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Beyond Shared Hierarchies: Deep Multitask Learning through Soft Layer Ordering
Existing deep multitask learning (MTL) approaches align layers shared between tasks in a parallel ordering. Such an organization significantly constricts the types of shared structure that can be learned. The necessity of parallel ordering for deep MTL is first tested by comparing it with permuted ordering of shared ...
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Relational Algebra for In-Database Process Mining
The execution logs that are used for process mining in practice are often obtained by querying an operational database and storing the result in a flat file. Consequently, the data processing power of the database system cannot be used anymore for this information, leading to constrained flexibility in the definition...
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Global existence for the nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation with fractional dissipation
We consider the initial value problem for the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a fractional dissipation. Global existence and scattering are proved depending on the order of the fractional dissipation.
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Statistical properties of an enstrophy conserving discretisation for the stochastic quasi-geostrophic equation
A framework of variational principles for stochastic fluid dynamics was presented by Holm (2015), and these stochastic equations were also derived by Cotter et al. (2017). We present a conforming finite element discretisation for the stochastic quasi-geostrophic equation that was derived from this framework. The disc...
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Conditional Optimal Stopping: A Time-Inconsistent Optimization
Inspired by recent work of P.-L. Lions on conditional optimal control, we introduce a problem of optimal stopping under bounded rationality: the objective is the expected payoff at the time of stopping, conditioned on another event. For instance, an agent may care only about states where she is still alive at the tim...
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Principles for optimal cooperativity in allosteric materials
Allosteric proteins transmit a mechanical signal induced by binding a ligand. However, understanding the nature of the information transmitted and the architectures optimizing such transmission remains a challenge. Here we show using an {\it in-silico} evolution scheme and theoretical arguments that architectures opt...
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Improved electronic structure and magnetic exchange interactions in transition metal oxides
We discuss the application of the Agapito Curtarolo and Buongiorno Nardelli (ACBN0) pseudo-hybrid Hubbard density functional to several transition metal oxides. ACBN0 is a fast, accurate and parameter-free alternative to traditional DFT+$U$ and hybrid exact exchange methods. In ACBN0, the Hubbard energy of DFT+$U$ is...
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Test of SensL SiPM coated with NOL-1 wavelength shifter in liquid xenon
A SensL MicroFC-SMT-60035 6x6 mm$^2$ silicon photo-multiplier coated with a NOL-1 wavelength shifter have been tested in the liquid xenon to detect the 175-nm scintillation light. For comparison, a Hamamatsu vacuum ultraviolet sensitive MPPC VUV3 3x3 mm$^2$ was tested under the same conditions. The photodetection eff...
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Neon2: Finding Local Minima via First-Order Oracles
We propose a reduction for non-convex optimization that can (1) turn an stationary-point finding algorithm into an local-minimum finding one, and (2) replace the Hessian-vector product computations with only gradient computations. It works both in the stochastic and the deterministic settings, without hurting the alg...
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Geometrical Insights for Implicit Generative Modeling
Learning algorithms for implicit generative models can optimize a variety of criteria that measure how the data distribution differs from the implicit model distribution, including the Wasserstein distance, the Energy distance, and the Maximum Mean Discrepancy criterion. A careful look at the geometries induced by th...
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Simple Countermeasures to Mitigate the Effect of Pollution Attack in Network Coding Based Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming
Network coding based peer-to-peer streaming represents an effective solution to aggregate user capacities and to increase system throughput in live multimedia streaming. Nonetheless, such systems are vulnerable to pollution attacks where a handful of malicious peers can disrupt the communication by transmitting just ...
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Small-scale structure and the Lyman-$α$ forest baryon acoustic oscillation feature
The baryon-acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is one of the key probes of the cosmic expansion rate at redshifts z~2.5, well before dark energy is believed to have become dynamically significant. A key advantage of the BAO as a standard ruler is that it is a sharp feature and hence is mor...
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Scale-dependent perturbations finally detectable by future galaxy surveys and their contribution to cosmological model selection
By means of the present geometrical and dynamical observational data, it is very hard to establish, from a statistical perspective, a clear preference among the vast majority of the proposed models for the dynamical dark energy and/or modified gravity theories alternative with respect to the $\Lambda$CDM scenario. On...
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InfoCatVAE: Representation Learning with Categorical Variational Autoencoders
This paper describes InfoCatVAE, an extension of the variational autoencoder that enables unsupervised disentangled representation learning. InfoCatVAE uses multimodal distributions for the prior and the inference network and then maximizes the evidence lower bound objective (ELBO). We connect the new ELBO derived fo...
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Quadratic twists of abelian varieties and disparity in Selmer ranks
We study the parity of 2-Selmer ranks in the family of quadratic twists of a fixed principally polarised abelian variety over a number field. Specifically, we determine the proportion of twists having odd (resp. even) 2-Selmer rank. This generalises work of Klagsbrun--Mazur--Rubin for elliptic curves and Yu for Jacob...
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From acquaintance to best friend forever: robust and fine-grained inference of social tie strengths
Social networks often provide only a binary perspective on social ties: two individuals are either connected or not. While sometimes external information can be used to infer the strength of social ties, access to such information may be restricted or impractical. Sintos and Tsaparas (KDD 2014) first suggested to inf...
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Conditional bias robust estimation of the total of curve data by sampling in a finite population: an illustration on electricity load curves
For marketing or power grid management purposes, many studies based on the analysis of the total electricity consumption curves of groups of customers are now carried out by electricity companies. Aggregated total or mean load curves are estimated using individual curves measured at fine time grid and collected accor...
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Ulrich bundles on smooth projective varieties of minimal degree
We classify the Ulrich vector bundles of arbitrary rank on smooth projective varieties of minimal degree. In the process, we prove the stability of the sheaves of relative differentials on rational scrolls.
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$k$-shellable simplicial complexes and graphs
In this paper we show that a $k$-shellable simplicial complex is the expansion of a shellable complex. We prove that the face ring of a pure $k$-shellable simplicial complex satisfies the Stanley conjecture. In this way, by applying expansion functor to the face ring of a given pure shellable complex, we construct a ...
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The Effect of Phasor Measurement Units on the Accuracy of the Network Estimated Variables
The most commonly used weighted least square state estimator in power industry is nonlinear and formulated by using conventional measurements such as line flow and injection measurements. PMUs (Phasor Measurement Units) are gradually adding them to improve the state estimation process. In this paper the way of corpor...
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$ε$-Regularity and Structure of 4-dimensional Shrinking Ricci Solitons
A closed four dimensional manifold cannot possess a non-flat Ricci soliton metric with arbitrarily small $L^2$-norm of the curvature. In this paper, we localize this fact in the case of shrinking Ricci solitons by proving an $\varepsilon$-regularity theorem, thus confirming a conjecture of Cheeger-Tian. As applicatio...
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Cosmological model discrimination with Deep Learning
We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our method to be able to distinguish between five models, which were chosen to li...
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Deep Memory Networks for Attitude Identification
We consider the task of identifying attitudes towards a given set of entities from text. Conventionally, this task is decomposed into two separate subtasks: target detection that identifies whether each entity is mentioned in the text, either explicitly or implicitly, and polarity classification that classifies the e...
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Discrete flow posteriors for variational inference in discrete dynamical systems
Each training step for a variational autoencoder (VAE) requires us to sample from the approximate posterior, so we usually choose simple (e.g. factorised) approximate posteriors in which sampling is an efficient computation that fully exploits GPU parallelism. However, such simple approximate posteriors are often ins...
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Audio Super Resolution using Neural Networks
We introduce a new audio processing technique that increases the sampling rate of signals such as speech or music using deep convolutional neural networks. Our model is trained on pairs of low and high-quality audio examples; at test-time, it predicts missing samples within a low-resolution signal in an interpolation...
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Thermoelectric power factor enhancement by spin-polarized currents - a nanowire case study
Thermoelectric (TE) measurements have been performed on the workhorses of today's data storage devices, exhibiting either the giant or the anisotropic magnetoresistance effect (GMR and AMR). The temperature-dependent (50-300 K) and magnetic field-dependent (up to 1 T) TE power factor (PF) has been determined for seve...
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Risk-Sensitive Cooperative Games for Human-Machine Systems
Autonomous systems can substantially enhance a human's efficiency and effectiveness in complex environments. Machines, however, are often unable to observe the preferences of the humans that they serve. Despite the fact that the human's and machine's objectives are aligned, asymmetric information, along with heteroge...
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A natural framework for isogeometric fluid-structure interaction based on BEM-shell coupling
The interaction between thin structures and incompressible Newtonian fluids is ubiquitous both in nature and in industrial applications. In this paper we present an isogeometric formulation of such problems which exploits a boundary integral formulation of Stokes equations to model the surrounding flow, and a non lin...
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Inertial Effects on the Stress Generation of Active Fluids
Suspensions of self-propelled bodies generate a unique mechanical stress owing to their motility that impacts their large-scale collective behavior. For microswimmers suspended in a fluid with negligible particle inertia, we have shown that the virial `swim stress' is a useful quantity to understand the rheology and ...
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On Gauge Invariance and Covariant Derivatives in Metric Spaces
In this manuscript, we will discuss the construction of covariant derivative operator in quantum gravity. We will find it is appropriate to use affine connections more general than metric compatible connections in quantum gravity. We will demonstrate this using the canonical quantization procedure. This is valid irre...
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A Compressed Sensing Approach for Distribution Matching
In this work, we formulate the fixed-length distribution matching as a Bayesian inference problem. Our proposed solution is inspired from the compressed sensing paradigm and the sparse superposition (SS) codes. First, we introduce sparsity in the binary source via position modulation (PM). We then present a simple an...
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A simple descriptor and predictor for the stable structures of two-dimensional surface alloys
Predicting the ground state of alloy systems is challenging due to the large number of possible configurations. We identify an easily computed descriptor for the stability of binary surface alloys, the effective coordination number $\mathscr{E}$. We show that $\mathscr{E}(M)$ correlates well with the enthalpy of mixi...
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Fractional integrals and Fourier transforms
This paper gives a short survey of some basic results related to estimates of fractional integrals and Fourier transforms. It is closely adjoint to our previous survey papers \cite{K1998} and \cite{K2007}. The main methods used in the paper are based on nonincreasing rearrangements. We give alternative proofs of some...
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Multi-Level Network Embedding with Boosted Low-Rank Matrix Approximation
As opposed to manual feature engineering which is tedious and difficult to scale, network representation learning has attracted a surge of research interests as it automates the process of feature learning on graphs. The learned low-dimensional node vector representation is generalizable and eases the knowledge disco...
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Deviation from the dipole-ice model in the new spinel spin-ice candidate, MgEr$_2$Se$_4$
In spin ice research, small variations in structure or interactions drive a multitude of different behaviors, yet the collection of known materials relies heavily on the `227' pyrochlore structure. Here, we present thermodynamic, structural and inelastic neutron scattering data on a new spin-ice material, MgEr$_2$Se$...
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Generating Nontrivial Melodies for Music as a Service
We present a hybrid neural network and rule-based system that generates pop music. Music produced by pure rule-based systems often sounds mechanical. Music produced by machine learning sounds better, but still lacks hierarchical temporal structure. We restore temporal hierarchy by augmenting machine learning with a t...
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Vision and Challenges for Knowledge Centric Networking (KCN)
In the creation of a smart future information society, Internet of Things (IoT) and Content Centric Networking (CCN) break two key barriers for both the front-end sensing and back-end networking. However, we still observe the missing piece of the research that dominates the current networking traffic control and syst...
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Extracting Geometry from Quantum Spacetime: Obstacles down the road
Any acceptable quantum gravity theory must allow us to recover the classical spacetime in the appropriate limit. Moreover, the spacetime geometrical notions should be intrinsically tied to the behavior of the matter that probes them. We consider some difficulties that would be confronted in attempting such an enterpr...
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Data-Driven Estimation of Travel Latency Cost Functions via Inverse Optimization in Multi-Class Transportation Networks
We develop a method to estimate from data travel latency cost functions in multi-class transportation networks, which accommodate different types of vehicles with very different characteristics (e.g., cars and trucks). Leveraging our earlier work on inverse variational inequalities, we develop a data-driven approach ...
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Autoencoder Based Sample Selection for Self-Taught Learning
Self-taught learning is a technique that uses a large number of unlabeled data as source samples to improve the task performance on target samples. Compared with other transfer learning techniques, self-taught learning can be applied to a broader set of scenarios due to the loose restrictions on source data. However,...
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Guiding Chemical Synthesis: Computational Prediction of the Regioselectivity of CH Functionalization
We will develop a computational method (RegioSQM) for predicting the regioselectivity of CH functionalization reactions that can be used by synthetic chemists who are not experts in computational chemistry through a simple web interface (regiosqm.org). CH functionalization, i.e. replacing the hydrogen atom in a CH bo...
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Potential-Function Proofs for First-Order Methods
This note discusses proofs for convergence of first-order methods based on simple potential-function arguments. We cover methods like gradient descent (for both smooth and non-smooth settings), mirror descent, and some accelerated variants.
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Multidimensional $p$-adic continued fraction algorithms
We give a new class of multidimensional $p$-adic continued fraction algorithms. We propose an algorithm in the class for which we can expect that multidimensional $p$-adic version of Lagrange's Theorem holds.
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Shutting down or powering up a (U)LIRG? Merger components in distinctly different evolutionary states in IRAS 19115-2124 (The Bird)
We present new SINFONI near-infrared integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy and SALT optical long-slit spectroscopy characterising the history of a nearby merging luminous infrared galaxy, dubbed the Bird (IRAS19115-2114). The NIR line-ratio maps of the IFU data-cubes and stellar population fitting of the SALT spectr...
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Asymptotics to all orders of the Hurwitz zeta function
We present several formulae for the large-$t$ asymptotics of the modified Hurwitz zeta function $\zeta_1(x,s),x>0,s=\sigma+it,0<\sigma\leq1,t>0,$ which are valid to all orders. In the case of $x=0$, these formulae reduce to the asymptotic expressions recently obtained for the Riemann zeta function, which include the ...
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Distributed Stochastic Approximation with Local Projections
We propose a distributed version of a stochastic approximation scheme constrained to remain in the intersection of a finite family of convex sets. The projection to the intersection of these sets is also computed in a distributed manner and a `nonlinear gossip' mechanism is employed to blend the projection iterations...
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Expected Policy Gradients
We propose expected policy gradients (EPG), which unify stochastic policy gradients (SPG) and deterministic policy gradients (DPG) for reinforcement learning. Inspired by expected sarsa, EPG integrates across the action when estimating the gradient, instead of relying only on the action in the sampled trajectory. We ...
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A new Hysteretic Nonlinear Energy Sink (HNES)
The behavior of a new Hysteretic Nonlinear Energy Sink (HNES) coupled to a linear primary oscillator is investigated in shock mitigation. Apart from a small mass and a nonlinear elastic spring of the Duffing oscillator, the HNES is also comprised of a purely hysteretic and a linear elastic spring of potentially negat...
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Ultra-Low Noise Amplifier Design for Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems
This paper demonstrates designing and developing of an Ultra-Low Noise Amplifier which should potentially increase the sensitivity of the existing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems. The Design of the LNA is fabricated and characterized including matching and input high power protection circuits. The estimate i...
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Virtual Astronaut for Scientific Visualization - A Prototype for Santa Maria Crater on Mars
To support scientific visualization of multiple-mission data from Mars, the Virtual Astronaut (VA) creates an interactive virtual 3D environment built on the Unity3D Game Engine. A prototype study was conducted based on orbital and Opportunity Rover data covering Santa Maria Crater in Meridiani Planum on Mars. The VA...
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Self-Supervised Generalisation with Meta Auxiliary Learning
Learning with auxiliary tasks has been shown to improve the generalisation of a primary task. However, this comes at the cost of manually-labelling additional tasks which may, or may not, be useful for the primary task. We propose a new method which automatically learns labels for an auxiliary task, such that any sup...
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Measuring High-Energy Spectra with HAWC
The High-Altitude Water-Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment is a TeV $\gamma$-ray observatory located \unit[4100]{m} above sea level on the Sierra Negra mountain in Puebla, Mexico. The detector consists of 300 water-filled tanks, each instrumented with 4 photomultiplier tubes that utilize the water-Cherenkov technique to det...
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A Study on Arbitrarily Varying Channels with Causal Side Information at the Encoder
In this work, we study two models of arbitrarily varying channels, when causal side information is available at the encoder in a causal manner. First, we study the arbitrarily varying channel (AVC) with input and state constraints, when the encoder has state information in a causal manner. Lower and upper bounds on t...
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On the Three Properties of Stationary Populations and knotting with Non-Stationary Populations
We propose three properties that are related to the stationary population identity (SPI) of population biology by connecting it with stationary populations and non-stationary populations which are approaching stationarity. These properties provide deeper insights into cohort formation in real-world populations and th...
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Generating and designing DNA with deep generative models
We propose generative neural network methods to generate DNA sequences and tune them to have desired properties. We present three approaches: creating synthetic DNA sequences using a generative adversarial network; a DNA-based variant of the activation maximization ("deep dream") design method; and a joint procedure ...
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Radon background in liquid xenon detectors
The radioactive daughters isotope of 222Rn are one of the highest risk contaminants in liquid xenon detectors aiming for a small signal rate. The noble gas is permanently emanated from the detector surfaces and mixed with the xenon target. Because of its long half-life 222Rn is homogeneously distributed in the target...
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Minimax Regret Bounds for Reinforcement Learning
We consider the problem of provably optimal exploration in reinforcement learning for finite horizon MDPs. We show that an optimistic modification to value iteration achieves a regret bound of $\tilde{O}( \sqrt{HSAT} + H^2S^2A+H\sqrt{T})$ where $H$ is the time horizon, $S$ the number of states, $A$ the number of acti...
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Asymptotic Theory for the Maximum of an Increasing Sequence of Parametric Functions
\cite{HillMotegi2017} present a new general asymptotic theory for the maximum of a random array $\{\mathcal{X}_{n}(i)$ $:$ $1$ $\leq $ $i$ $\leq $ $\mathcal{L}\}_{n\geq 1}$, where each $\mathcal{X}_{n}(i)$ is assumed to converge in probability as $n$ $\rightarrow $ $\infty $. The array dimension $\mathcal{L}$ is allo...
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Resilient Active Information Gathering with Mobile Robots
Applications of safety, security, and rescue in robotics, such as multi-robot target tracking, involve the execution of information acquisition tasks by teams of mobile robots. However, in failure-prone or adversarial environments, robots get attacked, their communication channels get jammed, and their sensors may fa...
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Optical properties of a four-layer waveguiding nanocomposite structure in near-IR regime
The theoretical study of the optical properties of TE- and TM- modes in a four-layer structure composed of the magneto-optical yttrium iron garnet guiding layer on a dielectric substrate covered by planar nanocomposite guiding multilayer is presented. The dispersion equation is obtained taking into account the bigyro...
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High Dimensional Structured Superposition Models
High dimensional superposition models characterize observations using parameters which can be written as a sum of multiple component parameters, each with its own structure, e.g., sum of low rank and sparse matrices, sum of sparse and rotated sparse vectors, etc. In this paper, we consider general superposition model...
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Source Forager: A Search Engine for Similar Source Code
Developers spend a significant amount of time searching for code: e.g., to understand how to complete, correct, or adapt their own code for a new context. Unfortunately, the state of the art in code search has not evolved much beyond text search over tokenized source. Code has much richer structure and semantics than...
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Crossmatching variable objects with the Gaia data
Tens of millions of new variable objects are expected to be identified in over a billion time series from the Gaia mission. Crossmatching known variable sources with those from Gaia is crucial to incorporate current knowledge, understand how these objects appear in the Gaia data, train supervised classifiers to recog...
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A New Test of Multivariate Nonlinear Causality
The multivariate nonlinear Granger causality developed by Bai et al. (2010) plays an important role in detecting the dynamic interrelationships between two groups of variables. Following the idea of Hiemstra-Jones (HJ) test proposed by Hiemstra and Jones (1994), they attempt to establish a central limit theorem (CLT)...
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Nonlinear dynamics of polar regions in paraelectric phase of (Ba1-x,Srx)TiO3 ceramics
The dynamic dielectric nonlinearity of barium strontium titanate (Ba1-x,Srx)TiO3 ceramics is investigated in their paraelectric phase. With the goal to contribute to the identification of the mechanisms that govern the dielectric nonlinearity in this family, we analyze the amplitude and the phase angles of the first ...
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Nonlinear Modal Decoupling Based Power System Transient Stability Analysis
Nonlinear modal decoupling (NMD) was recently proposed to nonlinearly transform a multi-oscillator system into a number of decoupled oscillators which together behave the same as the original system in an extended neighborhood of the equilibrium. Each oscillator has just one degree of freedom and hence can easily be ...
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KELT-18b: Puffy Planet, Hot Host, Probably Perturbed
We report the discovery of KELT-18b, a transiting hot Jupiter in a 2.87d orbit around the bright (V=10.1), hot, F4V star BD+60 1538 (TYC 3865-1173-1). We present follow-up photometry, spectroscopy, and adaptive optics imaging that allow a detailed characterization of the system. Our preferred model fits yield a host ...
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BAMBI: An R package for Fitting Bivariate Angular Mixture Models
Statistical analyses of directional or angular data have applications in a variety of fields, such as geology, meteorology and bioinformatics. There is substantial literature on descriptive and inferential techniques for univariate angular data, with the bivariate (or more generally, multivariate) cases receiving mor...
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Finite Sample Analysis of Two-Timescale Stochastic Approximation with Applications to Reinforcement Learning
Two-timescale Stochastic Approximation (SA) algorithms are widely used in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Their iterates have two parts that are updated using distinct stepsizes. In this work, we develop a novel recipe for their finite sample analysis. Using this, we provide a concentration bound, which is the first suc...
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Existence and uniqueness of solutions to Y-systems and TBA equations
We consider Y-system functional equations of the form $$ Y_n(x+i)Y_n(x-i)=\prod_{m=1}^N (1+Y_m(x))^{G_{nm}}$$ and the corresponding nonlinear integral equations of the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz. We prove an existence and uniqueness result for solutions of these equations, subject to appropriate conditions on the ana...
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Normalization of Neural Networks using Analytic Variance Propagation
We address the problem of estimating statistics of hidden units in a neural network using a method of analytic moment propagation. These statistics are useful for approximate whitening of the inputs in front of saturating non-linearities such as a sigmoid function. This is important for initialization of training and...
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Ferrimagnetism in the Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Distorted Triangular Lattice
The ground state of the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a distorted triangular lattice is studied using a numerical-diagonalization method. The network of interactions is the $\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}$ type; the interactions are continuously controlled between the undistorted triangular lattice and the dice la...
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Delta sets for symmetric numerical semigroups with embedding dimension three
This work extends the results known for the Delta sets of non-symmetric numerical semigroups with embedding dimension three to the symmetric case. Thus, we have a fast algorithm to compute the Delta set of any embedding dimension three numerical semigroup. Also, as a consequence of these resutls, the sets that can be...
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Riemann-Hilbert problems for the resolved conifold
We study the Riemann-Hilbert problems associated to the Donaldson-Thomas theory of the resolved conifold. We give explicit solutions in terms of the Barnes double and triple sine functions. We show that the corresponding tau function is a non-perturbative partition function, in the sense that its asymptotic expansion...
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On the Power of Over-parametrization in Neural Networks with Quadratic Activation
We provide new theoretical insights on why over-parametrization is effective in learning neural networks. For a $k$ hidden node shallow network with quadratic activation and $n$ training data points, we show as long as $ k \ge \sqrt{2n}$, over-parametrization enables local search algorithms to find a \emph{globally} ...
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Multi-Label Learning with Label Enhancement
The task of multi-label learning is to predict a set of relevant labels for the unseen instance. Traditional multi-label learning algorithms treat each class label as a logical indicator of whether the corresponding label is relevant or irrelevant to the instance, i.e., +1 represents relevant to the instance and -1 r...
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Unsure When to Stop? Ask Your Semantic Neighbors
In iterative supervised learning algorithms it is common to reach a point in the search where no further induction seems to be possible with the available data. If the search is continued beyond this point, the risk of overfitting increases significantly. Following the recent developments in inductive semantic stocha...
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Deep Generative Learning via Variational Gradient Flow
We propose a general framework to learn deep generative models via \textbf{V}ariational \textbf{Gr}adient Fl\textbf{ow} (VGrow) on probability spaces. The evolving distribution that asymptotically converges to the target distribution is governed by a vector field, which is the negative gradient of the first variation...
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Warming trend in cold season of the Yangtze River Delta and its correlation with Siberian high
Based on the meteorological data from 1960 to 2010, we investigated the temperature variation in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) by using Mann-Kendall nonparametric test and explored the correlation between the temperature in the cold season and the Siberian high intensity (SHI) by using correlation analysis method. Th...
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Modeling and Quantifying the Forces Driving Online Video Popularity Evolution
Video popularity is an essential reference for optimizing resource allocation and video recommendation in online video services. However, there is still no convincing model that can accurately depict a video's popularity evolution. In this paper, we propose a dynamic popularity model by modeling the video information...
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Multiagent Bidirectionally-Coordinated Nets: Emergence of Human-level Coordination in Learning to Play StarCraft Combat Games
Many artificial intelligence (AI) applications often require multiple intelligent agents to work in a collaborative effort. Efficient learning for intra-agent communication and coordination is an indispensable step towards general AI. In this paper, we take StarCraft combat game as a case study, where the task is to ...
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Measurement of the Lorentz-FitzGerald Body Contraction
A complete foundational discussion of acceleration in context of Special Relativity is presented. Acceleration allows the measurement of a Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction created. It is argued that in the back scattering of a probing laser beam from a relativistic flying electron cloud mirror generated by an ultr...
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Information Directed Sampling for Stochastic Bandits with Graph Feedback
We consider stochastic multi-armed bandit problems with graph feedback, where the decision maker is allowed to observe the neighboring actions of the chosen action. We allow the graph structure to vary with time and consider both deterministic and Erdős-Rényi random graph models. For such a graph feedback model, we f...
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Multi-Evidence Filtering and Fusion for Multi-Label Classification, Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation Based on Weakly Supervised Learning
Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy achieved by top weakly supervised algorithms is still significantly lower tha...
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Hausdorff operators on holomorphic Hardy spaces and applications
The aim of this paper is to characterize the nonnegative functions $\varphi$ defined on $(0,\infty)$ for which the Hausdorff operator $$\mathscr H_\varphi f(z)= \int_0^\infty f\left(\frac{z}{t}\right)\frac{\varphi(t)}{t}dt$$ is bounded on the Hardy spaces of the upper half-plane $\mathcal H_a^p(\mathbb C_+)$, $p\in[1...
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Three-dimensional color code thresholds via statistical-mechanical mapping
Three-dimensional (3D) color codes have advantages for fault-tolerant quantum computing, such as protected quantum gates with relatively low overhead and robustness against imperfect measurement of error syndromes. Here we investigate the storage threshold error rates for bit-flip and phase-flip noise in the 3D color...
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Does Your Phone Know Your Touch?
This paper explores supervised techniques for continuous anomaly detection from biometric touch screen data. A capacitive sensor array used to mimic a touch screen as used to collect touch and swipe gestures from participants. The gestures are recorded over fixed segments of time, with position and force measured for...
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Nucleus: A Pilot Project
Early in 2016, an environmental scan was conducted by the Research Library Data Working Group for three purposes: 1.) Perform a survey of the data management landscape at Los Alamos National Laboratory in order to identify local gaps in data management services. 2.) Conduct an environmental scan of external instituti...
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Non Volatile MoS$_{2}$ Field Effect Transistors Directly Gated By Single Crystalline Epitaxial Ferroelectric
We demonstrate non-volatile, n-type, back-gated, MoS$_{2}$ transistors, placed directly on an epitaxial grown, single crystalline, PbZr$_{0.2}$Ti$_{0.8}$O$_{3}$ (PZT) ferroelectric. The transistors show decent ON current (19 ${\mu}A/{\mu}$m), high on-off ratio (10$^{7}$), and a subthreshold swing of (SS ~ 92 mV/dec) ...
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Fast and Accurate Sparse Coding of Visual Stimuli with a Simple, Ultra-Low-Energy Spiking Architecture
Memristive crossbars have become a popular means for realizing unsupervised and supervised learning techniques. In previous neuromorphic architectures with leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, the crossbar itself has been separated from the neuron capacitors to preserve mathematical rigor. In this work, we sought to sim...
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Astronomy of Cholanaikkan tribe of Kerala
Cholanaikkans are a diminishing tribe of India. With a population of less than 200 members, this tribe living in the reserved forests about 80 km from Kozhikode, it is one of the most isolated tribes. A programme of the Government of Kerala brings some of them to Kozhikode once a year. We studied various aspects of t...
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Integral Equations and Machine Learning
As both light transport simulation and reinforcement learning are ruled by the same Fredholm integral equation of the second kind, reinforcement learning techniques may be used for photorealistic image synthesis: Efficiency may be dramatically improved by guiding light transport paths by an approximate solution of th...
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Experiments on bright field and dark field high energy electron imaging with thick target material
Using a high energy electron beam for the imaging of high density matter with both high spatial-temporal and areal density resolution under extreme states of temperature and pressure is one of the critical challenges in high energy density physics . When a charged particle beam passes through an opaque target, the be...
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A Non-linear Approach to Space Dimension Perception by a Naive Agent
Developmental Robotics offers a new approach to numerous AI features that are often taken as granted. Traditionally, perception is supposed to be an inherent capacity of the agent. Moreover, it largely relies on models built by the system's designer. A new approach is to consider perception as an experimentally acqui...
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Foolbox: A Python toolbox to benchmark the robustness of machine learning models
Even todays most advanced machine learning models are easily fooled by almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. Foolbox is a new Python package to generate such adversarial perturbations and to quantify and compare the robustness of machine learning models. It is build around the idea that the most compara...
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Two-dimensional boron on Pb (110) surface
We simulate boron on Pb(110) surface by using ab initio evolutionary methodology. Interestingly, the two-dimensional (2D) Dirac Pmmn boron can be formed because of good lattice matching. Unexpectedly, by increasing the thickness of 2D boron, a three-bonded graphene-like structure (P2_1/c boron) was revealed to posses...
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SOLAR: Deep Structured Latent Representations for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) methods can be broadly categorized as global model methods, which depend on learning models that provide sensible predictions in a wide range of states, or local model methods, which iteratively refit simple models that are used for policy improvement. While predicting future s...
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Robust and Fast Decoding of High-Capacity Color QR Codes for Mobile Applications
The use of color in QR codes brings extra data capacity, but also inflicts tremendous challenges on the decoding process due to chromatic distortion, cross-channel color interference and illumination variation. Particularly, we further discover a new type of chromatic distortion in high-density color QR codes, cross-...
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The quest for H$_3^+$ at Neptune: deep burn observations with NASA IRTF iSHELL
Emission from the molecular ion H$_3^+$ is a powerful diagnostic of the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, but it remains undetected at Neptune. In search of this emission, we present near-infrared spectral observations of Neptune between 3.93 and 4.00 $\mu$m taken with the newly commissioned iSHELL ins...
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Unreasonable Effectivness of Deep Learning
We show how well known rules of back propagation arise from a weighted combination of finite automata. By redefining a finite automata as a predictor we combine the set of all $k$-state finite automata using a weighted majority algorithm. This aggregated prediction algorithm can be simplified using symmetry, and we p...
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