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  1. Victor Magron, Jie Wang

    The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of finite-dimensional convex problems. At each step of the associated hierarchy, one needs to solve a fixed size semidefinite program, which

  2. Jiangming Xie, Maojun Li, Miao-Jung Yvonne Ou

    In this work, we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Cole-Cole dispersive medium by using the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to solve the coupled time-domain Maxwell's equations and polarization equation. We define a new and sharpened total energy function for the Cole-Cole model, which better describes the behaviors of the energy

  3. Darij Grinberg, Tom Roby

    We extend the periodicity of birational rowmotion for rectangular posets to the case when the base field is replaced by a noncommutative ring (under appropriate conditions). This resolves a conjecture from 2014. The proof uses a novel approach and is fully self-contained. Consider labellings of a finite poset $P$ by $\left|P\right| + 2$ elements of a ring $\

  4. Biplab Ranjan Adhikary, Atanu Sahu, Partha Bhattacharya

    We propose a fully coupled numerical model to predict energy transmission through a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) excited stiffened double-leaf flexible aircraft panel using a finite element (FE) framework. Mindlin first order shear deformation model is adopted for the panels and a TBL-structure-acoustic coupling model is developed using finite element-radi

  5. Adi Glücksam, Leticia Pardo-Simón

    In this note we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the number of maximum modulus points, of an entire function, sitting in a disc of radius $r$. In 1964, Erd\Humlaut{o}s asked whether there exists a non-monomial function so that this quantity is unbounded? tends to infinity? In 1968 Herzog and Piranian constructed an entire map for which it is unbounded.

  6. Leonardo Prange Bonorino, Lucas Pinto Dutra, Filipe Jung dos Santos

    In this work, first we prove that for any compact set $K\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and any continuous function $\phi$ defined on $\partial K$, there exists a bounded weak solution in $C(\bar{\mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash K}) \cap C^1(\mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash K)$ to the exterior Dirichlet problem $$ \begin{cases} -{\rm div}\big(\,|\nabla u|^{p-2}A(\,|\nabla u|\,)\nabl

  7. Huacheng Yu

    In this paper, we prove a strong XOR lemma for bounded-round two-player randomized communication. For a function $f:\mathcal{X}\times \mathcal{Y}\rightarrow\{0,1\}$, the $n$-fold XOR function $f^{\oplus n}:\mathcal{X}^n\times \mathcal{Y}^n\rightarrow\{0,1\}$ maps $n$ input pairs $(X_1,\ldots,X_n,Y_1,\ldots,Y_n)$ to the XOR of the $n$ output bits $f(X_1,Y_1)\

  8. Steve M. Young, N. Tobias Jacobson, Jason R. Petta

    Semiconductor spin qubits may be coupled through a superconducting cavity to generate an entangling two-qubit gate. However, the fidelity of such an operation will be reduced by a variety of error mechanisms such as charge and magnetic noise, phonons, cavity loss, transitions to non-qubit states and, for electrons in silicon, excitation into other valley eig

  9. Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Angeliki Katsenou, Daniel Joseph Ringis

    Since the adoption of VP9 by Netflix in 2016, royalty-free coding standards continued to gain prominence through the activities of the AOMedia consortium. AV1, the latest open source standard, is now widely supported. In the early years after standardisation, HDR video tends to be under served in open source encoders for a variety of reasons including the re

  10. Chaitanya Rahalkar, Anushka Virgaonkar, Kethaki Varadan

    The Tor Network has been a significant part of the Internet for years. Tor was originally started in the Naval Research Laboratory for anonymous Internet browsing and Internet-based communication. From being used for anonymous communications, it has now segmented into various other use-cases like censorship circumvention, performing illegal activities, etc.

  11. Xiao Guo, Yaojie Liu, Anil Jain, Xiaoming Liu

    In this work, we study multi-domain learning for face anti-spoofing(MD-FAS), where a pre-trained FAS model needs to be updated to perform equally well on both source and target domains while only using target domain data for updating. We present a new model for MD-FAS, which addresses the forgetting issue when learning new domain data, while possessing a hig

  12. Chaitanya Rahalkar, Anushka Virgaonkar

    This paper aims to survey various techniques utilized for content moderation in end-to-end encryption systems. We assess the challenging aspect of content moderation: maintaining a safe platform while assuring user privacy. We study the unique features of some content moderation techniques, such as message franking and perceptual hashing, and highlight their

  13. S. Katuwal, S. P. Miao, R. P. Woodard

    We consider reheating for a charged inflaton which is minimally coupled to electromagnetism. The evolution of such an inflaton induces a time-dependent mass for the photon. We show how the massive photon propagator can be expressed as a spatial Fourier mode sum involving three different sorts of mode functions, just like the constant mass case. We develop ac

  14. Carlos Hernandez-Suarez

    What is behind the \emph{wisdom of the crowds} described by Simons (2004)? It has been showed that insects may use gravitational fields to travel (Dreyer et al 2018) and we may ask whether the use of gravitational fields is enough to secure the arrival of an individual to a relatively narrow spot thousands of kilometers away, as it is the case for example of

  15. Xingyu "Bruce" Liu, Ruolin Wang, Dingzeyu Li, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

    Authors make their videos visually accessible by adding audio descriptions (AD), and auditorily accessible by adding closed captions (CC). However, creating AD and CC is challenging and tedious, especially for non-professional describers and captioners, due to the difficulty of identifying accessibility problems in videos. A video author will have to watch t

  16. Kevin Shu

    Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are an expressive family of optimization problems that occur naturally in many applications. It is often of interest to seek out sparse solutions, where many of the entries of the solution are zero. This paper will consider QCQPs with a single linear constraint, together with a sparsity constraint that req

  17. P. Myles Eugenio, Oskar Vafek

    We derive BM-like continuum models for the bands of superlattice heterostructures formed out of Fe-chalcogenide monolayers: (${\bf\text I}$) a single monolayer experiencing an external periodic potential, and (${\bf\text II}$) twisted bilayers with long-range moire tunneling. A symmetry derivation for the inter-layer moire tunnelling is provided for both the

  18. Nathan Benjamin, Suzanne Bintanja, Alejandra Castro, Jildou Hollander

    Symmetric product orbifold theories are valuable due to their universal features at large $N$. Here we will demonstrate that they have features that are not as pervasive: we provide evidence of strange behaviour under deformations within their moduli space. To this end, we consider the symmetric product orbifold of tensor products of $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-Vi

  19. Jim Talbert

    We write down a geometric realization of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) extended by $n_f$ flavours of light sterile neutrinos, a so-called geo$\nu$SMEFT. As with the geoSMEFT introduced by Helset, Martin and Trott, we show that a refactorization of the $\nu$SMEFT's operator product expansion is possible, such that two- and three-point comp

  20. Rhorry Gauld, Alexander Huss, Giovanni Stagnitto

    Identifying the flavour of reconstructed hadronic jets is critical for precision phenomenology and the search for new physics at collider experiments, as it allows to pinpoint specific scattering processes and reject backgrounds. Jet measurements at the LHC are almost universally performed using the anti-$k_T$ algorithm, however no approach exists to define

  21. F. D. Priestley, H. Chawner, M. J. Barlow, I. De Looze

    Shockwaves driven by supernovae both destroy dust and reprocess the surviving grains, greatly affecting the resulting dust properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). While these processes have been extensively studied theoretically, observational constraints are limited. We use physically-motivated models of dust emission to fit the infrared (IR) spectral

  22. Guo-Yi Zhu, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ashvin Vishwanath, Simon Trebst

    In the field of monitored quantum circuits, it has remained an open question whether finite-time protocols for preparing long-range entangled states lead to phases of matter which are stable to gate imperfections, which can convert projective into weak measurements. Here we show that in certain cases, long-range entanglement persists in the presence of weak

  23. Vasily Belokurov, Eugene Vasiliev, Alis J. Deason, Sergey E. Koposov

    Relying on the dramatic increase in the number of stars with full 6D phase-space information provided by the Gaia Data Release 3, we discover unambiguous signatures of phase-mixing in the stellar halo around the Sun. We show that for the stars likely belonging to the last massive merger, the (v_r,r) distribution contains a series of long and thin chevron-lik

  24. Fady Bishara, Philipp Englert, Christophe Grojean, Giuliano Panico

    Diboson production processes provide good targets for precision measurements at present and future hadron colliders. We consider $Vh$ production, focusing on the $h \to b\bar b$ decay channel, whose sizeable cross section makes it accessible at the LHC. We perform an improved analysis by combining the 0-, 1- and 2-lepton channels with a scale-invariant $b$-t

  25. Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur

    Many experimentally relevant quantum spin chains are approximately integrable, and support long-lived quasiparticle excitations. A canonical example of integrable model of quantum magnetism is the XXZ spin chain, for which energy spreads ballistically, but, surprisingly, high-temperature spin transport can be diffusive or superdiffusive. We review the transp

  26. Yu-Yen Chang, Lihwai Lin, Hsi-An Pan, Chieh-An Lin

    We use machine learning techniques to classify galaxy merger stages, which can unveil physical processes that drive the star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activities during galaxy interaction. The sample contains 4,690 galaxies from the integral field spectroscopy survey SDSS-IV MaNGA, and can be separated to 1,060 merging galaxies and 3630 non

  27. Miha Cernetic, Volker Springel, Thomas Guillet, Rüdiger Pakmor

    Hydrodynamical numerical methods that converge with high-order hold particular promise for astrophysical studies, as they can in principle reach prescribed accuracy goals with higher computational efficiency than standard second- or third-order approaches. Here we consider the performance and accuracy benefits of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods, which of

  28. Federico Carta, Simone Giacomelli, Noppadol Mekareeya, Alessandro Mininno

    A 1-form symmetry and a 0-form symmetry may combine to form an extension known as the 2-group symmetry. We find the presence of the latter in a class of Argyres-Douglas theories, called $D_p($USp$(2N))$, which can be realized by $\mathbb{Z}_2$-twisted compactification of the 6d $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ of the $D$-type on a sphere with an irregular twisted punctur

  29. Avery J. Tishue, Robert R. Caldwell

    We present a new mechanism for cosmic acceleration consisting of a scalar field coupled to a triplet of classical U(1) gauge fields. The gauge fields are arranged in a homogeneous, isotropic configuration, with both electric- and magnetic-like vacuum expectation values. The gauge fields provide a mass-like term via a Chern-Simons interaction that suspends th

  30. P. Nazari, J. D. Meijerhof, M. L. van Gelder, A. Ahmadi

    No statistical study of COMs toward a large sample of high-mass protostars with ALMA has been carried out so far. We aim to study six N-bearing species: CH$_3$CN, HNCO, NH$_2$CHO, C$_2$H$_5$CN, C$_2$H$_3$CN and CH$_3$NH$_2$ in a large sample of high-mass protostars. From the ALMAGAL survey, 37 of the most line-rich hot molecular cores are selected. Next, we

  31. Tiago V. Fernandes, José P. S. Lemos

    We study the thermodynamic properties of a static electrically charged spherical thin shell in $d$ dimensions by imposing the first law of thermodynamics on the shell. The shell is at radius $R$, inside it the spacetime is Minkowski, and outside it the spacetime is Reissner-Nordstr\"om. We obtain that the shell thermodynamics is fully described by giving two

  32. Jesse Thorner, Asif Zaman

    We make explicit Bombieri's refinement of Gallagher's log-free "large sieve density estimate near $\sigma = 1$" for Dirichlet $L$-functions. We use this estimate and recent work of Green to prove that if $N\geq 2$ is an integer, $A\subseteq\{1,\ldots,N\}$, and for all primes $p$ no two elements in $A$ differ by $p-1$, then $|A|\ll N^{1-1/10^{18}}$. This stre

  33. Yang Li, Yucheng Tu, Xiaoxue Chen, Hao Zhao

    For humans, understanding the relationships between objects using visual signals is intuitive. For artificial intelligence, however, this task remains challenging. Researchers have made significant progress studying semantic relationship detection, such as human-object interaction detection and visual relationship detection. We take the study of visual relat

  34. M. R. A. Wells, J. S. Urquhart, T. J. T. Moore, K. E. Browning

    The ATLASGAL survey has characterised the properties of approximately 1000 embedded HII regions and found an empirical relationship between the clump mass and bolometric luminosity that covers 3-4 orders of magnitude. Comparing this relation with simulated clusters drawn from an initial mass function and using different star formation efficiencies we find th

  35. Fei Hu

    Let $X$ be an abelian variety over an algebraically closed field $\mathbf{k}$ and $f$ a quasi-unipotent automorphism of $X$. When $\mathbf{k}$ is the field of complex numbers, Lin, Oguiso, and D.-Q. Zhang provide an explicit formula for the polynomial volume growth of (or equivalently, for the Gelfand--Kirillov dimension of the twisted homogeneous coordinate

  36. Yorgos M. Psarellis, Michail Kavousanakis, Michael A. Henson, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

    Circadian rhythmicity lies at the center of various important physiological and behavioral processes in mammals, such as sleep, metabolism, homeostasis, mood changes and more. It has been shown that this rhythm arises from self-sustained biomolecular oscillations of a neuronal network located in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN). Under normal circumstances,

  37. Veronique Fischer, Francesca Tripaldi

    In this paper, we consider the Rumin complex on homogenenous nilpotent Lie groups. We present an alternative construction to the classical one on Carnot groups using ideas from parabolic geometry. We also give the explicit computations for the Engel group with this approach.

  38. Marie Niederländer, Jonas Vogel, Alexander Schulze-Makuch, Bastien Gély

    We present a method for measuring the polarizability of Rydberg ions confined in the harmonic potential of a Paul trap. For a highly excited electronic state, the coupling between the electronic wave function and the trapping field modifies the excitation probability depending on the motional state of the ion. This interaction strongly depends on the polariz

  39. Martijn Hidding, Oliver Schlotterer, Bram Verbeek

    Elliptic modular graph forms (eMGFs) are non-holomorphic modular forms depending on a modular parameter $\tau$ of a torus and marked points $z$ thereon. Traditionally, eMGFs are constructed from nested lattice sums over the discrete momenta on the worldsheet torus in closed-string genus-one amplitudes. In this work, we develop methods to translate the lattic

  40. Juliette Bruce, Lauren Cranton Heller, Mahrud Sayrafi

    Multigraded Castelnuovo--Mumford regularity of a module $M$ over the total coordinate ring $S$ of a smooth projective toric variety $X$ is a region $\operatorname{reg} M \subset \operatorname{Pic} X$ invariant under translation by the nef cone $\operatorname{Nef} X$. We prove that the multigraded regularity of a finitely generated faithful module is containe

  41. Naama Ben-David, Michal Friedman, Yuanhao Wei

    The study of concurrent persistent programs has seen a surge of activity in recent years due to the introduction of non-volatile random access memories (NVRAM), yielding many models and correctness notions that are difficult to compare. In this paper, we survey existing correctness properties for this setting, placing them into the same context and comparing

  42. Yuansheng Zhu, Wentao Bao, Qi Yu

    Open Set Video Anomaly Detection (OpenVAD) aims to identify abnormal events from video data where both known anomalies and novel ones exist in testing. Unsupervised models learned solely from normal videos are applicable to any testing anomalies but suffer from a high false positive rate. In contrast, weakly supervised methods are effective in detecting know

  43. Zeyu Yang, Jiaqi Chen, Zhenwei Miao, Wei Li

    Existing top-performance 3D object detectors typically rely on the multi-modal fusion strategy. This design is however fundamentally restricted due to overlooking the modality-specific useful information and finally hampering the model performance. To address this limitation, in this work we introduce a novel modality interaction strategy where individual pe

  44. Ziyi Liang, Matteo Sesia, Wenguang Sun

    This paper develops novel conformal methods to test whether a new observation was sampled from the same distribution as a reference set. Blending inductive and transductive conformal inference in an innovative way, the described methods can re-weight standard conformal p-values based on dependent side information from known out-of-distribution data in a prin

  45. Peter Constantin, Federico Pasqualotto

    We construct solutions of the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equations in bounded domains and on the torus in three spatial dimensions, as infinite time limits of Voigt approximations of viscous, non-resistive incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations. The Voigt approximations modify the time evolution without introducing artificial viscosity. We show that the

  46. Adrian Bulat, Brais Martinez, Georgios Tzimiropoulos

    This paper tackles the problem of efficient video recognition. In this area, video transformers have recently dominated the efficiency (top-1 accuracy vs FLOPs) spectrum. At the same time, there have been some attempts in the image domain which challenge the necessity of the self-attention operation within the transformer architecture, advocating the use of

  47. Sanjoy Chatterjee, Sushil Gorai

    In this paper, we study the domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$ that are invariant under the positive flows of some globally defined, complete holomorphic vector field with a globally attracting fixed point at the origin. Our first result says that such a domain $\Omega$ is always Runge. Next, with an additional assumption on the rate of convergence of the flow, we sh

  48. Shabana Khan, Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat, Dinesh Kumar

    The measurements of several lepton flavor universality (LFU) violating observables in the decays induced by the quark level transition $b \to c \tau \bar{\nu}$ provide an inkling of plausible physics beyond the standard model of electroweak interactions. Such new physics would also impact other sectors. In this work, we estimate the leverage of new physics i

  49. Lalit Kumar

    In this paper, we develop a linearized fractional Crank-Nicolson-Galerkin FEM for Kirchhoff type quasilinear time-fractional integro-differential equation $\left(\mathcal{D}^{\alpha}\right)$. In general, the solutions to the time-fractional problems exhibit a weak singularity at time $t=0$. This singular behavior of the solutions is taken into account while

  50. Jingwen Ji, Feida Jiang, Mengni Li

    In this paper, we consider a kind of $k$-Hessian type equations $S_k^{\frac{1}{k}}(D^2u+\mu|D u|I)= f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and provide a necessary and sufficient condition of $f$ on the existence and nonexistence of entire admissible subsolutions, which can be regarded as a generalized Keller-Osserman condition. The existence and nonexistence results are p

  51. Marjolein N. van der Linden, Jeffrey C. Everts, René van Roij, Alfons van Blaaderen

    Sedimentation is a ubiquitous phenomenon across many fields of science, such as geology, astrophysics, and soft matter. Sometimes, sedimentation leads to unusual phenomena, such as the Brazil-nut effect, where heavier (granular) particles reside on top of lighter particles after shaking. We show experimentally that a Brazil-nut effect can be realised in a bi

  52. R. M. Tromer, M. L. Pereira Junior, L. A. Ribeiro Junior, D. S. Galvão

    Crystalline microporous materials are solids formed by interconnected pores of less than 2 nm in size. Typically, they possess large surface areas desirable for versatile applications such as catalysis, gas adsorption, and energy storage. In the present work, we propose a new porphyrin-based 2D nanoporous crystal, named 2D Porphyrazine (2DP), which is formed

  53. Aurélien Stcherbinine, Franck Montmessin, Mathieu Vincendon, Michael J. Wolff

    The middle infrared (MIR) channel of the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) instrument onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) ESA-Roscosmos mission has performed Solar occultation measurements of the Martian atmosphere in the 2.3-4.2 $\mu$m spectral range since March 2018, which now covers two Martian Years (MY). We use the methodology previously develop

  54. Andrea Atzori, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras

    In this paper, we propose a novel explanatory framework aimed to provide a better understanding of how face recognition models perform as the underlying data characteristics (protected attributes: gender, ethnicity, age; non-protected attributes: facial hair, makeup, accessories, face orientation and occlusion, image distortion, emotions) on which they are t

  55. O. Nahman-Lévesque, D. Sarenac, D. G. Cory, M. G. Huber

    Using the quantum information model of dynamical diffraction we consider a neutron cavity composed of two perfect crystal silicon blades capable of containing the neutron wavefunction. We show that the internal confinement of the neutrons through Bragg diffraction can be modelled by a quantum random walk. Good agreement is found between the simulation and th

  56. Kian Hwee Lim, Wai-Keong Mok, Leong-Chuan Kwek

    It is known that the superposition of two bound states in the continuum (BIC) leads to the phenomenon of an oscillating bound state, where excitations mediated by the continuum modes oscillate persistently. We perform exact calculations for the oscillating BICs in a 1D photonic lattice coupled to a "giant atom" at multiple points. Our work is significantly d

  57. P. Martín-Luna, D. González-Iglesias, B. Gimeno, D. Esperante

    The problem of the electromagnetic radiation of an accelerated charged particle is one of the most controversial issues in Physics since the beginning of the last century, representing one of the most popular unsolved problems of the Modern Physics. Different equations of motion have been proposed throughout history for a point charge including the electroma

  58. Saurya Das, S. Shankaranarayanan, Vasil Todorinov

    A recent study established a correspondence between the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and Modified theories of gravity, particularly Stelle gravity. We investigate the consequences of this correspondence for inflation and cosmological observables by evaluating the power spectrum of the scalar and tensor perturbations using two distinct methods. Fir

  59. Shuyuan Xu, Juntao Tan, Zuohui Fu, Jianchao Ji

    Causal graph, as an effective and powerful tool for causal modeling, is usually assumed as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). However, recommender systems usually involve feedback loops, defined as the cyclic process of recommending items, incorporating user feedback in model updates, and repeating the procedure. As a result, it is important to incorporate loop

  60. Joshua Bundt, Andrew Fasano, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, William Robertson

    Fuzz testing has been used to find bugs in programs since the 1990s, but despite decades of dedicated research, there is still no consensus on which fuzzing techniques work best. One reason for this is the paucity of ground truth: bugs in real programs with known root causes and triggering inputs are difficult to collect at a meaningful scale. Bug injection

  61. Liang Si, Paul Worm, Dachuan Chen, Karsten Held

    Despite enormous experimental and theoretical efforts, obtaining generally accepted conclusions regarding the intrinsic magnetic and electronic properties of superconducting nickelates remains exceptionally challenging. Experiments show a significant degree of uncertainty, indicating hidden factors in the synthesized films, which call for further investigati

  62. Kian Boon Koh, Basura Fernando

    Collection of real world annotations for training semantic segmentation models is an expensive process. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) tries to solve this problem by studying how more accessible data such as synthetic data can be used to train and adapt models to real world images without requiring their annotations. Recent UDA methods applies self-lea

  63. Hanxiong Chen, Yunqi Li, He Zhu, Yongfeng Zhang

    Human intelligence is able to first learn some basic skills for solving basic problems and then assemble such basic skills into complex skills for solving complex or new problems. For example, the basic skills "dig hole," "put tree," "backfill" and "watering" compose a complex skill "plant a tree". Besides, some basic skills can be reused for solving other p

  64. Yuto Bekki, Robert H. Cameron, Laurent Gizon

    Several types of inertial modes have been detected on the Sun. Properties of these inertial modes have been studied in the linear regime but have not been studied in nonlinear simulations of solar rotating convection. Comparing the nonlinear simulations, the linear theory, and the solar observations is important to better understand the differences between t

  65. Zichao Wang, Weili Nie, Zhuoran Qiao, Chaowei Xiao

    Generating new molecules with specified chemical and biological properties via generative models has emerged as a promising direction for drug discovery. However, existing methods require extensive training/fine-tuning with a large dataset, often unavailable in real-world generation tasks. In this work, we propose a new retrieval-based framework for controll

  66. Mateusz Krzyziński, Mikołaj Spytek, Hubert Baniecki, Przemysław Biecek

    Machine and deep learning survival models demonstrate similar or even improved time-to-event prediction capabilities compared to classical statistical learning methods yet are too complex to be interpreted by humans. Several model-agnostic explanations are available to overcome this issue; however, none directly explain the survival function prediction. In t

  67. Hanwen Ren, Ahmed H. Qureshi

    Active sensing and planning in unknown, cluttered environments is an open challenge for robots intending to provide home service, search and rescue, narrow-passage inspection, and medical assistance. Although many active sensing methods exist, they often consider open spaces, assume known settings, or mostly do not generalize to real-world scenarios. We pres

  68. Orgest Zaka, James F. Peters

    This paper introduces advances in the geometry of the ratio of either two or three points in a line in the Desargues affine plane, and we see this as a ratio of elements of skew field which are constructed over a line in Desargues affine plane. The results given here have a clean, geometric presentation based Desargues affine plan axiomatics and definitions

  69. R. Nithya, K. Anitha

    Rough graph is the graphical structure of information system with imprecise knowledge. Tong He designed the properties of rough graph in 2006[6] and following that He and Shi introduced the notion of edge rough graph[7]. He et al developed the concept of weighted rough graph with weighted attributes[6]. In this paper, we introduce a new type of labeling call

  70. Stefan Leupold, Cornelis J. G. Mommers

    We study rare three-body decays of the Omega baryon using SU(3) chiral perturbation theory, the successful effective field theory of quantum chromodynamics at low energies. At leading order, we calculate the branching fractions of the decay $\Omega^- \to \Xi \pi \pi$ for all possible combinations of pions. For one channel we find an order-of-magnitude discre

  71. Sridhar Mahadevan

    Conditional independence has been widely used in AI, causal inference, machine learning, and statistics. We introduce categoroids, an algebraic structure for characterizing universal properties of conditional independence. Categoroids are defined as a hybrid of two categories: one encoding a preordered lattice structure defined by objects and arrows between

  72. S. Bethke, A. Wagner

    The JADE experiment was one of five large detector systems taking data at the electron-positron collider PETRA, from 1979 to 1986, at $e^+e^-$ annihilation centre-of-mass energies from 12 to 46.7 GeV. The forming of the JADE collaboration, the construction of the apparatus, the most prominent physics highlights, and the post-mortem resurrection and preservat

  73. Hardik Tankaria, Nobuo Yamashita

    In this paper, we consider to improve the stochastic variance reduce gradient (SVRG) method via incorporating the curvature information of the objective function. We propose to reduce the variance of stochastic gradients using the computationally efficient Barzilai-Borwein (BB) method by incorporating it into the SVRG. We also incorporate a BB-step size as i

  74. Luca Maiano, Lorenzo Papa, Ketbjano Vocaj, Irene Amerini

    Fake content has grown at an incredible rate over the past few years. The spread of social media and online platforms makes their dissemination on a large scale increasingly accessible by malicious actors. In parallel, due to the growing diffusion of fake image generation methods, many Deep Learning-based detection techniques have been proposed. Most of thos

  75. Serhii D. Koval, Roman O. Popovych

    We derive a nice representation for point symmetry transformations of the (1+1)-dimensional linear heat equation and properly interpret them. This allows us to prove that the pseudogroup of these transformations has exactly two connected components. That is, the heat equation admits a single independent discrete symmetry, which can be chosen to be alternatin

  76. Lumin Xu, Sheng Jin, Wentao Liu, Chen Qian

    This paper investigates the task of 2D whole-body human pose estimation, which aims to localize dense landmarks on the entire human body including body, feet, face, and hands. We propose a single-network approach, termed ZoomNet, to take into account the hierarchical structure of the full human body and solve the scale variation of different body parts. We f

  77. Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Ruben Conceição, Pedro J. Costa, Mário Pimenta

    We assess the capabilities of a ground-based gamma-ray observatory to detect astrophysical neutrinos with energies in the $100\,{\rm TeV}$ to $100\,{\rm PeV}$ range. The identification of these events would be done through the measurement of very inclined extensive air showers induced by downward-going and upward-going neutrinos. The discrimination of neutri

  78. Tiger Ji, Brianna R. Cochran, Yuhang Zhao

    Social Virtual Reality (VR) is growing for remote socialization and collaboration. However, current social VR applications are not accessible to people with visual impairments (PVI) due to their focus on visual experiences. We aim to facilitate social VR accessibility by enhancing PVI's peripheral awareness of surrounding avatar dynamics. We designed VRBubbl

  79. Athina Monemvassitis, Arnaud Guillin, Manon Michel

    Monte Carlo simulations of systems of particles such as hard spheres or soft spheres with singular kernels can display around a phase transition prohibitively long convergence times when using traditional Hasting-Metropolis reversible schemes. Efficient algorithms known as event-chain Monte Carlo were then developed to reach necessary accelerations. They are

  80. Vincent R. Pascuzzi, Ozgur O. Kilic, Matteo Turilli, Shantenu Jha

    Heterogeneous scientific workflows consist of numerous types of tasks that require executing on heterogeneous resources. Asynchronous execution of those tasks is crucial to improve resource utilization, task throughput and reduce workflows' makespan. Therefore, middleware capable of scheduling and executing different task types across heterogeneous resources

  81. V. Heesen, T. -L. Klocke, M. Brüggen, F. S. Tabatabaei

    Context. Magnetic fields are key to understand galaxy evolution, regulating stellar feedback and star formation in galaxies. Aims. We probe the origin of magnetic fields in late-type galaxies, measuring magnetic field strengths, exploring whether magnetic fields are only passive constituents of the interstellar medium, or whether they are active constituents

  82. F. Rastegarnia, R. Moradi, J. A. Rueda, R. Ruffini

    In analogy with GRB 190114C, we here analyze the ultrarelativistic prompt emission (UPE) of GRB 180720B observed in the rest-frame time interval $t_{\rm rf}=4.84$--$10.89$~s by Fermi-GBM. We reveal the UPE hierarchical structure from the time-resolved spectral analysis performed in time sub-intervals: the spectrum in each shorter time interval is always fitt

  83. S. Moch, B. Ruijl, T. Ueda, J. A. M. Vermaseren

    We report results for the lowest even-$N$ moments of the flavor-nonsinglet structure functions $F_2$ and $F_L$ in QCD at the fourth order in the perturbative expansion in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. Our results are presented in numerical form and we compare them with the leading and subleading terms of the threshold expansion for large values of

  84. Shatendra Singh, Aruna Tiwari

    Most of the real-world problems are multimodal in nature that consists of multiple optimum values. Multimodal optimization is defined as the process of finding multiple global and local optima (as opposed to a single solution) of a function. It enables a user to switch between different solutions as per the need while still maintaining the optimal system per

  85. Philippe Mongeon, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas

    The role played by research scholars in the dissemination of scientific knowledge on social media has always been a central topic in social media metrics (altmetrics) research. Different approaches have been implemented to identify and characterize active scholars on social media platforms like Twitter. Some limitations of past approaches were their complexi

  86. Chenchen Han, Heng Jia

    In this paper, we propose a method to identify identical commodities. In e-commerce scenarios, commodities are usually described by both images and text. By definition, identical commodities are those that have identical key attributes and are cognitively identical to consumers. There are two main challenges: 1) The extraction and fusion of multi-modal repre

  87. Srijita Pal, Kh. Md. Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sk. Saiyad Ali

    The post-reionization $(z \le 6)$ neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity mapping signal holds the potential to probe the large scale structures, study the expansion history and constrain various cosmological parameters. Here we apply the Tapered Gridded Estimator (TGE) to estimate $P(k_{\perp},k_{\parallel})$ the power spectrum of the $z = 2.28$ $(432.8\, {\r

  88. Amirhosein Sayyadabdi, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Bahman Zamani

    Android is a widely used operating system that employs a permission-based access control model. The Android Permissions System (APS) is responsible for mediating application resource requests. APS is a critical component of the Android security mechanism; hence, a failure in the design of APS can potentially lead to vulnerabilities that grant unauthorized ac

  89. Bodong Zhou, Jiahui Liu, Songyi Cui, Yaping Zhao

    With the progress of the urbanisation process, the urban transportation system is extremely critical to the development of cities and the quality of life of the citizens. Among them, it is one of the most important tasks to judge traffic congestion by analysing the congestion factors. Recently, various traditional and machine-learning-based models have been

  90. Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes

    Kernel methods in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) have recently gained significant attention as a potential candidate for achieving a quantum advantage in data analysis. Among other attractive properties, when training a kernel-based model one is guaranteed to find the optimal model's parameters due to the convexity of the training landscape. However, this is

  91. Lucas Johns, Zewei Xiong

    Fast and collisional flavor instabilities possibly occur in the neutrino decoupling regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers. To gain a better understanding of the relevant flavor dynamics, we numerically solve for the collisionally unstable evolution in a homogeneous, anisotropic model. In these calculations collisional instability is pr

  92. Guilherme A. Pimenta, Fernanda B. J. R. Dallaqua, Alvaro Fazenda, Fabio A. Faria

    Tropical forests represent the home of many species on the planet for flora and fauna, retaining billions of tons of carbon footprint, promoting clouds and rain formation, implying a crucial role in the global ecosystem, besides representing the home to countless indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, millions of hectares of tropical forests are lost every year

  93. Michell Queiroz, Flavien Lucas, Kenneth Sorensen

    We present REQreate, a tool to generate instances for on-demand transportation problems. Such problems consist of optimizing the routes of vehicles according to passengers' demand for transportation under space and time restrictions (requests). REQreate is flexible and can be configured to generate instances for a large number of problems in this problem cla

  94. Dimitrios Alivanistos, Selene Báez Santamaría, Michael Cochez, Jan-Christoph Kalo

    Language Models (LMs) have proven to be useful in various downstream applications, such as summarisation, translation, question answering and text classification. LMs are becoming increasingly important tools in Artificial Intelligence, because of the vast quantity of information they can store. In this work, we present ProP (Prompting as Probing), which uti

  95. Jia-Chen Zhao

    Class imbalance, which is also called long-tailed distribution, is a common problem in classification tasks based on machine learning. If it happens, the minority data will be overwhelmed by the majority, which presents quite a challenge for data science. To address the class imbalance problem, researchers have proposed lots of methods: some people make the

  96. Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Davide Martizzi, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Eric Koch

    Momentum feedback from isolated supernova remnants (SNRs) have been increasingly recognized by modern cosmological simulations as a resolution-independent means to implement the effects of feedback in galaxies, such as turbulence and winds. However, the integrated momentum yield from SNRs is uncertain due to the effects of SN clustering and interstellar medi

  97. Jason D. Lotay, Felix Schulze, Gábor Székelyhidi

    Let $L_t$ be a zero Maslov, rational Lagrangian mean curvature flow in a compact Calabi-Yau surface, and suppose that at the first singular time a tangent flow is given by the static union of two transverse planes. We show that in this case the tangent flow is unique, and that the flow can be continued past the singularity as an immersed, smooth, zero Maslov

  98. Nickolas Oberg, Inga Kamp, Stephanie Cazaux, Peter Woitke

    The large icy moons of Jupiter formed in a circumplanetary disk (CPD). CPDs are fed by infalling circumstellar gas and dust which may be shock-heated upon accretion or sublimated while passing through an optically thin gap. Accreted material is then either incorporated into moons, falls into the planet, or is lost beyond the disk edge on relatively short tim

  99. Trinh Thi Le Vuong, Quoc Dang Vu, Mostafa Jahanifar, Simon Graham

    The appearance of histopathology images depends on tissue type, staining and digitization procedure. These vary from source to source and are the potential causes for domain-shift problems. Owing to this problem, despite the great success of deep learning models in computational pathology, a model trained on a specific domain may still perform sub-optimally

  100. Liliana Borcea, Josselin Garnier, Alexander V. Mamonov, Jörn Zimmerling

    We study an inverse problem for the wave equation, concerned with estimating the wave speed, aka velocity, from data gathered by an array of sources and receivers that emit probing signals and measure the resulting waves. The typical mathematical formulation of velocity estimation is a nonlinear least squares minimization of the data misfit, over a search ve