April 2023 arXiv papers — page 100
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Zhihao Lin, Yongtao Wang, Jinhe Zhang, Xiaojie Chu
Dynamic neural network is an emerging research topic in deep learning. With adaptive inference, dynamic models can achieve remarkable accuracy and computational efficiency. However, it is challenging to design a powerful dynamic detector, because of no suitable dynamic architecture and exiting criterion for object detection. To tackle these difficulties, we
Yongyun Chen, Qiusheng Gu, Junhui Fan, Xiaoling Yu
We study the radio galaxies with known redshift detected by the Fermi satellite after 10 years of data (4FGL-DR2). We use a one-zone leptonic model to fit the quasi-simultaneous multiwavelength data of these radio galaxies and study the distributions of the derived physical parameter as a function of black hole mass and accretion disk luminosity. The main re
Guowei Dai, Yong Zhang
We prove the existence of two smooth families of unbounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ with $N\geq1$ such that \begin{equation} -\Delta u=\lambda u\,\, \text{in}\,\,\Omega, \,\, u=0,\,\,\partial_\nu u=\text{const}\,\,\text{on}\,\,\partial\Omega\nonumber \end{equation} admits a sign-changing solution. The domains bifurcate from the straight cylinder $B_1\ti
Inducing Quantum Phase Transitions in Non-Topological Insulators Via Atomic Control of Sub-Structural Elements
cond-mat.mtrl-sciThomas K. Reid, S. Pamir Alpay, Alexander V. Balatsky, Sanjeev K. Nayak
Topological insulators (TIs) are an important family of quantum materials that exhibit a Dirac point (DP) in the surface band structure but have a finite band gap in bulk. A large degree of spin-orbit interaction and low bandgap is a prerequisite for stabilizing DPs on selective atomically flat cleavage planes. Tuning of the DP in these materials has been su
Feixiang Ren
Human pose estimation has seen widespread use of transformer models in recent years. Pose transformers benefit from the self-attention map, which captures the correlation between human joint tokens and the image. However, training such models is computationally expensive. The recent token-Pruned Pose Transformer (PPT) solves this problem by pruning the backg
Adel Awad, Esraa Elkhateeb
Here we extend the approach developed in \cite{adel_2} to study the thermodynamics of Taub-NUT-AdS and dyonic Taub-NUT-AdS solutions. Furthermore, we investigate in details the possible phase structures of the dyonic Taub-NUT-AdS solution. We show that the first law, Gibbs-Duhem and Smarr's relations are all satisfied for both solutions. Our study of phase s
Yuzhao Chen, Zonghuan Li, Zhiyuan Hu, Nuno Vasconcelos
The problem of continual learning has attracted rising attention in recent years. However, few works have questioned the commonly used learning setup, based on a task curriculum of random class. This differs significantly from human continual learning, which is guided by taxonomic curricula. In this work, we propose the Taxonomic Class Incremental Learning (
Justin Pothoof, Robert J. E. Westbrook, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Madeleine D. Breshears
We use scanning probe microscopy to study ion migration in the formamidinium (FA)-containing halide perovskite semiconductor $Cs_{0.22}FA_{0.78}Pb(I_{0.85}Br_{0.15})_3$ in the presence and absence of chemical surface passivation. We measure the evolving contact potential difference (CPD) using scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) following voltage poling.
Luis A. Delgadillo, O. G. Miranda
The precise determination of the leptonic $CP$-phase is one of the major goals for future generation long Baseline experiments. On the other hand, if new physics beyond the Standard Model exists, a robust determination of such a $CP$-phase may be a challenge. Moreover, it has been pointed out that, in this scenario, an apparent discrepancy in the $CP$-phase
Andrew Sabot, Vikas Natesh, H. T. Kung, Wei-Te Ting
We present the MEMA framework for the easy and quick derivation of efficient inference runtimes that minimize external memory accesses for matrix multiplication on TinyML systems. The framework accounts for hardware resource constraints and problem sizes in analytically determining optimized schedules and kernels that minimize memory accesses. MEMA provides
Group projected Subspace Pursuit for Identification of variable coefficient differential equations (GP-IDENT)
math.NAYuchen He, Sung-Ha Kang, Wenjing Liao, Hao Liu
We propose an effective and robust algorithm for identifying partial differential equations (PDEs) with space-time varying coefficients from a single trajectory of noisy observations. Identifying unknown differential equations from noisy observations is a difficult task, and it is even more challenging with space and time varying coefficients in the PDE. The
CLCLSA: Cross-omics Linked embedding with Contrastive Learning and Self Attention for multi-omics integration with incomplete multi-omics data
cs.LGChen Zhao, Anqi Liu, Xiao Zhang, Xuewei Cao
Integration of heterogeneous and high-dimensional multi-omics data is becoming increasingly important in understanding genetic data. Each omics technique only provides a limited view of the underlying biological process and integrating heterogeneous omics layers simultaneously would lead to a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of diseases and phen
Yong Wang
In this paper, we define a generalized elliptic genus of an almost complex manifold with an extra complex bundle which generalize the elliptic genus in [10]. This generalized elliptic genus is a generalized Jacobi form. By this generalized Jacobi form, we can get some SL(2,Z) modular forms. By these SL(2,Z) modular forms, we get some interesting anomaly canc
S. V. Bolokhov, V. D. Ivashchuk
This review dealt with generalized Melvin solutions for simple finite-dimensional Lie algebras. Each solution appears in a model which includes a metric and $n$ scalar fields coupled to $n$ Abelian 2-forms with dilatonic coupling vectors determined by simple Lie algebra of rank $n$. The set of $n$ moduli functions $H_s(z)$ comply with $n$ non-linear (ordinar
Boyu Zhou, Boulat A. Bash, Saikat Guha, Christos N. Gagatsos
We address the problem of estimating the transmissivity of the pure-loss channel from the Bayesian point of view, i.e., we consider that some prior probability distribution function (PDF) on the unknown variable is available and we employ methods to compute the Bayesian minimum mean square error (MMSE). Specifically, we consider two prior PDFs: the two-point
ImageNet-Hard: The Hardest Images Remaining from a Study of the Power of Zoom and Spatial Biases in Image Classification
cs.CVMohammad Reza Taesiri, Giang Nguyen, Sarra Habchi, Cor-Paul Bezemer
Image classifiers are information-discarding machines, by design. Yet, how these models discard information remains mysterious. We hypothesize that one way for image classifiers to reach high accuracy is to first zoom to the most discriminative region in the image and then extract features from there to predict image labels, discarding the rest of the image.
Yunlong Xu, Peizhen Yang, Zhengbin Tao
Complex networks represent system dynamics through the interactions of a set of anomalous time series. Consider the problem of computing correlations for highly correlated pairs of time series across sliding windows. Efficiently computing and updating the correlation matrix for user-defined sliding periods and thresholds enables large-scale time series netwo
Isidora Tourni, Georgios Grigorakis, Isidoros Marougkas, Konstantinos Dafnis
The advances of Generative AI models with interactive capabilities over the past few years offer unique opportunities for socioeconomic mobility. Their potential for scalability, accessibility, affordability, personalizing and convenience sets a first-class opportunity for poverty-stricken countries to adapt and modernize their educational order. As a result
Blake Mellor
The fundamental quandle is a complete invariant for unoriented tame knots \cite{JO, Ma} and non-split links \cite{FR}. The proof involves proving a relationship between the components of the fundamental quandle and the cosets of the peripheral subgroup(s) in the fundamental group of the knot or link. We extend these relationships to spatial graphs, and to $N
A Gaussian process cross-correlation approach to time delay estimation in active galactic nuclei
astro-ph.IMF. Pozo Nuñez, N. Gianniotis, K. L. Polsterer
We present a probabilistic cross-correlation approach to estimate time delays in the context of reverberation mapping (RM) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We reformulate the traditional interpolated cross-correlation method as a statistically principled model that delivers a posterior distribution for the delay. The method employs Gaussian processes as a mo
Gerardo L. Maldonado, Miguel Raggi Pérez, Edgardo Roldán-Pensado
In this note we give a negative answer to a question proposed by Almendra-Hern\'andez and Mart\'inez-Sandoval. Let $n\le m$ be positive integers and let $X$ and $Y$ be sets of sizes $n$ and $m$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ such that every pair of points in $X\cup Y$ defines a unique distance. There is a natural order on $X\times Y$ induced by the distances between
Distinguishing ChatGPT(-3.5, -4)-generated and human-written papers through Japanese stylometric analysis
cs.CLWataru Zaitsu, Mingzhe Jin
In the first half of 2023, text-generative artificial intelligence (AI), including ChatGPT, equipped with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, from OpenAI, has attracted considerable attention worldwide. In this study, first, we compared Japanese stylometric features of texts generated by GPT (-3.5 and -4) and those written by humans. In this work, we performed multi-dimensio
Lingyun Ding, Richard M. McLaughlin
We investigate diffusion-driven flows in a parallel-plate channel domain with linear density stratification, which arise from the combined influence of gravity and diffusion in density-stratified fluids. We compute the time-dependent diffusion-driven flows and perturbed density field using eigenfunction expansions under the Boussinesq approximation. In chann
Teruo Nagase, Akiko Shima
Charts are oriented labeled graphs in a disk. Any simple surface braid (2-dimensional braid) can be described by using a chart. Also, a chart represents an oriented closed surface (called a surface-link) embedded in 4-space. In this paper, we investigate surface-links by using charts. In [11], [12], we gave an enumeration of the charts with two crossings. In
Jonathan M. Keith
The concept of measurability of functions on a charge space is generalised for functions taking values in a uniform space. Several existing forms of measurability generalise naturally in this context, and new forms of measurability are proposed. Conditions under which the various forms of measurability are logically equivalent are identified. Applying these
Ayon Sen, Gang Pan, Anton Mitrokhin, Ashraful Islam
Accurate camera-to-lidar calibration is a requirement for sensor data fusion in many 3D perception tasks. In this paper, we present SceneCalib, a novel method for simultaneous self-calibration of extrinsic and intrinsic parameters in a system containing multiple cameras and a lidar sensor. Existing methods typically require specially designed calibration tar
S. C. Burd, H. M. Knaack, R. Srinivas, C. Arenz
We show experimentally that a broad class of interactions involving quantum harmonic oscillators can be made stronger (amplified) using a unitary squeezing protocol. While our demonstration uses the motional and spin states of a single trapped $^{25}$Mg$^{+}$ ion, the scheme applies generally to Hamiltonians involving just a single harmonic oscillator as wel
Neural network Gaussian processes as efficient models of potential energy surfaces for polyatomic molecules
physics.chem-phJun Dai, Roman V. Krems
Kernel models of potential energy surfaces (PES) for polyatomic molecules are often restricted by a specific choice of the kernel function. This can be avoided by optimizing the complexity of the kernel function. For regression problems with very expensive data, the functional form of the model kernels can be optimized in the Gaussian process (GP) setting th
Black Box Variational Inference with a Deterministic Objective: Faster, More Accurate, and Even More Black Box
cs.LGRyan Giordano, Martin Ingram, Tamara Broderick
Automatic differentiation variational inference (ADVI) offers fast and easy-to-use posterior approximation in multiple modern probabilistic programming languages. However, its stochastic optimizer lacks clear convergence criteria and requires tuning parameters. Moreover, ADVI inherits the poor posterior uncertainty estimates of mean-field variational Bayes (
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Simultaneous State and Input Recovery of Linear Systems with Sparse Inputs by $\ell_1$-Minimization
eess.SYKyle Poe, Enrique Mallada, René Vidal
The study of theoretical conditions for recovering sparse signals from compressive measurements has received a lot of attention in the research community. In parallel, there has been a great amount of work characterizing conditions for the recovery both the state and the input to a linear dynamical system (LDS), including a handful of results on recovering s
Jihoon Suh, Takashi Tanaka
The global trend of energy deregulation has led to the market mechanism replacing some functionality of load frequency control (LFC). Accordingly, information exchange among participating generators and the market operator plays a crucial role in optimizing social utility. However, privacy has been an equally pressing concern in such settings. This conflict
Cheng Zhang, Stefan Bauer, Paul Bennett, Jiangfeng Gao
We assess the ability of large language models (LLMs) to answer causal questions by analyzing their strengths and weaknesses against three types of causal question. We believe that current LLMs can answer causal questions with existing causal knowledge as combined domain experts. However, they are not yet able to provide satisfactory answers for discovering
Rakesh Chada, Zhaoheng Zheng, Pradeep Natarajan
We propose a self-supervised shared encoder model that achieves strong results on several visual, language and multimodal benchmarks while being data, memory and run-time efficient. We make three key contributions. First, in contrast to most existing works, we use a single transformer with all the encoder layers processing both the text and the image modalit
Shulei Cao
The current expansion of the Universe has been observed to be accelerating, and the widely accepted spatially-flat concordance model of general relativistic cosmology attributes this phenomenon to a constant dark energy, a cosmological constant, which is measured to comprise about 70% of the total energy budget of the current Universe. However, observational
Paul Sutcliffe
Q-lumps are spinning planar topological solitons with stationary solutions that satisfy first-order Bogomolny equations. Q-lump scattering has previously been studied only in the charge two sector, by approximating time evolution by motion in the moduli space of stationary solutions. In this paper, higher charge scattering is studied via motion on families o
Fernando Richter Vidal, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro
Blockchain recently became very popular due to its use in cryptocurrencies and potential application in various domains (e.g., retail, healthcare, insurance). The smart contract is a key part of blockchain systems and specifies an agreement between transaction participants. Nowadays, smart contracts are being deployed carrying residual faults, including seve
Tomáš Ondro, Rudolf Gális
A new determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium over $3.9 \leq z \leq 4.3$ is presented. We applied the curvature method on a sample of 10 high resolution quasar spectra from the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph on the VLT/ESO. We measured the temperature at mean density by determining the temperature at the characteristic overd
Gurmeet Singh, Vikas Varshney, Veera Sundararaghavan
Vitrimers offer a promising sustainable alternative to conventional epoxies due to their recyclability. Vitrimers are covalent adaptive networks where some bonds can break and reform above the vitrimer transition temperature. While this can lead to desirable behavior such as malleability, this also leads to undesirable rheological behavior such as low-temper
Time-frequency co-movements between commodities and economic policy uncertainty across different crises
q-fin.STM. Belén Arouxet, Aurelio F. Bariviera, Verónica Pastor, Victoria Vampa
Commodity futures constitute an attractive asset class for portfolio managers. Propelled by their low correlation with other assets, commodities begin gaining popularity among investors, as they allow to capture diversification benefits. After more than two decades of active investing experience, this paper examines the time and frequency of spillovers betwe
Echo of Neighbors: Privacy Amplification for Personalized Private Federated Learning with Shuffle Model
cs.CRYixuan Liu, Suyun Zhao, Li Xiong, Yuhan Liu
Federated Learning, as a popular paradigm for collaborative training, is vulnerable against privacy attacks. Different privacy levels regarding users' attitudes need to be satisfied locally, while a strict privacy guarantee for the global model is also required centrally. Personalized Local Differential Privacy (PLDP) is suitable for preserving users' varyin
A Comparison of Cursed Sequential Equilibrium and Sequential Cursed Equilibrium: Different Concepts of Cursedness in Dynamic Games
econ.THMeng-Jhang Fong, Po-Hsuan Lin, Thomas R. Palfrey
Cursed Equilibrium of Eyster and Rabin (2005) has been a leading theory for explaining winner's-curse-type behavior in static Bayesian games, but it faces conceptual limitations when applied to dynamic games. Two recent extensions, Cursed Sequential Equilibrium (CSE) by Fong, Lin and Palfrey (2025) and Sequential Cursed Equilibrium (SCE) by Cohen and Li (202
State estimation of a carbon capture process through POD model reduction and neural network approximation
eess.SYSiyu Liu, Xunyuan Yin, Jinfeng Liu
This paper presents an efficient approach for state estimation of post-combustion CO2 capture plants (PCCPs) by using reduced-order neural network models. The method involves extracting lower-dimensional feature vectors from high-dimensional operational data of the PCCP and constructing a reduced-order process model using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD
End-to-End O-RAN Security Architecture, Threat Surface, Coverage, and the Case of the Open Fronthaul
cs.CRAly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
O-RAN establishes an advanced radio access network (RAN) architecture that supports inter-operable, multi-vendor, and artificial intelligence (AI) controlled wireless access networks. The unique components, interfaces, and technologies of O-RAN differentiate it from the 3GPP RAN. Because O-RAN supports 3GPP protocols, currently 4G and 5G, while offering addi
Taner Arsan, Sehnaz Sismanoglu Simsek, Onder Pekcan
In this study, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's works are chosen as examples of Turkish literature. By counting the number of letters and words in his texts, we find it possible to study his works statistically. It has been known that there is a geometrical order in text structures. Here the method based on the basic assumption of fractal geometry is introduced
Venkat Srinivasan, Darshan Gandhi, Urmish Thakker, Raghu Prabhakar
Large foundation language models have shown their versatility in being able to be adapted to perform a wide variety of downstream tasks, such as text generation, sentiment analysis, semantic search etc. However, training such large foundational models is a non-trivial exercise that requires a significant amount of compute power and expertise from machine lea
Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Qian Wang, Veruska Muccione, Jingwei Ni
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in recent years, achieving remarkable results in question-answering tasks (QA). However, they still face two major challenges: hallucination and outdated information after the training phase. These challenges take center stage in critical domains like climate change, where obtaining accurate and up-
Late Breaking Results: Scalable and Efficient Hyperdimensional Computing for Network Intrusion Detection
cs.CRJunyao Wang, Hanning Chen, Mariam Issa, Sitao Huang
Cybersecurity has emerged as a critical challenge for the industry. With the large complexity of the security landscape, sophisticated and costly deep learning models often fail to provide timely detection of cyber threats on edge devices. Brain-inspired hyperdimensional computing (HDC) has been introduced as a promising solution to address this issue. Howev
Control invariant set enhanced reinforcement learning for process control: improved sampling efficiency and guaranteed stability
eess.SYSong Bo, Xunyuan Yin, Jinfeng Liu
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area of significant research interest, and safe RL in particular is attracting attention due to its ability to handle safety-driven constraints that are crucial for real-world applications of RL algorithms. This work proposes a novel approach to RL training, called control invariant set (CIS) enhanced RL, which leverages the
Nick Galatos, Xiao Zhuang
We characterize all residuated lattices that have height equal to $3$ and show that the variety they generate has continuum-many subvarieties. More generally, we study unilinear residuated lattices: their lattice is a union of disjoint incomparable chains, with bounds added. We we give two general constructions of unilinear residuated lattices, provide an ax
Feasibility study and thermoeconomic analysis of cooling and heating systems using soil for a residential and greenhouse building
physics.flu-dynMorteza Bodaghi, Kazem Esmailpour, Nima Refahati
In the past decade, the use of renewable energy for heating and residential and greenhouse cooling structures has gained much interest due to the energy crisis, population growth, and the quantity of demand. This paper investigates heat transport and thermodynamic equations for a residential and greenhouse structure to simulate and examine the performance of
Bangguo Yu, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ming Cao
This work focuses on the problem of visual target navigation, which is very important for autonomous robots as it is closely related to high-level tasks. To find a special object in unknown environments, classical and learning-based approaches are fundamental components of navigation that have been investigated thoroughly in the past. However, due to the dif
Improving Items and Contexts Understanding with Descriptive Graph for Conversational Recommendation
cs.IRHuy Dao, Dung D. Le, Cuong Chu
State-of-the-art methods on conversational recommender systems (CRS) leverage external knowledge to enhance both items' and contextual words' representations to achieve high quality recommendations and responses generation. However, the representations of the items and words are usually modeled in two separated semantic spaces, which leads to misalignment is
Adam Rettig, Joonho Lee, Martin Head-Gordon
Hybrid density functional theory (DFT) remains intractable for large periodic systems due to the demanding computational cost of exact exchange. We apply the tensor hypercontraction (THC) (or interpolative separable density fitting) approximation to periodic hybrid DFT calculations with Gaussian-type orbitals. This is done to lower the computational scaling
Alexander N. Craddock, Yang Wang, Felipe Giraldo, Rourke Sekelsky
The generation of entangled photon pairs which are compatible with quantum devices and standard telecommunication channels are critical for the development of long range fiber quantum networks. Aside from wavelength, bandwidth matching and high fidelity of produced pairs are necessary for high interfacing efficiency. High-rate, robust entanglement sources th
Junyao Wang, Sitao Huang, Mohsen Imani
Brain-inspired hyperdimensional computing (HDC) has been recently considered a promising learning approach for resource-constrained devices. However, existing approaches use static encoders that are never updated during the learning process. Consequently, it requires a very high dimensionality to achieve adequate accuracy, severely lowering the encoding and
Machine learning for structure-property relationships: Scalability and limitations
cond-mat.stat-mechZhongzheng Tian, Sheng Zhang, Gia-Wei Chern
We present a scalable machine learning (ML) framework for predicting intensive properties and particularly classifying phases of many-body systems. Scalability and transferability are central to the unprecedented computational efficiency of ML methods. In general, linear-scaling computation can be achieved through the divide and conquer approach, and the loc
Bangguo Yu, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ming Cao
Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and layouts. Prior state-of-the-art approaches to this task rely on learning the priors during the training and typically require
Ionut Chifan, Michael Davis, Daniel Drimbe
In \cite{CDD22} we investigated the structure of $\ast$-isomorphisms between von Neumann algebras $L(\Gamma)$ associated with graph product groups $\Gamma$ of flower-shaped graphs and property (T) wreath-like product vertex groups as in \cite{CIOS21}. In this follow-up we continue the structural study of these algebras by establishing that these graph produc
Maher A. Dayeh, Eric J. Zirnstein, Pawel Swaczyna, David J. McComas
A Ribbon of enhanced energetic neutral atom (ENA) emissions was discovered by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009, redefining our understanding of the heliosphere boundaries and the physical processes occurring at the interstellar interface. The Ribbon signal is intertwined with that of a globally distributed flux (GDF) that spans the entire sk
GraphGANFed: A Federated Generative Framework for Graph-Structured Molecules Towards Efficient Drug Discovery
cs.LGDaniel Manu, Jingjing Yao, Wuji Liu, Xiang Sun
Recent advances in deep learning have accelerated its use in various applications, such as cellular image analysis and molecular discovery. In molecular discovery, a generative adversarial network (GAN), which comprises a discriminator to distinguish generated molecules from existing molecules and a generator to generate new molecules, is one of the premier
Amelie Royer, Ilia Karmanov, Andrii Skliar, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi
Mixture of Experts (MoE) are rising in popularity as a means to train extremely large-scale models, yet allowing for a reasonable computational cost at inference time. Recent state-of-the-art approaches usually assume a large number of experts, and require training all experts jointly, which often lead to training instabilities such as the router collapsing
Haonan Wang, Li Yang
Topological mosaic pattern (TMP) can be formed in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices, a set of periodic and spatially separated domains with distinct topologies give rise to periodic edge states on the domain walls. In this study, we demonstrate that these periodic edge states play a crucial role in determining global topological properties. By devel
Di Wu, Rehmat Ullah, Philip Rodgers, Peter Kilpatrick
Efficiently running federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained devices is challenging since they are required to train computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNN) independently. DNN partitioning-based FL (DPFL) has been proposed as one mechanism to accelerate training where the layers of a DNN (or computation) are offloaded from the device to t
Srikanth Sathyanarayana, Matteo Bernardini, Davide Modesti, Sergio Pirozzoli
Exascale High Performance Computing (HPC) represents a tremendous opportunity to push the boundaries of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), but despite the consolidated trend towards the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), programmability is still an issue. STREAmS-2 (Bernardini et al. Comput. Phys. Commun. 285 (2023) 108644) is a compressible solver fo
Uzma Hasan, Md Osman Gani
Learning causal relationships solely from observational data often fails to reveal the underlying causal mechanisms due to the vast search space of possible causal graphs, which can grow exponentially, especially for greedy algorithms using score-based approaches. Leveraging prior causal information, such as the presence or absence of causal edges, can help
Towards More Robust and Accurate Sequential Recommendation with Cascade-guided Adversarial Training
cs.IRJuntao Tan, Shelby Heinecke, Zhiwei Liu, Yongjun Chen
Sequential recommendation models, models that learn from chronological user-item interactions, outperform traditional recommendation models in many settings. Despite the success of sequential recommendation models, their robustness has recently come into question. Two properties unique to the nature of sequential recommendation models may impair their robust
Model Selection for independent not identically distributed observations based on R\'enyi's pseudodistances
math.STAngel Felipe, Maria Jaenada, Pedro Miranda, Leandro Pardo
Model selection criteria are rules used to select the best statistical model among a set of candidate models, striking a trade-off between goodness of fit and model complexity. Most popular model selection criteria measure the goodness of fit trough the model log-likelihood function, yielding to non-robust criteria. This paper presents a new family of robust
P. Kosec, E. Kara, A. C. Fabian, F. Fürst
The accretion of matter onto black holes and neutron stars often leads to the launching of outflows that can greatly affect the environments surrounding the compact object. In supermassive black holes, these outflows can even be powerful enough to dictate the evolution of the entire host galaxy, and yet, to date, we do not understand how these so-called accr
Kun Qian, Ryan Shea, Yu Li, Luke Kutszik Fryer
Along with the development of systems for natural language understanding and generation, dialog systems have been widely adopted for language learning and practicing. Many current educational dialog systems perform chitchat, where the generated content and vocabulary are not constrained. However, for learners in a school setting, practice through dialog is m
Aditi Mitra, Hsiu-Chung Yeh, Fei Yan, Achim Rosch
Results are presented for a Floquet Ising chain with duality twisted boundary conditions, taking into account the role of weak integrability breaking in the form of four-fermion interactions. In the integrable case, a single isolated Majorana zero mode exists which is a symmetry in the sense that it commutes both with the Floquet unitary and the $Z_2$ symmet
Sergey Buterin, Sergey Vasilev
We suggest a new statement of the inverse spectral problem for Sturm--Liouville-type operators with constant delay. This inverse problem consists in recovering the coefficient (often referred to as potential) of the delayed term in the corresponding equation from the spectra of two boundary value problems with one common boundary condition. However, all stud
A Topology by Geometrization for Sub-Iterated Immediate Snapshot Message Adversaries and Applications to Set-Agreement
cs.DCYannis Coutouly, Emmanuel Godard
The Iterated Immediate Snapshot model (IIS) is a central model in the message adversary setting. We consider general message adversaries whose executions are arbitrary subsets of the executions of the IIS message adversary. We present a new topological approach for such general adversaries, based upon geometric simplicial complexes. We are able to define a t
Junrong Lin, Mahmudul Hasan, Pinar Acar, Jose Blanchet
Computational experiments are exploited in finding a well-designed processing path to optimize material structures for desired properties. This requires understanding the interplay between the processing-(micro)structure-property linkages using a multi-scale approach that connects the macro-scale (process parameters) to meso (homogenized properties) and micr
Joshua Rosser, Jacob Arkin, Siddharth Patki, Thomas M. Howard
In situations such as habitat construction, station inspection, or cooperative exploration, incorrect assumptions about the environment or task across the team could lead to mission failure. Thus it is important to resolve any ambiguity about the mission between teammates before embarking on a commanded task. The safeguards guaranteed by formal methods can b
Claudia Huaylla, Marcelo N Kuperman, Lucas A. Garibaldi
Networks are a convenient way to represent many interactions among different entities as they provide an efficient and clear methodology to evaluate and organize relevant data. While there are many features for characterizing networks there is a quantity that seems rather elusive: Complexity. The quantification of the complexity of networks is nowadays a fun
Lasse Peters, Andrea Bajcsy, Chih-Yuan Chiu, David Fridovich-Keil
Contingency planning, wherein an agent generates a set of possible plans conditioned on the outcome of an uncertain event, is an increasingly popular way for robots to act under uncertainty. In this work we take a game-theoretic perspective on contingency planning, tailored to multi-agent scenarios in which a robot's actions impact the decisions of other age
Mahdi S. Hosseini, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Danial Hasan
Computational Pathology CPath is an interdisciplinary science that augments developments of computational approaches to analyze and model medical histopathology images. The main objective for CPath is to develop infrastructure and workflows of digital diagnostics as an assistive CAD system for clinical pathology, facilitating transformational changes in the
Noah Martin, Fahad Dogar
Cloud providers are highly incentivized to reduce latency. One way they do this is by locating datacenters as close to users as possible. These "cloud edge" datacenters are placed in metropolitan areas and enable edge computing for residents of these cities. Therefore, which cities are selected to host edge datacenters determines who has the fastest access t
Francesca Rizzo
The period morphism of polarized hyper-K\"ahler manifolds of K3$^{[m]}$-type gives an embedding of each connected component of the moduli space of polarized hyper-K\"ahler manifolds of K3$^{[m]}$-type into their period space, which is the quotient of a Hermitian symmetric domain by an arithmetic group. Following work of Stellari and Gritsenko-Hulek-Sankaran,
Spatio-temporal fluctuations of interscale and interspace energy transfer dynamics in homogeneous turbulence
physics.flu-dynH. S. Larssen, J. C. Vassilicos
We study fluctuations of all co-existing energy exchange/transfer/transport processes in stationary periodic turbulence including those which average to zero and are not present in average cascade theories. We use a Helmholtz decomposition of accelerations which leads to a decomposition of all terms in the K\'arm\'an-Howarth-Monin-Hill (KHMH) equation (scale
Zhibo Yang, Robert L. Kosut, K. Birgitta Whaley
We develop a Hamiltonian switching ansatz for bipartite control that is inspired by the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), to mitigate environmental noise on qubits. We illustrate the approach with application to the protection of quantum gates performed on i) a central spin qubit coupling to bath spins through isotropic Heisenberg interactio
Lingyuan Ye
In this paper we provide a semantic and syntactic analysis of parametrised natural numbers object in coherent categories, or pr-coherent categories. Semantically, we show the definable functions in the initial pr-coherent category are exactly given by primitive recursive functions. We also show that any pr-coherent category supports the construction of bound
Rüdiger Kürsten, Jakob Mihatsch, Thomas Ihle
We consider two species of self-propelled point particles: A-particles and B-particles. The orientations between nearby particles are subject to pair interactions of different strength for A-A-, A-B-(=B-A-) and B-B-interactions, respectively. Even if all interactions involved are repelling, that is, if they locally favor anti-alignment between each pair of p
Failure Probability Estimation and Detection of Failure Surfaces via Adaptive Sequential Decomposition of the Design Domain
cs.CEAleksei Gerasimov, Miroslav Vořechovský
We propose an algorithm for an optimal adaptive selection of points from the design domain of input random variables that are needed for an accurate estimation of failure probability and the determination of the boundary between safe and failure domains. The method is particularly useful when each evaluation of the performance function g(x) is very expensive
Jakub Řada, Michal Zamboj
The paper is focused on the four-dimensional visualization of hypersurfaces represented by implicit equations without their parametrization. We describe a general method to find shadow boundaries in an arbitrary dimension and apply it in a three- and four-dimensional space. Furthermore, we design a system of polynomial equations to construct occluding contou
Pham Tran Anh Quang, Jérémie Leguay, Xu Gong, Xu Huiying
In modern SD-WAN networks, a global controller is able to steer traffic on different paths based on application requirements and global intents. However, existing solutions cannot dynamically tune the way bandwidth is shared between flows inside each overlay link, in particular when the available capacity is uncertain due to cross traffic. In this context, w
Jing Yang, Hanyuan Xiao, Wenbin Teng, Yunxuan Cai
Physically-based rendering (PBR) is key for immersive rendering effects used widely in the industry to showcase detailed realistic scenes from computer graphics assets. A well-known caveat is that producing the same is computationally heavy and relies on complex capture devices. Inspired by the success in quality and efficiency of recent volumetric neural re
Kevin Chang, Nathan Dahlin, Rahul Jain, Pierluigi Nuzzo
Over the past decade, neural network (NN)-based controllers have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in a variety of decision-making tasks. However, their black-box nature and the risk of unexpected behaviors pose a challenge to their deployment in real-world systems requiring strong guarantees of correctness and safety. We address these limitations by investig
Squeezed superradiance enables robust entanglement-enhanced metrology even with highly imperfect readout
quant-phMartin Koppenhöfer, Peter Groszkowski, A. A. Clerk
Quantum metrology protocols using entangled states of large spin ensembles attempt to achieve measurement sensitivities surpassing the standard quantum limit (SQL), but in many cases they are severely limited by even small amounts of technical noise associated with imperfect sensor readout. Amplification strategies based on time-reversed coherent spin-squeez
Mohammed Adil Saleem, Faraz Zaidi, Celine Rozenblat
One perspective to view the economic development of cities is through the presence of multinational firms; how subsidiaries of various organizations are set up throughout the globe and how cities are connected to each other through these networks of multinational firms. Analysis of these networks can reveal interesting economical and spatial trends, as well
Xue-Jing Luo, Shuo Wang, Zongwei Wu, Christos Sakaridis
The burgeoning field of camouflaged object detection (COD) seeks to identify objects that blend into their surroundings. Despite the impressive performance of recent models, we have identified a limitation in their robustness, where existing methods may misclassify salient objects as camouflaged ones, despite these two characteristics being contradictory. Th
Ulfeta A. Marovac, Aldina R. Avdić, Nikola Lj. Milošević
The Serbian language is a Slavic language spoken by over 12 million speakers and well understood by over 15 million people. In the area of natural language processing, it can be considered a low-resourced language. Also, Serbian is considered a high-inflectional language. The combination of many word inflections and low availability of language resources mak
Maximilian Schütte, Annika Eichler, Herbert Werner
The problem of robust controller synthesis for plants affected by structured uncertainty, captured by integral quadratic constraints, is discussed. The solution is optimized towards a worst-case white noise rejection specification, which is a generalization of the standard $\mathcal{H}_2$-norm to the robust setting including possibly non-LTI uncertainty. Arb
Spectral analysis of an open $q$-difference Toda chain with two-sided boundary interactions on the finite integer lattice
math-phJan Felipe van Diejen
A quantum $n$-particle model consisting of an open $q$-difference Toda chain with two-sided boundary interactions is placed on a finite integer lattice. The spectrum and eigenbasis are computed by establishing the equivalence with a previously studied $q$-boson model from which the quantum integrability is inherited. Specifically, the $q$-boson-Toda correspo
Matteo Acclavio, Davide Catta, Federico Olimpieri
In this paper we investigate the Curry-Howard correspondence for constructive modal logic in light of the gap between the proof equivalences enforced by the lambda calculi from the literature and by the recently defined winning strategies for this logic. We define a new lambda-calculus for a minimal constructive modal logic by enriching the calculus from the
Patrick Ebel, Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, Michael Schmitt, Jan Dirk Wegner
Clouds and haze often occlude optical satellite images, hindering continuous, dense monitoring of the Earth's surface. Although modern deep learning methods can implicitly learn to ignore such occlusions, explicit cloud removal as pre-processing enables manual interpretation and allows training models when only few annotations are available. Cloud removal is
Chun Kit Wong, Manxi Lin, Alberto Raheli, Zahra Bashir
Examination of the umbilical artery with Doppler ultrasonography is performed to investigate blood supply to the fetus through the umbilical cord, which is vital for the monitoring of fetal health. Such examination involves several steps that must be performed correctly: identifying suitable sites on the umbilical artery for the measurement, acquiring the bl
Louis Commère, Jean Rouat
Visual to auditory sensory substitution devices convert visual information into sound and can provide valuable assistance for blind people. Recent iterations of these devices rely on depth sensors. Rules for converting depth into sound (i.e. the sonifications) are often designed arbitrarily, with no strong evidence for choosing one over another. The purpose
VpROM: A novel Variational AutoEncoder-boosted Reduced Order Model for the treatment of parametric dependencies in nonlinear systems
math.NAThomas Simpson, Konstantinos Vlachas, Anthony Garland, Nikolaos Dervilis
Reduced Order Models (ROMs) are of considerable importance in many areas of engineering in which computational time presents difficulties. Established approaches employ projection-based reduction such as Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, however, such methods can become inefficient or fail in the case of parameteric or strongly nonlinear models. Such limitati
Juan D García-Muñoz, David J Fernández C, F Vergara-Méndez
The multiphoton algebras for one-dimensional Hamiltonians with infinite discrete spectrum, and for their associated kth-order SUSY partners are studied. In both cases, such an algebra is generated by the multiphoton annihilation and creation operators, as well as by Hamiltonians which are functions of an appropriate number operator. The algebras obtained tur