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FID misaligns with human judgment due to reliance on ImageNet classes.

problem FID metric's reliance on ImageNet classes causes discrepancies with human evaluation.
method Investigated and visualized the feature space of FID and its relation to ImageNet classes.
result Aligning histograms of Top-NN ImageNet classifications can reduce FID without improving quality.

In the cost per click (CPC) pricing model, an advertiser pays an ad network only when a user clicks on an ad; in turn, the ad network gives a share of that revenue to the publisher where the ad was impressed. Still, advertisers may be unsatisfied with ad networks charging them for "valueless" clicks, or so-called accid…

2018-04-03abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note we discuss the behavior of the Gromov boundaries and limit sets for the surface subgroups of the mapping class group with accidental parabolics constructed by the author and A. Reid in earlier work. Specifically, we show that generically there are no Cannon--Thurston maps from the Gromov boundary to Thurst…

2007-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New model helps identify suspect footwear from crime scene prints.

problem Identifying a suspect's footwear from crime scene prints among thousands of similar shoes.
method Developed a hierarchical Bayesian model with spatially varying coefficients.
result Improved accuracy and reliability in forensic shoe print analysis.

Study reveals hidden accidental parabolics in complex hyperbolic geometry.

problem Understanding hidden parabolics in complex hyperbolic geometry.
method New technique to show ideal boundary of Ford domain is an infinite-genus handlebody.
result 3-manifold at infinity of Δ4,,;Δ_{4,\infty,\infty;\infty} is the complement of chain link 8148^4_1.

The study bounds the number of quasi-Fuchsian surface subgroups in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

problem Counting quasi-Fuchsian surface subgroups in finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Analyzes the number of quasi-Fuchsian surface subgroups of genus at most g in terms of a function of g.
result The number of quasi-Fuchsian surface subgroups is bounded by a function of the form (cg)^{2g}.

Let (ρ_λ)_{λ\in Λ} be a holomorphic family of representations of a finitely generated group G into PSL(2,C), parameterized by a complex manifold Λ. We define a notion of bifurcation current in this context, that is, a positive closed current on Λdescribing the bifurcations of this family of representations in a quantit…

2010-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach models individual vitality for better mortality predictions.

problem Limited ability of existing mortality models to capture individual complexity.
method Developed a four-component framework for individual vitality dynamics.
result Demonstrates improved analytical and practical outcomes in life insurance and lifetime decision-making.

In earlier work, we had shown that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for Kleinian punctured surface groups without accidental parabolics. In this note we prove that pre-images of points are precisely end-points of leaves of the ending lamination whenever the Cannon-Thurston map is not one-to-one. This extends earlier work don…

2010-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of learning from sparse and underspecified rewards, where an agent receives a complex input, such as a natural language instruction, and needs to generate a complex response, such as an action sequence, while only receiving binary success-failure feedback. Such success-failure rewards are often …

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of distortion minimal morphing of nn-dimensional compact connected oriented smooth manifolds without boundary embedded in Rn+1\R^{n+1}. Distortion involves bending and stretching. In this paper, minimal distortion (with respect to stretching) is defined as the infinitesimal relative change in vol…

2006-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper shows how to calculate risk measures for sums of two counter-monotonic risks.

problem Calculating risk measures for sums of two counter-monotonic risks.
method Using a fixed distortion function and expressing the risk measure of a sum as the sum of two related measures of the marginals.
result The risk measure of a sum of two counter-monotonic risks can be expressed as the sum of two related distortion risk measures of the marginals.

Most distortion correction methods focus on simple forms of distortion, such as radial or linear distortions. These works undistort images either based on measurements in the presence of a calibration grid, or use multiple views to find point correspondences and predict distortion parameters. When possible distortions …

2019-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The distortion of a curve measures the maximum arc/chord length ratio. Gromov showed any closed curve has distortion at least pi/2 and asked about the distortion of knots. Here, we prove that any nontrivial tame knot has distortion at least 5pi/3; examples show that distortion under 7.16 suffices to build a trefoil kno…

2004-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on risk measures using distorted Choquet integrals with random distortions.

problem Developing risk measures under random distortions of capacities.
method Introducing and analyzing randomly distorted Choquet integrals with respect to a distorted capacity, establishing properties and providing representations.
result Representation of comonotonic additive conditional risk measures using G-randomly distorted Choquet integrals.

In this study we consider relations between companies in Poland taking into account common branches they belong to. It is clear that companies belonging to the same branch compete for similar customers, so the market induces correlations between them. On the other hand two branches can be related by companies acting in…

2006-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that an entire branched cover of finite distortion cannot have a compact branch set if its distortion satisfies a certain asymptotic growth condition. We furthermore show that this bound is strict by constructing an entire, continuous, open and discrete mapping of finite distortion which is piecewise smooth, ha…

2017-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The study shows exponential distortion in virtually special groups containing free subgroups.

problem Understanding distortion in virtually special groups containing free subgroups.
method Constructing examples of virtually special groups with finite rank free subgroups.
result Distortion functions grow like exp^k(x^m) and can be superexponential.

Estimates rate-distortion function for large datasets using neural networks.

problem Designing lossy data compression schemes and comparing them with theoretical limits.
method Re-formulate rate-distortion objective and solve using neural networks.
result NERD accurately estimates the rate-distortion function for real-world datasets.

Paper proposes a new black-box attack approach to minimize visual distortion.

problem Constructing adversarial examples that minimize visual distortion in a black-box threat model.
method Learning the noise distribution of adversarial examples to approximate the gradient of a non-differentiable loss function.
result The proposed attack results in much lower visual distortion compared to state-of-the-art black-box attacks.

Study dynamic risk measures and performance indices using distortion functions.

problem Investigate time consistency of dynamic risk measures and performance indices generated by distortion functions.
method Analyze dynamic coherent risk measures (DCRMs) and dynamic weighted value at risk measures, proving their equivalence. Establish properties of families of DCRMs generated by distortion functions and define corresponding dynamic coherent acceptability indices (DCAIs). Examine time consistency of DCRMs and DCAIs.
result DCRM generated by distortion functions are sub-martingale time consistent but not super-martingale time consistent and not weakly acceptance time consistent.

In this paper, we compute the subgroup distortion of all finitely generated subgroups of all finitely generated 3-manifold groups, and the subgroup distortion in this case can only be linear, quadratic, exponential and double exponential. It turns out that the subgroup distortion of a subgroup of a 3-manifold group is …

2019-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem behind this paper is the proper measurement of the degree of quality/acceptability/distance to arbitrage of trades. We are narrowing the class of coherent acceptability indices introduced by Cherny and Madan (2007) by imposing an additional mathematical property. For this, we introduce the notion of a conca…

2011-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly accepted that "low distortion" is no…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the statistical meaning of the minimization of distortion measure and the relation between the equilibrium points of the SOM algorithm and the minima of distortion measure. If we assume that the observations and the map lie in an compact Euclidean space, we prove the strong consistency of the map which almost …

2008-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel neural network embedding approach to model power transmission grids, in which high voltage lines are disconnected and reconnected with one-another from time to time, either accidentally or willfully. We call our architeture LEAP net, for Latent Encoding of Atypical Perturbation. Our method implements…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

It is known that the surface of a cone over the unit disc with large height has smaller distortion than the standard embedding of the 2-sphere in R3\mathbb R^3. In this note we show that distortion minimisers exist among convex embedded 2-spheres and have uniformly bounded eccentricity. Moreover, we prove that π/2π/2 is…

2019-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new notion of conditional nonlinear expectation under probability distortion. Such a distorted nonlinear expectation is not sub-additive in general, so it is beyond the scope of Peng's framework of nonlinear expectations. A more fundamental problem when extending the distorted expectation to a dynamic se…

2018-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We discuss equivalent axiomatic characterizations of distortion risk measures, and give a novel and concise proof of the characterization of elicitable distortion risk measures. Elicitability has recently been discussed as a desirable criterion for risk measures, motivated by statistical considerations of forecasting. …

2014-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗