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ZFIRE: The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher Relation to Redshift 2.0 < Z < 2.5 with MOSFIRE
Using observations made with MOSFIRE on Keck I as part of the ZFIRE survey, we present the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation at 2.0 < z < 2.5. The sample was drawn from a stellar mass limited, Ks-band selected catalog from ZFOURGE over the CANDELS area in the COSMOS field. We model the shear of the Halpha emission l...
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A new computational method for a model of C. elegans biomechanics: Insights into elasticity and locomotion performance
An organism's ability to move freely is a fundamental behaviour in the animal kingdom. To understand animal locomotion requires a characterisation of the material properties, as well as the biomechanics and physiology. We present a biomechanical model of C. elegans locomotion together with a novel finite element meth...
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Word forms - not just their lengths- are optimized for efficient communication
The inverse relationship between the length of a word and the frequency of its use, first identified by G.K. Zipf in 1935, is a classic empirical law that holds across a wide range of human languages. We demonstrate that length is one aspect of a much more general property of words: how distinctive they are with resp...
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Human Understandable Explanation Extraction for Black-box Classification Models Based on Matrix Factorization
In recent years, a number of artificial intelligent services have been developed such as defect detection system or diagnosis system for customer services. Unfortunately, the core in these services is a black-box in which human cannot understand the underlying decision making logic, even though the inspection of the ...
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Generalization Bounds for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Mapping with WGANs
The recent empirical success of cross-domain mapping algorithms, between two domains that share common characteristics, is not well-supported by theoretical justifications. This lacuna is especially troubling, given the clear ambiguity in such mappings. We work with the adversarial training method called the Wasserst...
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Quantum chaos in an electron-phonon bad metal
We calculate the scrambling rate $\lambda_L$ and the butterfly velocity $v_B$ associated with the growth of quantum chaos for a solvable large-$N$ electron-phonon system. We study a temperature regime in which the electrical resistivity of this system exceeds the Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit and increases linearly with tem...
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Data-driven Optimal Transport Cost Selection for Distributionally Robust Optimizatio
Recently, (Blanchet, Kang, and Murhy 2016) showed that several machine learning algorithms, such as square-root Lasso, Support Vector Machines, and regularized logistic regression, among many others, can be represented exactly as distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems. The distributional uncertainty is d...
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Formally Secure Compilation of Unsafe Low-Level Components (Extended Abstract)
We propose a new formal criterion for secure compilation, providing strong security guarantees for components written in unsafe, low-level languages with C-style undefined behavior. Our criterion goes beyond recent proposals, which protect the trace properties of a single component against an adversarial context, to ...
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Detecting Potential Local Adversarial Examples for Human-Interpretable Defense
Machine learning models are increasingly used in the industry to make decisions such as credit insurance approval. Some people may be tempted to manipulate specific variables, such as the age or the salary, in order to get better chances of approval. In this ongoing work, we propose to discuss, with a first propositi...
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The formation of magnetic depletions and flux annihilation due to reconnection in the heliosheath
The misalignment of the solar rotation axis and the magnetic axis of the Sun produces a periodic reversal of the Parker spiral magnetic field and the sectored solar wind. The compression of the sectors is expected to lead to reconnection in the heliosheath (HS). We present particle-in-cell simulations of the sectored...
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Optimization Based Methods for Partially Observed Chaotic Systems
In this paper we consider filtering and smoothing of partially observed chaotic dynamical systems that are discretely observed, with an additive Gaussian noise in the observation. These models are found in a wide variety of real applications and include the Lorenz 96' model. In the context of a fixed observation inte...
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LongHCPulse: Long Pulse Heat Capacity on a Quantum Design PPMS
This paper presents LongHCPulse: software which enables heat capacity to be collected on a Quantum Design PPMS using a long-pulse method. This method, wherein heat capacity is computed from the time derivative of sample temperature over long (30 min) measurement times, is necessary for probing first order transitions...
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Calculation of hyperfine structure constants of small molecules using Z-vector method in the relativistic coupled-cluster framework
The Z-vector method in the relativistic coupled-cluster framework is employed to calculate the parallel and perpendicular components of the magnetic hyperfine structure constant of a few small alkaline earth hydrides (BeH, MgH, and CaH) and fluorides (MgF and CaF). We have compared our Z-vector results with the value...
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Autoregressive Point-Processes as Latent State-Space Models: a Moment-Closure Approach to Fluctuations and Autocorrelations
Modeling and interpreting spike train data is a task of central importance in computational neuroscience, with significant translational implications. Two popular classes of data-driven models for this task are autoregressive Point Process Generalized Linear models (PPGLM) and latent State-Space models (SSM) with poi...
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Phase transitions of the dimerized Kane-Mele model with/without the strong interaction
The dimerized Kane-Mele model with/without the strong interaction is studied using analytical methods. The boundary of the topological phase transition of the model without strong interaction is obtained. Our results show that the occurrence of the transition only depends on dimerized parameter . From the one-particl...
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A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions
Understanding why a model makes a certain prediction can be as crucial as the prediction's accuracy in many applications. However, the highest accuracy for large modern datasets is often achieved by complex models that even experts struggle to interpret, such as ensemble or deep learning models, creating a tension be...
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Approximate Value Iteration for Risk-aware Markov Decision Processes
We consider large-scale Markov decision processes (MDPs) with a risk measure of variability in cost, under the risk-aware MDPs paradigm. Previous studies showed that risk-aware MDPs, based on a minimax approach to handling risk, can be solved using dynamic programming for small to medium sized problems. However, due ...
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Dataflow Matrix Machines as a Model of Computations with Linear Streams
We overview dataflow matrix machines as a Turing complete generalization of recurrent neural networks and as a programming platform. We describe vector space of finite prefix trees with numerical leaves which allows us to combine expressive power of dataflow matrix machines with simplicity of traditional recurrent ne...
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Attention-based Vocabulary Selection for NMT Decoding
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models usually use large target vocabulary sizes to capture most of the words in the target language. The vocabulary size is a big factor when decoding new sentences as the final softmax layer normalizes over all possible target words. To address this problem, it is widely common to r...
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Reconstruction by Calibration over Tensors for Multi-Coil Multi-Acquisition Balanced SSFP Imaging
Purpose: To develop a rapid imaging framework for balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) that jointly reconstructs undersampled data (by a factor of R) across multiple coils (D) and multiple acquisitions (N). To devise a multi-acquisition coil compression technique for improved computational efficiency. Method...
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Spectral Sparsification of Simplicial Complexes for Clustering and Label Propagation
As a generalization of the use of graphs to describe pairwise interactions, simplicial complexes can be used to model higher-order interactions between three or more objects in complex systems. There has been a recent surge in activity for the development of data analysis methods applicable to simplicial complexes, i...
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BHK mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces with non-symplectic automorphism
In this paper we consider the class of K3 surfaces defined as hypersurfaces in weighted projective space, and admitting a non-symplectic automorphism of non-prime order, excluding the orders 4, 8, and 12. We show that on these surfaces the Berglund-Hübsch-Krawitz mirror construction and mirror symmetry for lattice po...
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Automatic Rule Extraction from Long Short Term Memory Networks
Although deep learning models have proven effective at solving problems in natural language processing, the mechanism by which they come to their conclusions is often unclear. As a result, these models are generally treated as black boxes, yielding no insight of the underlying learned patterns. In this paper we consi...
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On the validity of parametric block correlation matrices with constant within and between group correlations
We consider the set Bp of parametric block correlation matrices with p blocks of various (and possibly different) sizes, whose diagonal blocks are compound symmetry (CS) correlation matrices and off-diagonal blocks are constant matrices. Such matrices appear in probabilistic models on categorical data, when the level...
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Two-dimensional off-lattice Boltzmann model for van der Waals fluids with variable temperature
We develop a two-dimensional Lattice Boltzmann model for liquid-vapour systems with variable temperature. Our model is based on a single particle distribution function expanded with respect to the full-range Hermite polynomials. In order to ensure the recovery of the hydrodynamic equations for thermal flows, we use a...
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Minimal coloring number on minimal diagrams for $\mathbb{Z}$-colorable links
It was shown that any $\mathbb{Z}$-colorable link has a diagram which admits a non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}$-coloring with at most four colors. In this paper, we consider minimal numbers of colors for non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}$-colorings on minimal diagrams of $\mathbb{Z}$-colorable links. We show, for any positive integer ...
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Automatic Gradient Boosting
Automatic machine learning performs predictive modeling with high performing machine learning tools without human interference. This is achieved by making machine learning applications parameter-free, i.e. only a dataset is provided while the complete model selection and model building process is handled internally t...
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Speeding up Memory-based Collaborative Filtering with Landmarks
Recommender systems play an important role in many scenarios where users are overwhelmed with too many choices to make. In this context, Collaborative Filtering (CF) arises by providing a simple and widely used approach for personalized recommendation. Memory-based CF algorithms mostly rely on similarities between pa...
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Spatio-temporal variations in the urban rhythm: the travelling waves of crime
In the last decades, the notion that cities are in a state of equilibrium with a centralised organisation has given place to the viewpoint of cities in disequilibrium and organised from bottom to up. In this perspective, cities are evolving systems that exhibit emergent phenomena built from local decisions. While urb...
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Smith-Purcell Radiation
The simplest model of the magnetized infinitely thin electron beam is considered. The basic equations that describe the periodic solutions for a self-consistent system of a couple of Maxwell equations and equations for the medium are obtained.
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Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate with account of pair correlations
The system of dynamic equations for Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature with account of pair correlations is obtained. The spectrum of small oscillations of the condensate in a spatially homogeneous state is explored. It is shown that this spectrum has two branches: the sound wave branch and branch with an e...
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On the generalization of Erdős-Vincze's theorem about the approximation of closed convex plane curves by polyellipses
A polyellipse is a curve in the Euclidean plane all of whose points have the same sum of distances from finitely many given points (focuses). The classical version of Erdős-Vincze's theorem states that regular triangles can not be presented as the Hausdorff limit of polyellipses even if the number of the focuses can ...
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Improved self-energy correction method for accurate and efficient band structure calculation
The LDA-1/2 method for self-energy correction is a powerful tool for calculating accurate band structures of semiconductors, while keeping the computational load as low as standard LDA. Nevertheless, controversies remain regarding the arbitrariness of choice between (1/2)e and (1/4)e charge stripping from the atoms i...
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Magnetic domains in thin ferromagnetic films with strong perpendicular anisotropy
We investigate the scaling of the ground state energy and optimal domain patterns in thin ferromagnetic films with strong uniaxial anisotropy and the easy axis perpendicular to the film plane. Starting from the full three-dimensional micromagnetic model, we identify the critical scaling where the transition from sing...
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Learning a Robust Society of Tracking Parts
Object tracking is an essential task in computer vision that has been studied since the early days of the field. Being able to follow objects that undergo different transformations in the video sequence, including changes in scale, illumination, shape and occlusions, makes the problem extremely difficult. One of the ...
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A direct proof of dimerization in a family of SU(n)-invariant quantum spin chains
We study the family of spin-S quantum spin chains with a nearest neighbor interaction given by the negative of the singlet projection operator. Using a random loop representation of the partition function in the limit of zero temperature and standard techniques of classical statistical mechanics, we prove dimerizatio...
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An accelerated splitting algorithm for radio-interferometric imaging: when natural and uniform weighting meet
Next generation radio-interferometers, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire tremendous amounts of data with the goal of improving the size and sensitivity of the reconstructed images by orders of magnitude. The efficient processing of large-scale data sets is of great importance. We propose an acceleration s...
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BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 (x = 0.22-0.42) thin films grown on practical metal-tape substrates and their critical current densities
We optimized the substrate temperature (Ts) and phosphorus concentration (x) of BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 films on practical metal-tape substrates for pulsed laser deposition from the viewpoints of crystallinity, superconductor critical temperature (Tc), and critical current density (Jc). It was found that the optimum Ts and x...
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How does the accuracy of interatomic force constants affect the prediction of lattice thermal conductivity
Solving Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation with interatomic force constants (IFCs) from first-principles calculations has been a widely used method for predicting lattice thermal conductivity of three-dimensional materials. With the increasing research interests in two-dimensional materials, this method is directly...
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Mesh-to-raster based non-rigid registration of multi-modal images
Region of interest (ROI) alignment in medical images plays a crucial role in diagnostics, procedure planning, treatment, and follow-up. Frequently, a model is represented as triangulated mesh while the patient data is provided from CAT scanners as pixel or voxel data. Previously, we presented a 2D method for curve-to...
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Vision-based Obstacle Removal System for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using a Robotic Arm
Over the past few years, the use of camera-equipped robotic platforms for data collection and visually monitoring applications has exponentially grown. Cluttered construction sites with many objects (e.g., bricks, pipes, etc.) on the ground are challenging environments for a mobile unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to na...
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Polyatomic trilobite Rydberg molecules in a dense random gas
Trilobites are exotic giant dimers with enormous dipole moments. They consist of a Rydberg atom and a distant ground-state atom bound together by short-range electron-neutral attraction. We show that highly polar, polyatomic trilobite states unexpectedly persist and thrive in a dense ultracold gas of randomly positio...
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Does warm debris dust stem from asteroid belts?
Many debris discs reveal a two-component structure, with a cold outer and a warm inner component. While the former are likely massive analogues of the Kuiper belt, the origin of the latter is still a matter of debate. In this work we investigate whether the warm dust may be a signature of asteroid belt analogues. In ...
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The Multiple Roots Phenomenon in Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Factor Analysis
Multiple root estimation problems in statistical inference arise in many contexts in the literature. In the context of maximum likelihood estimation, the existence of multiple roots causes uncertainty in the computation of maximum likelihood estimators using hill-climbing algorithms, and consequent difficulties in th...
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Group-like projections for locally compact quantum groups
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a locally compact quantum group. We give a 1-1 correspondence between group-like projections in $L^\infty(\mathbb{G})$ preserved by the scaling group and idempotent states on the dual quantum group $\widehat{\mathbb{G}}$. As a byproduct we give a simple proof that normal integrable coideals in $L^...
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Exciton-phonon interaction in the strong coupling regime in hexagonal boron nitride
The temperature-dependent optical response of excitons in semiconductors is controlled by the exciton-phonon interaction. When the exciton-lattice coupling is weak, the excitonic line has a Lorentzian profile resulting from motional narrowing, with a width increasing linearly with the lattice temperature $T$. In cont...
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Exact lowest-Landau-level solutions for vortex precession in Bose-Einstein condensates
The Lowest Landau Level (LLL) equation emerges as an accurate approximation for a class of dynamical regimes of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) in two-dimensional isotropic harmonic traps in the limit of weak interactions. Building on recent developments in the field of spatially confined extended Hamiltonian systems...
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Predicting Out-of-View Feature Points for Model-Based Camera Pose Estimation
In this work we present a novel framework that uses deep learning to predict object feature points that are out-of-view in the input image. This system was developed with the application of model-based tracking in mind, particularly in the case of autonomous inspection robots, where only partial views of the object a...
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A Simple PTAS for the Dual Bin Packing Problem and Advice Complexity of Its Online Version
Recently, Renault (2016) studied the dual bin packing problem in the per-request advice model of online algorithms. He showed that given $O(1/\epsilon)$ advice bits for each input item allows approximating the dual bin packing problem online to within a factor of $1+\epsilon$. Renault asked about the advice complexit...
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Constructive Néron Desingularization of algebras with big smooth locus
An algorithmic proof of the General Néron Desingularization theorem and its uniform version is given for morphisms with big smooth locus. This generalizes the results for the one-dimensional case.
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List-Decodable Robust Mean Estimation and Learning Mixtures of Spherical Gaussians
We study the problem of list-decodable Gaussian mean estimation and the related problem of learning mixtures of separated spherical Gaussians. We develop a set of techniques that yield new efficient algorithms with significantly improved guarantees for these problems. {\bf List-Decodable Mean Estimation.} Fix any $d ...
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Complexity Dichotomies for the Minimum F-Overlay Problem
For a (possibly infinite) fixed family of graphs F, we say that a graph G overlays F on a hypergraph H if V(H) is equal to V(G) and the subgraph of G induced by every hyperedge of H contains some member of F as a spanning subgraph.While it is easy to see that the complete graph on |V(H)| overlays F on a hypergraph H ...
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Asymptotic behavior of 3-D stochastic primitive equations of large-scale moist atmosphere with additive noise
Using a new and general method, we prove the existence of random attractor for the three dimensional stochastic primitive equations defined on a manifold $\D\subset\R^3$ improving the existence of weak attractor for the deterministic model. Furthermore, we show the existence of the invariant measure.
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Analytical Approach for Calculating Chemotaxis Sensitivity Function
We consider the chemotaxis problem for a one-dimensional system. To analyze the interaction of bacteria and attractant we use a modified Keller-Segel model which accounts attractant absorption. To describe the system we use the chemotaxis sensitivity function, which characterizes nonuniformity of bacteria distributio...
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Copy the dynamics using a learning machine
Is it possible to generally construct a dynamical system to simulate a black system without recovering the equations of motion of the latter? Here we show that this goal can be approached by a learning machine. Trained by a set of input-output responses or a segment of time series of a black system, a learning machin...
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Algebraic Bethe ansatz for the XXZ Heisenberg spin chain with triangular boundaries and the corresponding Gaudin model
The implementation of the algebraic Bethe ansatz for the XXZ Heisenberg spin chain, of arbitrary spin-$s$, in the case, when both reflection matrices have the upper-triangular form is analyzed. The general form of the Bethe vectors is studied. In the particular form, Bethe vectors admit the recurrent procedure, with ...
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Using Programmable Graphene Channels as Weights in Spin-Diffusive Neuromorphic Computing
A graphene-based spin-diffusive (GrSD) neural network is presented in this work that takes advantage of the locally tunable spin transport of graphene and the non-volatility of nanomagnets. By using electrostatically gated graphene as spintronic synapses, a weighted summation operation can be performed in the spin do...
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Construction and Encoding of QC-LDPC Codes Using Group Rings
Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes which are known as QC-LDPC codes, have many applications due to their simple encoding implementation by means of cyclic shift registers. In this paper, we construct QC-LDPC codes from group rings. A group ring is a free module (at the same time a ring) construct...
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Imaginary time, shredded propagator method for large-scale GW calculations
The GW method is a many-body approach capable of providing quasiparticle bands for realistic systems spanning physics, chemistry, and materials science. Despite its power, GW is not routinely applied to large complex materials due to its computational expense. We perform an exact recasting of the GW polarizability an...
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A time change strategy to model reporting delay dynamics in claims reserving
This paper considers the problem of predicting the number of claims that have already incurred in past exposure years, but which have not yet been reported to the insurer. This is an important building block in the risk management strategy of an insurer since the company should be able to fulfill its liabilities with...
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Solving Parameter Estimation Problems with Discrete Adjoint Exponential Integrators
The solution of inverse problems in a variational setting finds best estimates of the model parameters by minimizing a cost function that penalizes the mismatch between model outputs and observations. The gradients required by the numerical optimization process are computed using adjoint models. Exponential integrato...
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Induced and intrinsic Hashiguchi connections on Finsler submanifolds
We study the geometry of Finsler submanifolds using the pulled-back approach. We define the Finsler normal pulled-back bundle and obtain the induced geometric objects, namely, induced pullback Finsler connection, normal pullback Finsler connection, second fundamental form and shape operator. Under a certain condition...
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Iterative PET Image Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Network Representation
PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and limited number of detected photons. Recently deep neural networks have been widely and successfully used in computer vision tasks and attracted growing interests in medical imaging. In this work, we trained a deep residual conv...
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Wave-Shaped Round Functions and Primitive Groups
Round functions used as building blocks for iterated block ciphers, both in the case of Substitution-Permutation Networks and Feistel Networks, are often obtained as the composition of different layers which provide confusion and diffusion, and key additions. The bijectivity of any encryption function, crucial in ord...
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Clean Floquet Time Crystals: Models and Realizations in Cold Atoms
Time crystals, a phase showing spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry, has been an intriguing subject for systems far away from equilibrium. Recent experiments found such a phase both in the presence and absence of localization, while in theories localization by disorder is usually assumed a priori. In thi...
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Fractional Derivatives of Convex Lyapunov Functions and Control Problems in Fractional Order Systems
The paper is devoted to the development of control procedures with a guide for conflict-controlled dynamical systems described by ordinary fractional differential equations with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1).$ For the case when the guide is in a certain sense a copy of the system, a mutual aimi...
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The role of tachysterol in vitamin D photosynthesis - A non-adiabatic molecular dynamics study
To investigate the role of tachysterol in the photophysical/chemical regulation of vitamin D photosynthesis, we studied its electronic absorption properties and excited state dynamics using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), coupled cluster theory (CC2), and non-adiabatic molecular dynamics. In excelle...
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A Web of Hate: Tackling Hateful Speech in Online Social Spaces
Online social platforms are beset with hateful speech - content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people. Such content can frighten, intimidate, or silence platform users, and some of it can inspire other users to commit violence. Despite widespread recognition of the problems posed by such content, reli...
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Lacunary Eta-quotients Modulo Powers of Primes
An integral power series is called lacunary modulo $M$ if almost all of its coefficients are divisible by $M$. Motivated by the parity problem for the partition function, $p(n)$, Gordon and Ono studied the generating functions for $t$-regular partitions, and determined conditions for when these functions are lacunary...
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An elementary approach to sofic groupoids
We describe sofic groupoids in elementary terms and prove several permanence properties for sofcity. We show that sofcity can be determined in terms of the full group alone, answering a question by Conley, Kechris and Tucker-Drob.
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A New Combination of Message Passing Techniques for Receiver Design in MIMO-OFDM Systems
In this paper, we propose a new combined message passing algorithm which allows belief propagation (BP) and mean filed (MF) applied on a same factor node, so that MF can be applied to hard constraint factors. Based on the proposed message passing algorithm, a iterative receiver is designed for MIMO-OFDM systems. Both...
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Modern Python at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
The LSST software systems make extensive use of Python, with almost all of it initially being developed solely in Python 2. Since LSST will be commissioned when Python 2 is end-of-lifed it is critical that we have all our code support Python 3 before commissioning begins. Over the past year we have made significant p...
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Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models
In this paper we study methods for estimating causal effects in settings with panel data, where a subset of units are exposed to a treatment during a subset of periods, and the goal is estimating counterfactual (untreated) outcomes for the treated unit/period combinations. We develop a class of matrix completion esti...
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Singular surfaces of revolution with prescribed unbounded mean curvature
We give an explicit formula for singular surfaces of revolution with prescribed unbounded mean curvature. Using it, we give conditions for singularities of that surfaces. Periodicity of that surface is also discussed.
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A Possible Mechanism for Driving Oscillations in Hot Giant Planets
The $\kappa$-mechanism has been successful in explaining the origin of observed oscillations of many types of "classical" pulsating variable stars. Here we examine quantitatively if that same process is prominent enough to excite the potential global oscillations within Jupiter, whose energy flux is powered by gravit...
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Cubic Fields: A Primer
We classify all cubic extensions of any field of arbitrary characteristic, up to isomorphism, via an explicit construction involving three fundamental types of cubic forms. We deduce a classification of any Galois cubic extension of a field. The splitting and ramification of places in a separable cubic extension of a...
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The GBT Beam Shape at 109 GHz
With the installation of the Argus 16-pixel receiver covering 75-115 GHz on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), it is now possible to characterize the antenna beam at very high frequencies, where the use of the active surface and out-of-focus holography are critical to the telescope's performance. A recent measurement in...
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Deep Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Topic-Layer-Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Riemannian MCMC
It is challenging to develop stochastic gradient based scalable inference for deep discrete latent variable models (LVMs), due to the difficulties in not only computing the gradients, but also adapting the step sizes to different latent factors and hidden layers. For the Poisson gamma belief network (PGBN), a recentl...
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Bridging Finite and Super Population Causal Inference
There are two general views in causal analysis of experimental data: the super population view that the units are an independent sample from some hypothetical infinite populations, and the finite population view that the potential outcomes of the experimental units are fixed and the randomness comes solely from the p...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters
In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various domains using deep reinforcement learning (RL). Reproducing existing work and accurately judging the improvements offered by novel methods is vital to sustaining this progress. Unfortunately, reproducing results for sta...
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Testing Docker Performance for HPC Applications
The main goal for this article is to compare performance penalties when using KVM virtualization and Docker containers for creating isolated environments for HPC applications. The article provides both data obtained using commonly accepted synthetic tests (High Performance Linpack) and real life applications (OpenFOA...
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Can Neural Machine Translation be Improved with User Feedback?
We present the first real-world application of methods for improving neural machine translation (NMT) with human reinforcement, based on explicit and implicit user feedback collected on the eBay e-commerce platform. Previous work has been confined to simulation experiments, whereas in this paper we work with real log...
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A new concept multi-stage Zeeman decelerator: experimental implementation
We demonstrate the successful experimental implementation of a multi-stage Zeeman decelerator utilizing the new concept described in the accompanying paper. The decelerator consists of an array of 25 hexapoles and 24 solenoids. The performance of the decelerator in acceleration, deceleration and guiding modes is char...
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Adversarial Generation of Real-time Feedback with Neural Networks for Simulation-based Training
Simulation-based training (SBT) is gaining popularity as a low-cost and convenient training technique in a vast range of applications. However, for a SBT platform to be fully utilized as an effective training tool, it is essential that feedback on performance is provided automatically in real-time during training. It...
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Models of the strongly lensed quasar DES J0408-5354
We present gravitational lens models of the multiply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, recently discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) footprint, with the aim of interpreting its remarkable quad-like configuration. We first model the DES single-epoch $grizY$ images as a superposition of a lens galaxy and four point-l...
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Efficient Test-based Variable Selection for High-dimensional Linear Models
Variable selection plays a fundamental role in high-dimensional data analysis. Various methods have been developed for variable selection in recent years. Well-known examples are forward stepwise regression (FSR) and least angle regression (LARS), among others. These methods typically add variables into the model one...
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Star Cluster Formation from Turbulent Clumps. I. The Fast Formation Limit
We investigate the formation and early evolution of star clusters assuming that they form from a turbulent starless clump of given mass bounded inside a parent self-gravitating molecular cloud characterized by a particular mass surface density. As a first step we assume instantaneous star cluster formation and gas ex...
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A deep learning architecture for temporal sleep stage classification using multivariate and multimodal time series
Sleep stage classification constitutes an important preliminary exam in the diagnosis of sleep disorders. It is traditionally performed by a sleep expert who assigns to each 30s of signal a sleep stage, based on the visual inspection of signals such as electroencephalograms (EEG), electrooculograms (EOG), electrocard...
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An anti-incursion algorithm for unknown probabilistic adversaries on connected graphs
A gambler moves on the vertices $1, \ldots, n$ of a graph using the probability distribution $p_{1}, \ldots, p_{n}$. A cop pursues the gambler on the graph, only being able to move between adjacent vertices. What is the expected number of moves that the gambler can make until the cop catches them? Komarov and Winkler...
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Virtual Breakpoints for x86/64
Efficient, reliable trapping of execution in a program at the desired location is a hot area of research for security professionals. The progression of debuggers and malware is akin to a game of cat and mouse - each are constantly in a state of trying to thwart one another. At the core of most efficient debuggers tod...
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Accurate Multi-physics Numerical Analysis of Particle Preconcentration Based on Ion Concentration Polarization
This paper studies mechanism of preconcentration of charged particles in a straight micro-channel embedded with permselective membranes, by numerically solving coupled transport equations of ions, charged particles and solvent fluid without any simplifying assumptions. It is demonstrated that trapping and preconcentr...
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Learning to Embed Words in Context for Syntactic Tasks
We present models for embedding words in the context of surrounding words. Such models, which we refer to as token embeddings, represent the characteristics of a word that are specific to a given context, such as word sense, syntactic category, and semantic role. We explore simple, efficient token embedding models ba...
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Modeling Impact of Human Errors on the Data Unavailability and Data Loss of Storage Systems
Data storage systems and their availability play a crucial role in contemporary datacenters. Despite using mechanisms such as automatic fail-over in datacenters, the role of human agents and consequently their destructive errors is inevitable. Due to very large number of disk drives used in exascale datacenters and t...
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Gaussian and Sparse Processes Are Limits of Generalized Poisson Processes
The theory of sparse stochastic processes offers a broad class of statistical models to study signals. In this framework, signals are represented as realizations of random processes that are solution of linear stochastic differential equations driven by white Lévy noises. Among these processes, generalized Poisson pr...
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Survival time of Princess Kaguya in an air-tight bamboo chamber
Princess Kaguya is a heroine of a famous folk tale, as every Japanese knows. She was assumed to be confined in a bamboo cavity with cylindrical shape, and then fortuitously discovered by an elderly man in the forest. Here, we pose a question as to how long she could have survived in an enclosed space such as the bamb...
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Descriptor System Tools (DSTOOLS) User's Guide
The Descriptor System Tools (DSTOOLS) is a collection of MATLAB functions for the operation on and manipulation of rational transfer function matrices via their descriptor system realizations. The DSTOOLS collection relies on the Control System Toolbox and several mex-functions based on the Systems and Control Librar...
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Laplacian Prior Variational Automatic Relevance Determination for Transmission Tomography
In the classic sparsity-driven problems, the fundamental L-1 penalty method has been shown to have good performance in reconstructing signals for a wide range of problems. However this performance relies on a good choice of penalty weight which is often found from empirical experiments. We propose an algorithm called...
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Mitigating Confirmation Bias on Twitter by Recommending Opposing Views
In this work, we propose a content-based recommendation approach to increase exposure to opposing beliefs and opinions. Our aim is to help provide users with more diverse viewpoints on issues, which are discussed in partisan groups from different perspectives. Since due to the backfire effect, people's original belie...
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First-principles based Landau-Devonshire potential for BiFeO$_3$
The work describes a first-principles-based computational strategy for studying structural phase transitions, and in particular, for determination of the so-called Landau-Devonshire potential - the classical zero-temperature limit of the Gibbs energy, expanded in terms of order parameters. It exploits the configurati...
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A topological characterization of the omega-limit sets of analytic vector fields on open subsets of the sphere
In [15], V. Jimenez and J. Llibre characterized, up to homeomorphism, the omega limit sets of analytic vector fields on the sphere and the projective plane. The authors also studied the same problem for open subsets of these surfaces. Unfortunately, an essential lemma in their programme for general surfaces has a gap...
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