Testing statistical laws in complex systemsThe availability of large datasets requires an improved view on statistical laws in complex systems, such as Zipf's law of word frequencies, the Gutenberg-Richter law of earthquake magnitudes, or…Martin Gerlach, Eduardo G. Altmann·Apr 25, 2019SaveLearn
Change detection in SAR time-series based on the coefficient of variationThis paper discusses change detection in SAR time-series. Firstly, several statistical properties of the coefficient of variation highlight its pertinence for change detection. Then several criteria…Elise Colin Koeniguer, Jean-Marie Nicolas·Apr 25, 2019SaveLearn
On the methodologies for the assessment of the impact of parameters in acoustophoretic separation devicesIn this communication I reconcile the kinematic method illustrated by some authors~yang2018,vitali2018 in studying the impact of system and suspension parameters on acoustophoretic separations…Fabio Garofalo·Apr 20, 2019SaveLearn
The peculiar statistical mechanics of Optimal Learning MachinesOptimal Learning Machines (OLM) are systems that extract maximally informative representation of the environment they are in contact with, or of the data they are presented. It has recently been…Matteo Marsili·Apr 19, 2019SaveLearn
FPGA-accelerated machine learning inference as a service for particle physics computingNew heterogeneous computing paradigms on dedicated hardware with increased parallelization, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), offer exciting solutions with large potential gains. The…Javier Duarte, Philip Harris, Scott Hauck et al.·Apr 18, 2019SaveLearn
Predicting Spatio-Temporal Time Series Using Dimension Reduced Local StatesWe present a method for both cross estimation and iterated time series prediction of spatio temporal dynamics based on reconstructed local states, PCA dimension reduction, and local modelling using…Jonas Isensee, George Datseris, Ulrich Parlitz·Apr 12, 2019SaveLearn
KLTS: A rigorous method to compute the confidence intervals for the Three-Cornered Hat and for Groslambert CovarianceThe three-cornered hat / Groslambert Covariance methods are widely used to estimate the stability of each individual clock in a set of three, but no method gives reliable confidence intervals for…Éric Lantz, Claudio E. Calosso, Enrico Rubiola et al.·Apr 11, 2019SaveLearn
Using the singular value decomposition to extract 2D correlation functions from scattering patternsWe apply the truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) to extract the underlying 2D correlation functions from small-angle scattering patterns. We test the approach by transforming the simulated…Philipp Bender, Dominika Zákutná, Sabrina Disch et al.·Mar 26, 2019SaveLearn
USID and Pycroscopy -- Open frameworks for storing and analyzing spectroscopic and imaging dataMaterials science is undergoing profound changes due to advances in characterization instrumentation that have resulted in an explosion of data in terms of volume, velocity, variety and complexity.…Suhas Somnath, Chris R. Smith, Nouamane Laanait et al.·Mar 22, 2019SaveLearn
A tail-regression estimator for heavy-tailed distributions of known tail indices and its application to continuum quantum Monte Carlo dataStandard statistical analysis is unable to provide reliable confidence intervals on expectation values of probability distributions that do not satisfy the conditions of the central limit theorem. We…Pablo Lopez Rios, Gareth J. Conduit·Mar 18, 2019SaveLearn
Representing ill-known parts of a numerical model using a machine learning approachIn numerical modeling of the Earth System, many processes remain unknown or ill represented (let us quote sub-grid processes, the dependence to unknown latent variables or the non-inclusion of…Julien Brajard, Anastase Charantonis, Jérôme Sirven·Mar 18, 2019SaveLearn
Combined Neyman-Pearson Chi-square: An Improved Approximation to the Poisson-likelihood Chi-squareWe describe an approximation to the widely-used Poisson-likelihood chi-square using a linear combination of Neyman's and Pearson's chi-squares, namely "combined Neyman-Pearson chi-square"…Xiangpan Ji, Wenqiang Gu, Xin Qian et al.·Mar 17, 2019SaveLearn
readPTU: a Python Library to Analyse Time Tagged Time Resolved DatareadPTU is a python package designed to analyze time-correlated single-photon counting data. The use of the library promotes the storage of the complete time arrival information of the photons and…Guillem Ballesteros, Raphael Proux, Cristian Bonato et al.·Mar 17, 2019SaveLearn
Neutron lifetime splitting in beta-decayThe author considers a hypothesis of neutron lifetime splitting in beta-decay and shows that the beta-decay of neutrons could be described by the triad of lifetimes tauLeft, tauMean,…V. V. Vasiliev·Mar 16, 2019SaveLearn
Accurate reconstruction of EBSD datasets by a multimodal data approach using an evolutionary algorithmA new method has been developed for the correction of the distortions and/or enhanced phase differentiation in Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) data. Using a multi-modal data approach, the…Marie-Agathe Charpagne, Florian Strub, Tresa M. Pollock·Mar 7, 2019SaveLearn
Deep neural networks for classifying complex features in diffraction imagesIntense short-wavelength pulses from free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation sources enable diffractive imaging of individual nano-sized objects with a single x-ray laser shot. The enormous…Julian Zimmermann, Bruno Langbehn, Riccardo Cucini et al.·Mar 7, 2019SaveLearn
On the spectral properties of Feigenbaum graphsA Horizontal Visibility Graph (HVG) is a simple graph extracted from an ordered sequence of real values, and this mapping has been used to provide a combinatorial encryption of time series for the…Ryan Flanagan, Lucas Lacasa, Vincenzo Nicosia·Mar 2, 2019SaveLearn
Determination of the quark-gluon string parameters from the data on pp, pA and AA collisions at wide energy range using Bayesian Gaussian Process OptimizationBayesian Gaussian Process Optimization can be considered as a method of the determination of the model parameters, based on the experimental data. In the range of soft QCD physics, the processes of…Vladimir Kovalenko·Feb 28, 2019SaveLearn
How Analytic Choices Can Affect the Extraction of Electromagnetic Form Factors from Elastic Electron Scattering Cross Section DataScientists often try to incorporate prior knowledge into their regression algorithms, such as a particular analytic behavior or a known value at a kinematic endpoint. Unfortunately, there is often no…Scott K. Barcus, Douglas W. Higinbotham, Randall E. McClellan·Feb 21, 2019SaveLearn
Learning representations of irregular particle-detector geometry with distance-weighted graph networksWe explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph networks can…Shah Rukh Qasim, Jan Kieseler, Yutaro Iiyama et al.·Feb 21, 2019SaveLearn
An improved method for the estimation of the Gumbel distribution parametersUsual estimation methods for the parameters of extreme values distribution employ only a few values, wasting a lot of information. More precisely, in the case of the Gumbel distribution, only the…Rubén Gómez González, M. Isabel Parra, Francisco Javier Acero et al.·Feb 21, 2019SaveLearn
The maximum a posteriori probability rule for atom column detection from HAADF STEM imagesRecently, the maximum a posteriori (MAP) probability rule has been proposed as an objective and quantitative method to detect atom columns and even single atoms from high-resolution high-angle…J. Fatermans, S. Van Aert, A. J. den Dekker·Feb 15, 2019SaveLearn
Simulator-free Solution of High-Dimensional Stochastic Elliptic Partial Differential Equations using Deep Neural NetworksStochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) are ubiquitous in engineering and computational sciences. The stochasticity arises as a consequence of uncertainty in input parameters, constitutive…Sharmila Karumuri, Rohit Tripathy, Ilias Bilionis et al.·Feb 14, 2019SaveLearn
Implementation of GENFIT2 as an experiment independent track-fitting frameworkThe GENFIT toolkit, initially developed at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, has been extended and modified to be more general and user-friendly. The new GENFIT, called GENFIT2, provides track…Tadeas Bilka, Nils Braun, Thomas Hauth et al.·Feb 12, 2019SaveLearn
Latent Representations of Dynamical Systems: When Two is Better Than OneA popular approach for predicting the future of dynamical systems involves mapping them into a lower-dimensional "latent space" where prediction is easier. We show that the information-theoretically…Max Tegmark·Feb 9, 2019SaveLearn