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"abstract": " Zero-shot learning (ZSL) endows the computer vision system with the\ninferential capability to recognize instances of a new category that has never\nseen before. Two fundamental challenges in it are visual-semantic embedding and\ndomain adaptation in cross-modality learning and unseen class predictio... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19201 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (mEC) respond when an animal\noccupies a periodic lattice of \"grid fields\" in the environment. The grids are\norganized in modules with spatial periods clustered around discrete values\nseparated by constant ratios reported in the range 1.3-1.8. We propose... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19202 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Online social network (OSN) discussion groups are exerting significant\neffects on political dialogue. In the absence of access control mechanisms, any\nuser can contribute to any OSN thread. Individuals can exploit this\ncharacteristic to execute targeted attacks, which increases the potential for\n... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19203 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Image stitching is challenging in consumer-level photography, due to\nalignment difficulties in unconstrained shooting environment. Recent studies\nshow that seam-cutting approaches can effectively relieve artifacts generated\nby local misalignment. Normally, seam-cutting is described in terms of ene... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19204 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Probabilistic modeling provides the capability to represent and manipulate\nuncertainty in data, models, predictions and decisions. We are concerned with\nthe problem of learning probabilistic models of dynamical systems from measured\ndata. Specifically, we consider learning of probabilistic nonline... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19205 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds is a challenging problem with\nnumerous real-world applications. While deep learning has revolutionized the\nfield of image semantic segmentation, its impact on point cloud data has been\nlimited so far. Recent attempts, based on 3D deep learning approaches\n(... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19206 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Motivated by posted price auctions where buyers are grouped in an unknown\nnumber of latent types characterized by their private values for the good on\nsale, we investigate revenue maximization in stochastic dynamic pricing when\nthe distribution of buyers' private values is supported on an unknown ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19207 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We analyse certain Haar systems associated to groupoids obtained by certain\nnatural equivalence relations of dynamical nature on sets like\n$\\{1,2,...,d\\}^\\mathbb{Z}$, $\\{1,2,...,d\\}^\\mathbb{N}$, $S^1\\times S^1$, or\n$(S^1)^\\mathbb{N}$, where $S^1$ is the unitary circle. We also describe\npr... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19208 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Numerical (and experimental) data analysis often requires the restoration of\na smooth function from a set of sampled integrals over finite bins. We present\nthe bin hierarchy method that efficiently computes the maximally smooth\nfunction from the sampled integrals using essentially all the informat... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19209 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We propose a new active learning strategy designed for deep neural networks.\nThe goal is to minimize the number of data annotation queried from an oracle\nduring training. Previous active learning strategies scalable for deep networks\nwere mostly based on uncertain sample selection. In this work, w... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19210 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Nowadays, the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems take\non great relevance in handling security issues for critical infrastructures as\nInternet Service Providers. Basically, a SIEM has two main functions: i) the\ncollection and the aggregation of log data and security informatio... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19211 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Adaptive methods such as Adam and RMSProp are widely used in deep learning\nbut are not well understood. In this paper, we seek a crisp, clean and precise\ncharacterization of their behavior in nonconvex settings. To this end, we first\nprovide a novel view of adaptive methods as preconditioned SGD, ... | null | null | [
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"abstract": " Films of Cu-K-In-Se were co-evaporated at varied K/(K+Cu) compositions and\nsubstrate temperatures (with constant (K+Cu)/In ~ 0.85). Increased Na\ncomposition on the substrate's surface and decreased growth temperature were\nboth found to favor Cu1-xKxInSe2 (CKIS) alloy formation, relative to\nmixed-... | null | null | [
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"abstract": " Over the course of last decade, the Nice model has dramatically changed our\nview of the solar system's formation and early evolution. Within the context of\nthis model, a transient period of planet-planet scattering is triggered by\ngravitational interactions between the giant planets and a massive ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19214 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Using the natural action of $S_\\infty$ we show that a countable hereditary\nclass $\\cC$ of finitely generated structures has the joint embedding property\n(JEP) and the weak amalgamation property (WAP) if and only if there is a\nstructure $M$ whose isomorphism type is comeager in the space of all c... | null | null | [
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"abstract": " The cost of attending college has been steadily rising and in 10 years is\nestimated to reach $140,000 for a 4-year public university. Recent surveys\nestimate just over half of US families are saving for college. State-operated\n529 college savings plans are an effective way for families to plan and... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19216 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Users of Virtual Reality (VR) systems often experience vection, the\nperception of self-motion in the absence of any physical movement. While\nvection helps to improve presence in VR, it often leads to a form of motion\nsickness called cybersickness. Cybersickness is a major deterrent to large\nscale... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19217 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " In this paper we present a comprehensive view of prominent causal discovery\nalgorithms, categorized into two main categories (1) assuming acyclic and no\nlatent variables, and (2) allowing both cycles and latent variables, along with\nexperimental results comparing them from three perspectives: (a) ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19218 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We examine the sensitivity of the Love and the quasi-Rayleigh waves to model\nparameters. Both waves are guided waves that propagate in the same model of an\nelastic layer above an elastic halfspace. We study their dispersion curves\nwithout any simplifying assumptions, beyond the standard approach o... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19219 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Let $\\varphi:\\mathbb{F}_q\\to\\mathbb{F}_q$ be a rational map on a fixed finite\nfield. We give explicit asymptotic formulas for the size of image sets\n$\\varphi^n(\\mathbb{F}_q)$ as a function of $n$. This is done by using\nproperties of the Galois groups of iterated maps, whose connection to the... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19220 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We form real-analytic Eisenstein series twisted by Manin's noncommutative\nmodular symbols. After developing their basic properties, these series are\nshown to have meromorphic continuations to the entire complex plane and satisfy\nfunctional equations in some cases. This theory neatly contains and g... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19221 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We study closed $n$-dimensional manifolds of which the metrics are critical\nfor quadratic curvature functionals involving the Ricci curvature, the scalar\ncurvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor on the space of Riemannian\nmetrics with unit volume. Under some additional integral conditions, we... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19222 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Using quantum representations of mapping class groups we prove that profinite\ncompletions of Burnside-type surface group quotients are not virtually\nprosolvable, in general. Further, we construct infinitely many finite simple\ncharacteristic quotients of surface groups.\n",
"title": "Profinite co... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19223 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " In this work, we propose an infinite restricted Boltzmann machine~(RBM),\nwhose maximum likelihood estimation~(MLE) corresponds to a constrained convex\noptimization. We consider the Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve the program, which\nprovides a sparse solution that can be interpreted as inserting a h... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19224 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We present the discovery of four low-mass ($M<0.6$ $M_\\odot$) eclipsing\nbinary (EB) systems in the sub-Gyr old Praesepe open cluster using Kepler/K2\ntime-series photometry and Keck/HIRES spectroscopy. We present a new Gaussian\nprocess eclipsing binary model, GP-EBOP, as well as a method of simult... | null | null | [
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"abstract": " Perovskite solar cells with record power conversion efficiency are fabricated\nby alloying both hybrid and fully inorganic compounds. While the basic\nelectronic properties of the hybrid perovskites are now well understood, key\nelectronic parameters for solar cell performance, such as the exciton bi... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19226 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are one of the largest astrophysical sources in\nthe Universe with an overall projected linear size of ~0.7 Mpc or more. Last\nsix decades of radio astronomy research has led to the detection of thousands\nof radio galaxies. But only ~ 300 of them can be classified as GRGs... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19227 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We propose a general yet simple theorem describing the convergence of SGD\nunder the arbitrary sampling paradigm. Our theorem describes the convergence of\nan infinite array of variants of SGD, each of which is associated with a\nspecific probability law governing the data selection rule used to form... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19228 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We study an extreme scenario in multi-label learning where each training\ninstance is endowed with a single one-bit label out of multiple labels. We\nformulate this problem as a non-trivial special case of one-bit rank-one matrix\nsensing and develop an efficient non-convex algorithm based on alterna... | null | null | [
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"Statistics"
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"abstract": " To explore large-scale population indoor interactions, we analyze 18,715\nusers' WiFi access logs recorded in a Chinese university campus during 3\nmonths, and define two categories of human interactions, the event interaction\n(EI) and the temporal interaction (TI). The EI helps construct a transmis... | null | null | [
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"Physics"
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"abstract": " Highly robust and efficient estimators for the generalized linear model with\na dispersion parameter are proposed. The estimators are based on three steps.\nIn the first step the maximum rank correlation estimator is used to\nconsistently estimate the slopes up to a scale factor. In the second step, ... | null | null | [
"Statistics"
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"abstract": " We present lifestate rules--an approach for abstracting event-driven object\nprotocols. Developing applications against event-driven software frameworks is\nnotoriously difficult. One reason why is that to create functioning\napplications, developers must know about and understand the complex protoco... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19232 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are a class of generative neural network\nthat are typically trained to maximize a log-likelihood objective function. We\nargue that likelihood-based training strategies may fail because the objective\ndoes not sufficiently penalize models that place a high probab... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19233 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " It is becoming increasingly clear that complex interactions among genes and\nenvironmental factors play crucial roles in triggering complex diseases. Thus,\nunderstanding such interactions is vital, which is possible only through\nstatistical models that adequately account for such intricate, albeit ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19234 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Principal component regression is a linear regression model with principal\ncomponents as regressors. This type of modelling is particularly useful for\nprediction in settings with high-dimensional covariates. Surprisingly, the\nexisting literature treating of Bayesian approaches is relatively sparse... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19235 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We propose an efficient meta-algorithm for Bayesian estimation problems that\nis based on low-degree polynomials, semidefinite programming, and tensor\ndecomposition. The algorithm is inspired by recent lower bound constructions\nfor sum-of-squares and related to the method of moments. Our focus is o... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19236 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We consider the boundary rigidity problem for asymptotically hyperbolic\nmanifolds. We show injectivity of the X-ray transform in several cases and\nconsider the non-linear inverse problem which consists of recovering a metric\nfrom boundary measurements for the geodesic flow.\n",
"title": "X-ray T... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19237 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We consider the spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry and identify\nthe associated Goldstone mode -- a longitudinal phonon -- in a holographic\nmodel with Bianchi VII helical symmetry. For the first time in holography, we\nobserve the pinning of this mode after introducing a source for expli... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19238 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The method of brackets is an efficient method for the evaluation of a large\nclass of definite integrals on the half-line. It is based on a small collection\nof rules, some of which are heuristic. The extension discussed here is based on\nthe concepts of null and divergent series. These are formal re... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19239 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The R package optimParallel provides a parallel version of the gradient-based\noptimization methods of optim(). The main function of the package is\noptimParallel(), which has the same usage and output as optim(). Using\noptimParallel() can significantly reduce optimization times. We introduce the R\... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19240 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Some key results obtained in joint research projects with Alex Müller are\nsummarized, concentrating on the invention of the barocaloric effect and its\napplication for cooling as well as on important findings in the field of\nhigh-temperature superconductivity resulting from neutron scattering\nexpe... | null | null | [
"Physics"
] | null | true | null | 19241 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " We show that Rashba spin-orbit coupling at the interface between a\nsuperconductor and a ferromagnet should produce a spontaneous current in the\natomic thickness region near the interface. This current is counter-balanced by\nthe superconducting screening current flowing in the region of the width o... | null | null | [
"Physics"
] | null | true | null | 19242 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " Fraud has severely detrimental impacts on the business of social networks and\nother online applications. A user can become a fake celebrity by purchasing\n\"zombie followers\" on Twitter. A merchant can boost his reputation through fake\nreviews on Amazon. This phenomenon also conspicuously exists o... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19243 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Systems which can spontaneously reveal periodic evolution are dubbed time\ncrystals. This is in analogy with space crystals that display periodic behavior\nin configuration space. While space crystals are modelled with the help of\nspace periodic potentials, crystalline phenomena in time can be model... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19244 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The analysis of the demographic transition of the past century and a half,\nusing both empirical data and mathematical models, has rendered a wealth of\nwell-established facts, including the dramatic increases in life expectancy.\nDespite these insights, such analyses have also occasionally triggered... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19245 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) revolutionize various application domains with\nintegration and interoperability of networking, computing systems, and\nmechanical devices. Due to its scale and variety, CPS faces a number of\nchallenges and opens up a few research questions in terms of management,\nfault... | null | null | [
"Computer Science"
] | null | true | null | 19246 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " This paper gives a self-contained group-theoretic proof of a dual version of\na theorem of Ore on distributive intervals of finite groups. We deduce a bridge\nbetween combinatorics and representations in finite group theory.\n",
"title": "Dual Ore's theorem on distributive intervals of finite group... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19247 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " A measurable function $\\mu$ on the unit disk $\\mathbb{D}$ of the complex\nplane with $\\|\\mu\\|_\\infty<1$ is sometimes called a Beltrami coefficient. We\nsay that $\\mu$ is trivial if it is the complex dilatation $f_{\\bar z}/f_z$ of a\nquasiconformal automorphism $f$ of $\\mathbb{D}$ satisfying ... | null | null | [
"Mathematics"
] | null | true | null | 19248 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " We give a detailed account of the so-called \"universal construction\" that\naims to extend invariants of closed manifolds, possibly with additional\nstructure, to topological field theories and show that it amounts to a\ngeneralization of the GNS construction. We apply this construction to an\ninvar... | null | null | [
"Mathematics"
] | null | true | null | 19249 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " An asymmetric resonant cavity can be used to form a path that is much longer\nthan the cavity size. We demonstrate this capability for a deformed microdisk\nequipped with two linear waveguides, by constructing a multiply reflected\nperiodic orbit that is confined by total internal reflection within t... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19250 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The 3.6 and 4.5 micron characteristics of AGB variables in the LMC and IC1613\nare discussed. For C-rich Mira variables there is a very clear\nperiod-luminosity-colour relation, where the [3.6]-[4.5] colour is associated\nwith the amount of circumstellar material and correlated with the pulsation\nam... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19251 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Effective teams are crucial for organisations, especially in environments\nthat require teams to be constantly created and dismantled, such as software\ndevelopment, scientific experiments, crowd-sourcing, or the classroom. Key\nfactors influencing team performance are competences and personality of ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19252 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Given a semigroup S with zero, which is left-cancellative in the sense that\nst=sr \\neq 0 implies that t=r, we construct an inverse semigroup called the\ninverse hull of S, denoted H(S). When S admits least common multiples, in a\nprecise sense defined below, we study the idempotent semilattice of H... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19253 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " A generalization of classical determinant inequalities like Hadamard's\ninequality and Fischer's inequality is studied. For a version of the\ninequalities originally proved by Arveson for positive operators in von Neumann\nalgebras with a tracial state, we give a different proof. We also improve and\... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19254 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We propose a new reinforcement learning algorithm for partially observable\nMarkov decision processes (POMDP) based on spectral decomposition methods.\nWhile spectral methods have been previously employed for consistent learning of\n(passive) latent variable models such as hidden Markov models, POMDP... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19255 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We introduce the notion of ST-pairs of triangulated subcategories, a\nprototypical example of which is the pair of the bound homotopy category and\nthe bound derived category of a finite-dimensional algebra. For an ST-pair\n$(\\C,\\D)$, we construct an order-preserving map from silting objects in $\\... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19256 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We introduce features for massive data streams. These stream features can be\nthought of as \"ordered moments\" and generalize stream sketches from \"moments of\norder one\" to \"ordered moments of arbitrary order\". In analogy to classic\nmoments, they have theoretical guarantees such as universalit... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19257 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We study the problem of learning to rank from multiple sources. Though\nmulti-view learning and learning to rank have been studied extensively leading\nto a wide range of applications, multi-view learning to rank as a synergy of\nboth topics has received little attention. The aim of the paper is to p... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19258 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " In order for a robot to be a generalist that can perform a wide range of\njobs, it must be able to acquire a wide variety of skills quickly and\nefficiently in complex unstructured environments. High-capacity models such as\ndeep neural networks can enable a robot to represent complex skills, but\nle... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19259 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We give an explicit formula for the second variation of the logarithm of the\nSelberg zeta function, $Z(s)$, on Teichmüller space. We then use this formula\nto determine the asymptotic behavior as $s \\to \\infty$ of the second variation.\nAs a consequence, we determine the signature of the Hessian o... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19260 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The idea that black hole spin is instrumental in the generation of powerful\njets in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries is arguably the most\ncontentious claim in black hole astrophysics. Because jets are thought to\noriginate in the context of electromagnetism, and the modeling of Maxwell\nfi... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19261 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The distance covariance of two random vectors is a measure of their\ndependence. The empirical distance covariance and correlation can be used as\nstatistical tools for testing whether two random vectors are independent. We\npropose an analogs of the distance covariance for two stochastic processes\n... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19262 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We investigate nonparametric regression methods based on statistical depth\nfunctions. These nonparametric regression procedures can be used in situations,\nwhere the response is multivariate and the covariate is a random element in a\nmetric space. This includes regression with functional covariate ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19263 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " A number of optimal decision problems with uncertainty can be formulated into\na stochastic optimal control framework. The Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC)\nalgorithm is a popular numerical method to approach solutions of such\nstochastic control problems as analytical solutions are not tractable in\... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19264 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The iterated posterior linearization filter (IPLF) is an algorithm for\nBayesian state estimation that performs the measurement update using iterative\nstatistical regression. The main result behind IPLF is that the posterior\napproximation is more accurate when the statistical regression of measurem... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19265 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We consider a system where randomly generated updates are to be transmitted\nto a monitor, but only a single update can be in the transmission service at a\ntime. Therefore, the source has to prioritize between the two possible\ntransmission policies: preempting the current update or discarding the n... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19266 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Most analyses of randomised trials with incomplete outcomes make untestable\nassumptions and should therefore be subjected to sensitivity analyses. However,\nmethods for sensitivity analyses are not widely used. We propose a mean score\napproach for exploring global sensitivity to departures from mis... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19267 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Let R be a family of n axis-parallel rectangles with packing number p-1,\nmeaning that among any p of the rectangles, there are two with a non-empty\nintersection. We show that the union complexity of R is at most O(n+p^2), and\nthat the (<=k)-level complexity of R is at most O(kn+k^2p^2). Both upper... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19268 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We present a new method to derive oxygen and carbon abundances using the\nultraviolet (UV) lines emitted by the gas-phase ionised by massive stars. The\nmethod is based on the comparison of the nebular emission-line ratios with\nthose predicted by a large grid of photo-ionisation models. Given the la... | null | null | [
"Physics"
] | null | true | null | 19269 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " We study the extent to which we can infer users' geographical locations from\nsocial media. Location inference from social media can benefit many\napplications, such as disaster management, targeted advertising, and news\ncontent tailoring. In recent years, a number of algorithms have been proposed\n... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19270 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The ABALONE Photosensor Technology (U.S. Patent 9064678 2015) has the\ncapability of supplanting the expensive 80 year old Photomultiplier Tube (PMT)\nmanufacture by providing a modern and cost effective alternative product. An\nABALONE Photosensor comprises only three monolithic glass components, se... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19271 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " In large scale coverage operations, such as marine exploration or aerial\nmonitoring, single robot approaches are not ideal, as they may take too long to\ncover a large area. In such scenarios, multi-robot approaches are preferable.\nFurthermore, several real world vehicles are non-holonomic, but can... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19272 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We study fairness in collaborative-filtering recommender systems, which are\nsensitive to discrimination that exists in historical data. Biased data can\nlead collaborative filtering methods to make unfair predictions against\nminority groups of users. We identify the insufficiency of existing fairne... | null | null | [
"Computer Science"
] | null | true | null | 19273 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " Graph inference methods have recently attracted a great interest from the\nscientific community, due to the large value they bring in data interpretation\nand analysis. However, most of the available state-of-the-art methods focus on\nscenarios where all available data can be explained through the sa... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19274 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " This paper presents a provably correct method for robot navigation in 2D\nenvironments cluttered with familiar but unexpected non-convex, star-shaped\nobstacles as well as completely unknown, convex obstacles. We presuppose a\nlimited range onboard sensor, capable of recognizing, localizing and\n(lev... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19275 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The resolvent Krylov subspace method builds approximations to operator\nfunctions $f(A)$ times a vector $v$. For the semigroup and related operator\nfunctions, this method is proved to possess the favorable property that the\nconvergence is automatically faster when the vector $v$ is smoother. The us... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19276 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The best known manifestation of the Fermi-Dirac statistics is the Pauli\nexclusion principle: no two identical fermions can occupy the same one-particle\nstate. This principle enforces high order correlations in systems of many\nidentical fermions and is responsible for a particular geometric arrange... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19277 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " This paper proves the approximate intermediate value theorem, constructively\nand from notably weak hypotheses: from pointwise rather than uniform\ncontinuity, without assuming that reals are presented with rational\napproximants, and without using countable choice. The theorem is that if a\npointwis... | null | null | [
"Computer Science",
"Mathematics"
] | null | true | null | 19278 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " The ultraviolet (UV) light from a host star influences a planet's atmospheric\nphotochemistry and will affect interpretations of exoplanetary spectra from\nfuture missions like the James Webb Space Telescope. These effects will be\nparticularly critical in the study of planetary atmospheres around M ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19279 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We construct a double-well potential for which the Schrödinger equation can\nbe exactly solved via reducing to the confluent Heun's one. Thus the wave\nfunction is expressed via the confluent Heun's function. The latter is\ntabulated in {\\sl {Maple}} so that the obtained solution is easily treated. ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19280 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Social ties are strongly related to well-being. But what characterizes this\nrelationship? This study investigates social mechanisms explaining how social\nties affect well-being through social integration and social influence, and how\nwell-being affects social ties through social selection. We hypo... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19281 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We analyze spectral properties of two mutually related families of magnetic\nSchrödinger operators, $H_{\\mathrm{Sm}}(A)=(i \\nabla +A)^2+\\omega^2\ny^2+\\lambda y \\delta(x)$ and $H(A)=(i \\nabla +A)^2+\\omega^2 y^2+ \\lambda y^2\nV(x y)$ in $L^2(R^2)$, with the parameters $\\omega>0$ and $\\lambda<... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19282 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Given a positive function $u\\in W^{1,n}$, we define its John-Nirenberg radius\nat point $x$ to be the supreme of the radius such that $\\int_{B_t}|\\nabla\\log\nu|^n<\\epsilon_0^n$ when $n>2$, and $\\int_{B_t}|\\nabla u|^2<\\epsilon_0^2$ when\n$n=2$. We will show that for a collapsing sequence in a ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19283 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " The recent literature on deep learning offers new tools to learn a rich\nprobability distribution over high dimensional data such as images or sounds.\nIn this work we investigate the possibility of learning the prior distribution\nover neural network parameters using such tools. Our resulting variat... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19284 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Recent advances show that two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis\n(2DLDA) is a successful matrix based dimensionality reduction method. However,\n2DLDA may encounter the singularity issue theoretically and the sensitivity to\noutliers. In this paper, a generalized Lp-norm 2DLDA framework with\n... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19285 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Distinct striation patterns are observed in the spectrograms of speech and\nmusic. This motivated us to propose three novel time-frequency features for\nspeech-music classification. These features are extracted in two stages. First,\na preset number of prominent spectral peak locations are identified... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19286 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " This paper presents a motion planner for systems subject to kinematic and\ndynamic constraints. The former appear when kinematic loops are present in the\nsystem, such as in parallel manipulators, in robots that cooperate to achieve a\ngiven task, or in situations involving contacts with the environm... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19287 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Can we learn a binary classifier from only positive data, without any\nnegative data or unlabeled data? We show that if one can equip positive data\nwith confidence (positive-confidence), one can successfully learn a binary\nclassifier, which we name positive-confidence (Pconf) classification. Our wo... | null | null | [
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"Statistics"
] | null | true | null | 19288 | null | Validated | null | null |
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"abstract": " It is well-known that kernel regression estimators do not produce a constant\nestimator variance over a domain. To correct this problem, Nishida and Kanazawa\n(2015) proposed a variance-stabilizing (VS) local variable bandwidth for Local\nLinear (LL) regression estimator. In contrast, Choi and Hall (... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19289 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " To harness the complexity of their high-dimensional bodies during\nsensorimotor development, infants are guided by patterns of freezing and\nfreeing of degrees of freedom. For instance, when learning to reach, infants\nfree the degrees of freedom in their arm proximodistally, i.e. from joints that\na... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19290 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We prove that $\\tilde{\\Theta}(k d^2 / \\varepsilon^2)$ samples are necessary\nand sufficient for learning a mixture of $k$ Gaussians in $\\mathbb{R}^d$, up to\nerror $\\varepsilon$ in total variation distance. This improves both the known\nupper bounds and lower bounds for this problem. For mixture... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19291 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We present a heuristic based algorithm to induce \\textit{nonmonotonic} logic\nprograms that will explain the behavior of XGBoost trained classifiers. We use\nthe technique based on the LIME approach to locally select the most important\nfeatures contributing to the classification decision. Then, in ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19292 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Manipulation of deformable objects, such as ropes and cloth, is an important\nbut challenging problem in robotics. We present a learning-based system where a\nrobot takes as input a sequence of images of a human manipulating a rope from\nan initial to goal configuration, and outputs a sequence of act... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19293 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We derive upper and lower bounds for the policy regret of $T$-round online\nlearning problems with graph-structured feedback, where the adversary is\nnonoblivious but assumed to have a bounded memory. We obtain upper bounds of\n$\\widetilde O(T^{2/3})$ and $\\widetilde O(T^{3/4})$ for strongly-observ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19294 | null | Default | null | null |
null | {
"abstract": " The dynamical characteristics of electromagnetic fields include energy,\nmomentum, angular momentum (spin) and helicity. We analyze their spatial\ndistributions near the planar interface between two transparent and\nnon-dispersive media, when the incident monochromatic plane wave with arbitrary\npola... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19295 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " In this paper we give three functors $\\mathfrak{P}$, $[\\cdot]_K$ and\n$\\mathfrak{F}$ on the category of C$^\\ast$-algebras. The functor $\\mathfrak{P}$\nassigns to each C$^\\ast$-algebra $\\mathcal{A}$ a pre-C$^\\ast$-algebra\n$\\mathfrak{P}(\\mathcal{A})$ with completion $[\\mathcal{A}]_K$. The f... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19296 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " We define the notion of a hierarchically cocompact classifying space for a\nfamily of subgroups of a group. Our main application is to show that the\nmapping class group $\\mbox{Mod}(S)$ of any connected oriented compact surface\n$S$, possibly with punctures and boundary components and with negative ... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19297 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " An explosion of high-throughput DNA sequencing in the past decade has led to\na surge of interest in population-scale inference with whole-genome data.\nRecent work in population genetics has centered on designing inference methods\nfor relatively simple model classes, and few scalable general-purpos... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19298 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " Quantum effects, prevalent in the microscopic scale, generally elusive in\nmacroscopic systems due to dissipation and decoherence. Quantum phenomena in\nlarge systems emerge only when particles are strongly correlated as in\nsuperconductors and superfluids. Cooperative interaction of correlated atoms... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19299 | null | Default | null | null |
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"abstract": " This paper presents a deep learning framework that is capable of solving\npartially observable locomotion tasks based on our novel interpretation of\nRecurrent Deterministic Policy Gradient (RDPG). We study on bias of sampled\nerror measure and its variance induced by the partial observability of\nen... | null | null | null | null | true | null | 19300 | null | Default | null | null |
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