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  1. Lu Liu, Yiheng Huang

    This study (The work was accomplished during the internship in Tencent AI lab) addresses semi-supervised acoustic modeling, i.e. attaining high-level representations from unsupervised audio data and fine-tuning the parameters of pre-trained model with supervised data. The proposed approach adopts a two-stage training framework, consisting of masked pre-train

  2. Renlong Hang, Zhu Li, Qingshan Liu, Pedram Ghamisi

    Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image classification. As a common process, small cubes are firstly cropped from the hyperspectral image and then fed into CNNs to extract spectral and spatial features. It is well known that different spectral bands and spatial positions in the cubes have different discriminative ab

  3. Wannes Goethals, Marjolein Heyndrickx, Matthieu Boone

    This paper presents a method for improved analysis of objects with an axial symmetry using X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). Cylindrical coordinates about an axis fixed to the object form the most natural base to check certain characteristics of objects that contain such symmetry, as often occurs with industrial parts. The sampling grid corresponds with the ob

  4. Alessio Farcomeni, Antonello Maruotti, Fabio Divino, Giovanna Jona Lasinio

    The availability of intensive care beds during the Covid-19 epidemic is crucial to guarantee the best possible treatment to severely affected patients. In this work we show a simple strategy for short-term prediction of Covid-19 ICU beds, that has proved very effective during the Italian outbreak in February to May 2020. Our approach is based on an optimal e

  5. Mario Flock, Neal J. Turner, Richard P. Nelson, Wladimir Lyra

    Theoretical models of the ionization state in protoplanetary disks suggest the existence of large areas with low ionization and weak coupling between the gas and magnetic fields. In this regime hydrodynamical instabilities may become important. In this work we investigate the gas and dust structure and dynamics for a typical T Tauri system under the influenc

  6. Yutaka Nagashima

    Inductive theorem proving is an important long-standing challenge in computer science. In this extended abstract, we first summarize the recent developments of proof by induction for Isabelle/HOL. Then, we propose united reasoning, a novel approach to further automating inductive theorem proving. Upon success, united reasoning takes the best of three schools

  7. Parvathy Panicker

    The implementors of learning technologies within education environments often follow strategies that assume the educational environment within which they are being introduced is culturally neutral. A comprehensive literature review including 150 papers on educational technology challenges was undertaken. The purpose of this review is explore different contex

  8. J. -B. Durrive, P. Lesaffre, K. Ferrière

    An analytical model for fully developed three-dimensional incompressible turbulence was recently proposed in the hydrodynamics community, based on the concept of multiplicative chaos. It consists of a random field represented by means of a stochastic integral, which, with only a few parameters, shares many properties with experimental and numerical turbulenc

  9. Mingyang Yang, Ping Wang

    The electromagnetic form factors of octet baryons are investigated with the nonlocal chiral effective theory. The nonlocal interaction generates both the regulator which makes the loop integral convergent and the $Q^2$ dependence of form factors at tree level. Both octet and decuplet intermediate states are included in the one loop calculation. The momentum

  10. Yusen Wu, Chunyan Wei, Sujuan Qin, Qiaoyan Wen

    The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of describing the nontrivial correlations encoded in the many-body wave functions with high complexity. Quantum neural network provides a powerful tool to represent the large-scale wave function, which has aroused widespread concern in the quantum superiority era.

  11. Evgeniy Khain, Baruch Meerson, Pavel Sasorov

    The empirical velocity of a reaction-diffusion front, propagating into an unstable state, fluctuates because of the shot noises of the reactions and diffusion. Under certain conditions these fluctuations can be described as a diffusion process in the reference frame moving with the average velocity of the front. Here we address pushed fronts, where the front

  12. Rongrong Xie, Weibing Deng, Mauricio P. Pato

    It recently has been found that methods of the statistical theories of spectra can be a useful tool in the analysis of spectra far from levels of Hamiltonian systems. Several examples originate from areas, such as quantitative linguistics and polymers. The purpose of the present study is to deepen this kind of approach by performing a more comprehensive spec

  13. Liang Jiang, Xiaobin Liu, Peter C. B. Phillips, Yichong Zhang

    This paper examines methods of inference concerning quantile treatment effects (QTEs) in randomized experiments with matched-pairs designs (MPDs). Standard multiplier bootstrap inference fails to capture the negative dependence of observations within each pair and is therefore conservative. Analytical inference involves estimating multiple functional quantit

  14. Claudius Gros

    Envy, the inclination to compare rewards, can be expected to unfold when inequalities in terms of payoff differences are generated in competitive societies. It is shown that increasing levels of envy lead inevitably to a self-induced separation into a lower and an upper class. Class stratification is Nash stable and strict, with members of the same class rec

  15. Milan Decuyper, Stijn Bonte, Karel Deblaere, Roel Van Holen

    In the WHO glioma classification guidelines grade, IDH mutation and 1p19q co-deletion play a central role as they are important markers for prognosis and optimal therapy planning. Therefore, we propose a fully automatic, MRI based, 3D pipeline for glioma segmentation and classification. The designed segmentation network was a 3D U-Net achieving an average wh

  16. Quansen Jiu, Dongsheng Li, Huan Yu

    In this paper, we consider a kind of singular integral which can be viewed as an extension of the classical Calder$\acute{\rm o}$n-Zygmund type singular integral. We establish an estimate of the singular integral in the $L^q$ space for $1<q<\infty$. In particular, the Calder$\acute{\rm o}$n-Zygmund estimate can be recovered from our obtained estimate. The pr

  17. Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

    This paper presents a new approach to generate samples from conditional belief functions for a restricted but non trivial subset of conditional belief functions. It assumes the factorization (decomposition) of a belief function along a bayesian network structure. It applies general conditional belief functions.

  18. Arpan Kar, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Steven Tingay, Ben McKinley

    We present an analysis of Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope data from $\omega$ Cen, possibly a stripped dwarf spheroidal galaxy core captured by our Galaxy. Recent interpretations of Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray data by Brown {\it et al.} (2019) and Reynoso-Cordova {\it et al.} (2019) suggest that $\omega$ Cen may contain significant Dark Matter. We utilis

  19. D. Takegami, D. Kasinathan, K. K. Wolff, S. G. Altendorf

    We have investigated the electronic structure of iridates in the double perovskite crystal structure containing either Ir$^{4+}$ or Ir$^{5+}$ using hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The experimental valence band spectra can be well reproduced using tight binding calculations including only the Ir $5d$, O $2p$ and O $2s$ orbitals with parameters based on

  20. Thomas Hebbeker

    Recent publications discuss the size of chemical rockets for long-distance travel, to be launched from a planet. Here I point out that such a rocket cannot be tall and slim but will be short and fat.

  21. Maxim Pisov, Vladimir Kondratenko, Alexey Zakharov, Alexey Petraikin

    Vertebral body compression fractures are reliable early signs of osteoporosis. Though these fractures are visible on Computed Tomography (CT) images, they are frequently missed by radiologists in clinical settings. Prior research on automatic methods of vertebral fracture classification proves its reliable quality; however, existing methods provide hard-to-i

  22. A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Pereira-Santaella, D. Rigopoulou, I. Garcia-Bernete

    We investigate the relation between the detection of the $11.3\,\mu$m PAH feature in the nuclear ($\sim 24-230\,$pc) regions of 22 nearby Seyfert galaxies and the properties of the cold molecular gas. For the former we use ground-based (0.3-0.6" resolution) mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy. The cold molecular gas is traced by ALMA and NOEMA high (0.2-1.1")

  23. Elske de Waal, Sjang L. ten Hagen

    The concept of fact has a history. Over the past centuries, physicists have appropriated it in various ways. In this article, we compare Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein's interpretations of the concept. Mach, like most nineteenth-century physicists, contrasted fact and theory. He understood facts as real and complex combinations of natural events. Theories, i

  24. Tianshi Li, Jackie, Yang, Cori Faklaris

    Contact-tracing apps have potential benefits in helping health authorities to act swiftly to halt the spread of COVID-19. However, their effectiveness is heavily dependent on their installation rate, which may be influenced by people's perceptions of the utility of these apps and any potential privacy risks due to the collection and releasing of sensitive us

  25. Elizabeth Baker, Bram Petri

    In the first part of this paper, we determine the asymptotic subgroup growth of the fundamental group of a torus knot complement. In the second part, we use this to study random finite degree covers of torus knot complements. We determine their Benjamini-Schramm limit and the linear growth rate of the Betti numbers of these covers. All these results generali

  26. Si-wen Li

    Using the gauge-gravity duality, we study the holographic Schwinger effect by performing the potential analysis on the confining D3- and D4-brane background with D-instantons then evaluate the pair production/decay rate by taking account into a fundamental string and a single flavor brane respectively. The two confining backgrounds with D-instantons are obta

  27. Maria Jose Maureira, Jaime E. Pineda, Dominique M. Segura-Cox, Paola Caselli

    We present 3 mm ALMA continuum and line observations at resolutions of 6.5 au and 13 au respectively, toward the Class 0 system IRAS 16293-2422 A. The continuum observations reveal two compact sources towards IRAS 16293-2422 A, coinciding with compact ionized gas emission previously observed at radio wavelengths (A1 and A2), confirming the long-known radio s

  28. Mark Levene, Trevor Fenner

    Human dynamics and sociophysics build on statistical models that can shed light on and add to our understanding of social phenomena. We propose a generative model based on a stochastic differential equation that enables us to model the opinion polls leading up to the UK 2017 and 2019 general elections, and to make predictions relating to the actual result of

  29. Giovanni Noselli, Alfred Beran, Marino Arroyo, Antonio DeSimone

    Some euglenids, a family of aquatic unicellular organisms, can develop highly concerted, large-amplitude peristaltic body deformations. This remarkable behaviour has been known for centuries. Yet, its function remains controversial, and is even viewed as a functionless ancestral vestige. Here, by examining swimming Euglena gracilis in environments of control

  30. Sergei Konyagin, Hervé Queffélec, Eero Saksman, Kristian Seip

    We prove that the norm of the Riesz projection from $L^\infty(\Bbb{T}^n)$ to $L^p(\Bbb{T}^n)$ is $1$ for all $n\ge 1$ only if $p\le 2$, thus solving a problem posed by Marzo and Seip in 2011. This shows that $H^p(\Bbb{T}^{\infty})$ does not contain the dual space of $H^1(\Bbb{T}^{\infty})$ for any $p>2$. We then note that the dual of $H^1(\Bbb{T}^{\infty})$

  31. Bi-Cheng Yan, Meng-Che Wu, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Berlin Chen

    Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD) is a core component of computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT). Most of the existing MDD approaches focus on dealing with categorical errors (viz. one canonical phone is substituted by another one, aside from those mispronunciations caused by deletions or insertions). However, accurate detection and diag

  32. Yunfei Yang, Zhen Li, Yang Wang

    We study the expressive power of deep ReLU neural networks for approximating functions in dilated shift-invariant spaces, which are widely used in signal processing, image processing, communications and so on. Approximation error bounds are estimated with respect to the width and depth of neural networks. The network construction is based on the bit extracti

  33. Pierluigi Colli, Gianni Gilardi, Jürgen Sprekels

    In their recent work `Well-posedness, regularity and asymptotic analyses for a fractional phase field system' (Asymptot. Anal. 114 (2019), 93-128; see also the preprint arXiv:1806.04625), two of the present authors have studied phase field systems of Caginalp type, which model nonconserved, nonisothermal phase transitions and in which the occurring diffusion

  34. Victor Beresnevich, Erez Nesharim, Lei Yang

    In 1998 Kleinbock conjectured that any set of weighted badly approximable $d\times n$ real matrices is a winning subset in the sense of Schmidt's game. In this paper we prove this conjecture in full for vectors in $\mathbf{R}^d$ in arbitrary dimensions by showing that the corresponding set of weighted badly approximable vectors is hyperplane absolute winning

  35. Henrik Hult, Martina Favero

    In this paper a Bayesian SEIR model is studied to estimate the proportion of the population infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. To capture heterogeneity in the population and the effect of interventions to reduce the rate of epidemic spread, the model uses a time-varying contact rate, whose logarithm has a Gaussian process prior. A

  36. Kenji Amagai, Yuko Hatano, Manabu Machida

    The linear transport theory is developed to describe the time dependence of the number density of tracer particles in porous media. The advection is taken into account. The transport equation is numerically solved by the analytical discrete ordinates method. For the inverse Laplace transform, the double-exponential formula is employed.

  37. Bing Cao, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao, Jie Li

    Heterogeneous face recognition (HFR) refers to matching face images acquired from different domains with wide applications in security scenarios. This paper presents a deep neural network approach namely Multi-Margin based Decorrelation Learning (MMDL) to extract decorrelation representations in a hyperspherical space for cross-domain face images. The propos

  38. Luis Almeida, Jorge Estrada, Nicolas Vauchelet

    The sterile insect technique consists in massive release of sterilized males in the aim to reduce the size of mosquitoes population or even eradicate it. In this work, we investigate the feasability of using the sterile insect technique as a barrier against reinvasion. More precisely, we provide some numerical simulations and mathematical results showing tha

  39. Mingjie Wang, Hao Cai, Jun Zhou, Minglun Gong

    Crowd counting is an important vision task, which faces challenges on continuous scale variation within a given scene and huge density shift both within and across images. These challenges are typically addressed using multi-column structures in existing methods. However, such an approach does not provide consistent improvement and transferability due to lim

  40. Pedro Araújo, Simón Piga, Mathias Schacht

    We study sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamilton cycles in uniformly dense $3$-uniform hypergraphs. Problems of this type were first considered by Lenz, Mubayi, and Mycroft for loose Hamilton cycles and Aigner-Horev and Levy considered it for tight Hamilton cycles for a fairly strong notion of uniformly dense hypergraphs. We focus on tight cycles

  41. Marin Petrović

    Stepwise deposition of Li atoms onto hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayer on Ir(111) is investigated by means of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and low-energy electron diffraction. Sequential Li deposition progressively shifts the band structure of hBN to higher binding energies due to the induction of a variable electric potential originating

  42. H. Hemani, A. Majalee, U. Bhardwaj, A. Arya

    Electronic stopping (ES) of energetic atoms is not taken care of by the interatomic potentials used in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations when simulating collision cascades. The Lindhard-Scharff (LS) formula for electronic stopping is therefore included as a drag term for energetic atoms in the open source large scale atomic molecular massively parallel sim

  43. Peter Gao, Daniel P. Thorngren, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Jonathan J. Fortney

    Aerosols are common in the atmospheres of exoplanets across a wide swath of temperatures, masses, and ages. These aerosols strongly impact observations of transmitted, reflected, and emitted light from exoplanets, obfuscating our understanding of exoplanet thermal structure and composition. Knowing the dominant aerosol composition would facilitate interpreta

  44. Ali Vardasbi, Maarten de Rijke, Ilya Markov

    Unbiased CLTR requires click propensities to compensate for the difference between user clicks and true relevance of search results via IPS. Current propensity estimation methods assume that user click behavior follows the PBM and estimate click propensities based on this assumption. However, in reality, user clicks often follow the CM, where users scan sear

  45. Yining Hu, Guoniu Wei-Han

    We put forward several general conjectures concerning the algebraicity or transcendence of continued fractions and Stieltjes continued fractions defined by the Thue-Morse and period-doubling sequences in characteristic $2$. We present our Guess'n'Prove method, in which we exploit the structure of automata, for proving some of our conjectures in special cases

  46. Florian Beyer, Jörg Frauendiener, Jörg Hennig

    An important concept in Physics is the notion of an isolated system. It is used in many different areas to describe the properties of a physical system which has been isolated from its environment. The interaction with the `outside' is then usually reduced to a scattering process, in which incoming radiation interacts with the system, which in turn emits out

  47. U. J. Mohrhoff

    This paper puts forward an ontology that is indebted to QBism, Kant, Bohr, Schr\"odinger, the philosophy of the Upanishads, and the evolutionary philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. Central to it is that reality is relative to consciousness or experience. Instead of a single mind-independent reality, there are different poises of consciousness, including a conscious

  48. Anurag Lal, Ming-Hsien Hu, Pei-Yuan Lee, Min Liang Wang

    BACKGROUND: Augmented reality (AR) is gaining popularity in varying field such as computer gaming and medical education fields. However, still few of applications in real surgeries. Orthopedic surgical applications are currently limited and underdeveloped. - METHODS: The clinic validation was prepared with the currently available AR equipment and software. A

  49. June-Haak Ee, Jungil Lee, Chaehyun Yu

    We present a new proof of Cramer's rule by interpreting a system of linear equations as a transformation of $n$-dimensional Cartesian-coordinate vectors. To find the solution, we carry out the inverse transformation by convolving the original coordinate vector with Dirac delta functions and changing integration variables from the original coordinates to new

  50. Assen Batchvarov, Lyes Kahouadji, Cristian R. Constante-Amores, Gabriel Farah Norões Gonçalves

    We study the effect of insoluble surfactants on the wave dynamics of vertically-falling liquid films. We use three-dimensional numerical simulations and employ a hybrid interface-tracking/level-set method, taking into account Marangoni stresses induced by gradients of interfacial surfactant concentration. Our numerical predictions for the evolution of the su

  51. Francesco Della Pietra, Carlo Nitsch, Cristina Trombetti

    In this paper we consider a minimization problem which arises from thermal insulation. A compact connected set $K$, which represents a conductor of constant temperature, say $1$, is thermally insulated by surrounding it with a layer of thermal insulator, the open set $\Omega\setminus K$ with $K\subset\bar\Omega$. The heat dispersion is then obtained as \[ \i

  52. Meirong Tang, Jiancheng Wang

    It was found that the dark matter (DM) in the intermediate-mass-ratio-inspiral (IMRI) system has a significant enhancement effect on the orbital eccentricity of the stellar massive compact object, such as a black hole (BH), which may be tested by space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors including LISA, Taiji and Tianqin in future observations \citep{201

  53. Tuan-Duy H. Nguyen, Huu-Nghia H. Nguyen

    Recent WiFi-based fall detection systems have drawn much attention due to their advantages over other sensory systems. Various implementations have achieved impressive progress in performance, thanks to machine learning and deep learning techniques. However, many of such high accuracy systems have low reliability as they fail to achieve robustness in unseen

  54. Arshyn Altybay, Michael Ruzhansky, Mohammed Elamine Sebih, Niyaz Tokmagambetov

    We consider a tsunami wave equation with singular coefficients and prove that it has a very weak solution. Moreover, we show the uniqueness results and consistency theorem of the very weak solution with the classical one in some appropriate sense. Numerical experiments are done for the families of regularised problems in one- and two-dimensional cases. In pa

  55. Benjamin Lucas, Charlotte Pelletier, Daniel Schmidt, Geoffrey I. Webb

    Land cover maps are a vital input variable to many types of environmental research and management. While they can be produced automatically by machine learning techniques, these techniques require substantial training data to achieve high levels of accuracy, which are not always available. One technique researchers use when labelled training data are scarce

  56. Yun-Jhih Chen, Azure Hansen, Moshe Shuker, Rodolphe Boudot

    Point source atom interferometry (PSI) uses the velocity distribution in a cold atom cloud to simultaneously measure one axis of acceleration and two axes of rotation from the phase, orientation, and period of atomic interference fringe images. For practical applications in inertial sensing and precision measurement, it is important to be able to measure a w

  57. Romain Ducasse, Guilherme Mazanti, Filippo Santambrogio

    The paper considers a forward-backward system of parabolic PDEs arising in a Mean Field Game (MFG) model where every agent controls the drift of a trajectory subject to Brownian diffusion, trying to escape a given bounded domain $\Omega$ in minimal expected time. Agents are constrained by a bound on the drift depending on the density of other agents at their

  58. Manami Chatterjee, K. C. Sivakumar

    A number $s$ is the sum of the entries of the inverse of an $n \times n, (n \geq 3)$ upper triangular matrix with entries from the set $\{0, 1\}$ if and only if $s$ is an integer lying between $2-F_{n-1}$ and $2+F_{n-1}$, where $F_n$ is the $n$th Fibonacci number. A generalization of the sufficient condition above to singular, group invertible matrices is pr

  59. Sheng Wang, Jiayu Huo, Xi Ouyang, Jifei Che

    Computer-aided diagnosis with deep learning techniques has been shown to be helpful for the diagnosis of the mammography in many clinical studies. However, the image styles of different vendors are very distinctive, and there may exist domain gap among different vendors that could potentially compromise the universal applicability of one deep learning model.

  60. Peisong He, Zhaoxin Liang

    Exciton-polariton condensate in semiconductor microcavities constitute a novel kind of non-equilibrium superfluid. In a recent experiment [P. Stepanov, {\it et. al.,} Nat. Commun. {\bf 10}, 1038 (2019)], the dispersion relation of collective excitations in a polariton condensate under the resonant pumping has been investigated with the emphasis on the role o

  61. Laichuan Shen, Xiaoguang Li, Jing Xia, Lei Qiu

    Magnetic bimeron composed of two merons is a topological counterpart of magnetic skyrmion in in-plane magnets, which can be used as the nonvolatile information carrier in spintronic devices. Here we analytically and numerically study the dynamics of ferromagnetic bimerons driven by spin currents and magnetic fields. Numerical simulations demonstrate that two

  62. Srujan Teja Thomdapu, Palash Katiyar, Ketan Rajawat

    The importance of content delivery networks (CDN) continues to rise with the exponential increase in the generation and consumption of electronic media. In order to ensure a high quality of experience, CDNs often deploy cache servers that are capable of storing some of the popular files close to the user. Such edge caching solutions not only increase the con

  63. Huanhuan Fan, Yuhao Zhou, Ang Li, Shuang Gao

    In this paper, we propose a monocular visual localization pipeline leveraging semantic and depth cues. We apply semantic consistency evaluation to rank the image retrieval results and a practical clustering technique to reject estimation outliers. In addition, we demonstrate a substantial performance boost achieved with a combination of multiple feature extr

  64. Mengmi Zhang, Gabriel Kreiman

    Can we infer intentions from a person's actions? As an example problem, here we consider how to decipher what a person is searching for by decoding their eye movement behavior. We conducted two psychophysics experiments where we monitored eye movements while subjects searched for a target object. We defined the fixations falling on \textit{non-target} object

  65. Quinn Patterson, Adam Sierakowski, Aidan Sims, Jonathan Taylor

    We establish exact sequences in $KK$-theory for graded relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebras associated to nondegenerate $C^*$-correspondences. We use this to calculate the graded $K$-theory and $K$-homology of relative Cuntz-Krieger algebras of directed graphs for gradings induced by $\{0,1\}$-valued labellings of their edge sets.

  66. Tryphon T. Georgiou, Anders Lindquist

    Function theory on the unit disc proved key to a range of problems in statistics, probability theory, signal processing literature, and applications, and in this, a special place is occupied by trigonometric functions and the Fejer-Riesz theorem that non-negative trigonometric polynomials can be expressed as the modulus of a polynomial of the same degree eva

  67. Wei-Tao Duan, Chuan He, Si-Tong Yan, Yu-Hang Ji

    Coriolis effect is an important error source in the weak equivalence principle (WEP) test using atom interferometer. In this paper, the problem of Coriolis error in WEP test is studied theoretically and experimentally. In theoretical simulation, Coriolis effect is analyzed by establishing an error model. The measurement errors of Eotvos coefficient (eta) in

  68. Sisi Zhou, Zi-Wen Liu, Liang Jiang

    Covariant codes are quantum codes such that a symmetry transformation on the logical system could be realized by a symmetry transformation on the physical system, usually with limited capability of performing quantum error correction (an important case being the Eastin--Knill theorem). The need for understanding the limits of covariant quantum error correcti

  69. Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Simon P. Driver, Jessica E. Thorne

    We apply the spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code ProSpect to multiwavelength imaging for $\sim$7,000 galaxies from the GAMA survey at $z<0.06$, in order to extract their star formation histories. We combine a parametric description of the star formation history with a closed-box evolution of metallicity where the present-day gas-phase metallicity

  70. J. Hajivandi, H. Kurt

    A Cm planar photonic material (two-dimensional) including the mirror reflection symmetry is explored where in the Dirac cones appeared at the high-symmetry points of the Brillouin zone boundary. By implementing the specific perturbation on the photonic crystal (PC), topological transition can make a bridge between the trivial PC (ordinary insulator) and the

  71. S. Cobzaş

    The aim of this paper is to discus the relations between various notions of sequential completeness and the corresponding notions of completeness by nets or by filters in the setting of quasi-metric spaces. We propose a new definition of right $K$-Cauchy net in a quasi-metric space for which the corresponding completeness is equivalent to the sequential comp

  72. Ryo Nouchi, Kei-ichiro Ikeda

    A charge-carrier reservoir is necessary for electrostatic control of the carrier concentration in a solid. The source/drain electrodes serve as carrier reservoirs in a field-effect transistor, but it is still unknown what serves as a reservoir in a technique based on a polar self-assembled monolayer formed underneath a solid to be controlled. Here, the carri

  73. Hok Shing Wong, Li Wang, Raymond Chan, Tieyong Zeng

    We present Deep Tensor Canonical Correlation Analysis (DTCCA), a method to learn complex nonlinear transformations of multiple views (more than two) of data such that the resulting representations are linearly correlated in high order. The high-order correlation of given multiple views is modeled by covariance tensor, which is different from most CCA formula

  74. Duško Jojić, Gaiane Panina, Rade T. Živaljević

    The type A colored Tverberg theorem of Blagojevi\'{c}, Matschke, and Ziegler provides optimal bounds for the colored Tverberg problem, under the condition that the number of intersecting rainbow simplices is a prime number. We extend this result to an optimal, type A colored Tverberg theorem for multisets of colored points, which is valid for each prime powe

  75. Akhilesh Kumar Verma, Rahul Pandit, Marc E. Brachet

    We develop a minimal model for \textit{pulsar glitches} by introducing a solid-crust potential in the three-dimensional (3D) Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equation (GPPE), which we have used earlier to study gravitationally bound Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs), i.e., bosonic stars. In the absence of the crust potential, we show that, if we rotate such a bosonic

  76. Robert D. Carr, Jennifer Iglesias, Giuseppe Lanciac, Benjamin Moseley

    We introduce multiple symmetric LP relaxations for minimum cut problems. The relaxations give optimal and approximate solutions when the input is a Hamiltonian cycle. We show that this leads to one of two interesting results. In one case, these LPs always give optimal and near optimal solutions, and then they would be the smallest known symmetric LPs for the

  77. Monjoy Saha, Amit Kumar Ray, Swapan Kumar Basu

    Tumor-induced angiogenesis is the formation of new sprouts from preexisting nearby parent blood vessels. Computationally, tumor-induced angiogenesis can be modeled using cellular automata (CA), partial differential equations, etc. In this present study, a realistic physiological approach has been made to model the process of angiogenesis by using 3D CA model

  78. Zeyi Wang, Eric Bridgeford, Shangsi Wang, Joshua T. Vogelstein

    The advent of modern data collection and processing techniques has seen the size, scale, and complexity of data grow exponentially. A seminal step in leveraging these rich datasets for downstream inference is understanding the characteristics of the data which are repeatable -- the aspects of the data that are able to be identified under a duplicated analysi

  79. Quan Chen, Peter Snyder, Ben Livshits, Alexandros Kapravelos

    Content blocking is an important part of a performant, user-serving, privacy respecting web. Most content blockers build trust labels over URLs. While useful, this approach has well understood shortcomings. Attackers may avoid detection by changing URLs or domains, bundling unwanted code with benign code, or inlining code in pages. The common flaw in existin

  80. Jian Jia, Houjing Huang, Wenjie Yang, Xiaotang Chen

    Despite various methods are proposed to make progress in pedestrian attribute recognition, a crucial problem on existing datasets is often neglected, namely, a large number of identical pedestrian identities in train and test set, which is not consistent with practical application. Thus, images of the same pedestrian identity in train set and test set are ex

  81. Yanshuai Tu, Duyan Ta, Zhong-Lin Lu, Yalin Wang

    The mapping between the visual input on the retina to the cortical surface, i.e., retinotopic mapping, is an important topic in vision science and neuroscience. Human retinotopic mapping can be revealed by analyzing cortex functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals when the subject is under specific visual stimuli. Conventional methods process, smo

  82. Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Tai Yue, Peihong Lin

    Greybox fuzzing is a scalable and practical approach for software testing. Most greybox fuzzing tools are coverage-guided as reaching high code coverage is more likely to find bugs. However, since most covered codes may not contain bugs, blindly extending code coverage is less efficient, especially for corner cases. Unlike coverage-guided greybox fuzzing whi

  83. Wendong Wang, Di Wu, Zhifei Zhang

    In this paper, we prove that the Leray weak solution $u : \mathbb{R}^3\times (0, T)\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^3 $ of the Navier-Stokes equations is regular in $\mathbb{R}^3\times (0,T)$ under the scaling invariant Serrin condition imposed on one component of the velocity $u_3\in L^{q,1}(0, T;L^p(\mathbb{R}^3))$ with \[ \frac{2}{q}+\frac{3}{p}\leq 1,\quad 3<p<+\in

  84. Lantian Li, Dong Wang, Thomas Fang Zheng

    Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) is a popular tool in open-set classification/verification tasks. However, the Gaussian assumption underlying PLDA prevents it from being applied to situations where the data is clearly non-Gaussian. In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear version of PLDA named as Neural Discriminant Analysis (NDA). This m

  85. Eman A. Khashan, Ali I. Eldesouky, M. Fadel, Sally M. Elghamrawy

    COVID-19's rapid global spread has driven innovative tools for Big Data Analytics. These have guided organizations in all fields of the health industry to track and minimized the effects of virus. Researchers are required to detect coronaviruses through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing, and to gain a complete underst

  86. Shangxi Wu, Jitao Sang, Kaiyuan Xu, Guanhua Zheng

    Adversarial examples provide an opportunity as well as impose a challenge for understanding image classification systems. Based on the analysis of the adversarial training solution Adversarial Logits Pairing (ALP), we observed in this work that: (1) The inference of adversarially robust model tends to rely on fewer high-contribution features compared with vu

  87. Chaochao Chen, Jun Zhou, Longfei Zheng, Huiwen Wu

    Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) has achieved remarkable progresses in various real-world tasks on graph data, consisting of node features and the adjacent information between different nodes. High-performance GNN models always depend on both rich features and complete edge information in graph. However, such information could possibly be isolated by dif

  88. Sitong Cheng, Zhixin Liu, Lantian Li, Zhiyuan Tang

    Most of the pronunciation assessment methods are based on local features derived from automatic speech recognition (ASR), e.g., the Goodness of Pronunciation (GOP) score. In this paper, we investigate an ASR-free scoring approach that is derived from the marginal distribution of raw speech signals. The hypothesis is that even if we have no knowledge of the l

  89. Renuga Kanagavelu, Zengxiang Li, Juniarto Samsudin, Yechao Yang

    Countries across the globe have been pushing strict regulations on the protection of personal or private data collected. The traditional centralized machine learning method, where data is collected from end-users or IoT devices, so that it can discover insights behind real-world data, may not be feasible for many data-driven industry applications in light of

  90. Jiawen Kang, Ruiqi Liu, Lantian Li, Yunqi Cai

    Domain generalization remains a critical problem for speaker recognition, even with the state-of-the-art architectures based on deep neural nets. For example, a model trained on reading speech may largely fail when applied to scenarios of singing or movie. In this paper, we propose a domain-invariant projection to improve the generalizability of speaker vect

  91. Sophie L. Ham, Jessica S. Purcell

    It is conjectured that every cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold admits a geometric triangulation, i.e. it is decomposed into positive volume ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra. Here, we show that sufficiently highly twisted knots admit a geometric triangulation. In addition, by extending work of Gueritaud and Schleimer, we also give quantified versions of this result for

  92. Jennifer Kenkel

    Let $R$ be a standard graded polynomial ring that is finitely generated over a field, and let $I$ be a homogenous prime ideal of $R$. Bhatt, Blickle, Lyubeznik, Singh, and Zhang examined the local cohomology of $R/I^t$, as $t$ grows arbitrarily large. Such rings are known as thickenings of $R/I$. We consider $R = \mathbb{F}[X]$ where $\mathbb{F}$ is a field

  93. Byungjoon Min

    Empirical evidence has revealed that biological regulatory systems are controlled by high-level coordination between topology and Boolean rules. In this study, we study the joint effects of degree and Boolean functions on the stability of Boolean networks. To elucidate these effects, we focus on i) the correlation between the sensitivity of Boolean variables

  94. Jean Pierre Mutanguha

    We prove that ascending HNN extensions of free groups are word-hyperbolic if and only if they have no Baumslag-Solitar subgroups. This extends the theorem of Brinkmann that free-by-cyclic groups are word-hyperbolic if and only if they have no free abelian subgroups of rank 2. The paper is split into two independent parts: 1) We study the dynamics of injectiv

  95. Maxime Bouton, Alireza Nakhaei, David Isele, Kikuo Fujimura

    Maneuvering in dense traffic is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles because it requires reasoning about the stochastic behaviors of many other participants. In addition, the agent must achieve the maneuver within a limited time and distance. In this work, we propose a combination of reinforcement learning and game theory to learn merging behaviors. We

  96. Zhengrui Li, Sian-Jheng Lin, Po-Ning Chen, Yunghsiang S. Han

    In this paper, we consider the update bandwidth in distributed storage systems~(DSSs). The update bandwidth, which measures the transmission efficiency of the update process in DSSs, is defined as the total amount of data symbols transferred in the network when the data symbols stored in a node are updated. This paper contains the following contributions. Fi

  97. Lorena Armas-Sanabria, Mario Eudave-Muñoz

    We show an infinite family of satellite knots that can be unknotted by a single band move, but such that there is no band unknotting the knots which is disjoint from the satellite torus.

  98. Michael Spiess

    Given a cuspidal Hilbert modular eigenform $\pi$ of parallel weight 2 and a nonarchimedian place $\mathfrak p$ of the underlying totally real field such that the local component of $\pi$ at $\mathfrak p$ is the Steinberg representation, one can associate two types of $\mathscr L$-invariants, one defined in terms of the cohomology of arithmetic groups and the

  99. XMASS collaboration, K. Abe, Y. Chen, K. Hiraide

    We have searched for exotic neutrino-electron interactions that could be produced by a neutrino millicharge, by a neutrino magnetic moment, or by dark photons using solar neutrinos in the XMASS-I liquid xenon detector. We observed no significant signals in 711 days of data. We obtain an upper limit for neutrino millicharge of 5.4$\times$10$^{-12} e$ at 90\%

  100. Ronan Perry, Gavin Mischler, Richard Guo, Theodore Lee

    As data are generated more and more from multiple disparate sources, multiview data sets, where each sample has features in distinct views, have ballooned in recent years. However, no comprehensive package exists that enables non-specialists to use these methods easily. mvlearn is a Python library which implements the leading multiview machine learning metho