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  1. Rohit Kumar Sachan, Rachit Agarwal, Sandeep Kumar Shukla

    The metadata aspect of Domain Names (DNs) enables us to perform a behavioral study of DNs and detect if a DN is involved in in-browser cryptojacking. Thus, we are motivated to study different temporal and behavioral aspects of DNs involved in cryptojacking. We use temporal features such as query frequency and query burst along with graph-based features such

  2. Yu Fu, Yanyan Huang, Yalin Wang, Shunjie Dong

    Chronological age of healthy brain is able to be predicted using deep neural networks from T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (T1 MRIs), and the predicted brain age could serve as an effective biomarker for detecting aging-related diseases or disorders. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end neural network architecture, referred to as optimal transport b

  3. Youhui Guo, Yu Zhou, Xugong Qin, Enze Xie

    Recent scene text detection methods are almost based on deep learning and data-driven. Synthetic data is commonly adopted for pre-training due to expensive annotation cost. However, there are obvious domain discrepancies between synthetic data and real-world data. It may lead to sub-optimal performance to directly adopt the model initialized by synthetic dat

  4. Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Yongchun Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang

    Recommendation fairness has attracted great attention recently. In real-world systems, users usually have multiple sensitive attributes (e.g. age, gender, and occupation), and users may not want their recommendation results influenced by those attributes. Moreover, which of and when these user attributes should be considered in fairness-aware modeling should

  5. Ching Hung Lam, Masahiko Miyamoto

    We give a lattice theoretical interpretation of generalized deep holes of the Leech lattice VOA $V_\Lambda$. We show that a generalized deep hole defines a "true" automorphism invariant deep hole of the Leech lattice. We also show that there is a correspondence between the set of isomorphism classes of holomorphic VOA $V$ of central charge $24$ having non-ab

  6. N. Dimakis, A. Paliathanasis, M. Roumeliotis, T. Christodoulakis

    We study a Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) space-time in the theory of $f(Q)$-gravity, where $Q$ denotes the non-metricity scalar. It has been previously shown in the literature, that there exist four distinct families of connections, which are compatible with the isometries of the FLRW metric; three for the spatially flat case and one when t

  7. Samer Hanna, Danijela Cabric

    Distributed transmit beamforming is a technique that adjusts the signals from cooperating radios to combine coherently at a destination radio. To achieve coherent combining, the radios can exchange preambles with the destination for frequency synchronization and signal phase adjustment. At the destination, coherent combining leads to a beamforming (BF) gain.

  8. Kelum Gajamannage, Yonggi Park

    Financial markets are highly complex and volatile; thus, learning about such markets for the sake of making predictions is vital to make early alerts about crashes and subsequent recoveries. People have been using learning tools from diverse fields such as financial mathematics and machine learning in the attempt of making trustworthy predictions on such mar

  9. Steven Lund, Hari Iyer

    Many resources for forensic scholars and practitioners, such as journal articles, guidance documents, and textbooks, address how to make a value of evidence assessment in the form of a likelihood ratio (LR) when deciding between two competing propositions. These texts often describe experts presenting their LR values to other parties in the judicial system,

  10. Jie Li, Oufan Zhang, Seokyoung Lee, Ashley Namini

    We consider a generic representation problem of internal coordinates (bond lengths, valence angles, and dihedral angles) and their transformation to 3-dimensional Cartesian coordinates of a biomolecule. We show that the internal-to-Cartesian process relies on correctly predicting chemically subtle correlations among the internal coordinates themselves, and l

  11. Malika Nisal Ratnayake, Don Chathurika Amarathunga, Asaduz Zaman, Adrian G. Dyer

    Insects are the most important global pollinator of crops and play a key role in maintaining the sustainability of natural ecosystems. Insect pollination monitoring and management are therefore essential for improving crop production and food security. Computer vision facilitated pollinator monitoring can intensify data collection over what is feasible using

  12. Peng Wang, Haibin Wang, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Xiaobing Zhang

    This paper addresses the balanced control between performance and saturation for a class of constrained nonlinear systems, including the branches: balanced command filtered backstepping (BCFB) and balanced performance control (BPC). To balance the interconnection and conflict between performance and saturation constraints, define a performance safety evaluat

  13. Prashnna K Gyawali, Yann Le Guen, Xiaoxia Liu, Hua Tang

    Risk prediction models using genetic data have seen increasing traction in genomics. However, most of the polygenic risk models were developed using data from participants with similar (mostly European) ancestry. This can lead to biases in the risk predictors resulting in poor generalization when applied to minority populations and admixed individuals such a

  14. Alexander Kozachinskiy

    Kopczy\'{n}ski (ICALP 2006) conjectured that prefix-independent half-positional winning conditions are closed under finite unions. We refute this conjecture over finite arenas. For that, we introduce a new class of prefix-independent bi-positional winning conditions called energy conditions over totally ordered groups. We give an example of two such conditio

  15. Ayoob Salari, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Branka Vucetic, Sarah Johnson

    In this paper, we consider a federated learning problem over wireless channel that takes into account the coding rate and packet transmission errors. Communication channels are modelled as packet erasure channels (PEC), where the erasure probability is determined by the block length, code rate, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To lessen the effect of packet

  16. Jishnu Ray, Florian Sprung

    We relate the cardinality of the $p$-primary part of the Bloch-Kato Selmer group over $\mathbb{Q}$ attached to a modular form at a non-ordinary prime $p$ to the constant term of the characteristic power series of the signed Selmer groups over the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $\mathbb{Q}$. This generalizes a result of Vigni and Longo in the ordinary

  17. Mingyu Song, Carolyn E. Jones, Marie-H. Monfils, Yael Niv

    Acquiring fear responses to predictors of aversive outcomes is crucial for survival. At the same time, it is important to be able to modify such associations when they are maladaptive, for instance in treating anxiety and trauma-related disorders. Standard extinction procedures can reduce fear temporarily, but with sufficient delay or with reminders of the a

  18. Toshiyuki Tabata, Fabien Rozé, Louis Thuries, Sebastien Halty

    Three-dimensional (3D) CMOS technology encourages the use of UV laser annealing (UV-LA) because the shallow absorption of UV light into materials and the process timescale typically from nanoseconds (ns) to microseconds (us) strongly limit the vertical heat diffusion. In this work, us UV-LA solid phase epitaxial regrowth (SPER) demonstrated an active carrier

  19. Jien-De Sui, Wei-Han Chen, Tzyy-Yuang Shiang, Tian-Sheuan Chang

    Previous gait phase detection as convolutional neural network (CNN) based classification task requires cumbersome manual setting of time delay or heavy overlapped sliding windows to accurately classify each phase under different test cases, which is not suitable for streaming Inertial-Measurement-Unit (IMU) sensor data and fails to adapt to different scenari

  20. Thomas Power, Dmitry Berenson

    We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) method for collision-free navigation that uses amortized variational inference to approximate the distribution of optimal control sequences by training a normalizing flow conditioned on the start, goal and environment. This representation allows us to learn a distribution that accounts for both the dynamics of the

  21. Jien De Sui, Tian Sheuan Chang

    This paper presents a convolutional neural network based foot motion tracking with only six-axis Inertial-Measurement-Unit (IMU) sensor data. The presented approach can adapt to various walking conditions by adopting differential and window based input. The training data are further augmented by sliding and random window samplings on IMU sensor data to incre

  22. Yu-Hsiang Chiang, Tian-Sheuan Chang, Shyh Jye Jou

    Keyword spotting has gained popularity as a natural way to interact with consumer devices in recent years. However, because of its always-on nature and the variety of speech, it necessitates a low-power design as well as user customization. This paper describes a low-power, energy-efficient keyword spotting accelerator with SRAM based in-memory computing (IM

  23. Simona Settepanella, So Yamagata

    The discriminantal arrangement is the space of configurations of $n$ hyperplanes in generic position in a $k$ dimensional space (see \cite{MS}). Differently from the case $k=1$ in which it corresponds to the well known braid arrangement, the discriminantal arrangement in the case $k>1$ has a combinatorics which depends from the choice of the original $n$ hyp

  24. M. Yoshimura

    We propose a new mechanism of lepton (L) number asymmetry generation, hence offer an explanation of matter-antimatter imbalance when a significant amount of baryon number is later transformed from this L-number by known electroweak sphaleron mediated process. The basic theoretical framework is a recently proposed multiple scalar-tensor gravity that dynamical

  25. Yuan Xu, Xingshuo Han, Gelei Deng, Jiwei Li

    Robotic Vehicles (RVs) have gained great popularity over the past few years. Meanwhile, they are also demonstrated to be vulnerable to sensor spoofing attacks. Although a wealth of research works have presented various attacks, some key questions remain unanswered: are these existing works complete enough to cover all the sensor spoofing threats? If not, how

  26. Rohit Lamba, Sergey Zhuk

    This paper studies Markov perfect equilibria in a repeated duopoly model where sellers choose algorithms. An algorithm is a mapping from the competitor's price to own price. Once set, algorithms respond quickly. Customers arrive randomly and so do opportunities to revise the algorithm. In the simple game with two possible prices, monopoly outcome is the uniq

  27. Joshua E. Ducey, Colby J. Sherwood

    Let $W_{k,n}^{i}(m)$ denote a matrix with rows and columns indexed by the $k$-subsets and $n$-subsets, respectively, of an $m$-element set. The row $S$, column $T$ entry of $W_{k,n}^{i}(m)$ is $1$ if $|S \cap T| = i$, and is $0$ otherwise. We compute the rank of the matrix $W_{2,n}^{1}(m)$ over any field by making use of the representation theory of the symm

  28. Misha Perepelitsa, Ilya Timofeyev, Patrick Murphy, Oleg A. Igoshin

    In this paper we develop a model for nematic alignment of self-propelled rods interacting through binary collisions. We avoid phenomenological descriptions of rod interaction in favor of rigorously using a set of microscopic-level rules. Under the assumption that each collision results in a small change to a rod's orientation, we derive the Fokker-Planck equ

  29. Mark Watson

    Using a Lattice Boltzmann hydrodynamic computational modeler to simulate relativistic fluid systems we explore turbulence in two-dimensional relativistic flows. We first a give a pedagogical description of the phenomenon of turbulence and its characteristics in a two-dimensional system. The classical Lattice Boltzmann Method and its extension to relativistic

  30. Tatsuya Sato, Taku Shimosawa, Yosuke Himura

    Enterprises have paid attention to consortium blockchains like Hyperledger Fabric, which is one of the most promising platforms, for efficient decentralized transactions without depending on any particular organization. A consortium blockchain-based system will be typically built across multiple organizations. In such blockchain-based systems, system operati

  31. Nai-Hui Chia, Shih-Han Hung

    We present two protocols for classical verification of quantum depth. Our protocols allow a purely classical verifier to distinguish devices with different quantum circuit depths even in the presence of classical computation. We show that a device with quantum circuit depth at most d will be rejected by the verifier even if the prover applies additional poly

  32. Thi Kim Thoa Thieu, Roderick Melnik

    Working memory (WM) has been intensively used to enable the temporary storing of information for processing purposes, playing an important role in the execution of various cognitive tasks. Recent studies have shown that information in WM is not only maintained through persistent recurrent activity but also can be stored in activity-silent states such as in s

  33. Yunlei Wang, Ming Wang

    We investigate the observability of a general class of linear dispersive equations on the torus $\mathbb{T}$. We take one line segment or two line segments in space-time region as the observable set. We give the characteristic on the slopes of the line segments to guarantee the qualitative observability and quantitative observability respectively. The one li

  34. Jared C. Stimac, Nicolas Bertin, Jeremy K. Mason, Vasily V. Bulatov

    When a material is plastically deformed the majority of mechanical work is dissipated as heat, and the fraction of plastic work converted into heat is known as the Taylor-Quinney coefficient (TQC). Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations were performed of high strain rate compression of single-crystal tantalum, and the resulting integral and differential

  35. Mohaddeseh Bastan, Nishant Shankar, Mihai Surdeanu, Niranjan Balasubramanian

    Can language models read biomedical texts and explain the biomedical mechanisms discussed? In this work we introduce a biomedical mechanism summarization task. Biomedical studies often investigate the mechanisms behind how one entity (e.g., a protein or a chemical) affects another in a biological context. The abstracts of these publications often include a f

  36. Alham Fikri Aji, Tirana Noor Fatyanosa, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Philip Arthur

    We release our synthetic parallel paraphrase corpus across 17 languages: Arabic, Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Vietnamese, and Chinese. Our method relies only on monolingual data and a neural machine translation system to generate paraphrases, hence simple to apply.

  37. Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter, Athanasios Sideris

    We propose a simultaneous learning and pruning algorithm capable of identifying and eliminating irrelevant structures in a neural network during the early stages of training. Thus, the computational cost of subsequent training iterations, besides that of inference, is considerably reduced. Our method, based on variational inference principles using Gaussian

  38. Feiyu Li, Xiangrong Fu, Seth Dorfman

    Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are subject to parametric decays which can have important consequences in space, astrophysical, and fusion plasmas. Though the Alfv\'en wave parametric decay instability was predicted decades ago, observational evidence is limited, stimulating considerable interest in laboratory demonstration of the instability and associated n

  39. Wencai Liu

    We initiate an approach to simultaneously treat numerators and denominators of Green's functions arising from quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators, which in particular allows us to study completely resonant phases of the almost Mathieu operator. Let $ (H_{\lambda,\alpha,\theta}u) (n)=u(n+1)+u(n-1)+ 2\lambda \cos2\pi(\theta+n\alpha)u(n)$ be the almost Mathi

  40. Tianliang Zhang, Shengyuan Xu

    In this paper, a control scheme for stochastic predefined-time stabilization is proposed, which improves the control effect compared with stochastic finite-time or fixed-time stabilization. The stochastic predefined-time stabilization allows the upper bound of the mathematical expectation of the settling-time function below any given positive value. Some Lya

  41. Viswanath Chadalapaka, Kyle Chang, Gireesh Mahajan, Anuj Vasil

    Despite the fact that cryptocurrencies themselves have experienced an astonishing rate of adoption over the last decade, cryptocurrency fraud detection is a heavily under-researched problem area. Of all fraudulent activity regarding cryptocurrencies, pump and dump schemes are some of the most common. Though some studies have been done on these kinds of scams

  42. Connor Paddock, Vincent Russo, Turner Silverthorne, William Slofstra

    The perfect quantum strategies of a linear system game correspond to certain representations of its solution group. We study the solution groups of graph incidence games, which are linear system games in which the underlying linear system is the incidence system of a (non-properly) two-coloured graph. While it is undecidable to determine whether a general li

  43. J H. Cook, C. M. Trott, J. L. B. Line

    We investigate the contribution of extended radio sources such as Centaurus A, and Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) to our ability to detect the statistical $21\,\rm{cm}$ signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). These sources are typically ignored because they are in highly attenuated parts of the MWA primary be

  44. J. Mark Keil, Debajyoti Mondal, Ehsan Moradi

    The burning process on a graph $G$ starts with a single burnt vertex, and at each subsequent step, burns the neighbors of the currently burnt vertices, as well as one other unburnt vertex. The burning number of $G$ is the smallest number of steps required to burn all the vertices of the graph. In this paper, we examine the problem of computing the burning nu

  45. Jaeseop Ahn, Seongyeon Kim, Ihyeok Seo

    We study the long time behaviour of solutions for the weakly damped forced Kawahara equation on the torus. More precisely, we prove the existence of a global attractor in $L^2$, to which as time passes all solutions draw closer. In fact, we show that the global attractor turns out to lie in a smoother space $H^2$ and be bounded therein. Further, we give an u

  46. Xuetong Wu, Mingming Gong, Jonathan H. Manton, Uwe Aickelin

    Recent advancements in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) and semi-supervised learning (SSL), particularly incorporating causality, have led to significant methodological improvements in these learning problems. However, a formal theory that explains the role of causality in the generalization performance of UDA/SSL is still lacking. In this paper, we cons

  47. Lin Ma, Jiqiang Zhang, Guozhong Zheng, Rizhou Liang

    We human beings show remarkable adaptability in response to complex surroundings, we adopt different behavioral modes at different occasions, such response multimodality is critical to our survival. Yet, how this behavioral multimodality affects the evolution of cooperation remains largely unknown. Here we build a toy model to address this issue by consideri

  48. Xiaochun Lei, Linjun Lu, Zetao Jiang, Zhaoting Gong

    Semantic segmentation is applied extensively in autonomous driving and intelligent transportation with methods that highly demand spatial and semantic information. Here, an STDC-MA network is proposed to meet these demands. First, the STDC-Seg structure is employed in STDC-MA to ensure a lightweight and efficient structure. Subsequently, the feature alignmen

  49. Xiaochun Lei, Chang Lu, Zetao Jiang, Zhaoting Gong

    Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In particular, object detectors may be attacked by applying a particular adversarial patch to the image. However, because the patch shrinks during preprocessing, most existing approaches that employ adversarial patches to attack object detectors would diminish the attack success rate on small

  50. Daido Kido

    The effects of treatments are often heterogeneous, depending on the observable characteristics, and it is necessary to exploit such heterogeneity to devise individualized treatment rules (ITRs). Existing estimation methods of such ITRs assume that the available experimental or observational data are derived from the target population in which the estimated p

  51. Ruoxu Cen, Jason Li, Debmalya Panigrahi

    We give an $\tilde{O}(m)$-time algorithm for the edge connectivity augmentation problem and the closely related edge splitting-off problem. This is optimal up to lower order terms and closes the long line of work on these problems.

  52. Xiaoqin Ren, Yanan Wang, ShuangNan Zhang, Roberto Soria

    We study the spectral evolution of the black hole candidate EXO 1846$-$031 during its 2019 outburst, in the 1--150 keV band,with the {\it {Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope}}. The continuum spectrum is well modelled with an absorbed disk-blackbody plus cutoff power-law, in the hard, intermediate and soft states. In addition, we detect an $\approx$6.6 keV Fe em

  53. Wenhui Chen, Ryo Ikehata

    In this paper, we study asymptotic behaviors for classical thermoelastic plate equations with the Fourier law of heat conduction in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, where we introduce a reduction methodology basing on third-order (in time) differential equations and refined Fourier analysis. We derive optimal growth estimates when $n\leqslant 3$, bounded esti

  54. Atsuya Hasegawa, François Le Gall

    Recently, Chia, Chung and Lai (STOC 2020) and Coudron and Menda (STOC 2020) have shown that there exists an oracle $\mathcal{O}$ such that $\mathsf{BQP}^\mathcal{O} \neq (\mathsf{BPP^{BQNC}})^\mathcal{O} \cup (\mathsf{BQNC^{BPP}})^\mathcal{O}$. In fact, Chia et al. proved a stronger statement: for any depth parameter $d$, there exists an oracle that separate

  55. Wenhui Chen, Hiroshi Takeda

    In the classical theory of acoustic waves, Blackstock's model was proposed in 1963 to characterize the propagation of sound in thermoviscous fluids. In this paper, we investigate large-time asymptotic behaviors of the linear Cauchy problem for general Blackstock's model (that is, without Becker's assumption on monatomic perfect gases). We derive first- and s

  56. Tian-Yu Ye, Zhao-Xu Ji

    Quantum private comparison (QPC) aims to accomplish the equality comparison of the secrets from different users without disclosing their genuine contents by using the principles of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we summarize eight modes of quantum state preparation and transmission existing in current QPC protocols first. Then, by using the mode of scatte

  57. Wenhui Chen, Hiroshi Takeda

    In this paper, we study large-time behaviors for a fundamental model in nonlinear acoustics, precisely, the viscous Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson (JMGT) equation in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$. This model describes nonlinear acoustics in perfect gases under irrotational flow and equipping Cattaneo's law of heat conduction. By employing refined WKB analysis

  58. YanYan Li

    A classical theorem of A.D. Alexandrov says that a connected compact smooth hypersurface in Euclidean space with constant mean curvature must be a sphere. We give exposition to some results on symmetry properties of hypersurfaces with ordered mean curvature and associated variations of the Hopf Lemma. Some open problems will be discussed.

  59. Stephen L. Adler, K. S. Virbhadra

    We review the equations determining the photon sphere radius and the black hole shadow radius, and calculate the cosmological constant corrections arising when the dark energy action has the usual form, and when dark energy arises from a Weyl scaling invariant dark energy action. For black hole targets of the Event Horizon Telescope, the corrections are very

  60. Zhao-Xu Ji, Tian-Yu Ye

    In this paper, a novel multi-party quantum private comparison (MQPC) protocol with a semi-honest third party (TP) is proposed based on the entanglement swapping of d-level cat states and d-level Bell states. Here, TP is allowed to misbehave on his own but will not conspire with any party. In our protocol, n parties employ unitary operations to encode their p

  61. Tuan Tran

    The UK anti-fraud charity Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP) in their review of 2016 estimates business costs of fraud at 144 billion, and its individual counterpart at 9.7 billion. Banking, insurance, manufacturing, and government are the most common industries affected by fraud activities. Designing an efficient fraud detection system could avoid losing the money;

  62. Rajesh K. Malla, M. E. Raikh

    For a Landau-Zener transition in a two-level system, the probability for a particle, initially in the first level, {\em i}, to survive the transition and to remain in the first level, depends exponentially on the square of the tunnel matrix element between the two levels. This result remains valid when the second level, {\em f}, is broadened due to e.g. coup

  63. Qiujing Lu, Weiqiao Han, Jeffrey Ling, Minfa Wang

    Predicting future trajectories of road agents is a critical task for autonomous driving. Recent goal-based trajectory prediction methods, such as DenseTNT and PECNet, have shown good performance on prediction tasks on public datasets. However, they usually require complicated goal-selection algorithms and optimization. In this work, we propose KEMP, a hierar

  64. Makoto Miyoshi, Yoshiaki Kato, Junichiro Makino

    We report our independent image reconstruction of the M 87 from the public data of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaborators (EHTC). Our result is different from the image published by the EHTC. Our analysis shows that (a) the structure at 230 GHz is consistent with those of lower frequency VLBI observations, (b) the jet structure is evident at 230 GHz exten

  65. Xin Wang, Azim Khan, Jianwu Wang, Aryya Gangopadhyay

    With the popularity of Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing and cloud computing, more and more stream analytics applications are being developed including real-time trend prediction and object detection on top of IoT sensing data. One popular type of stream analytics is the recurrent neural network (RNN) deep learning model based time series or sequence

  66. Martina Cardone, Alex Dytso, Cynthia Rush

    It is well known that central order statistics exhibit a central limit behavior and converge to a Gaussian distribution as the sample size grows. This paper strengthens this known result by establishing an entropic version of the CLT that ensures a stronger mode of convergence using the relative entropy. In particular, an order $O(1/\sqrt{n})$ rate of conver

  67. Sarah Arpin, Sebastian Bozlee, Leo Herr, Hanson Smith

    This is the sequel paper to arXiv:2108.07185, continuing a study of monogenicity of number rings from a moduli-theoretic perspective. By the results of the first paper in this series, a choice of a generator $\theta$ for an $A$-algebra $B$ is a point of the scheme $\mathcal{M}_{B/A}$. In this paper, we study and relate several notions of local monogenicity t

  68. Andreas Haupt, Aroon Narayanan

    Agents' learning from feedback shapes economic outcomes, and many economic decision-makers today employ learning algorithms to make consequential choices. This note shows that a widely used learning algorithm, $\varepsilon$-Greedy, exhibits emergent risk aversion: it prefers actions with lower variance. When presented with actions of the same expectation, un

  69. Pierre-Alexandre Mailhot

    The group of compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a symplectic manifold is endowed with a natural bi-invariant distance, due to Viterbo, Schwarz, Oh, Frauenfelder and Schlenk, coming from spectral invariants in Hamiltonian Floer homology. This distance has found numerous applications in symplectic topology. However, its diameter is still unknow

  70. Bing Zhao, Jun Li, Hong Zhu

    The prior self-supervised learning researches mainly select image-level instance discrimination as pretext task. It achieves a fantastic classification performance that is comparable to supervised learning methods. However, with degraded transfer performance on downstream tasks such as object detection. To bridge the performance gap, we propose a novel objec

  71. Allen R. Williams, Yoolim Jin, Anthony Duer, Tuka Alhanai

    In recent years it has become possible to collect GPS data from drivers and to incorporate this data into automobile insurance pricing for the driver. This data is continuously collected and processed nightly into metadata consisting of mileage and time summaries of each discrete trip taken, and a set of behavioral scores describing attributes of the trip (e

  72. Tao Zhou

    Link prediction is a paradigmatic and challenging problem in network science, which attempts to uncover missing links or predict future links, based on known topology. A fundamental but still unsolved issue is how to choose proper metrics to fairly evaluate prediction algorithms. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and the balanc

  73. Wei-bo He, Guo-yun Shao, Xue-yan Gao, Xin-ran Yang

    We systematically investigate the speed of sound in QCD matter under different conditions in the grand canonical ensemble within the Polyakov loop improved Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. The numerical results indicate that the dependence of speed of sound on parameters like temperature and chemical potential can be indicative of QCD phase transition. Some

  74. Takuma Narizuka, Kenta Takizawa, Yoshihiro Yamazaki

    In soccer game analysis, the widespread availability of play-by-play and tracking data has made it possible to test mathematical models that have been discussed mainly theoretically. One of the essential models in soccer game analysis is a motion model that predicts the arrival point of a player in $ t $ s. Although many space evaluation and pass prediction

  75. Andrew Caplin, Daniel Martin, Philip Marx

    A much studied issue is the extent to which the confidence scores provided by machine learning algorithms are calibrated to ground truth probabilities. Our starting point is that calibration is seemingly incompatible with class weighting, a technique often employed when one class is less common (class imbalance) or with the hope of achieving some external ob

  76. Serena Mou, Dorian Tsai, Matthew Dunbabin

    Coral reefs are under increasing threat from the impacts of climate change. Whilst current restoration approaches are effective, they require significant human involvement and equipment, and have limited deployment scale. Harvesting wild coral spawn from mass spawning events, rearing them to the larval stage and releasing the larvae onto degraded reefs is an

  77. Petr Karnakov, Sergey Litvinov, Petros Koumoutsakos

    We introduce the Optimizing a Discrete Loss (ODIL) framework for the numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) using machine learning tools. The framework formulates numerical methods as a minimization of discrete residuals that are solved using gradient descent and Newton's methods. We demonstrate the value of this approach on equations tha

  78. Angelina Wang, Vikram V. Ramaswamy, Olga Russakovsky

    Research in machine learning fairness has historically considered a single binary demographic attribute; however, the reality is of course far more complicated. In this work, we grapple with questions that arise along three stages of the machine learning pipeline when incorporating intersectionality as multiple demographic attributes: (1) which demographic a

  79. Michael J. Falato, Bradley T. Wolfe, Tali M. Natan, Xinhua Zhang

    Plasma jets are widely investigated both in the laboratory and in nature. Astrophysical objects such as black holes, active galactic nuclei, and young stellar objects commonly emit plasma jets in various forms. With the availability of data from plasma jet experiments resembling astrophysical plasma jets, classification of such data would potentially aid in

  80. Adrian Iovita, Jackson S. Morrow, Alexandru Zaharescu

    Let $p$ be a rational prime, let $F$ denote a finite, unramified extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, let $K$ be the completion of the maximal unramified extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, and let $\overline{K}$ be some fixed algebraic closure of $K$. Let $A$ be an abelian variety defined over $F$, with good reduction, let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the N\'eron model of $A$ ove

  81. Shigeyuki Karino

    Some ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) exhibit X-ray pulses, and their central sources are thought to be neutron stars. It has also been suggested that some are transient sources with Be-type donors. In this study, we use the mass accretion model of a Be-type high mass X-ray binary (BeHMXB) to estimate the conditions under which a giant X-ray burst caused b

  82. Qunfei Zhou, Michele Kotiuga, Pierre Darancet

    We derive and validate a quantitative analytical model of the near-field electrostatic effects in the vicinity (>=3\AA) of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In solving the Poisson equation of a near-planar point charge ansatz for the electronic density of a 2D material, our formula quantitatively captures the out-of-plane decay and the in-plane modulation of d

  83. Casey Meehan, Khalil Mrini, Kamalika Chaudhuri

    User language data can contain highly sensitive personal content. As such, it is imperative to offer users a strong and interpretable privacy guarantee when learning from their data. In this work, we propose SentDP: pure local differential privacy at the sentence level for a single user document. We propose a novel technique, DeepCandidate, that combines con

  84. Maedeh Ahmadi, Mehran Safayani, Abdolreza Mirzaei

    Attributed graph clustering or community detection which learns to cluster the nodes of a graph is a challenging task in graph analysis. In this paper, we introduce a contrastive learning framework for learning clustering-friendly node embedding. Although graph contrastive learning has shown outstanding performance in self-supervised graph learning, using it

  85. Shota Takahashi, Mituhiro Fukuda, Mirai Tanaka

    Difference of Convex (DC) optimization problems have objective functions that are differences between two convex functions. Representative ways of solving these problems are the proximal DC algorithms, which require that the convex part of the objective function have $L$-smoothness. In this article, we propose the Bregman Proximal DC Algorithm (BPDCA) for so

  86. A. Max Reppen, H. Mete Soner, Valentin Tissot-Daguette

    This paper outlines, and through stylized examples evaluates a novel and highly effective computational technique in quantitative finance. Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) and neural networks are key to this approach. Powerful open source optimization libraries allow for efficient implementations of this algorithm making it viable in high-dimensional struct

  87. Zhenzi Weng, Zhijin Qin, Xiaoming Tao, Chengkang Pan

    In this paper, we develop a deep learning based semantic communication system for speech transmission, named DeepSC-ST. We take the speech recognition and speech synthesis as the transmission tasks of the communication system, respectively. First, the speech recognition-related semantic features are extracted for transmission by a joint semantic-channel enco

  88. Pinzhen Chen, Zheng Zhao

    We build a dual-way neural dictionary to retrieve words given definitions, and produce definitions for queried words. The model learns the two tasks simultaneously and handles unknown words via embeddings. It casts a word or a definition to the same representation space through a shared layer, then generates the other form in a multi-task fashion. Our method

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    Recent years have seen a surge in interest in building deep learning-based fully data-driven models for weather prediction. Such deep learning models if trained on observations can mitigate certain biases in current state-of-the-art weather models, some of which stem from inaccurate representation of subgrid-scale processes. However, these data-driven models

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    We define 2-functors on the categorified quantum group of a simply-laced Kac-Moody algebra that induce Lusztig's internal braid group action at the level of the Grothendieck group.

  92. Brendan V Christensen, Mark Owkes

    Understanding the process of primary and secondary atomization in liquid jets is crucial in describing spray distribution and droplet geometry for industrial applications and is essential in the development of physics-based low-fidelity atomization models that can quickly predict these sprays. Significant advances in numerical modelling and computational res

  93. Daniel Domínguez-Vázquez, Bjoern F. Klose, Gustaaf B. Jacobs

    A closed and predictive particle cloud tracer method is presented. The tracer builds upon the Subgrid Particle Averaged Reynolds Stress Equivalent (SPARSE) formulation first introduced in [Davis et al., Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 473(2199), 2017] for the tracing of particle clouds. It was later extended to a Cloud-In-Cell (CIC) formulation in [Taver

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    Image classification accuracy on the ImageNet dataset has been a barometer for progress in computer vision over the last decade. Several recent papers have questioned the degree to which the benchmark remains useful to the community, yet innovations continue to contribute gains to performance, with today's largest models achieving 90%+ top-1 accuracy. To hel

  95. A. Max Reppen, H. Mete Soner, Valentin Tissot-Daguette

    A method based on deep artificial neural networks and empirical risk minimization is developed to calculate the boundary separating the stopping and continuation regions in optimal stopping. The algorithm parameterizes the stopping boundary as the graph of a function and introduces relaxed stopping rules based on fuzzy boundaries to facilitate efficient opti

  96. Rami Ezzine, Moritz Wiese, Christian Deppe, Holger Boche

    We generalize the uniform common randomness capacity formula, initially established by Ahslwede and Csisz\'ar for a two-source model for common randomness generation from independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) discrete sources with unidirectional communication over rate-limited discrete noiseless channels to the case when the one-way communication

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    Analogical proportions are 4-ary relations that read "A is to B as C is to D". Recent works have highlighted the fact that such relations can support a specific form of inference, called analogical inference. This inference mechanism was empirically proved to be efficient in several reasoning and classification tasks. In the latter case, it relies on the not

  98. Domenic P. J. Germano, Stuart T. Johnston, Edmund J. Crampin, James M. Osborne

    The maintenance of tissue and organ structures during dynamic homeostasis is often not well understood. In order for a system to be stable, cell renewal, cell migration and cell death must be finely balanced. Moreover, a tissue's shape must remain relatively unchanged. Simple epithelial tissues occur in various structures throughout the body, such as the end

  99. Hassan H. Alnasser, Claudia Czado

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