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  1. Reynaldo Gil-Pons, Yunior Ramírez-Cruz, Rolando Trujillo-Rasua, Ismael G. Yero

    Given a graph $G$ and a subset of vertices $S = \{w_1, \ldots, w_t\} \subseteq V(G)$, the multiset representation of a vertex $u\in V(G)$ with respect to $S$ is the multiset $m(u|S) = \{| d_G(u, w_1), \ldots, d_G(u, w_t) |\}$. A subset of vertices $S$ such that $m(u|S) = m(v|S) \iff u = v$ for every $u, v \in V(G) \setminus S$ is said to be a multiset resolv

  2. Henri Bourlès

    The usual passivity theorem considers a closed-loop, the direct chain of which consists of a strictly passive stable operator $H_{1}$, and the feedback chain of which consists of a passive operator $H_{2}$. Then the closed-loop is stable. Let $ρ>1$. We show here that the closed-loop is still stable when the direct chain consists of a strictly $ρ^{-1}$-passiv

  3. Étienne André, Vincent Bloemen, Laure Petrucci, Jaco van de Pol

    Parametric timed automata (PTA) extend timed automata by allowing parameters in clock constraints. Such a formalism is for instance useful when reasoning about unknown delays in a timed system. Using existing techniques, a user can synthesize the parameter constraints that allow the system to reach a specified goal location, regardless of how much time has p

  4. Tristan Léger

    We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to an ODE - Schrödinger type system that models the interaction of a particle with a Bose gas. We show that the particle has a ballistic trajectory asymptotically, and that the wave function describing the Bose gas converges to a soliton in $L^{\infty}.$

  5. Matania Ben-Artzi, Tomio Umeda

    Let $$L_0=\suml_{j=1}^nM_j^0D_j+M_0^0,\,\,\,\,D_j=\frac{1}{i}\frac{\pa}{\paxj}, \quad x\in\Rn,$$ be a constant coefficient first-order partial differential system, where the matrices $M_j^0$ are Hermitian. It is assumed that the homogeneous part is strongly propagative. In the nonhomegeneous case it is assumed that the operator is isotropic . The spectral th

  6. Rossella Campobasso, Francesca Condemi, Magalie Viallon, Pierre Croisille

    Purpose. It has been reported clinically that rupture or dissections in thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) often occur due to hypertension which may be modelled with sudden increase of peripheral resistance, inducing acute changes of blood volumes in the aorta. There is clinical evidence that more compliant aneurysms are less prone to rupture as they can sustai

  7. L. Derycke, D. Perrin, F. Cochennec, J. -N. Albertini

    Total endovascular repair of the aortic arch represents a promising option for patients ineligible to open surgery. Custom-made design of stent-grafts (SG), such as the Terumo Aortic RelayBranch device (DB), requires complex preoperative measures. Accurate SG deployment is required to avoid intraoperative or postoperative complications, which is extremely ch

  8. Anni Cao, Runze Chen, Xueying Zhang, Xinran Wang

    The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) is attracting great interests for spintronics. An iDMI constant larger than 3 mJ/m^2 is expected to minimize the size of skyrmions and to optimize the DW dynamics. In this study, we experimentally demonstrate an enhanced iDMI in Pt/Co/X/MgO ultra-thin film structures with perpendicular magnetization. T

  9. Reza Ansari, Adeline Choyer, Farhang Habibi, Christophe Magneville

    Imaging billions of galaxies every few nights during ten years, LSST should be a major contributor to precision cosmology in the 2020 decade. High precision photometric data will be available in six bands, from near-infrared to near-ultraviolet. The computation of precise, unbiased, photometric redshifts up to z = 2, at least, is one of the main LSST challen

  10. Zhaohui Yang, Wei Xu, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

    In this paper, we propose a joint time-frequency splitting (TFS) strategy for a multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In TFS, the time sharing factors for each user on different subcarriers are optimized via maximizing the sum rate of users with both information a

  11. P. S. Kolesnikov

    Lie conformal algebras are useful tools for studying vertex operator algebras and their representations. In this paper, we establish close relations between Poisson conformal algebras and representations of Lie conformal algebras. We also calculate explicitly Poisson conformal brackets on the associated graded conformal algebras of universal associative conf

  12. Yacouba Boubacar Maïnassara, Abdoulkarim Ilmi Amir

    In this paper we consider portmanteau tests for testing the adequacy of multiplicative seasonal autoregressive moving-average (SARMA) models under the assumption that the errors are uncorrelated but not necessarily independent.We relax the standard independence assumption on the error term in order to extend the range of application of the SARMA models.We st

  13. Jian Guo Zhou

    It is well known that there are two integral steps of streaming and collision in the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). This concept has been changed by the author's recently proposed macroscopic lattice Boltzmann method (MacLAB) to solve the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flows. The MacLAB contains streaming step only and relies on one fundamental param

  14. Messaouda Ahmane, Isma Bouchemakh, Eric Sopena

    Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph.A broadcast on $G$ isa function $f : V(G) \to \mathbf{N}$ such that $f(v)\le e_G(v)$ holds for every vertex $v$ of $G$, where $e_G(v)$ denotes the eccentricity of $v$ in $G$, that is, the maximum distance from $v$ to any other vertex of $G$.The cost of $f$ is the value cost$(f)=\sum_{v\in V(G)}f(v)$.A broadcast $f$ on $G$

  15. Yann Argotti, Claude Baron, Phillipe Esteban

    Nowadays, quality definition, assessment, control and prediction cannot easily be missed in systems engineering. One common factor among these activities is quality quantification. Therefore, throughout this paper, the authors focus on the problems relating to quality quantification in systems engineering. They first identify the main drawbacks of the curren

  16. Willy Yvart, Charles-Alexandre Delestage, Sylvie Leleu-Merviel

    Even though the emotional state is increasingly taken into account in scientific studies aimed at determining user experience of user acceptance, there are still only a few normalized tools. In this article, we decided to focus on mood determination as we consider this affective state to be more pervasive and more understandable by the person who is experien

  17. Amitesh Omar

    A possibility of generating a population of cosmic-ray particles accelerated in supernovae typeIa (SNIa) remnants in the intracluster medium (ICM) is discussed. The presently constrained host-less SNIa rates in the clusters are found to be sufficient to fill a few hundred kpc region with cosmic-ray electrons within their typical synchrotron life-time of 100

  18. L. Opherden, T. Herrmannsdörfer, M. Uhlarz, D. I. Gorbunov

    We report that the local Ising anisotropy in pyrochlore oxides - the crucial requirement for realizing the spin-ice state - can be broken by means of high magnetic fields. For the case of the well-established classical spin-ice compound Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ the magnetization exceeds the angle-dependent saturation value of the Ising limit using ultra-high fields

  19. Igor Lesanovsky, Beatriz Olmos, William Guerin, Robin Kaiser

    In dense atomic gases the interaction between transition dipoles and photons leads to the formation of many-body states with collective dissipation and long-ranged forces. Despite decades of research, a full understanding of this paradigmatic many-body problem is still lacking. Here, we put forward and explore a scenario in which a dense atomic gas is weakly

  20. Mohammad Goli, Shant Shahbazian

    Recently it has been proposed that the positron, the anti-particle analog of the electron, is capable of forming an anti-matter bond in a composite system of two hydride anions and a positron [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 8859 (2018)]. In order to dig into the nature of this novel bond the newly developed multi-component quantum theory of atoms in molecules is

  21. Víctor Hernández-Santamaría, Liliana Peralta

    In this paper, we present some controllability results for the heat equation in the framework of hierarchic control. We present a Stackelberg strategy combining the concept of controllability with robustness: the main control (the leader) is in charge of a null-controllability objective while a secondary control (the follower) solves a robust control problem

  22. John M. Lawson, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Anna N. Knutsen, James R. Dawson

    Using volumetric velocity data from a turbulent laboratory water flow and numerical simulations of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence, we present a direct experimental and numerical assessment of Kolmogorov's first refined similarity hypothesis based on three-dimensional measurements of the local energy dissipation rate $ε_r$ measured at dissipative scale

  23. Ali A. Esswie, Klaus I. Pedersen

    The fifth generation (5G) of the wireless communication networks supports wide diversity of service classes, leading to a highly dynamic uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) traffic asymmetry. Thus, dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) technology has become of a significant importance, due to its radio frame flexibility. However, fully dynamic TDD systems suffer f

  24. S W Lovesey, D D Khalyavin, G van der Laan

    Compulsory Dirac multipoles in the bilayer perovskite Ca3Ru2O7 are absent in published analyses of experimental data. In a first step at correcting knowledge of the magnetic structure, we have analysed existing Bragg diffraction patterns gathered on samples held well below the Néel temperature at which A-type antiferromagnetic order of axial dipoles spontane

  25. Valeri V. Dikarev, Eberhard Grün, William J. Baggaley, David P. Galligan

    The orbital distributions of dust particles in interplanetary space are inferred from several meteoroid data sets under the constraints imposed by the orbital evolution of the particles due to the planetary gravity and Poynting-Robertson effect. Infrared observations of the zodiacal cloud by the COBE DIRBE instrument, flux measurements by the dust detectors

  26. Shinsuke Ooi, Masaru Kato

    We study vortex penetration into two-layer structures of superconducting plates under a perpendicular magnetic field. We solve the heat transport equation and the Maxwell equations with the current-voltage relation for superconductor, simultaneously, and obtain magnetic flux and current densities. We show how magnetic flux structure depends on the structure,

  27. F. Chiaruttini, T. Guillet, C. Brimont, B. Jouault

    Dipolar excitons offer a rich playground for both design of novel optoelectronic devices and fundamental many-body physics. Wide GaN/(AlGa)N quantum wells host a new and promising realization of dipolar excitons. We demonstrate the in-plane confinement and cooling of these excitons, when trapped in the electrostatic potential created by semitransparent elect

  28. Tetiana Stepanyuk

    In this paper we study hyperuniformity on flat tori. Hyperuniform point sets on the unit sphere have been studied by J.~Brauchart, P.~Grabner, W.~Kusner and J.~Ziefle. It is shown that point sets which are hyperuniform for large balls, small balls or balls of threshold order on the flat tori are uniformly distributed. Moreover, it is also shown that QMC--des

  29. Koki Kishimoto, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Genki Akai, Masashi Shimbo

    Tensor factorization has become an increasingly popular approach to knowledge graph completion(KGC), which is the task of automatically predicting missing facts in a knowledge graph. However, even with a simple model like CANDECOMP/PARAFAC(CP) tensor decomposition, KGC on existing knowledge graphs is impractical in resource-limited environments, as a large a

  30. Antoine Mahoro, Mirjana Pović, Pheneas Nkundabakura, Beatrice Nyiransengiyumva

    This paper studies morphological properties of 103 green valley FIR active and 2609 non-active galaxies presented in Mahoro et al. 2017. The photometric data from the COSMOS survey were used, and the morphological parameters, such as Abraham and Conselice-Bershady concentration indices, Gini, M20 moment of light, and asymmetry, were analysed taking into acco

  31. Pascal Giorgi, Bruno Grenet, Daniel Roche

    The polynomial multiplication problem has attracted considerable attention since the early days of computer algebra, and several algorithms have been designed to achieve the best possible time complexity. More recently, efforts have been made to improve the space complexity, developing modified versions of a few specific algorithms to use no extra space whil

  32. Carrie J. Cai, Emily Reif, Narayan Hegde, Jason Hipp

    Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in image retrieval systems for medical decision making. One application of ML is to retrieve visually similar medical images from past patients (e.g. tissue from biopsies) to reference when making a medical decision with a new patient. However, no algorithm can perfectly capture an expert's ideal notion of

  33. Shota Inoue

    The purpose of the present paper is to reveal the relation between the behavior of the logarithm of the Riemann zeta-function $\log{ζ(s)}$ and the distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. We already know some examples for the relation by some previous works. For example, Littlewood showed an upper bound of $\log{ζ(1/2 + it)}$ by assuming the Riema

  34. Saeed Ahmad, Indrani Nayak, Ajay Bansal, Amitabha Nandi

    First passage in a stochastic process may be influenced by the presence of an external confining potential, as well as "stochastic resetting" in which the process is repeatedly reset back to its initial position. Here we study the interplay between these two strategies, for a diffusing particle in an one-dimensional trapping potential $V(x)$, being r

  35. Alexander Makin

    Spectral problem for the Dirac operator with regular but not strongly regular boundary conditions and complex-valued potential summable over a finite interval is considered. The purpose of this paper is to find conditions under which the root function system forms a usual Riesz basis rather than a Riesz basis with parentheses.

  36. Mikhail Gomoyunov

    The paper deals with a zero-sum differential game in which the dynamical system is described by a fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivative of an order $α\in (0, 1).$ The goal of the first (second) player is to minimize (maximize) the value of a given quality index. The main contribution of the paper is the proof of the fact that this diffe

  37. Andrew Lensen, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang

    Exploratory data analysis is a fundamental aspect of knowledge discovery that aims to find the main characteristics of a dataset. Dimensionality reduction, such as manifold learning, is often used to reduce the number of features in a dataset to a manageable level for human interpretation. Despite this, most manifold learning techniques do not explain anythi

  38. Shivang Agarwal, C. Ravindranath Chowdary, Shripriya Maheshwari

    We propose an algorithm for incremental learning of classifiers. The proposed method enables an ensemble of classifiers to learn incrementally by accommodating new training data. We use an effective mechanism to overcome the stability-plasticity dilemma. In incremental learning, the general convention is to use only the knowledge acquired in the previous pha

  39. Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Jiawei Su

    Deep neural networks were shown to be vulnerable to single pixel modifications. However, the reason behind such phenomena has never been elucidated. Here, we propose Propagation Maps which show the influence of the perturbation in each layer of the network. Propagation Maps reveal that even in extremely deep networks such as Resnet, modification in one pixel

  40. Shin'ichi Hirano, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Daisuke Yamauchi, Shuichiro Yokoyama

    We investigate the potential of cosmological observations, such as galaxy surveys, for constraining degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories, focusing in particular on the linear growth of the matter density fluctuations. We develop a formalism to describe the evolution of the matter density fluctuations during the matter dominated era and in t

  41. Hyun-Chul Kim

    In this talk, we briefly review a series of recent works on singly heavy baryons, based on a pion mean-field approach. In the limit of the infinitely heavy quark mass, heavy baryons are governed mainly by the light degress of freedom. Taking the number of colors to be infinity, a heavy baryon arises as a state consisting of $N_c-1$ valence quarks bound by th

  42. June-Young Kim, Hyun-Chul Kim

    In the present talk, we report recent results on electromagnetic properties of the baryon decuplet within the SU(3) chiral quark-soliton model, taking into account the effects of explicit flavor SU(3) symmetry breaking. We focus on the comparison of the present results on the electromagnetic form factors of the $Δ^{+}$ baryon with the lattice data.

  43. Nicholas Guttenberg

    When optimizing against the mean loss over a distribution of predictions in the context of a regression task, then even if there is a distribution of targets the optimal prediction distribution is always a delta function at a single value. Methods of constructing generative models need to overcome this tendency. We consider a simple method of summarizing the

  44. Arumalla B. S. Reddy, David L. Lambert

    We have analysed high-dispersion echelle spectra ($R = 60000$) of red giant members of five open clusters to derive abundances for many elements from Na to Eu. The [Fe/H] values are $-0.06\pm0.03$ for Stock 2, $-0.11\pm0.03$ for NGC 2168, $-0.01\pm0.03$ for NGC 6475, $0.00\pm0.03$ for NGC 6991 and $-0.07\pm0.03$ for NGC 7662. Sodium is enriched in the giants

  45. Nathaniel R. Shaffer, Scott D. Baalrud

    Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that a fundamental symmetry of plasma kinetic theory is broken at moderate to strong Coulomb coupling: the collision rate depends on the signs of the colliding charges. This symmetry breaking is analogous to the Barkas effect observed in charged-particle stopping experiments and gives rise to significantly enhanced elect

  46. Na Lei, Yang Guo, Dongsheng An, Xin Qi

    This work builds the connection between the regularity theory of optimal transportation map, Monge-Ampère equation and GANs, which gives a theoretic understanding of the major drawbacks of GANs: convergence difficulty and mode collapse. According to the regularity theory of Monge-Ampère equation, if the support of the target measure is disconnected or just n

  47. Toru Okuda, Chandra B. Singh, Santabrata Das, Ramiz Aktar

    We examine the effects of magnetic field on low angular momentum flows with standing shock around black holes in two dimensions. The magnetic field brings change in behavior and location of the shock which results in regularly or chaotically oscillating phenomena of the flow. Adopting fiducial parameters like specific angular momentum, specific energy and ma

  48. Hiroaki Onishi

    To clarify the transport property mediated by bound magnons in a spin nematic state, we investigate the spin Drude weight of a spin-1/2 $J_{1}$-$J_{2}$ Heisenberg chain with ferromagnetic $J_{1}$ and antiferromagnetic $J_{2}$ in a magnetic field by numerical diagonalization. At zero magnetic field, numerical results with up to 24 sites suggest that the spin

  49. R. Balasubramanian, S. Ponnusamy, K. -J. Wirths

    In this article we derive some polynomial inequalities for Mertens functions.

  50. Divam Gupta, Kushagra Singh, Soumen Chakrabarti, Tanmoy Chakraborty

    Detecting and aggregating sentiments toward people, organizations, and events expressed in unstructured social media have become critical text mining operations. Early systems detected sentiments over whole passages, whereas more recently, target-specific sentiments have been of greater interest. In this paper, we present MTTDSC, a multi-task target-dependen

  51. Ramin Naimi, Eric Sundberg

    We present a natural, combinatorial problem whose solution is given by the meta-Fibonacci recurrence relation $a(n) = \sum_{i=1}^p a(n-i+1 - a(n-i))$, where $p$ is prime. This combinatorial problem is less general than those given in [3] (B. Jackson, F. Ruskey, 2006) and [4] (F. Ruskey, C. Deugau, 2009), but it has the advantage of having a simpler statement

  52. Philipp Walk, Peter Jung, Babak Hassibi, Hamid Jafarkhani

    We will investigate practical aspects for a recently introduced blind (noncoherent) communication scheme, called modulation on conjugate-reciprocal zeros (MOCZ), which enables reliable transmission of sporadic and short-packets at ultra-low latency in unknown wireless multipath channels, which are static over the receive duration of one packet. Here the info

  53. Fernando Reis, Bruno Scárdua

    We study under the standpoint of integrable complex analytic 1-forms (complex analytic foliations), a class of second order ordinary differential equations with periodic coefficients. More precisely, we study Hill's equations of motion of the moon, which are related to the dynamics of the system Sun-Earth-Moon. We associate to the {\em complex Hill equat

  54. Q. Sun, E. Klaseboer, D. Y. C. Chan

    This paper presents a re-formulation of the boundary integral method (BIM) for the Debye-Huckel model of molecular and colloidal electrostatics that removes the mathematical singularities that have been accepted as an intrinsic part of the conventional BIM. The essence of the present boundary regularized integral equation formulation consists of subtracting

  55. Q. Sun, E. Klaseboer, B. C. Khoo, D. Y. C. Chan

    A boundary integral formulation for the solution of the Helmholtz equation is developed in which all traditional singular behaviour in the boundary integrals is removed analytically. The numerical precision of this approach is illustrated with calculation of the pressure field due to radiating bodies in acoustic wave problems. This method facilitates the use

  56. Y. Q. Chen, G. Zhao, X. X. Xue, J. K. Zhao

    Based on the [Fe/H] versus [Mg/Fe] diagram and distances from APOGEE data release 14, we compare the spatial distributions, the l-Vlos diagram and the abundance gradients between high-[Mg/Fe] and low-[Mg/Fe] sequences. The two sequences are clearly shown at 5<|Z|<10 kpc in the metallicity range of -1.6 <[Fe/H] <-0.7, where the halo at |Z| > 10 kpc consists o

  57. Nasim Nematzadeh, David M. W. Powers, Trent Lewis

    Illusions are fascinating and immediately catch people&#39;s attention and interest, but they are also valuable in terms of giving us insights into human cognition and perception. A good theory of human perception should be able to explain the illusion, and a correct theory will actually give quantifiable results. We investigate here the efficiency of a comp

  58. Nikolaj Tatti

    Items in many datasets can be arranged to a natural order. Such orders are useful since they can provide new knowledge about the data and may ease further data exploration and visualization. Our goal in this paper is to define a statistically well-founded and an objective score measuring the quality of an order. Such a measure can be used for determining whe

  59. Hiroyuki Kasahara, Katsumi Shimotsu

    Finite mixtures of multivariate normal distributions have been widely used in empirical applications in diverse fields such as statistical genetics and statistical finance. Testing the number of components in multivariate normal mixture models is a long-standing challenge even in the most important case of testing homogeneity. This paper develops likelihood-

  60. Maneet Singh, Richa Singh, Arun Ross

    The performance of a biometric system that relies on a single biometric modality (e.g., fingerprints only) is often stymied by various factors such as poor data quality or limited scalability. Multibiometric systems utilize the principle of fusion to combine information from multiple sources in order to improve recognition accuracy whilst addressing some of

  61. Kuniyuki Miwa, Amin Morteza Najarian, Richard L. McCreery, Michael Galperin

    We present combined experimental and theoretical study of photo-induced current in molecular junctions consisting of monolayers of nitroazobenzene oligomers chemisorbed on carbon surfaces and illuminated by UV-Vis light through a transparent electrode. Experimentally observed dependence of the photocurrent on light frequency, temperature and monolayer thickn

  62. S. Hatakeyama, W. Horiuchi

    We perform a parameter-free calculation for the high-energy proton-nucleus scattering based on the Glauber theory. A complete evaluation of the so-called Glauber amplitude is made by using the factorization of the single-particle wave functions. The multiple-scattering or multistep processes are fully taken into account within the Glauber theory. We demonstr

  63. Chris L. Fryer, Frank Timmes, Aimee L. Hungerford, Aaron Couture

    Gamma-ray astronomy explores the most energetic photons in nature to address some of the most pressing puzzles in contemporary astrophysics. It encompasses a wide range of objects and phenomena: stars, supernovae, novae, neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes, nucleosynthesis, the interstellar medium, cosmic rays and relativistic-particle acceleration, and

  64. Raven Waller

    We consider a class of non-locally compact groups on which one may define a left-invariant, finitely additive measure taking values in some finitely generated extension of the field $\mathbb{R}$ of real numbers. In particular, we recover previously studied special cases, along with the case of reductive algebraic groups defined over higher dimensional local

  65. Minjin Kim, Jihwan Kim, Yasen Hou, Dong Yu

    The discovery of two-dimensional gapless Dirac fermions in graphene and topological insulators (TI) has sparked extensive ongoing research toward applications of their unique electronic properties. The gapless surface states in three-dimensional insulators indicate a distinct topological phase of matter with a non-trivial Z2 invariant that can be verified by

  66. Kangbo Li, R. McDermott, Maxim G. Vavilov

    The hardware overhead associated with microwave control is a major obstacle to scale-up of superconducting quantum computing. An alternative approach involves irradiation of the qubits with trains of Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) pulses, pulses of voltage whose time integral is precisely equal to the superconducting flux quantum. Here we describe the derivation

  67. Ting-Wu Chin, Ruizhou Ding, Diana Marculescu

    In vision-enabled autonomous systems such as robots and autonomous cars, video object detection plays a crucial role, and both its speed and accuracy are important factors to provide reliable operation. The key insight we show in this paper is that speed and accuracy are not necessarily a trade-off when it comes to image scaling. Our results show that re-sca

  68. Raven Waller

    We define a class of spaces on which one may generalise the notion of compactness following motivating examples from higher-dimensional number theory. We establish analogues of several well-known topological results (such as Tychonoff&#39;s Theorem) for such spaces. We also discuss several possible applications of this framework, including the theory of harm

  69. Silviu Pitis

    This paper motivates and develops source traces for temporal difference (TD) learning in the tabular setting. Source traces are like eligibility traces, but model potential histories rather than immediate ones. This allows TD errors to be propagated to potential causal states and leads to faster generalization. Source traces can be thought of as the model-ba

  70. Faith-Anne, L. Kocadag, Felix G. Hamza-Lup

    Urban planning often raises complex issues that are difficult to visualize and challenging to communicate. The increasing availability of 3D modeling standards has provided the opportunity for many developers, engineers, designers, planners, investors, and government officials to effectively collaborate to bring projects to fruition. Because of its real-time

  71. Xilei Zhao, Xiang Yan, Pascal Van Hentenryck

    Recent years have witnessed an increased focus on interpretability and the use of machine learning to inform policy analysis and decision making. This paper applies machine learning to examine travel behavior and, in particular, on modeling changes in travel modes when individuals are presented with a novel (on-demand) mobility option. It addresses the follo

  72. Rundong Jia, Xiaoming Chen, Caijun Zhong, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

    In this paper, we study the problem of massive connections over limited radio spectrum for the cellular Internet-of-Things (IoT) in the fifth-generation (5G) wireless network. To address the challenging issues associated with channel state information (CSI) acquisition and beam design in the context of massive connections, we propose a new non-orthogonal bea

  73. Misha Gekhtman, Michael Shapiro, Alek Vainshtein

    We continue the study of multiple cluster structures in the rings of regular functions on $GL_n$, $SL_n$ and $\operatorname{Mat}_n$ that are compatible with Poisson-Lie and Poisson-homogeneous structures. According to our initial conjecture, each class in the Belavin-Drinfeld classification of Poisson--Lie structures on a semisimple complex group $\mathcal G

  74. A. A. Golubenko, V. V. Chesnokov, B. S. Ishkhanov, V. I. Mokeev

    The method for evaluation of inclusive electron scattering observables in the resonance region from the experimental data is presented. The computer codes in the web page allow user to evaluate inclusive electron scattering, virtual photon-proton cross sections and the $F_{1}$ and $F_{2}$ structure functions at the invariant masses of the final hadrons 1.0 G

  75. Raven Waller

    We define a translation-invariant measure and integral on $GL_2$ over a two-dimensional local field $F$ by combining elements of the classical $GL_2$ theory and the theory developed by Fesenko for the field $F$ itself. We give several alternate expressions for the integral, including one which agrees with the integral defined previously by Morrow.

  76. Zhitao Guan, Zefang Lv, Xiaojiang Du, Longfei Wu

    The emergence and rapid development of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), an application of the Internet of Things into the medical and healthcare systems, have brought many changes and challenges to modern medical and healthcare systems. Particularly, machine learning technology can be used to process the data involved in IoMT for medical analysis and d

  77. Peter Symonds

    These are notes for a summer course given at the PIMS Summer School on Geometric and Topological Aspects of the Representation Theory of Finite Groups in Vancouver, July 27-30 2016.

  78. Silviu Pitis

    Reinforcement learning (RL) agents have traditionally been tasked with maximizing the value function of a Markov decision process (MDP), either in continuous settings, with fixed discount factor $γ< 1$, or in episodic settings, with $γ= 1$. While this has proven effective for specific tasks with well-defined objectives (e.g., games), it has never been establ

  79. S. -D. Poisson

    In spite of its title, the book mostly treats probability theory: the law of large numbers (regarded as a principle); formal definition of a random variable and law of distribution; the misnamed Cauchy distribution; functions now named after Dirac; difference between objective and subjective probabilities; approximation of the Bernoulli theorem for rare even

  80. A. A. Cournot

    In spite of the wide range of his book, Cournot did not know some essential discoveries in natural sciences (William Herschel, Daniel Bernoulli, Humboldt) and his deliberations about measurement were almost useless. But he introduced the median and a definition of probability that covered both the discrete and continuous cases; studied mixtures of densities;

  81. Julien Fageot, Shayan Aziznejad, Michael Unser, Virginie Uhlmann

    In this paper, we formally investigate two mathematical aspects of Hermite splines which translate to features that are relevant to their practical applications. We first demonstrate that Hermite splines are maximally localized in the sense that their support sizes are minimal among pairs of functions with identical reproduction properties. Then, we precisel

  82. Krzysztof Domino

    The basic goal of computer engineering is the analysis of data. Such data are often large data sets distributed according to various distribution models. In this manuscript we focus on the analysis of non-Gaussian distributed data. In the case of univariate data analysis we discuss stochastic processes with auto-correlated increments and univariate distribut

  83. Kunal Sanjay Narkhede, Aashay Anil Bhise, IA Sainul, Sankha Deb

    The task of controlling an underactuated robotic finger with a single tendon and a single actuator is difficult. Methods for controlling the class of underactuated systems are available in the literature. However, this particular system does not fall into the class of underactuated system. This paper presents a design change which introduces kinematic constr

  84. Ruben Grandia, Farbod Farshidian, Alexey Dosovitskiy, René Ranftl

    Transferring solutions found by trajectory optimization to robotic hardware remains a challenging task. When the optimization fully exploits the provided model to perform dynamic tasks, the presence of unmodeled dynamics renders the motion infeasible on the real system. Model errors can be a result of model simplifications, but also naturally arise when depl

  85. Volodymyr Makarov, Nataliia Romaniuk

    A new symbolic algorithmic implementation of the functional-discrete (FD-) method is developed and justified for the solution of fourth order Sturm--Liouville problem on a finite interval in the Hilbert space. The eigenvalue problem for the fourth order ordinary differential equation with polynomial coefficients is investigated. The sufficient conditions of

  86. Leighton Pate Barnes, Yanjun Han, Ayfer Ozgur

    We consider the problem of learning high-dimensional, nonparametric and structured (e.g. Gaussian) distributions in distributed networks, where each node in the network observes an independent sample from the underlying distribution and can use $k$ bits to communicate its sample to a central processor. We consider three different models for communication. Un

  87. Lavinia Egidi, Felipe A. Louza, Giovanni Manzini

    We propose a new algorithm for merging succinct representations of de Bruijn graphs introduced in [Bowe et al. WABI 2012]. Our algorithm is based on the lightweight BWT merging approach by Holt and McMillan [Bionformatics 2014, ACM-BCB 2014]. Our algorithm has the same asymptotic cost of the state of the art tool for the same problem presented by Muggli et a

  88. Peter Symonds

    We prove that for any prime $p$ the finite $p$-groups of fixed coclass have only finitely many different mod-$p$ cohomology rings between them. This was conjectured by Carlson; we prove it by first proving a stronger version for groups of bounded rank.

  89. Shiyun Chen, Shiva Kasiviswanathan

    Multiple hypothesis testing, a situation when we wish to consider many hypotheses, is a core problem in statistical inference that arises in almost every scientific field. In this setting, controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), which is the expected proportion of type I error, is an important challenge for making meaningful inferences. In this paper, we

  90. Yvain Bruned, Franck Gabriel, Martin Hairer, Lorenzo Zambotti

    We consider a natural class of $\mathbf{R}^d$-valued one-dimensional stochastic PDEs driven by space-time white noise that is formally invariant under the action of the diffeomorphism group on $\mathbf{R}^d$. This class contains in particular the KPZ equation, the multiplicative stochastic heat equation, the additive stochastic heat equation, and rough Burge

  91. Pingfan Song, Yonina C. Eldar, Gal Mazor, Miguel Rodrigues

    Purpose: Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) methods typically rely on dictio-nary matching to map the temporal MRF signals to quantitative tissue parameters. Such approaches suffer from inherent discretization errors, as well as high computational complexity as the dictionary size grows. To alleviate these issues, we propose a HYbrid Deep magnetic Reson

  92. Gino Biondini, Jonathan Lottes

    Nonlinear interactions in focusing media between traveling solitons and the dispersive shocks produced by an initial discontinuity are studied using the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation. It is shown that, when solitons travel from a region with nonzero background towards a region with zero background, they always pass through the shock structur

  93. Christian Klos, Yaroslav Felipe Kalle Kossio, Sven Goedeke, Aditya Gilra

    The ability of humans and animals to quickly adapt to novel tasks is difficult to reconcile with the standard paradigm of learning by slow synaptic weight modification. Here we show that fixed-weight neural networks can learn to generate required dynamics by imitation. After appropriate weight pretraining, the networks quickly and dynamically adapt to learn

  94. Andrés J. Moreno, Henrique N. Sá Earp

    We apply the general Ansatz in geometric flows on homogeneous spaces proposed by Jorge Lauret for the Laplacian co-flow of invariant $G_2$-structures on a Lie group, finding an explicit soliton on a particular almost Abelian $7$-manifold.

  95. Robert Krone, Kaie Kubjas

    Nonnegative matrix factorizations are often encountered in data mining applications where they are used to explain datasets by a small number of parts. For many of these applications it is desirable that there exists a unique nonnegative matrix factorization up to trivial modifications given by scalings and permutations. This means that model parameters are

  96. L. L. Richardson, D. Nath, A. Rajagopalan, H. Albers

    Matter-wave interferometry and spectroscopy of optomechanical resonators offer complementary advantages. Interferometry with cold atoms is employed for accurate and long-term stable measurements, yet it is challenged by its dynamic range and cyclic acquisition. Spectroscopy of optomechanical resonators features continuous signals with large dynamic range, ho

  97. Mai Ye, E. W. Rosenberg, I. R. Fisher, G. Blumberg

    We report Raman-scattering results of YbRu$_2$Ge$_2$ single crystals to explore the phononic and crystal-field (CF) excitations. This heavy-fermion metal is suggested to enter a ferroquadrupolar (FQ) phase below T$_0$=10 K. The tetragonal CF potential splits the Yb$^{3+}$ $^2F_{7/2}$ ground multiplet into two $Γ_6$ and two $Γ_7$ Kramers doublets. We establis

  98. Lenny Fukshansky, Deanna Needell, Josiah Park, Yuxin Xin

    We show that real tight frames that generate lattices must be rational, and use this observation to describe a construction of lattices from vertex transitive graphs. In the case of irreducible group frames, we show that the corresponding lattice is always strongly eutactic. This is the case for the more restrictive class of distance transitive graphs. We sh

  99. Saeed Khaki, Lizhi Wang

    Crop yield is a highly complex trait determined by multiple factors such as genotype, environment, and their interactions. Accurate yield prediction requires fundamental understanding of the functional relationship between yield and these interactive factors, and to reveal such relationship requires both comprehensive datasets and powerful algorithms. In the

  100. Adriane Consuelo da Silva Leal, Arthur Gustavo de Araujo Ferreira, Everton Lucas de Oliveira, Tito Jose Bonagamba

    Quantum games have gained much popularity in the last two decades. Many of these quantum games are a redefinition of iconic classical games to fit the quantum world, and they gain many different properties and solutions in this different view. In this letter, we attempt to find a solution to an asymmetric quantum game which still troubles quantum game resear