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Strong and broadly tunable plasmon resonances in thick films of aligned carbon nanotubes
Low-dimensional plasmonic materials can function as high quality terahertz and infrared antennas at deep subwavelength scales. Despite these antennas' strong coupling to electromagnetic fields, there is a pressing need to further strengthen their absorption. We address this problem by fabricating thick films of align...
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The coordination of centralised and distributed generation
In this paper, we analyse the interaction between centralised carbon emissive technologies and distributed intermittent non-emissive technologies. A representative consumer can satisfy his electricity demand by investing in distributed generation (solar panels) and by buying power from a centralised firm at a price t...
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Computation of annular capacity by Hamiltonian Floer theory of non-contractible periodic trajectories
The first author introduced a relative symplectic capacity $C$ for a symplectic manifold $(N,\omega_N)$ and its subset $X$ which measures the existence of non-contractible periodic trajectories of Hamiltonian isotopies on the product of $N$ with the annulus $A_R=(R,R)\times\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$. In the present paper...
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A New Torsion Pendulum for Gravitational Reference Sensor Technology Development
We report on the design and sensitivity of a new torsion pendulum for measuring the performance of ultra-precise inertial sensors and for the development of associated technologies for space-based gravitational wave observatories and geodesy missions. The apparatus comprises a 1 m-long, 50 um-diameter, tungsten fiber...
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Optical Angular Momentum in Classical Electrodynamics
Invoking Maxwell's classical equations in conjunction with expressions for the electromagnetic (EM) energy, momentum, force, and torque, we use a few simple examples to demonstrate the nature of the EM angular momentum. The energy and the angular momentum of an EM field will be shown to have an intimate relationship;...
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Efficient variational Bayesian neural network ensembles for outlier detection
In this work we perform outlier detection using ensembles of neural networks obtained by variational approximation of the posterior in a Bayesian neural network setting. The variational parameters are obtained by sampling from the true posterior by gradient descent. We show our outlier detection results are comparabl...
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Emergent high-spin state above 7 GPa in superconducting FeSe
The local electronic and magnetic properties of superconducting FeSe have been investigated by K$\beta$ x-ray emission (XES) and simultaneous x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at the Fe K-edge at high pressure and low temperature. Our results indicate a sluggish decrease of the local Fe spin moment under pressure u...
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Verification in Staged Tile Self-Assembly
We prove the unique assembly and unique shape verification problems, benchmark measures of self-assembly model power, are $\mathrm{coNP}^{\mathrm{NP}}$-hard and contained in $\mathrm{PSPACE}$ (and in $\mathrm{\Pi}^\mathrm{P}_{2s}$ for staged systems with $s$ stages). En route, we prove that unique shape verification ...
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Combinets: Creativity via Recombination of Neural Networks
One of the defining characteristics of human creativity is the ability to make conceptual leaps, creating something surprising from typical knowledge. In comparison, deep neural networks often struggle to handle cases outside of their training data, which is especially problematic for problems with limited training d...
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Siamese Network of Deep Fisher-Vector Descriptors for Image Retrieval
This paper addresses the problem of large scale image retrieval, with the aim of accurately ranking the similarity of a large number of images to a given query image. To achieve this, we propose a novel Siamese network. This network consists of two computational strands, each comprising of a CNN component followed by...
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Gender Disparities in Science? Dropout, Productivity, Collaborations and Success of Male and Female Computer Scientists
Scientific collaborations shape ideas as well as innovations and are both the substrate for, and the outcome of, academic careers. Recent studies show that gender inequality is still present in many scientific practices ranging from hiring to peer-review processes and grant applications. In this work, we investigate ...
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Estimating a network from multiple noisy realizations
Complex interactions between entities are often represented as edges in a network. In practice, the network is often constructed from noisy measurements and inevitably contains some errors. In this paper we consider the problem of estimating a network from multiple noisy observations where edges of the original netwo...
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Autonomous drone race: A computationally efficient vision-based navigation and control strategy
Drone racing is becoming a popular sport where human pilots have to control their drones to fly at high speed through complex environments and pass a number of gates in a pre-defined sequence. In this paper, we develop an autonomous system for drones to race fully autonomously using only onboard resources. Instead of...
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Experimental investigations on nucleation, bubble growth, and micro-explosion characteristics during the combustion of ethanol/Jet A-1 fuel droplets
The combustion characteristics of ethanol/Jet A-1 fuel droplets having three different proportions of ethanol (10%, 30%, and 50% by vol.) are investigated in the present study. The large volatility differential between ethanol and Jet A-1 and the nominal immiscibility of the fuels seem to result in combustion charact...
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Hypergraph $p$-Laplacian: A Differential Geometry View
The graph Laplacian plays key roles in information processing of relational data, and has analogies with the Laplacian in differential geometry. In this paper, we generalize the analogy between graph Laplacian and differential geometry to the hypergraph setting, and propose a novel hypergraph $p$-Laplacian. Unlike th...
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Controlling motile disclinations in a thick nematogenic material with an electric field
Manipulating topological disclination networks that arise in a symmetry-breaking phase transfor- mation in widely varied systems including anisotropic materials can potentially lead to the design of novel materials like conductive microwires, self-assembled resonators, and active anisotropic matter. However, progress...
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How Generative Adversarial Networks and Their Variants Work: An Overview
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have received wide attention in the machine learning field for their potential to learn high-dimensional, complex real data distribution. Specifically, they do not rely on any assumptions about the distribution and can generate real-like samples from latent space in a simple mann...
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Principal Boundary on Riemannian Manifolds
We revisit the classification problem and focus on nonlinear methods for classification on manifolds. For multivariate datasets lying on an embedded nonlinear Riemannian manifold within the higher-dimensional space, our aim is to acquire a classification boundary between the classes with labels. Motivated by the prin...
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Exploiting network topology for large-scale inference of nonlinear reaction models
The development of chemical reaction models aids understanding and prediction in areas ranging from biology to electrochemistry and combustion. A systematic approach to building reaction network models uses observational data not only to estimate unknown parameters, but also to learn model structure. Bayesian inferen...
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Numerical investigations of non-uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes initial value problem in borderline spaces
We consider the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ for a one-parameter family of explicit scale-invariant axi-symmetric initial data, which is smooth away from the origin and invariant under the reflection with respect to the $xy$-plane. Working in the class of axi-symmetr...
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Time-lagged autoencoders: Deep learning of slow collective variables for molecular kinetics
Inspired by the success of deep learning techniques in the physical and chemical sciences, we apply a modification of an autoencoder type deep neural network to the task of dimension reduction of molecular dynamics data. We can show that our time-lagged autoencoder reliably finds low-dimensional embeddings for high-d...
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Some integrable maps and their Hirota bilinear forms
We introduce a two-parameter family of birational maps, which reduces to a family previously found by Demskoi, Tran, van der Kamp and Quispel (DTKQ) when one of the parameters is set to zero. The study of the singularity confinement pattern for these maps leads to the introduction of a tau function satisfying a homog...
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Dynamics of higher-order rational solitons for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the self-induced parity-time-symmetric potential
The integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger (NNLS) equation with the self-induced parity-time-symmetric potential [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 064105] is investigated, which is an integrable extension of the standard NLS equation. Its novel higher-order rational solitons are found using the nonlocal version of the ...
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N2N Learning: Network to Network Compression via Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning
While bigger and deeper neural network architectures continue to advance the state-of-the-art for many computer vision tasks, real-world adoption of these networks is impeded by hardware and speed constraints. Conventional model compression methods attempt to address this problem by modifying the architecture manuall...
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Spectral analysis of stationary random bivariate signals
A novel approach towards the spectral analysis of stationary random bivariate signals is proposed. Using the Quaternion Fourier Transform, we introduce a quaternion-valued spectral representation of random bivariate signals seen as complex-valued sequences. This makes possible the definition of a scalar quaternion-va...
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Scalable Gaussian Processes with Billions of Inducing Inputs via Tensor Train Decomposition
We propose a method (TT-GP) for approximate inference in Gaussian Process (GP) models. We build on previous scalable GP research including stochastic variational inference based on inducing inputs, kernel interpolation, and structure exploiting algebra. The key idea of our method is to use Tensor Train decomposition ...
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Some preliminary results on the set of principal congruences of a finite lattice
In the second edition of the congruence lattice book, Problem 22.1 asks for a characterization of subsets $Q$ of a finite distributive lattice $D$ such that there is a finite lattice $L$ whose congruence lattice is isomorphic to $D$ and under this isomorphism $Q$ corresponds the the principal congruences of $L$. In t...
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Extracting 3D Vascular Structures from Microscopy Images using Convolutional Recurrent Networks
Vasculature is known to be of key biological significance, especially in the study of cancer. As such, considerable effort has been focused on the automated measurement and analysis of vasculature in medical and pre-clinical images. In tumors in particular, the vascular networks may be extremely irregular and the app...
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Search for Interstellar LiH in the Milky Way
We report the results of a sensitive search for the 443.952902 GHz $J=1-0$ transition of the LiH molecule toward two interstellar clouds in the Milky Way, W49N and Sgr B2 (Main), that has been carried out using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. The results obtained toward W49N place an upper limit o...
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Neural Probabilistic Model for Non-projective MST Parsing
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic parsing model, which defines a proper conditional probability distribution over non-projective dependency trees for a given sentence, using neural representations as inputs. The neural network architecture is based on bi-directional LSTM-CNNs which benefits from both word- an...
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Modularity of complex networks models
Modularity is designed to measure the strength of division of a network into clusters (known also as communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the vertices within clusters but sparse connections between vertices of different clusters. As a result, modularity is often used in optimizat...
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BOLD5000: A public fMRI dataset of 5000 images
Vision science, particularly machine vision, has been revolutionized by introducing large-scale image datasets and statistical learning approaches. Yet, human neuroimaging studies of visual perception still rely on small numbers of images (around 100) due to time-constrained experimental procedures. To apply statisti...
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Prospects for gravitational wave astronomy with next generation large-scale pulsar timing arrays
Next generation radio telescopes, namely the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), will revolutionize the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) based gravitational wave (GW) searches. We review some of the characteristics of FAST and SKA, and the resulting PTAs, that are p...
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On Identifiability of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
In this letter, we propose a new identification criterion that guarantees the recovery of the low-rank latent factors in the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) model, under mild conditions. Specifically, using the proposed criterion, it suffices to identify the latent factors if the rows of one factor are \emph{s...
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Optimal Non-blocking Decentralized Supervisory Control Using G-Control Consistency
Supervisory control synthesis encounters with computational complexity. This can be reduced by decentralized supervisory control approach. In this paper, we define intrinsic control consistency for a pair of states of the plant. G-control consistency (GCC) is another concept which is defined for a natural projection ...
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Fair mixing: the case of dichotomous preferences
Agents vote to choose a fair mixture of public outcomes; each agent likes or dislikes each outcome. We discuss three outstanding voting rules. The Conditional Utilitarian rule, a variant of the random dictator, is Strategyproof and guarantees to any group of like-minded agents an influence proportional to its size. I...
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Inverse system characterizations of the (hereditarily) just infinite property in profinite groups
We give criteria on an inverse system of finite groups that ensure the limit is just infinite or hereditarily just infinite. More significantly, these criteria are 'universal' in that all (hereditarily) just infinite profinite groups arise as limits of the specified form. This is a corrected and revised version of th...
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p-FP: Extraction, Classification, and Prediction of Website Fingerprints with Deep Learning
Recent advances in learning Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures have received a great deal of attention due to their ability to outperform state-of-the-art classifiers across a wide range of applications, with little or no feature engineering. In this paper, we broadly study the applicability of deep learning to ...
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Equal confidence weighted expectation value estimates
In this article the issues are discussed with the Bayesian approach, least-square fits, and most-likely fits. Trying to counter these issues, a method, based on weighted confidence, is proposed for estimating probabilities and other observables. This method sums over different model parameter combinations but does no...
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Protein Folding and Machine Learning: Fundamentals
In spite of decades of research, much remains to be discovered about folding: the detailed structure of the initial (unfolded) state, vestigial folding instructions remaining only in the unfolded state, the interaction of the molecule with the solvent, instantaneous power at each point within the molecule during fold...
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Discrete configuration spaces of squares and hexagons
We consider generalizations of the familiar fifteen-piece sliding puzzle on the 4 by 4 square grid. On larger grids with more pieces and more holes, asymptotically how fast can we move the puzzle into the solved state? We also give a variation with sliding hexagons. The square puzzles and the hexagon puzzles are both...
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On the non commutative Iwasawa main conjecture for abelian varieties over function fields
We establish the Iwasawa main conjecture for semi-stable abelian varieties over a function field of characteristic $p$ under certain restrictive assumptions. Namely we consider $p$-torsion free $p$-adic Lie extensions of the base field which contain the constant $\mathbb Z_p$-extension and are everywhere unramified. ...
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Absorption and Emission Probabilities of Electrons in Electric and Magnetic Fields for FEL
We consider induced emission of ultrarelativistic electrons in strong electric (magnetic) fields that are uniform along the direction of the electron motion and are not uniform in the transverse direction. The stimulated absorption and emission probabilities are found in such system.
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Design, Development and Evaluation of a UAV to Study Air Quality in Qatar
Measuring gases for air quality monitoring is a challenging task that claims a lot of time of observation and large numbers of sensors. The aim of this project is to develop a partially autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with sensors, in order to monitor and collect air quality real time data in design...
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Gaussian Process bandits with adaptive discretization
In this paper, the problem of maximizing a black-box function $f:\mathcal{X} \to \mathbb{R}$ is studied in the Bayesian framework with a Gaussian Process (GP) prior. In particular, a new algorithm for this problem is proposed, and high probability bounds on its simple and cumulative regret are established. The query ...
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Conditional Time Series Forecasting with Convolutional Neural Networks
We present a method for conditional time series forecasting based on an adaptation of the recent deep convolutional WaveNet architecture. The proposed network contains stacks of dilated convolutions that allow it to access a broad range of history when forecasting, a ReLU activation function and conditioning is perfo...
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Automated Assistants to Identify and Prompt Action on Visual News Bias
Bias is a common problem in today's media, appearing frequently in text and in visual imagery. Users on social media websites such as Twitter need better methods for identifying bias. Additionally, activists --those who are motivated to effect change related to some topic, need better methods to identify and countera...
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A Matched Filter Technique For Slow Radio Transient Detection And First Demonstration With The Murchison Widefield Array
Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are setting increasingly stringent limits on the transient surface density on various timescales. Although m...
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Shape and Energy Consistent Pseudopotentials for Correlated Electron systems
A method is developed for generating pseudopotentials for use in correlated-electron calculations. The paradigms of shape and energy consistency are combined and defined in terms of correlated-electron wave-functions. The resulting energy consistent correlated electron pseudopotentials (eCEPPs) are constructed for H,...
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Bayes model selection
We offer a general Bayes theoretic framework to tackle the model selection problem under a two-step prior design: the first-step prior serves to assess the model selection uncertainty, and the second-step prior quantifies the prior belief on the strength of the signals within the model chosen from the first step. We ...
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Phase Congruency Parameter Optimization for Enhanced Detection of Image Features for both Natural and Medical Applications
Following the presentation and proof of the hypothesis that image features are particularly perceived at points where the Fourier components are maximally in phase, the concept of phase congruency (PC) is introduced. Subsequently, a two-dimensional multi-scale phase congruency (2D-MSPC) is developed, which has been a...
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Community structure detection and evaluation during the pre- and post-ictal hippocampal depth recordings
Detecting and evaluating regions of brain under various circumstances is one of the most interesting topics in computational neuroscience. However, the majority of the studies on detecting communities of a functional connectivity network of the brain is done on networks obtained from coherency attributes, and not fro...
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Shapley effects for sensitivity analysis with correlated inputs: comparisons with Sobol' indices, numerical estimation and applications
The global sensitivity analysis of a numerical model aims to quantify, by means of sensitivity indices estimate, the contributions of each uncertain input variable to the model output uncertainty. The so-called Sobol' indices, which are based on the functional variance analysis, present a difficult interpretation in ...
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Ridesourcing Car Detection by Transfer Learning
Ridesourcing platforms like Uber and Didi are getting more and more popular around the world. However, unauthorized ridesourcing activities taking advantages of the sharing economy can greatly impair the healthy development of this emerging industry. As the first step to regulate on-demand ride services and eliminate...
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A Semantic Cross-Species Derived Data Management Application
Managing dynamic information in large multi-site, multi-species, and multi-discipline consortia is a challenging task for data management applications. Often in academic research studies the goals for informatics teams are to build applications that provide extract-transform-load (ETL) functionality to archive and ca...
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Retrosynthetic reaction prediction using neural sequence-to-sequence models
We describe a fully data driven model that learns to perform a retrosynthetic reaction prediction task, which is treated as a sequence-to-sequence mapping problem. The end-to-end trained model has an encoder-decoder architecture that consists of two recurrent neural networks, which has previously shown great success ...
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Redshift, metallicity and size of two extended dwarf Irregular galaxies. A link between dwarf Irregulars and Ultra Diffuse Galaxies?
We present the results of the spectroscopic and photometric follow-up of two field galaxies that were selected as possible stellar counterparts of local high velocity clouds. Our analysis shows that the two systems are distant (D>20 Mpc) dwarf irregular galaxies unrelated to the local HI clouds. However, the newly de...
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Collapsing hyperkähler manifolds
Given a projective hyperkahler manifold with a holomorphic Lagrangian fibration, we prove that hyperkahler metrics with volume of the torus fibers shrinking to zero collapse in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense (and smoothly away from the singular fibers) to a compact metric space which is a half-dimensional special Kahler ...
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Fast amortized inference of neural activity from calcium imaging data with variational autoencoders
Calcium imaging permits optical measurement of neural activity. Since intracellular calcium concentration is an indirect measurement of neural activity, computational tools are necessary to infer the true underlying spiking activity from fluorescence measurements. Bayesian model inversion can be used to solve this pr...
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Hidden multiparticle excitation in weakly interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate
We investigate multiparticle excitation effect on a collective density excitation as well as a single-particle excitation in a weakly interacting Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC). We find that although the weakly interacting BEC offers weak multiparticle excitation spectrum at low temperatures, this multiparticle exci...
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Hausdorff Measure: Lost in Translation
In the present article we describe how one can define Hausdorff measure allowing empty elements in coverings, and using infinite countable coverings only. In addition, we discuss how the use of different nonequivalent interpretations of the notion "countable set", that is typical for classical and modern mathematics,...
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Orthogonalized ALS: A Theoretically Principled Tensor Decomposition Algorithm for Practical Use
The popular Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm for tensor decomposition is efficient and easy to implement, but often converges to poor local optima---particularly when the weights of the factors are non-uniform. We propose a modification of the ALS approach that is as efficient as standard ALS, but provably r...
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Domain Generalization by Marginal Transfer Learning
Domain generalization is the problem of assigning class labels to an unlabeled test data set, given several labeled training data sets drawn from similar distributions. This problem arises in several applications where data distributions fluctuate because of biological, technical, or other sources of variation. We de...
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(Non-)formality of the extended Swiss Cheese operads
We study two colored operads of configurations of little $n$-disks in a unit $n$-disk, with the centers of the small disks of one color restricted to an $m$-plane, $m<n$. We compute the rational homotopy type of these \emph{extended Swiss Cheese operads} and show how they are connected to the rational homotopy types ...
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Pricing options and computing implied volatilities using neural networks
This paper proposes a data-driven approach, by means of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), to value financial options and to calculate implied volatilities with the aim of accelerating the corresponding numerical methods. With ANNs being universal function approximators, this method trains an optimized ANN on a data...
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Effect of magnetization on the tunneling anomaly in compressible quantum Hall states
Tunneling of electrons into a two-dimensional electron system is known to exhibit an anomaly at low bias, in which the tunneling conductance vanishes due to a many-body interaction effect. Recent experiments have measured this anomaly between two copies of the half-filled Landau level as a function of in-plane magnet...
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Learning to Acquire Information
We consider the problem of diagnosis where a set of simple observations are used to infer a potentially complex hidden hypothesis. Finding the optimal subset of observations is intractable in general, thus we focus on the problem of active diagnosis, where the agent selects the next most-informative observation based...
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How hard is it to cross the room? -- Training (Recurrent) Neural Networks to steer a UAV
This work explores the feasibility of steering a drone with a (recurrent) neural network, based on input from a forward looking camera, in the context of a high-level navigation task. We set up a generic framework for training a network to perform navigation tasks based on imitation learning. It can be applied to bot...
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Range-efficient consistent sampling and locality-sensitive hashing for polygons
Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental technique for similarity search and similarity estimation in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea is that similar objects should produce hash collisions with probability significantly larger than objects with low similarity. We consider LSH for objects that can be ...
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Decoupled Greedy Learning of CNNs
A commonly cited inefficiency of neural network training by back-propagation is the update locking problem: each layer must wait for the signal to propagate through the network before updating. We consider and analyze a training procedure, Decoupled Greedy Learning (DGL), that addresses this problem more effectively ...
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Discrete time Pontryagin maximum principle for optimal control problems under state-action-frequency constraints
We establish a Pontryagin maximum principle for discrete time optimal control problems under the following three types of constraints: a) constraints on the states pointwise in time, b) constraints on the control actions pointwise in time, and c) constraints on the frequency spectrum of the optimal control trajectori...
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Quantitative evaluation of an active Chemotaxis model in Discrete time
A system of $N$ particles in a chemical medium in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ is studied in a discrete time setting. Underlying interacting particle system in continuous time can be expressed as \begin{eqnarray} dX_{i}(t) &=&[-(I-A)X_{i}(t) + \bigtriangledown h(t,X_{i}(t))]dt + dW_{i}(t), \,\, X_{i}(0)=x_{i}\in \mathbb{R}^{d}\,...
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Deep Learning the Ising Model Near Criticality
It is well established that neural networks with deep architectures perform better than shallow networks for many tasks in machine learning. In statistical physics, while there has been recent interest in representing physical data with generative modelling, the focus has been on shallow neural networks. A natural qu...
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A supervised approach to time scale detection in dynamic networks
For any stream of time-stamped edges that form a dynamic network, an important choice is the aggregation granularity that an analyst uses to bin the data. Picking such a windowing of the data is often done by hand, or left up to the technology that is collecting the data. However, the choice can make a big difference...
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Binarized octree generation for Cartesian adaptive mesh refinement around immersed geometries
We revisit the generation of balanced octrees for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of Cartesian domains with immersed complex geometries. In a recent short note [Hasbestan and Senocak, J. Comput. Phys. vol. 351:473-477 (2017)], we showed that the data-locality of the Z-order curve in hashed linear octree generation met...
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Adversarial Examples: Opportunities and Challenges
With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence(AI), deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown huge superiority over human in image recognition, speech processing, autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. However, recent studies indicate that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs) which are designed b...
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Decoupling Learning Rules from Representations
In the artificial intelligence field, learning often corresponds to changing the parameters of a parameterized function. A learning rule is an algorithm or mathematical expression that specifies precisely how the parameters should be changed. When creating an artificial intelligence system, we must make two decisions...
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Schur P-positivity and involution Stanley symmetric functions
The involution Stanley symmetric functions $\hat{F}_y$ are the stable limits of the analogues of Schubert polynomials for the orbits of the orthogonal group in the flag variety. These symmetric functions are also generating functions for involution words, and are indexed by the involutions in the symmetric group. By ...
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A Riemannian gossip approach to subspace learning on Grassmann manifold
In this paper, we focus on subspace learning problems on the Grassmann manifold. Interesting applications in this setting include low-rank matrix completion and low-dimensional multivariate regression, among others. Motivated by privacy concerns, we aim to solve such problems in a decentralized setting where multiple...
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Space-Valued Diagrams, Type-Theoretically (Extended Abstract)
Topologists are sometimes interested in space-valued diagrams over a given index category, but it is tricky to say what such a diagram even is if we look for a notion that is stable under equivalence. The same happens in (homotopy) type theory, where it is known only for special cases how one can define a type of typ...
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Properties of cyanobacterial UV-absorbing pigments suggest their evolution was driven by optimizing photon dissipation rather than photoprotection
An ancient repertoire of UV absorbing pigments which survive today in the phylogenetically oldest extant photosynthetic organisms the cyanobacteria point to a direction in evolutionary adaptation of the pigments and their associated biota from largely UVC absorbing pigments in the Archean to pigments covering ever mo...
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Output Impedance Diffusion into Lossy Power Lines
Output impedances are inherent elements of power sources in the electrical grids. In this paper, we give an answer to the following question: What is the effect of output impedances on the inductivity of the power network? To address this question, we propose a measure to evaluate the inductivity of a power grid, and...
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Enhancing the significance of gravitational wave bursts through signal classification
The quest to observe gravitational waves challenges our ability to discriminate signals from detector noise. This issue is especially relevant for transient gravitational waves searches with a robust eyes wide open approach, the so called all- sky burst searches. Here we show how signal classification methods inspire...
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Model-based Clustering with Sparse Covariance Matrices
Finite Gaussian mixture models are widely used for model-based clustering of continuous data. Nevertheless, since the number of model parameters scales quadratically with the number of variables, these models can be easily over-parameterized. For this reason, parsimonious models have been developed via covariance mat...
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An Assessment of Data Transfer Performance for Large-Scale Climate Data Analysis and Recommendations for the Data Infrastructure for CMIP6
We document the data transfer workflow, data transfer performance, and other aspects of staging approximately 56 terabytes of climate model output data from the distributed Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) archive to the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center (NERSC) at the Lawrence Berkeley Nati...
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Generalization for Adaptively-chosen Estimators via Stable Median
Datasets are often reused to perform multiple statistical analyses in an adaptive way, in which each analysis may depend on the outcomes of previous analyses on the same dataset. Standard statistical guarantees do not account for these dependencies and little is known about how to provably avoid overfitting and false...
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Automated Problem Identification: Regression vs Classification via Evolutionary Deep Networks
Regression or classification? This is perhaps the most basic question faced when tackling a new supervised learning problem. We present an Evolutionary Deep Learning (EDL) algorithm that automatically solves this by identifying the question type with high accuracy, along with a proposed deep architecture. Typically, ...
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Attribution of extreme rainfall in Southeast China during May 2015
Anthropogenic climate change increased the probability that a short-duration, intense rainfall event would occur in parts of southeast China. This type of event occurred in May 2015, causing serious flooding.
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The Kellogg property and boundary regularity for p-harmonic functions with respect to the Mazurkiewicz boundary and other compactifications
In this paper boundary regularity for p-harmonic functions is studied with respect to the Mazurkiewicz boundary and other compactifications. In particular, the Kellogg property (which says that the set of irregular boundary points has capacity zero) is obtained for a large class of compactifications, but also two exa...
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Nonparametric Inference via Bootstrapping the Debiased Estimator
In this paper, we propose to construct confidence bands by bootstrapping the debiased kernel density estimator (for density estimation) and the debiased local polynomial regression estimator (for regression analysis). The idea of using a debiased estimator was first introduced in Calonico et al. (2015), where they co...
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Solving constraint-satisfaction problems with distributed neocortical-like neuronal networks
Finding actions that satisfy the constraints imposed by both external inputs and internal representations is central to decision making. We demonstrate that some important classes of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) can be solved by networks composed of homogeneous cooperative-competitive modules that have con...
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Automatic Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation Using U-Net Based Fully Convolutional Networks
A major challenge in brain tumor treatment planning and quantitative evaluation is determination of the tumor extent. The noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique has emerged as a front-line diagnostic tool for brain tumors without ionizing radiation. Manual segmentation of brain tumor extent from 3D MR...
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Asymptotic Blind-spot Analysis of Localization Networks under Correlated Blocking using a Poisson Line Process
In a localization network, the line-of-sight between anchors (transceivers) and targets may be blocked due to the presence of obstacles in the environment. Due to the non-zero size of the obstacles, the blocking is typically correlated across both anchor and target locations, with the extent of correlation increasing...
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The relation between galaxy morphology and colour in the EAGLE simulation
We investigate the relation between kinematic morphology, intrinsic colour and stellar mass of galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We calculate the intrinsic u-r colours and measure the fraction of kinetic energy invested in ordered corotation of 3562 galaxies at z=0 with stellar masses larg...
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An alternative to continuous univariate distributions supported on a bounded interval: The BMT distribution
In this paper, we introduce the BMT distribution as an unimodal alternative to continuous univariate distributions supported on a bounded interval. The ideas behind the mathematical formulation of this new distribution come from computer aid geometric design, specifically from Bezier curves. First, we review general ...
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Deep Object Centric Policies for Autonomous Driving
While learning visuomotor skills in an end-to-end manner is appealing, deep neural networks are often uninterpretable and fail in surprising ways. For robotics tasks, such as autonomous driving, models that explicitly represent objects may be more robust to new scenes and provide intuitive visualizations. We describe...
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A Search for Laser Emission with Megawatt Thresholds from 5600 FGKM Stars
We searched high resolution spectra of 5600 nearby stars for emission lines that are both inconsistent with a natural origin and unresolved spatially, as would be expected from extraterrestrial optical lasers. The spectra were obtained with the Keck 10-meter telescope, including light coming from within 0.5 arcsec of...
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Learning Large Scale Ordinary Differential Equation Systems
Learning large scale nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems from data is known to be computationally and statistically challenging. We present a framework together with the adaptive integral matching (AIM) algorithm for learning polynomial or rational ODE systems with a sparse network structure. The f...
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Linear Time Clustering for High Dimensional Mixtures of Gaussian Clouds
Clustering mixtures of Gaussian distributions is a fundamental and challenging problem that is ubiquitous in various high-dimensional data processing tasks. While state-of-the-art work on learning Gaussian mixture models has focused primarily on improving separation bounds and their generalization to arbitrary classe...
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Estimation of Relationship between Stimulation Current and Force Exerted during Isometric Contraction
In this study, we developed a method to estimate the relationship between stimulation current and volatility during isometric contraction. In functional electrical stimulation (FES), joints are driven by applying voltage to muscles. This technology has been used for a long time in the field of rehabilitation, and rec...
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