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{ "abstract": " Tensor factorization with hard and/or soft constraints has played an\nimportant role in signal processing and data analysis. However, existing\nalgorithms for constrained tensor factorization have two drawbacks: (i) they\nrequire matrix-inversion; and (ii) they cannot (or at least is very difficult\n...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we propose a replay attack spoofing detection system for\nautomatic speaker verification using multitask learning of noise classes. We\ndefine the noise that is caused by the replay attack as replay noise. We\nexplore the effectiveness of training a deep neural network simultaneously f...
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{ "abstract": " For linear inverse problem with Gaussian random noise we show that Tikhonov\nregularization algorithm is minimax in the class of linear estimators and is\nasymptotically minimax in the sense of sharp asymptotic in the class of all\nestimators. The results are valid if some a priori information on a F...
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{ "abstract": " Light carries momentum which induces on atoms a recoil for each photon\nabsorbed. In vacuum, for a monochromatic beam of frequency $\\nu$, the global\nmomentum per photon is bounded by general principles and is smaller than $h\n\\nu/c$ leading to a limit on the recoil. However, locally this limit can...
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{ "abstract": " For a contraction $C_0$-semigroup on a separable Hilbert space, the decay\nrate is estimated by using the weak Poincaré inequalities for the symmetric\nand anti-symmetric part of the generator. As applications, non-exponential\nconvergence rate is characterized for a class of degenerate diffusion\npr...
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{ "abstract": " Traceroute is the main tools to explore Internet path. It provides limited\ninformation about each node along the path. However, Traceroute cannot go\nfurther in statistics analysis, or \\emph{Man-Machine Interface (MMI)}.\nIndeed, there are no graphical tool that is able to draw all paths used by IP...
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{ "abstract": " We studied the thermodynamic behaviors of non-interacting bosons and fermions\ntrapped by a scale-invariant branching structure of adjustable degree of\nheterogeneity. The full energy spectrum in tight-binding approximation was\nanalytically solved . We found that the log-periodic oscillation of the\...
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{ "abstract": " Many deep models have been recently proposed for anomaly detection. This\npaper presents comparison of selected generative deep models and classical\nanomaly detection methods on an extensive number of non--image benchmark\ndatasets. We provide statistical comparison of the selected models, in many\n...
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{ "abstract": " Consider a terminal in which users arrive continuously over a finite period\nof time at a variable rate known in advance. A fleet of shuttles has to carry\nthe users over a fixed trip. What is the shuttle schedule that minimizes their\nwaiting time? This is the question addressed in the present paper...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper we extend the theory of two weight, $A_p$ bump conditions to\nthe setting of matrix weights. We prove two matrix weight inequalities for\nfractional maximal operators, fractional and singular integrals, sparse\noperators and averaging operators. As applications we prove quantitative, on...
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{ "abstract": " We show that a link in an open book can be realized as a strongly\nquasipositive braid if and only if it bounds a Legendrian ribbon with respect\nto the associated contact structure. This generalizes a result due to Baader\nand Ishikawa for links in the three-sphere. We highlight some related\ntechni...
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{ "abstract": " The \\Delta-convolution of real probability measures, introduced by Bożejko,\ngeneralizes both free and boolean convolutions. It is linearized by the\n\\Delta-cumulants, and Yoshida gave a combinatorial formula for moments in terms\nof \\Delta-cumulants, that implicitly defines the latter. It relies ...
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{ "abstract": " When classifying point clouds, a large amount of time is devoted to the\nprocess of engineering a reliable set of features which are then passed to a\nclassifier of choice. Generally, such features - usually derived from the\n3D-covariance matrix - are computed using the surrounding neighborhood of\n...
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{ "abstract": " Some boundedness properties of function spaces (considered as topological\ngroups) are studied.\n", "title": "Boundedness properties in function spaces" }
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we propose a novel approach to combine \\emph{compact directed\nacyclic word graphs} (CDAWGs) and grammar-based compression. This leads us to\nan efficient self-index, called Linear-size CDAWGs (L-CDAWGs), which can be\nrepresented with $O(\\tilde e_T \\log n)$ bits of space allowing f...
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{ "abstract": " Topic lifecycle analysis on Twitter, a branch of study that investigates\nTwitter topics from their birth through lifecycle to death, has gained immense\nmainstream research popularity. In the literature, topics are often treated as\none of (a) hashtags (independent from other hashtags), (b) a burst ...
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{ "abstract": " Previous research on unstable footwear has suggested that it may induce\nplantar mechanical noise during walking. The purpose of this study was to\nexplore whether unstable footwear could be considered as a noise-based training\ngear to exercise body center of mass (CoM) motion during walking or not....
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{ "abstract": " In this paper we introduce a modified version of a gaussian standard\nfirst-order autoregressive process where we allow for a dependence structure\nbetween the state variable $Y_{t-1}$ and the next innovation $\\xi_t$. We call\nthis model dependent innovations gaussian AR(1) process (DIG-AR(1)). We a...
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{ "abstract": " Structured Peer Learning (SPL) is a form of peer-based supplemental\ninstruction that focuses on mentoring, guidance, and development of technical,\ncommunication, and social skills in both the students receiving assistance and\nthe students in teaching roles. This paper explores the methodology, eff...
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{ "abstract": " The monograph represents analysis of the possibility for time-optimal control\nof a prototype of an aircraft-mounted scanning-imaging system of a Light\nDetection and Ranging based wake vortex detection system. The study is a part\nof the research project \"Demonstration of Light Detection and Rangin...
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{ "abstract": " Recently, researchers have discovered that the state-of-the-art object\nclassifiers can be fooled easily by small perturbations in the input\nunnoticeable to human eyes. It is also known that an attacker can generate\nstrong adversarial examples if she knows the classifier parameters. Conversely,\na ...
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{ "abstract": " Over the last decades, the Internet and mobile technology have consolidated\nthe digital as a public sphere of life. Designers are asked to create engaging\ndigital experiences. However, in some cases engagement is seen as a\npsychological state, while in others it emphasizes a participative vein. In...
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{ "abstract": " Unexpected clustering in the orbital elements of minor bodies beyond the\nKuiper belt has led to speculations that our solar system actually hosts nine\nplanets, the eight established plus a hypothetical \"Planet Nine\". Several\nrecent studies have shown that a planet with a mass of about 10 Earth m...
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{ "abstract": " We introduce two tactics to attack agents trained by deep reinforcement\nlearning algorithms using adversarial examples, namely the strategically-timed\nattack and the enchanting attack. In the strategically-timed attack, the\nadversary aims at minimizing the agent's reward by only attacking the agen...
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{ "abstract": " One of the big challenges in machine learning applications is that training\ndata can be different from the real-world data faced by the algorithm. In\nlanguage modeling, users' language (e.g. in private messaging) could change in\na year and be completely different from what we observe in publicly a...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we propose a Tensor Train Neighborhood Preserving Embedding\n(TTNPE) to embed multi-dimensional tensor data into low dimensional tensor\nsubspace. Novel approaches to solve the optimization problem in TTNPE are\nproposed. For this embedding, we evaluate novel trade-off gain among\nclas...
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{ "abstract": " Three dimensional (3D) topology optimization problems always involve huge\nnumbers of Degrees of Freedom (DOFs) in finite element analysis (FEA) and\ndesign variables in numerical optimization, respectively. This will inevitably\nlead to large computational efforts in the solution process. In the pre...
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{ "abstract": " Let M be an irreducible Riemannian symmetric space. The index i(M) of M is\nthe minimal codimension of a (non-trivial) totally geodesic submanifold of M.\nThe purpose of this note is to determine the index i(M) for all irreducible\nRiemannian symmetric spaces M of type (II) and (IV).\n", "title": "...
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{ "abstract": " Microscopy imaging plays a vital role in understanding many biological\nprocesses in development and disease. The recent advances in automation of\nmicroscopes and development of methods and markers for live cell imaging has\nled to rapid growth in the amount of image data being captured. To efficien...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we study geometric properties of basins of attraction of\nmonotone systems. Our results are based on a combination of monotone systems\ntheory and spectral operator theory. We exploit the framework of the Koopman\noperator, which provides a linear infinite-dimensional description of no...
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{ "abstract": " The generation of anisotropic shapes occurs during morphogenesis of almost\nall organisms. With the recent renewal of the interest in mechanical aspects of\nmorphogenesis, it has become clear that mechanics contributes to anisotropic\nforms in a subtle interaction with various molecular actors. Here,...
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{ "abstract": " We extend the notion of localic completion of generalised metric spaces by\nSteven Vickers to the setting of generalised uniform spaces. A generalised\nuniform space (gus) is a set X equipped with a family of generalised metrics on\nX, where a generalised metric on X is a map from the product of X to...
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{ "abstract": " According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional\nmagnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations\nconducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of\ncollisionless plasmas. For the case of a flow-aligned field, MHD s...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we propose Squeezed Convolutional Variational AutoEncoder\n(SCVAE) for anomaly detection in time series data for Edge Computing in\nIndustrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The proposed model is applied to labeled\ntime series data from UCI datasets for exact performance evaluation, and\n...
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{ "abstract": " Most state-of-the-art graph kernels only take local graph properties into\naccount, i.e., the kernel is computed with regard to properties of the\nneighborhood of vertices or other small substructures. On the other hand,\nkernels that do take global graph propertiesinto account may not scale well to\...
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{ "abstract": " Quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shifts more and more\ninto the focus of clinical research. Especially determination of relaxation\ntimes without/and with contrast agents becomes the foundation of tissue\ncharacterization, e.g. in cardiac MRI for myocardial fibrosis. Techniques w...
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{ "abstract": " We present an updated halo-dependent and halo-independent analysis of viable\nlight WIMP dark matter candidates which could account for the excess observed\nin CDMS-II-Si. We include recent constraints from LUX, PandaX-II, and PICO-60,\nas well as projected sensitivities for XENON1T, SuperCDMS SNOLAB...
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{ "abstract": " Current and upcoming radio interferometric experiments are aiming to make a\nstatistical characterization of the high-redshift 21cm fluctuation signal\nspanning the hydrogen reionization and X-ray heating epochs of the universe.\nHowever, connecting 21cm statistics to underlying physical parameters i...
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{ "abstract": " Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects with topologically-protected\nstability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a\nparticle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting\nwith random quenched disorder and examine the skyrmion velocity fluctuati...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we introduce metallic maps between metallic Riemannian\nmanifolds, provide an example and obtain certain conditions for such maps to be\ntotally geodesic. We also give a sufficient condition for a map between\nmetallic Riemannian manifolds to be harmonic map. Then we investigate the\nc...
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{ "abstract": " Hashing, or learning binary embeddings of data, is frequently used in nearest\nneighbor retrieval. In this paper, we develop learning to rank formulations for\nhashing, aimed at directly optimizing ranking-based evaluation metrics such as\nAverage Precision (AP) and Normalized Discounted Cumulative G...
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{ "abstract": " A new exact solution of Einstein's field equations on the background of\nparaboloidal spacetime using Karmarkar condition is reported. The physical\nacceptability conditions of the model are investigated and found that the model\nis compatible with a number of compact star candidates like Her X-1, LM...
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{ "abstract": " Implicit discourse relation classification is of great challenge due to the\nlack of connectives as strong linguistic cues, which motivates the use of\nannotated implicit connectives to improve the recognition. We propose a feature\nimitation framework in which an implicit relation network is driven ...
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{ "abstract": " The idea of posing a command following or tracking control problem as an\ninput reconstruction problem is explored in the paper. For a class of square\nMIMO systems with known dynamics, by pretending that reference commands are\nactual outputs of the system, input reconstruction methods can be used t...
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{ "abstract": " Wireless communication plays a vital role in the promising performance of\nconnected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology. This paper proposes a\nVissim-based microscopic traffic simulation framework with an analytical\ndedicated short-range communication (DSRC) module for packet reception. Being\n...
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{ "abstract": " This paper studies the synchronization of a finite number of Kuramoto\noscillators in a frequency-dependent bidirectional tree network. We assume that\nthe coupling strength of each link in each direction is equal to the product of\na common coefficient and the exogenous frequency of its correspondin...
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{ "abstract": " We derive representation theorems for exchangeable distributions on finite\nand infinite graphs using elementary arguments based on geometric and\ngraph-theoretic concepts. Our results elucidate some of the key differences,\nand their implications, between statistical network models that are finitely...
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{ "abstract": " The replicator equation is one of the fundamental tools to study evolutionary\ndynamics in well-mixed populations. This paper contributes to the literature on\nevolutionary graph theory, providing a version of the replicator equation for a\nfamily of connected networks with communities, where nodes i...
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{ "abstract": " Go gaming is a struggle for territory control between rival, black and white,\nstones on a board. We model the Go dynamics in a game by means of the Ising\nmodel whose interaction coefficients reflect essential rules and tactics\nemployed in Go to build long-term strategies. At any step of the game, ...
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{ "abstract": " Laser writing with ultrashort pulses provides a potential route for the\nmanufacture of three-dimensional wires, waveguides and defects within diamond.\nWe present a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study of the intrinsic\nstructure of the laser modifications and reveal a complex distribution o...
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{ "abstract": " Ensemble weather predictions require statistical post-processing of\nsystematic errors to obtain reliable and accurate probabilistic forecasts.\nTraditionally, this is accomplished with distributional regression models in\nwhich the parameters of a predictive distribution are estimated from a trainin...
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{ "abstract": " In recent work, Pomerance and Shparlinski have obtained results on the number\nof cycles in the functional graph of the map $x \\mapsto x^a$ in\n$\\mathbb{F}_p^*$. We prove similar results for other families of finite groups.\nIn particular, we obtain estimates for the number of cycles for cyclic gro...
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{ "abstract": " In this note we prove a conjecture by Li, Qu, Li, and Fu on permutation\ntrinomials over $\\mathbb{F}_3^{2k}$. In addition, new examples and\ngeneralizations of some families of permutation polynomials of\n$\\mathbb{F}_{3^k}$ and $\\mathbb{F}_{5^k}$ are given. We also study permutation\nquadrinomials...
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{ "abstract": " Recently in speaker recognition, performance degradation due to the channel\ndomain mismatched condition has been actively addressed. However, the\nmismatches arising from language is yet to be sufficiently addressed. This\npaper proposes an approach which employs recursive whitening transformation t...
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{ "abstract": " Employers actively look for talents having not only specific hard skills but\nalso various soft skills. To analyze the soft skill demands on the job market,\nit is important to be able to detect soft skill phrases from job advertisements\nautomatically. However, a naive matching of soft skill phrases...
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{ "abstract": " We study a class of anomalies associated with time-reversal and spatial\nreflection symmetry in (2+1)D topological phases of matter. In these systems,\nthe topological quantum numbers of the quasiparticles, such as the fusion rules\nand braiding statistics, possess a $\\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry which ca...
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{ "abstract": " We present a new model for the redshift-space power spectrum of galaxies and\ndemonstrate its accuracy in modeling the monopole, quadrupole, and hexadecapole\nof the galaxy density field down to scales of $k = 0.4 \\ h\\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$.\nThe model describes the clustering of galaxies in the context...
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{ "abstract": " It is proven that an infinite finitely generated group cannot be elementarily\nequivalent to an ultraproduct of finite groups of a given Prüfer rank.\nFurthermore, it is shown that an infinite finitely generated group of finite\nPrüfer rank is not pseudofinite.\n", "title": "Finite rank and pseudof...
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{ "abstract": " The spin Peltier effect (SPE), heat-current generation due to spin-current\ninjection, in various metal (Pt, W, and Au single layers and Pt/Cu\nbilayer)/ferrimagnetic insulator (yttrium iron garnet: YIG) junction systems\nhas been investigated by means of a lock-in thermography (LIT) method. The SPE\...
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{ "abstract": " We discuss the number-theoretic properties of distributions appearing in\nphysical systems when an observable is a quotient of two independent\nexponentially weighted integers. The spectral density of ensemble of linear\npolymer chains distributed with the law $\\sim f^L$ ($0<f<1$), where $L$ is the\...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we describe a phenomenon, which we named \"super-convergence\",\nwhere neural networks can be trained an order of magnitude faster than with\nstandard training methods. The existence of super-convergence is relevant to\nunderstanding why deep networks generalize well. One of the key el...
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{ "abstract": " In this paper we perform the analysis that leads to the space of initial\nconditions for the Hamiltonian system $q' = p^2 + zq + \\alpha$, $p' = -q^2 - zp\n- \\beta$, studied by the author in an earlier article. By compactifying the\nphase space of the system from $\\mathbb{C}^2$ to $\\mathbb{CP}^2$ ...
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{ "abstract": " This work reports an electronic and micro-structural study of an appealing\nsystem for optoelectronics: tungsten disulphide WS$_2$ on epitaxial graphene\n(EG) on SiC(0001). The WS$_2$ is grown via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) onto\nthe EG. Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) measurements assign...
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{ "abstract": " We fabricated NiFe$_\\textrm{2}$O$_\\textrm{x}$ thin films on\nMgAl$_2$O$_4$(001) substrates by reactive dc magnetron co-sputtering varying\nthe oxygen partial pressure during deposition. The fabrication of a variable\nmaterial with oxygen deficiency leads to controllable electrical and optical\nprop...
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{ "abstract": " This paper proposes a new sampling-based nonlinear model predictive control\n(MPC) algorithm, with a bound on complexity quadratic in the prediction horizon\nN and linear in the number of samples. The idea of the proposed algorithm is to\nuse the sequence of predicted inputs from the previous time st...
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{ "abstract": " We study the primary entanglement effect on the decoherence of fields reduced\ndensity matrix which are in interaction with another fields or independent mode\nfunctions. We show that the primary entanglement has a significant role in\ndecoherence of the system quantum state. We find that the existen...
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{ "abstract": " Breast density classification is an essential part of breast cancer\nscreening. Although a lot of prior work considered this problem as a task for\nlearning algorithms, to our knowledge, all of them used small and not\nclinically realistic data both for training and evaluation of their models. In\nth...
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{ "abstract": " Motivated by the recent progress in analog computing [Science 343, 160\n(2014)], a new approach to perform spatial integration is presented using a\ndielectric slab waveguide. Our approach is indeed based on the fact that the\ntransmission coefficient of a simple dielectric slab waveguide at its mode...
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{ "abstract": " A crucial challenge in image-based modeling of biomedical data is to identify\ntrends and features that separate normality and pathology. In many cases, the\nmorphology of the imaged object exhibits continuous change as it deviates from\nnormality, and thus a generative model can be trained to model ...
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{ "abstract": " We study an optimal control problem arising from a generalization of\nrock-paper-scissors in which the number of strategies may be selected from any\npositive odd number greater than 1 and in which the payoff to the winner is\ncontrolled by a control variable $\\gamma$. Using the replicator dynamics ...
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{ "abstract": " This paper describes our experience of training a team of developers of an\nEast-European phone service provider. The training experience was structured in\ntwo sessions of two days each conducted in different weeks with a gap of about\nfifteen days. The first session was dedicated to the Continuous ...
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{ "abstract": " The purpose of this article is to analyze the connection between\nEynard-Orantin topological recursion and formal WKB solutions of a\n$\\hbar$-difference equation: $\\Psi(x+\\hbar)=\\left(e^{\\hbar\\frac{d}{dx}}\\right)\n\\Psi(x)=L(x;\\hbar)\\Psi(x)$ with $L(x;\\hbar)\\in GL_2( (\\mathbb{C}(x))[\\hba...
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{ "abstract": " Covalently linked acene dimers are of interest as candidates for\nintramolecular singlet fission. We report many-electron calculations of the\nenergies and wavefunctions of the optical singlets, the lowest triplet exciton\nand the triplet-triplet biexciton, as well as the final states of excited stat...
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19773
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{ "abstract": " We discuss an investigation of student difficulties with degenerate\nperturbation theory (DPT) carried out in advanced quantum mechanics courses by\nadministering free-response and multiple-choice questions and conducting\nindividual interviews with students. We find that students share many common\n...
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19774
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{ "abstract": " In this paper, we first design a time optimal control problem for the heat\nequation with sampled-data controls, and then use it to approximate a time\noptimal control problem for the heat equation with distributed controls. Our\ndesign is reasonable from perspective of sampled-data controls. And it ...
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{ "abstract": " Knowledge about the graph structure of the Web is important for understanding\nthis complex socio-technical system and for devising proper policies supporting\nits future development. Knowledge about the differences between clean and\nmalicious parts of the Web is important for understanding potentia...
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19776
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{ "abstract": " We show that for any convex differentiable loss function, a deep linear\nnetwork has no spurious local minima as long as it is true for the two layer\ncase. When applied to the quadratic loss, our result immediately implies the\npowerful result in [Kawaguchi 2016] that there is no spurious local mini...
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19777
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{ "abstract": " Research on automated vehicles has experienced an explosive growth over the\npast decade. A main obstacle to their practical realization, however, is a\nconvincing safety concept. This question becomes ever more important as more\nsophisticated algorithms are used and the vehicle automation level inc...
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19778
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{ "abstract": " This paper deals with a nonhomogeneous scalar parabolic equation with\npossibly degenerate diffusion term; the process has only one stationary state.\nThe equation can be interpreted as modeling collective movements (crowd\ndynamics, for instance). We first prove the existence of semi-wavefront\nsolu...
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{ "abstract": " Phase changing materials (PCM) are widely used for optical data recording,\nsensing, all-optical switching, and optical limiting. Our focus here is on the\ncase when the change in the transmission characteristics of the optical\nmaterial is caused by the input light itself. Specifically, the light-in...
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{ "abstract": " Sortition, i.e., random appointment for public duty, has been employed by\nsocieties throughout the years, especially for duties related to the judicial\nsystem, as a firewall designated to prevent illegitimate interference between\nparties in a legal case and agents of the legal system. In judicial ...
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19781
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{ "abstract": " We provide a particle picture representation for the non-symmetric Rosenblatt\nprocess and for Hermite processes of any order, extending the result of\nBojdecki, Gorostiza and Talarczyk in~\\cite{FILT}. We show that these processes\ncan be obtained as limits in the sense of finite-dimensional distrib...
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19782
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{ "abstract": " Generating adversarial examples is a critical step for evaluating and\nimproving the robustness of learning machines. So far, most existing methods\nonly work for classification and are not designed to alter the true performance\nmeasure of the problem at hand. We introduce a novel flexible approach ...
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{ "abstract": " We consider the problem of designing efficient regularization algorithms when\nregularization is encoded by a (strongly) convex functional. Unlike classical\npenalization methods based on a relaxation approach, we propose an iterative\nmethod where regularization is achieved via early stopping. Our r...
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{ "abstract": " We present a model that takes into account the coupling between evolutionary\ngame dynamics and social influence. Importantly, social influence and game\ndynamics take place in different domains, which we model as different layers of\na multiplex network. We show that the coupling between these dynam...
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{ "abstract": " The quality of a Neural Machine Translation system depends substantially on\nthe availability of sizable parallel corpora. For low-resource language pairs\nthis is not the case, resulting in poor translation quality. Inspired by work\nin computer vision, we propose a novel data augmentation approach ...
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{ "abstract": " Close-contact melting refers to the process of a heat source melting its way\ninto a phase-change material. Of special interest is the close-contact melting\nvelocity, or more specifically the relative velocity between the heat source\nand the phase-change material. In this work, we present a novel n...
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19787
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{ "abstract": " Complex networks or graphs are ubiquitous in sciences and engineering:\nbiological networks, brain networks, transportation networks, social networks,\nand the World Wide Web, to name a few. Spectral graph theory provides a set of\nuseful techniques and models for understanding `patterns of interconn...
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{ "abstract": " Accurate demand forecasts can help on-line retail organizations better plan\ntheir supply-chain processes. The challenge, however, is the large number of\nassociative factors that result in large, non-stationary shifts in demand,\nwhich traditional time series and regression approaches fail to model....
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{ "abstract": " In the covariate shift learning scenario, the training and test covariate\ndistributions differ, so that a predictor's average loss over the training and\ntest distributions also differ. In this work, we explore the potential of\nextreme dimension reduction, i.e. to very low dimensions, in improving ...
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{ "abstract": " One-dimensional systems obtained as low-energy limits of hybrid\nsuperconductor-topological insulator devices provide means of production,\ntransport, and destruction of Majorana bound states (MBSs) by variations of the\nmagnetic flux. When two or more pairs of MBSs are present in the intermediate\ns...
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{ "abstract": " Convolution as inner product has been the founding basis of convolutional\nneural networks (CNNs) and the key to end-to-end visual representation\nlearning. Benefiting from deeper architectures, recent CNNs have demonstrated\nincreasingly strong representation abilities. Despite such improvement, the...
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19792
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{ "abstract": " This paper presents a robotic pick-and-place system that is capable of\ngrasping and recognizing both known and novel objects in cluttered\nenvironments. The key new feature of the system is that it handles a wide range\nof object categories without needing any task-specific training data for novel\n...
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19793
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{ "abstract": " We develop various aspects of classical enumerative geometry, including Euler\ncharacteristics and formulas for counting degenerate fibres in a pencil, with\nthe classical numerical formulas being replaced by identitites in the\nGrothendieck-Witt group of quadratic forms with coefficients in the base...
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{ "abstract": " The spread of online reviews, ratings and opinions and its growing influence\non people's behavior and decisions boosted the interest to extract meaningful\ninformation from this data deluge. Hence, crowdsourced ratings of products and\nservices gained a critical role in business, governments, and ot...
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{ "abstract": " A dual control problem is presented for the optimal stochastic control of a\nsystem governed by partial differential equations. Relationships between the\noptimal values of the original and the dual problems are investigated and two\nduality theorems are proved. The dual problem serves to provide upp...
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{ "abstract": " We propose Graph Priority Sampling (GPS), a new paradigm for order-based\nreservoir sampling from massive streams of graph edges. GPS provides a general\nway to weight edge sampling according to auxiliary and/or size variables so as\nto accomplish various estimation goals of graph properties. In the ...
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{ "abstract": " This paper studies the optimal investment problem with random endowment in an\ninventory-based price impact model with competitive market makers. Our goal is\nto analyze how price impact affects optimal policies, as well as both pricing\nrules and demand schedules for contingent claims. For exponenti...
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{ "abstract": " The emergence and nature of amplitude mediated chimera states,\nspatio-temporal patterns of co-existing coherent and incoherent regions, are\ninvestigated for a globally coupled system of active and inactive\nGinzburg-Landau oscillators. The existence domain of such states is found to\nshrink and shi...
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19799
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{ "abstract": " Photons from distant astronomical sources can be used as a classical source\nof randomness to improve fundamental tests of quantum nonlocality,\nwave-particle duality, and local realism through Bell's inequality and\ndelayed-choice quantum eraser tests inspired by Wheeler's cosmic-scale\nMach-Zehnder...
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