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Addressing Item-Cold Start Problem in Recommendation Systems using Model Based Approach and Deep Learning
Traditional recommendation systems rely on past usage data in order to generate new recommendations. Those approaches fail to generate sensible recommendations for new users and items into the system due to missing information about their past interactions. In this paper, we propose a solution for successfully addres...
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End-to-End Monaural Multi-speaker ASR System without Pretraining
Recently, end-to-end models have become a popular approach as an alternative to traditional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The multi-speaker speech separation and recognition task is a central task in cocktail party problem. In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art monaural multi-speaker end...
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Characterization of Calabi--Yau variations of Hodge structure over tube domains by characteristic forms
Sheng and Zuo's characteristic forms are invariants of a variation of Hodge structure. We show that they characterize Gross's canonical variations of Hodge structure of Calabi-Yau type over (Hermitian symmetric) tube domains.
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Spectral Theory of Infinite Quantum Graphs
We investigate quantum graphs with infinitely many vertices and edges without the common restriction on the geometry of the underlying metric graph that there is a positive lower bound on the lengths of its edges. Our central result is a close connection between spectral properties of a quantum graph and the correspo...
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A comment on "A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model", by I. Ciufolini et al
Recently, Ciufolini et al. reported on a test of the general relativistic gravitomagnetic Lense-Thirring effect by analyzing about 3.5 years of laser ranging data to the LAGEOS, LAGEOS II, LARES geodetic satellites orbiting the Earth. By using the GRACE-based GGM05S Earth's global gravity model and a linear combinati...
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SWIFT Detection of a 65-Day X-ray Period from the Ultraluminous Pulsar NGC 7793 P13
NGC 7793 P13 is an ultraluminous X-ray source harboring an accreting pulsar. We report on the detection of a ~65 d period X-ray modulation with Swift observations in this system. The modulation period found in the X-ray band is P=65.05+/-0.10 d and the profile is asymmetric with a fast rise and a slower decay. On the...
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Pushing Configuration-Interaction to the Limit: Towards Massively Parallel MCSCF Calculations
A new large-scale parallel multiconfigurational self-consistent field (MCSCF) implementation in the open-source NWChem computational chemistry code is presented. The generalized active space (GAS) approach is used to partition large configuration interaction (CI) vectors and generate a sufficient number of batches th...
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Outer Regions of the Milky Way
With the start of the Gaia era, the time has come to address the major challenge of deriving the star formation history and evolution of the disk of our MilkyWay. Here we review our present knowledge of the outer regions of the Milky Way disk population. Its stellar content, its structure and its dynamical and chemic...
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Multi-Objective Learning and Mask-Based Post-Processing for Deep Neural Network Based Speech Enhancement
We propose a multi-objective framework to learn both secondary targets not directly related to the intended task of speech enhancement (SE) and the primary target of the clean log-power spectra (LPS) features to be used directly for constructing the enhanced speech signals. In deep neural network (DNN) based SE we in...
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Latent variable approach to diarization of audio recordings using ad-hoc randomly placed mobile devices
Diarization of audio recordings from ad-hoc mobile devices using spatial information is considered in this paper. A two-channel synchronous recording is assumed for each mobile device, which is used to compute directional statistics separately at each device in a frame-wise manner. The recordings across the mobile de...
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A multiple attribute model resolves a conflict between additive and multiplicative models of incentive salience
A model of incentive salience as a function of stimulus value and interoceptive state has been previously proposed. In that model, the function differs depending on whether the stimulus is appetitive or aversive; it is multiplicative for appetitive stimuli and additive for aversive stimuli. The authors argued it was ...
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Perturbation theory approaches to Anderson and Many-Body Localization: some lecture notes
These are lecture notes based on three lectures given by Antonello Scardicchio at the December 2016 Topical School on Many-Body-Localization organized by the Statistical Physics Group of the Institute Jean Lamour in Nancy. They were compiled and put in a coherent logical form by Thimothée Thiery.
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A measurement of the z = 0 UV background from H$α$ fluorescence
We report the detection of extended Halpha emission from the tip of the HI disk of the nearby edge-on galaxy UGC 7321, observed with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the Very Large Telescope. The Halpha surface brightness fades rapidly where the HI column density drops below N(HI) = 10^19 cm...
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The landscape of the spiked tensor model
We consider the problem of estimating a large rank-one tensor ${\boldsymbol u}^{\otimes k}\in({\mathbb R}^{n})^{\otimes k}$, $k\ge 3$ in Gaussian noise. Earlier work characterized a critical signal-to-noise ratio $\lambda_{Bayes}= O(1)$ above which an ideal estimator achieves strictly positive correlation with the un...
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System Identification of a Multi-timescale Adaptive Threshold Neuronal Model
In this paper, the parameter estimation problem for a multi-timescale adaptive threshold (MAT) neuronal model is investigated. By manipulating the system dynamics, which comprise of a non-resetting leaky integrator coupled with an adaptive threshold, the threshold voltage can be obtained as a realizable model that is...
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Free deterministic equivalent Z-scores of compound Wishart models: A goodness of fit test of 2DARMA models
We introduce a new method to qualify the goodness of fit parameter estimation of compound Wishart models. Our method based on the free deterministic equivalent Z-score, which we introduce in this paper. Furthermore, an application to two dimensional autoregressive moving-average model is provided. Our proposal method...
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Numerical algorithms for mean exit time and escape probability of stochastic systems with asymmetric Lévy motion
For non-Gaussian stochastic dynamical systems, mean exit time and escape probability are important deterministic quantities, which can be obtained from integro-differential (nonlocal) equations. We develop an efficient and convergent numerical method for the mean first exit time and escape probability for stochastic ...
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Canonical Models and the Complexity of Modal Team Logic
We study modal team logic MTL, the team-semantical extension of modal logic ML closed under Boolean negation. Its fragments, such as modal dependence, independence, and inclusion logic, are well-understood. However, due to the unrestricted Boolean negation, the satisfiability problem of full MTL has been notoriously ...
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CoT: Cooperative Training for Generative Modeling of Discrete Data
We propose Cooperative Training (CoT) for training generative models that measure a tractable density for discrete data. CoT coordinately trains a generator $G$ and an auxiliary predictive mediator $M$. The training target of $M$ is to estimate a mixture density of the learned distribution $G$ and the target distribu...
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Iterated function systems consisting of phi-max-contractions have attractor
We associate to each iterated function system consisting of phi-max-contractions an operator (on the space of continuous functions from the shift space on the metric space corresponding to the system) having a unique fixed point whose image turns out to be the attractor of the system. Moreover, we prove that the uniq...
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Decay Rates of the Solutions to the Thermoelastic Bresse System of Types I and III
In this paper, we study the energy decay for the thermoelastic Bresse system in the whole line with two different dissipative mechanism, given by heat conduction (Types I and III). We prove that the decay rate of the solutions are very slow. More precisely, we show that the solutions decay with the rate of $(1+t)^{-\...
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Baryogenesis at a Lepton-Number-Breaking Phase Transition
We study a scenario in which the baryon asymmetry of the universe arises from a cosmological phase transition where lepton-number is spontaneously broken. If the phase transition is first order, a lepton-number asymmetry can arise at the bubble wall, through dynamics similar to electroweak baryogenesis, but involving...
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Contact resistance between two REBCO tapes under load and load-cycles
No-insulation (NI) REBCO magnets have many advantages. They are self-protecting, therefore do not need quench detection and protection which can be very challenging in a high Tc superconducting magnet. Moreover, by removing insulation and allowing thinner copper stabilizer, NI REBCO magnets have significantly higher ...
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Stochastic Backward Euler: An Implicit Gradient Descent Algorithm for $k$-means Clustering
In this paper, we propose an implicit gradient descent algorithm for the classic $k$-means problem. The implicit gradient step or backward Euler is solved via stochastic fixed-point iteration, in which we randomly sample a mini-batch gradient in every iteration. It is the average of the fixed-point trajectory that is...
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The Frobenius number for sequences of triangular and tetrahedral numbers
We compute the Frobenius number for sequences of triangular and tetrahedral numbers. In addition, we study some properties of the numerical semigroups associated to those sequences.
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Information-entropic analysis of Korteweg--de Vries solitons in the quark-gluon plasma
Solitary waves propagation of baryonic density perturbations, ruled by the Korteweg--de Vries equation in a mean-field quark-gluon plasma model, are investigated from the point of view of the theory of information. A recently proposed continuous logarithmic measure of information, called configurational entropy, is u...
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The photon identification loophole in EPRB experiments: computer models with single-wing selection
Recent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments [M. Giustina et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250401 (2015); L. K. Shalm et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250402 (2015)] that claim to be loophole free are scrutinized and are shown to suffer a photon identification loophole. The combination of a digital computer and discrete-e...
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Tilings of the plane with unit area triangles of bounded diameter
There exist tilings of the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of equal area and bounded perimeter. Analogously, there exist tilings with triangles of equal perimeter, the areas of which are bounded from below by a positive constant. This solves a problem of Nandakumar.
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The cauchy problem for radially symmetric homogeneous boltzmann equation with shubin class initial datum and gelfand-shilov smoothing effect
In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for radially symmetric homogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with Maxwellian molecules, the initial datum belongs to Shubin space of the negative index which can be characterized by spectral decomposition of the harmonic oscillators. The Shubin space of the negative inde...
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Network Dissection: Quantifying Interpretability of Deep Visual Representations
We propose a general framework called Network Dissection for quantifying the interpretability of latent representations of CNNs by evaluating the alignment between individual hidden units and a set of semantic concepts. Given any CNN model, the proposed method draws on a broad data set of visual concepts to score the...
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Systole inequalities for arithmetic locally symmetric spaces
In this paper we study the systole growth of arithmetic locally symmetric spaces up congruence covers and show that this growth is at least logarithmic in volume. This generalizes previous work of Buser and Sarnak as well as Katz, Schaps and Vishne where the case of compact hyperbolic 2- and 3-manifolds was considere...
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Featured Weighted Automata
A featured transition system is a transition system in which the transitions are annotated with feature expressions: Boolean expressions on a finite number of given features. Depending on its feature expression, each individual transition can be enabled when some features are present, and disabled for other sets of f...
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Schrödinger model and Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence for Heisenberg motion groups
We introduce a Schrödinger model for the unitary irreducible representations of a Heisenberg motion group and we show that the usual Weyl quantization then provides a Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence.
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Estimation in emerging epidemics: biases and remedies
When analysing new emerging infectious disease outbreaks one typically has observational data over a limited period of time and several parameters to estimate, such as growth rate, R0, serial or generation interval distribution, latent and incubation times or case fatality rates. Also parameters describing the tempor...
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Long-Term Evolution of Genetic Programming Populations
We evolve binary mux-6 trees for up to 100000 generations evolving some programs with more than a hundred million nodes. Our unbounded Long-Term Evolution Experiment LTEE GP appears not to evolve building blocks but does suggests a limit to bloat. We do see periods of tens even hundreds of generations where the popul...
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A Multi-Scale Analysis of 27,000 Urban Street Networks: Every US City, Town, Urbanized Area, and Zillow Neighborhood
OpenStreetMap offers a valuable source of worldwide geospatial data useful to urban researchers. This study uses the OSMnx software to automatically download and analyze 27,000 US street networks from OpenStreetMap at metropolitan, municipal, and neighborhood scales - namely, every US city and town, census urbanized ...
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Towards Detection of Exoplanetary Rings Via Transit Photometry: Methodology and a Possible Candidate
Detection of a planetary ring of exoplanets remains as one of the most attractive but challenging goals in the field. We present a methodology of a systematic search for exoplanetary rings via transit photometry of long-period planets. The methodology relies on a precise integration scheme we develop to compute a tra...
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SiMon: Simulation Monitor for Computational Astrophysics
Scientific discovery via numerical simulations is important in modern astrophysics. This relatively new branch of astrophysics has become possible due to the development of reliable numerical algorithms and the high performance of modern computing technologies. These enable the analysis of large collections of observ...
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Asymptotic and bootstrap tests for the dimension of the non-Gaussian subspace
Dimension reduction is often a preliminary step in the analysis of large data sets. The so-called non-Gaussian component analysis searches for a projection onto the non-Gaussian part of the data, and it is then important to know the correct dimension of the non-Gaussian signal subspace. In this paper we develop asymp...
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Pseudoconcavity of flag domains: The method of supporting cycles
A flag domain of a real from $G_0$ of a complex semismiple Lie group $G$ is an open $G_0$-orbit $D$ in a (compact) $G$-flag manifold. In the usual way one reduces to the case where $G_0$ is simple. It is known that if $D$ possesses non-constant holomorphic functions, then it is the product of a compact flag manifold ...
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Rule Formats for Nominal Process Calculi
The nominal transition systems (NTSs) of Parrow et al. describe the operational semantics of nominal process calculi. We study NTSs in terms of the nominal residual transition systems (NRTSs) that we introduce. We provide rule formats for the specifications of NRTSs that ensure that the associated NRTS is an NTS and ...
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Tilings with noncongruent triangles
We solve a problem of R. Nandakumar by proving that there is no tiling of the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. We also show that no convex polygon with more than three sides can be tiled with finitely many triangles such that no pair of them share a full side.
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Phase limitations of Zames-Falb multipliers
Phase limitations of both continuous-time and discrete-time Zames-Falb multipliers and their relation with the Kalman conjecture are analysed. A phase limitation for continuous-time multipliers given by Megretski is generalised and its applicability is clarified; its relation to the Kalman conjecture is illustrated w...
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Fragmentation of vertically stratified gaseous layers: monolithic or coalescence-driven collapse
We investigate, using 3D hydrodynamic simulations, the fragmentation of pressure-confined, vertically stratified, self-gravitating gaseous layers. The confining pressure is either thermal pressure acting on both surfaces, or thermal pressure acting on one surface and ram-pressure on the other. In the linear regime of...
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Learning Local Receptive Fields and their Weight Sharing Scheme on Graphs
We propose a simple and generic layer formulation that extends the properties of convolutional layers to any domain that can be described by a graph. Namely, we use the support of its adjacency matrix to design learnable weight sharing filters able to exploit the underlying structure of signals in the same fashion as...
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Galaxies with Shells in the Illustris Simulation: Metallicity Signatures
Stellar shells are low surface brightness arcs of overdense stellar regions, extending to large galactocentric distances. In a companion study, we identified 39 shell galaxies in a sample of 220 massive ellipticals ($\mathrm{M}_{\mathrm{200crit}}>6\times10^{12}\,\mathrm{M}_\odot$) from the Illustris cosmological simu...
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Runtime Verification of Temporal Properties over Out-of-order Data Streams
We present a monitoring approach for verifying systems at runtime. Our approach targets systems whose components communicate with the monitors over unreliable channels, where messages can be delayed or lost. In contrast to prior works, whose property specification languages are limited to propositional temporal logic...
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Deep Learning for Electromyographic Hand Gesture Signal Classification Using Transfer Learning
In recent years, deep learning algorithms have become increasingly more prominent for their unparalleled ability to automatically learn discriminant features from large amounts of data. However, within the field of electromyography-based gesture recognition, deep learning algorithms are seldom employed as they requir...
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Adaptive Non-uniform Compressive Sampling for Time-varying Signals
In this paper, adaptive non-uniform compressive sampling (ANCS) of time-varying signals, which are sparse in a proper basis, is introduced. ANCS employs the measurements of previous time steps to distribute the sensing energy among coefficients more intelligently. To this aim, a Bayesian inference method is proposed ...
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Enabling Reasoning with LegalRuleML
In order to automate verification process, regulatory rules written in natural language need to be translated into a format that machines can understand. However, none of the existing formalisms can fully represent the elements that appear in legal norms. For instance, most of these formalisms do not provide features...
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Combinatorial distance geometry in normed spaces
We survey problems and results from combinatorial geometry in normed spaces, concentrating on problems that involve distances. These include various properties of unit-distance graphs, minimum-distance graphs, diameter graphs, as well as minimum spanning trees and Steiner minimum trees. In particular, we discuss tran...
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When is Network Lasso Accurate: The Vector Case
A recently proposed learning algorithm for massive network-structured data sets (big data over networks) is the network Lasso (nLasso), which extends the well- known Lasso estimator from sparse models to network-structured datasets. Efficient implementations of the nLasso have been presented using modern convex optim...
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Surrogate Aided Unsupervised Recovery of Sparse Signals in Single Index Models for Binary Outcomes
We consider the recovery of regression coefficients, denoted by $\boldsymbol{\beta}_0$, for a single index model (SIM) relating a binary outcome $Y$ to a set of possibly high dimensional covariates $\boldsymbol{X}$, based on a large but 'unlabeled' dataset $\mathcal{U}$, with $Y$ never observed. On $\mathcal{U}$, we ...
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Superior lattice thermal conductance of single layer borophene
By way of the nonequilibrium Green's function simulations and first principles calculations, we report that borophene, a single layer of boron atoms that was fabricated recently, possesses an extraordinarily high lattice thermal conductance in the ballistic transport regime, which even exceeds graphene. In addition t...
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The liar paradox is a real problem
The liar paradox is widely seen as not a serious problem. I try to explain why this view is mistaken.
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High-dimensional ABC
This Chapter, "High-dimensional ABC", is to appear in the forthcoming Handbook of Approximate Bayesian Computation (2018). It details the main ideas and concepts behind extending ABC methods to higher dimensions, with supporting examples and illustrations.
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Automating Release of Deep Link APIs for Android Applications
Unlike the Web where each web page has a global URL to reach, a specific "content page" inside a mobile app cannot be opened unless the user explores the app with several operations from the landing page. Recently, deep links have been advocated by major companies to enable targeting and opening a specific page of an...
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Refractive index measurements of single, spherical cells using digital holographic microscopy
In this chapter, we introduce digital holographic microscopy (DHM) as a marker-free method to determine the refractive index of single, spherical cells in suspension. The refractive index is a conclusive measure in a biological context. Cell conditions, such as differentiation or infection, are known to yield signifi...
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Tuple-oriented Compression for Large-scale Mini-batch Stochastic Gradient Descent
Data compression is a popular technique for improving the efficiency of data processing workloads such as SQL queries and more recently, machine learning (ML) with classical batch gradient methods. But the efficacy of such ideas for mini-batch stochastic gradient descent (MGD), arguably the workhorse algorithm of mod...
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Program Language Translation Using a Grammar-Driven Tree-to-Tree Model
The task of translating between programming languages differs from the challenge of translating natural languages in that programming languages are designed with a far more rigid set of structural and grammatical rules. Previous work has used a tree-to-tree encoder/decoder model to take advantage of the inherent tree...
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In-Place Initializable Arrays
Initializing all elements of an array to a specified value is a basic operation that frequently appears in numerous algorithms and programs. Initializable arrays are abstract arrays that support initialization as well as reading and writing of any element of the array in less than linear time proportional to the leng...
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A Simple Exponential Family Framework for Zero-Shot Learning
We present a simple generative framework for learning to predict previously unseen classes, based on estimating class-attribute-gated class-conditional distributions. We model each class-conditional distribution as an exponential family distribution and the parameters of the distribution of each seen/unseen class are...
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Modeling Hormesis Using a Non-Monotonic Copula Method
This paper presents a probabilistic method for capturing non-monotonic behavior under the biphasic dose-response regime observed in many biological systems experiencing different types of stress. The proposed method is based on the rolling-pin method introduced earlier to estimate highly nonlinear and non-monotonic j...
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Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Multi-Server Mobile-Edge Computing Networks
Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that provides a capillary distribution of cloud computing capabilities to the edge of the wireless access network, enabling rich services and applications in close proximity to the end users. In this article, a MEC enabled multi-cell wireless network is considered w...
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The Sum Over Topological Sectors and $θ$ in the 2+1-Dimensional $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1$ $σ$-Model
We discuss the three spacetime dimensional $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^N$ model and specialize to the $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1$ model. Because of the Hopf map $\pi_3(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1)=\mathbb{Z}$ one might try to couple the model to a periodic $\theta$ parameter. However, we argue that only the values $\theta=0$ and $...
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Continued Kinematic and Photometric Investigations of Hierarchical Solar-Type Multiple Star Systems
We observed 15 of the solar-type binaries within 67 pc of the Sun previously observed by the Robo-AO system in the visible, with the PHARO near-IR camera and the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system on the 5 m Hale telescope. The physical status of the binaries is confirmed through common proper motion and detection of o...
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A Note on Multiparty Communication Complexity and the Hales-Jewett Theorem
For integers $n$ and $k$, the density Hales-Jewett number $c_{n,k}$ is defined as the maximal size of a subset of $[k]^n$ that contains no combinatorial line. We show that for $k \ge 3$ the density Hales-Jewett number $c_{n,k}$ is equal to the maximal size of a cylinder intersection in the problem $Part_{n,k}$ of tes...
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First Results from Using Game Refinement Measure and Learning Coefficient in Scrabble
This paper explores the entertainment experience and learning experience in Scrabble. It proposes a new measure from the educational point of view, which we call learning coefficient, based on the balance between the learner's skill and the challenge in Scrabble. Scrabble variants, generated using different size of b...
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Structured Local Optima in Sparse Blind Deconvolution
Blind deconvolution is a ubiquitous problem of recovering two unknown signals from their convolution. Unfortunately, this is an ill-posed problem in general. This paper focuses on the {\em short and sparse} blind deconvolution problem, where the one unknown signal is short and the other one is sparsely and randomly s...
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The empirical Christoffel function with applications in data analysis
We illustrate the potential applications in machine learning of the Christoffel function, or more precisely, its empirical counterpart associated with a counting measure uniformly supported on a finite set of points. Firstly, we provide a thresholding scheme which allows to approximate the support of a measure from a...
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Around power law for PageRank components in Buckley-Osthus model of web graph
In the paper we investigate power law for PageRank components for the Buckley-Osthus model for web graph. We compare different numerical methods for PageRank calculation. With the best method we do a lot of numerical experiments. These experiments confirm the hypothesis about power law. At the end we discuss real mod...
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Cash-settled options for wholesale electricity markets
Wholesale electricity market designs in practice do not provide the market participants with adequate mechanisms to hedge their financial risks. Demanders and suppliers will likely face even greater risks with the deepening penetration of variable renewable resources like wind and solar. This paper explores the desig...
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Power in High-Dimensional Testing Problems
Fan et al. (2015) recently introduced a remarkable method for increasing asymptotic power of tests in high-dimensional testing problems. If applicable to a given test, their power enhancement principle leads to an improved test that has the same asymptotic size, uniformly non-inferior asymptotic power, and is consist...
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Deep Learning for Precipitation Nowcasting: A Benchmark and A New Model
With the goal of making high-resolution forecasts of regional rainfall, precipitation nowcasting has become an important and fundamental technology underlying various public services ranging from rainstorm warnings to flight safety. Recently, the Convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) model has been shown to outperform tradit...
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PAWS: A Tool for the Analysis of Weighted Systems
PAWS is a tool to analyse the behaviour of weighted automata and conditional transition systems. At its core PAWS is based on a generic implementation of algorithms for checking language equivalence in weighted automata and bisimulation in conditional transition systems. This architecture allows for the use of arbitr...
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Quantum-optical spectroscopy for plasma electric field measurements and diagnostics
Measurements of plasma electric fields are essential to the advancement of plasma science and applications. Methods for non-invasive in situ measurements of plasma fields on sub-millimeter length scales with high sensitivity over a large field range remain an outstanding challenge. Here, we introduce and demonstrate ...
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ROSA: R Optimizations with Static Analysis
R is a popular language and programming environment for data scientists. It is increasingly co-packaged with both relational and Hadoop-based data platforms and can often be the most dominant computational component in data analytics pipelines. Recent work has highlighted inefficiencies in executing R programs, both ...
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Human Perception of Performance
Humans are routinely asked to evaluate the performance of other individuals, separating success from failure and affecting outcomes from science to education and sports. Yet, in many contexts, the metrics driving the human evaluation process remain unclear. Here we analyse a massive dataset capturing players' evaluat...
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Practical Distance Functions for Path-Planning in Planar Domains
Path planning is an important problem in robotics. One way to plan a path between two points $x,y$ within a (not necessarily simply-connected) planar domain $\Omega$, is to define a non-negative distance function $d(x,y)$ on $\Omega\times\Omega$ such that following the (descending) gradient of this distance function ...
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FPGA-Based CNN Inference Accelerator Synthesized from Multi-Threaded C Software
A deep-learning inference accelerator is synthesized from a C-language software program parallelized with Pthreads. The software implementation uses the well-known producer/consumer model with parallel threads interconnected by FIFO queues. The LegUp high-level synthesis (HLS) tool synthesizes threads into parallel F...
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The set of forces that ideal trusses, or wire webs, under tension can support
The problem of determining those multiplets of forces, or sets of force multiplets, acting at a set of points, such that there exists a truss structure, or wire web, that can support these force multiplets with all the elements of the truss or wire web being under tension, is considered. The two-dimensional problem w...
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A Thematic Study of Requirements Modeling and Analysis for Self-Adaptive Systems
Over the last decade, researchers and engineers have developed a vast body of methodologies and technologies in requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems. Although existing studies have explored various aspects of this topic, few of them have categorized and summarized these areas of research in require-ment...
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On predictive density estimation with additional information
Based on independently distributed $X_1 \sim N_p(\theta_1, \sigma^2_1 I_p)$ and $X_2 \sim N_p(\theta_2, \sigma^2_2 I_p)$, we consider the efficiency of various predictive density estimators for $Y_1 \sim N_p(\theta_1, \sigma^2_Y I_p)$, with the additional information $\theta_1 - \theta_2 \in A$ and known $\sigma^2_1,...
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Optimizing Channel Selection for Seizure Detection
Interpretation of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals can be complicated by obfuscating artifacts. Artifact detection plays an important role in the observation and analysis of EEG signals. Spatial information contained in the placement of the electrodes can be exploited to accurately detect artifacts. However, when f...
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Bases of standard modules for affine Lie algebras of type $C_\ell^{(1)}$
Feigin-Stoyanovsky's type subspaces for affine Lie algebras of type $C_\ell^{(1)}$ have monomial bases with a nice combinatorial description. We describe bases of whole standard modules in terms of semi-infinite monomials obtained as "a limit of translations" of bases for Feigin-Stoyanovsky's type subspaces.
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Connectivity-Driven Brain Parcellation via Consensus Clustering
We present two related methods for deriving connectivity-based brain atlases from individual connectomes. The proposed methods exploit a previously proposed dense connectivity representation, termed continuous connectivity, by first performing graph-based hierarchical clustering of individual brains, and subsequently...
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Baryon acoustic oscillations from the complete SDSS-III Ly$α$-quasar cross-correlation function at $z=2.4$
We present a measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation of quasars with the Ly$\alpha$-forest flux-transmission at a mean redshift $z=2.40$. The measurement uses the complete SDSS-III data sample: 168,889 forests and 234,367 quasars from the SDSS Data Release DR12. In addition to the s...
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Gamma-ray and Optical Oscillations of 0716+714, MRK 421, and BL Lac
We examine the 2008-2016 $\gamma$-ray and optical light curves of three bright BL Lac objects, 0716+714, MRK 421, BL Lac, which exhibit large structured variability. We searched for periodicities by using a fully Bayesian approach. For two out of three sources investigated no significant periodic variability was foun...
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Antibonding Ground state of Adatom Molecules in Bulk Dirac Semimetals
The ground state of the diatomic molecules in nature is inevitably bonding, and its first excited state is antibonding. We demonstrate theoretically that, for a pair of distant adatoms placed buried in three-dimensional-Dirac semimetals, this natural order of the states can be reversed and an antibonding ground state...
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Baby MIND: A magnetized segmented neutrino detector for the WAGASCI experiment
T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan designed to study various parameters of neutrino oscillations. A near detector complex (ND280) is located 280~m downstream of the production target and measures neutrino beam parameters before any oscillations occur. ND280's measurements are used ...
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Applications of noncommutative deformations
For a general class of contractions of a variety X to a base Y, I discuss recent joint work with M. Wemyss defining a noncommutative enhancement of the locus in Y over which the contraction is not an isomorphism, along with applications to the derived symmetries of X. This note is based on a talk given at the Kinosak...
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Photometric and radial-velocity time-series of RR Lyrae stars in M3: analysis of single-mode variables
We present the first simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic investigation of a large set of RR Lyrae variables in a globular cluster. The radial-velocity data presented comprise the largest sample of RVs of RR Lyrae stars ever obtained. The target is M3; $BVI_{\mathrm{C}}$ time-series of 111 and $b$ flux data of ...
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Particlelike scattering states in a microwave cavity
We realize scattering states in a lossy and chaotic two-dimensional microwave cavity which follow bundles of classical particle trajectories. To generate such particlelike scattering states we measure the system's transmission matrix and apply an adapted Wigner-Smith time-delay formalism to it. The necessary shaping ...
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Market Self-Learning of Signals, Impact and Optimal Trading: Invisible Hand Inference with Free Energy
We present a simple model of a non-equilibrium self-organizing market where asset prices are partially driven by investment decisions of a bounded-rational agent. The agent acts in a stochastic market environment driven by various exogenous "alpha" signals, agent's own actions (via market impact), and noise. Unlike t...
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Current-driven skyrmion dynamics in disordered films
A theoretical study of the current-driven dynamics of magnetic skyrmions in disordered perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin films is presented. The disorder is simulated as a granular structure in which the local anisotropy varies randomly from grain to grain. The skyrmion velocity is computed for different disorder ...
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On the Rigidity of Riemannian-Penrose Inequality for Asymptotically Flat 3-manifolds with Corners
In this paper we prove a rigidity result for the equality case of the Penrose inequality on $3$-dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and corners. Our result also has deep connections with the equality cases of Theorem 1 in \cite{Miao2} and Theorem 1.1 in \cite{LM}.
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An Algebra Model for the Higher Order Sum Rules
We introduce an algebra model to study higher order sum rules for orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. We build the relation between the algebra model and sum rules, and prove an equivalent expression on the algebra side for the sum rules, involving a Hall-Littlewood type polynomial. By this expression, we reco...
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On maxispaces of nonparametric tests
For the problems of nonparametric hypothesis testing we introduce the notion of maxisets and maxispace. We point out the maxisets of $\chi^2-$tests, Cramer-von Mises tests, tests generated $\mathbb{L}_2$- norms of kernel estimators and tests generated quadratic forms of estimators of Fourier coefficients. For these t...
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Learning Unsupervised Learning Rules
A major goal of unsupervised learning is to discover data representations that are useful for subsequent tasks, without access to supervised labels during training. Typically, this goal is approached by minimizing a surrogate objective, such as the negative log likelihood of a generative model, with the hope that rep...
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Conformal Nanocarbon Coating of Alumina Nanocrystals for Biosensing and Bioimaging
A conformal coating technique with nanocarbon was developed to enhance the surface properties of alumina nanoparticles for bio-applications. The ultra-thin carbon layer induces new surface properties such as water dispersion, cytocompatibility and tuneable surface chemistry, while maintaining the optical properties o...
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