The Virtue of Sparsity in Complexity

arXiv:2604.17166 · q-fin.GN, cs.LG, econ.EM, q-fin.PM, q-fin.PR · Submitted 2026-04-18 · Read on arXiv

q-fin.GN, cs.LG, econ.EM, q-fin.PM, q-fin.PR

Submitted: 2026-04-18

Updated: 2026-09-21

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Sparsity — 59× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Parsimony — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Expected Shortfall — 4× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes

Sources

• Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different

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