom Department of Mathematics University of Oslo Oslo Norway Bioinformatics and Applied Statistics Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich Switzerland Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CA United States Center for Advanced Intelligence Project RIKEN Tokyo Japan Vector Institute Toronto Canada Department of Computing Imperial College London London United Kingdom Department of Computer Science UC Irvine Irvine United States Department of Mathematics and Statistics Lancaster University Lancaster United Kingdom Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom Center for Data Science New York University New York United States Department of Statistics LMU Munich Munich Germany DeepMind London United Kingdom Department of Statistics University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Center for Data Science Computer Science Department New York University New York United States Department of Computer Science Purdue University West Lafayette United States

In the current landscape of deep learning research, there is a predominant emphasis on achieving high predictive accuracy in supervised tasks involving large image and language datasets. However, a broader perspective reveals a multitude of overlooked metrics, tasks, and data types, such as uncertainty, active and continual learning, and scientific data, that demand attention. Bayesian deep learning (BDL) constitutes a promising avenue, offering advantages across these diverse settings. This paper posits that BDL can elevate the capabilities of deep learning. It revisits the strengths of BDL, acknowledges existing challenges, and highlights some exciting research avenues aimed at addressing these obstacles. Looking ahead, the discussion focuses on possible ways to combine large-scale foundation models with BDL to unlock their full potential. Copyright 2024 by the author(s)

关键词： Contrastive Learning

BENCHMARKING COMMUNITY DRUG RESPONSE PREDICTION MODELS: dataSETS, MODELS, TOOLS, AND METRICS FOR CROSS-dataSET GENERALIZATION ANALYSIS

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arXiv 2025年

作者： Partin, Alexander Vasanthakumari, Priyanka Narykov, Oleksandr Wilke, Andreas Koussa, Natasha Jones, Sara E. Zhu, Yitan Overbeek, Jamie C. Jain, Rajeev Fernando, Gayara Demini Sanchez-Villalobos, Cesar Garcia-Cardona, Cristina Mohd-Yusof, Jamaludin Chia, Nicholas Wozniak, Justin M. Ghosh, Souparno Pal, Ranadip Brettin, Thomas S. Weil, M. Ryan Stevens, Rick L. Division of Data Science and Learning Argonne National Laboratory LemontIL United States Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Cancer Data Science Initiatives Cancer Research Technology Program FrederickMD United States Department of Statistics University of Nebraska–Lincoln LincolnNE United States Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas Tech University LubbockTX United States Division of Computer Computational and Statistical Sciences Los Alamos National Laboratory Los AlamosNM United States Department of Computer Science The University of Chicago ChicagoIL United States

Deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) models have shown promise in drug response prediction (DRP), yet their ability to generalize across datasets remains an open question, raising concerns about their real-world applicability. Due to the lack of standardized benchmarking approaches, model evaluations and comparisons often rely on inconsistent datasets and evaluation criteria, making it difficult to assess true predictive capabilities. In this work, we introduce a benchmarking framework for evaluating cross-dataset prediction generalization in DRP models. Our framework incorporates five publicly available drug screening datasets, six standardized DRP models, and a scalable workflow for systematic evaluation. To assess model generalization, we introduce a set of evaluation metrics that quantify both absolute performance (e.g., predictive accuracy across datasets) and relative performance (e.g., performance drop compared to within-dataset results), enabling a more comprehensive assessment of model transferability. Our results reveal substantial performance drops when models are tested on unseen datasets, underscoring the importance of rigorous generalization assessments. While several models demonstrate relatively strong cross-dataset generalization, no single model consistently outperforms across all datasets. Furthermore, we identify CTRPv2 as the most effective source dataset for training, yielding higher generalization scores across target datasets. By sharing this standardized evaluation framework with the community, our study aims to establish a rigorous foundation for model comparison, and accelerate the development of robust DRP models for real-world applications. © 2025, CC BY.

关键词： Prediction models

Antithetic Multilevel Methods for Elliptic and Hypo-Elliptic Diffusions with Applications

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arXiv 2024年

作者： Iguchi, Yuga Jasra, Ajay Maama, Mohamed Beskos, Alexandros Department of Statistical Science University College London LondonWC1E 6BT United Kingdom School of Data Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen China Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program Computer Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal23955-6900 Saudi Arabia

In this paper we present a new antithetic multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for the estimation of expectations with respect to laws of diffusion processes that can be elliptic or hypo-elliptic. In particular, we consider the case where one has to resort to time discretization of the diffusion and numerical simulation of such schemes. Motivated by recent developments, we introduce a new MLMC estimator of expectations, which does not require simulation of intractable Lévy areas but has a weak error of order 2 and achieves the optimal computational complexity. We then show how this approach can be used in the context of the filtering problem associated to partially observed diffusions with discrete time observations. We illustrate with numerical simulations that our new approaches provide efficiency gains for several problems relative to some existing methods. © 2024, CC BY.

关键词： Diffusion

HOW MANY DIRECTIONS DETERMINE A SHAPE AND OTHER SUFFICIENCY RESULTS FOR TWO TOPOLOGICAL TRANSFORMS

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Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Series B 2022年第32期9卷 1006-1043页

作者： Curry, Justin Mukherjee, Sayan Turner, Katharine Department of Mathematics and Statistics University at Albany SUNY Albany 12222 NY United States Departments of Statistical Science Mathematics Computer Science Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Duke University Durham 27708 NC United States Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Universität Leipzig Germany Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Leipzig Germany Mathematical Sciences Institute Australian National University Canberra Australia

In this paper we consider two topological transforms that are pop-ular in applied topology: the Persistent Homology Transform and the Euler Characteristic Transform. Both of these transforms are of interest for their mathematical properties as well as their applications to science and engineer-ing, because they provide a way of summarizing shapes in a topological, yet quantitative, way. Both transforms take a shape, viewed as a tame subset M of R^d, and associates to each direction v ∈ S^d−1 a shape summary obtained by scanning M in the direction v. These shape summaries are either persistence diagrams or piecewise constant integer-valued functions called Euler curves. By using an inversion theorem of Schapira, we show that both transforms are injective on the space of shapes, i.e. each shape has a unique transform. Moreover, we prove that these transforms determine continuous maps from the sphere to the space of persistence diagrams, equipped with any Wasserstein p-distance, or the space of Euler curves, equipped with certain L^p norms. By making use of a stratified space structure on the sphere, induced by hyperplane divisions, we prove additional uniqueness results in terms of distributions on the space of Euler curves. Finally, our main result proves that any shape in a certain uncountable space of PL embedded shapes with plausible geometric bounds can be uniquely determined using only finitely many directions. © 2022 by the author(s) under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC BY 3.0).

关键词： Euler calculus persistent homology statistical shape analysis

Multilevel Monte Carlo for a class of Partially Observed Processes in Neuroscience

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arXiv 2023年

作者： Maama, Mohamed Jasra, Ajay Kamatani, Kengo Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program Computer Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal23955-6900 Saudi Arabia School of Data Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong CN Shenzhen China Institute of Statistical Mathematics Tokyo190-0014 Japan

In this paper we consider Bayesian parameter inference associated to a class of partially observed stochastic differential equations (SDE) driven by jump processes. Such type of models can be routinely found in applications, of which we focus upon the case of neuroscience. The data are assumed to be observed regularly in time and driven by the SDE model with unknown parameters. In practice the SDE may not have an analytically tractable solution and this leads naturally to a time-discretization. We adapt the multilevel Markov chain Monte Carlo method of [15], which works with a hierarchy of time discretizations and show empirically and theoretically that this is preferable to using one single time discretization. The improvement is in terms of the computational cost needed to obtain a pre-specified numerical error. Our approach is illustrated on models applied to examples of Bayesian inference problems using both simulated and real observed data from neuroscience. Copyright © 2023, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Stochastic systems

Stochastic gradient descent estimation of generalized matrix factorization models with application to single-cell RNA sequencing data

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arXiv 2024年

作者： Castiglione, Cristian Segers, Alexandre Clement, Lieven Risso, Davide Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics Bocconi University Via Röntgen 1 Milan20136 Italy Department of Applied Mathematics Computer Science and Statistics Ghent University Krijgslaan 281-S9 Ghent9000 Belgium Department of Statistical Sciences University of Padova Via Cesare Battisti 241 Padova35121 Italy

Single–cell RNA sequencing allows the quantitation of gene expression at the individual cell level, enabling the study of cellular heterogeneity and gene expression dynamics. Dimensionality reduction is a common preprocessing step to simplify the visualization, clustering, and phenotypic characterization of samples. This step, often performed using principal component analysis or closely related methods, is challenging because of the size and complexity of the data. In this work, we present a generalized matrix factorization model assuming a general exponential dispersion family distribution and we show that many of the proposed approaches in the single–cell dimensionality reduction literature can be seen as special cases of this model. Furthermore, we propose a scalable adaptive stochastic gradient descent algorithm that allows us to estimate the model efficiently, enabling the analysis of millions of cells. Our contribution extends to introducing a novel warm start initialization method, designed to accelerate algorithm convergence and increase the precision of final estimates. Moreover, we discuss strategies for dealing with missing values and model selection. We benchmark the proposed algorithm through extensive numerical experiments against state-of-the-art methods and showcase its use in real-world biological applications. The proposed method systematically outperforms existing methods of both generalized and non-negative matrix factorization, demonstrating faster execution times while maintaining, or even enhancing, matrix reconstruction fidelity and accuracy in biological signal extraction. Finally, all the methods discussed here are implemented in an efficient open-source R package, sgdGMF, available at github/CristianCastiglione/sgdGMF. © 2024, CC BY.

关键词： Non-negative matrix factorization

Modeling of Measurement Error in Financial Returns data

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arXiv 2024年

作者： Jasra, Ajay Maama, Mohamed Mijatović, Aleksandar School of Data Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen China Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program Computer Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal23955-6900 Saudi Arabia Department of Statistics University of Warwick United Kingdom

In this paper we consider the modeling of measurement error for fund returns data. In particular, given access to a time-series of discretely observed log-returns and the associated maximum over the observation period, we develop a stochastic model which models the true log-returns and maximum via a Lévy process and the data as a measurement error there-of. The main technical difficulty of trying to infer this model, for instance Bayesian parameter estimation, is that the joint transition density of the return and maximum is seldom known, nor can it be simulated exactly. Based upon the novel stick breaking representation of [12] we provide an approximation of the model. We develop a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to sample from the Bayesian posterior of the approximated posterior and then extend this to a multilevel MCMC method which can reduce the computational cost to approximate posterior expectations, relative to ordinary MCMC. We implement our methodology on several applications including for real data. Copyright © 2024, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Markov chains

Biomedical data and AI

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science China Life sciences 2025年第5期68卷 1536-1540页

作者： Hao Xu Shibo Zhou Zefeng Zhu Vincenzo Vitelli Liangyi Chen Ziwei Dai Ning Yang Luhua Lai Shengyong Yang Sergey Ovchinnikov Zhuoran Qiao Sirui Liu Chen Song Jianfeng Pei Han Wen Jianfeng Feng Yaoyao Zhang Zhengwei Xie Yang-Yu Liu Zhiyuan Li Fulai Jin Hao Li Mohammad Lotfollahi Xuegong Zhang Ge Yang Shihua Zhang Ge Gao Pulin Li Qi Liu Jing-Dong Jackie Han Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences (CLS) Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesPeking University Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB) Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesPeking University Peking University-Tsinghua University-National Institute of Biological Sciences Joint Graduate Program Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesPeking University Department of Physics University of Chicago School of Life Sciences Southern University of Science and Technology Peking University Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Department of Biotherapy Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of BiotherapyWest China HospitalSichuan University Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lambic Therapeutics Inc. Changping Laboratory Al for Science Institute Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Fudan University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology West China Second University HospitalSichuan University Peking University International Cancer Institute and Peking University-Yunnan Baiyao International Medical Institute and State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Molecular and Cellular PharmacologySchool of Pharmaceutical SciencesPeking University Health Science CenterPeking University Channing Division of Network Medicine Department of MedicineBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling the Carl R.Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences School of Medicine and Department of Computer and Data Sciences and Department of Population and Quantitative Health SciencesCase Western Reserve University Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California Sanger Institute Department of Automation Tsinghua University State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems I

The development of artificial intelligence(AI) and the mining of biomedical data complement each other. From the direct use of computer vision results to analyze medical images for disease screening, to now integrating biological knowledge into models and even accelerating the development of new AI based on biological discoveries, the boundaries of both are constantly expanding, and their connections are becoming closer.

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