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48 results for International energy sanction

Paper uses neural networks to analyze oil price impact on Iranian stock and industry indices.

problem Impact of oil price volatility on Tehran stock and industry indices.
method Feed-forward neural networks analysis of two periods: sanctions and post-sanctions.
result Neural networks predict stock and industry indices well, showing significant oil price volatility impact.

Investment risk on a regulated market is influenced by gold prices and oil trading.

problem Systematic risk of loss in investment portfolios under sanctions.
method Statistical analysis of tail dependence between oil, gold, and Tehran Stock Exchange Index.
result Tail dependence should be considered for systematic risk, and active bartering of oil can prevent market collapse.

Solves non-Abelian Rainich problem for SU(2) gauge fields.

problem Existence of local SU(2) Yang-Mills fields with prescribed stress-energy tensor.
method Canonically identifying tensors with Hermitian forms and defining internal square roots of stress-energy tensors.
result Existence of local SU(2) Yang-Mills field is equivalent to a single differential condition on internal square roots of stress-energy tensor.

Paper extends port-Hamiltonian model to include internal energy for compressible and incompressible flow.

problem Modeling fluid flow dynamics with internal energy and constraints.
method Derived port-Hamiltonian model using interconnection maps and added internal energy and constraint forces.
result Model accurately represents both compressible and incompressible fluid flow.

This study analyzes global oil trade networks to assess their efficiency and robustness.

problem Dynamic monitoring and warning of international trade risks in global oil trade.
method Constructing unweighted and weighted global oil trade networks (OTNs) using UN Comtrade data from 1988 to 2017, and applying complex network theories.
result Efficiency of oil flows increases with complexity of OTNs, and weighted efficiency indicators highlight major events.

Negative screening is one method to avoid interactions with inappropriate entities. For example, financial institutions keep investment exclusion lists of inappropriate firms that have environmental, social, and government (ESG) problems. They create their investment exclusion lists by gathering information from variou…

2018-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies scaling limits of Wasserstein metrics on Gaussian mixture models.

problem Understanding the scaling limits of Wasserstein metrics on Gaussian mixture models.
method Scaling limit approach on Gaussian mixture models, including inhomogeneous and extended models.
result Existence of the limit of the Wasserstein metric after renormalization for GMMs with zero variance.

We introduce and begin the study of new knot energies defined on knot diagrams. Physically, they model the internal energy of thin metallic solid tori squeezed between two parallel planes. Thus the knots considered can perform the second and third Reidemeister moves, but not the first one. The energy functionals consid…

2011-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on existence of ground states on curved spaces with conditions on potential growth.

problem Existence of ground states for aggregation-diffusion models on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds.
method Investigation of a free energy functional on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, considering entropy and interaction energies.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of ground states are found, depending on the growth of the attractive potential.

ELS framework improves safety alignment by dynamically steering LLMs towards helpful responses.

problem Over-Refusal in Aligned Large Language Models
method Fine-tuning free framework using an Energy-Based Model (EBM) to dynamically steer LLMs during inference.
result Extensive experiments show a significant reduction in false refusals (from 57.3% to 82.6%) while maintaining safety performance.

The paper develops a method to identify LLM-generated text without training.

problem Identifying LLM-generated text among human-generated content.
method Modeling LLM text as a sequential process and designing zero-shot statistical tests.
result The method can distinguish between text from known LLMs and non-sanctioned models with low false positive rates.

Theory models nonlinear soft tissue elasticity and remodeling using extended Finsler geometry.

problem Understanding and predicting the behavior of nonlinear soft tissues, especially in biologic contexts.
method Formulated a continuum mechanical theory incorporating extended Finsler geometry to describe the complex behaviors of fibrous soft solids.
result The model quantifies residual strains from growth, remodeling, and degradation, and predicts equilibrium configurations.

New system assigns vehicles to routes for cost and energy efficiency.

problem Optimizing vehicle route assignment for cost and energy efficiency.
method Machine learning-based neural network algorithm to estimate energy consumption and provide real-time recommendations.
result Demonstrated efficient vehicle assignment for medium and heavy duty trucks.

We present an analysis of oil prices in US$ and in other major currencies that diagnoses unsustainable faster-than-exponential behavior. This supports the hypothesis that the recent oil price run-up has been amplified by speculative behavior of the type found during a bubble-like expansion. We also attempt to unravel t…

2008-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph energy helps detect communities in networks better than traditional methods.

problem Detecting communities in sparse networks where traditional methods fail.
method Using graph energy based on the full spectrum of adjacency matrices.
result The difference in graph energy between a planted partition model and an Erdős--Rényi network has a distinct transition at the detectability threshold.

The paper deals with the problem of identifying the internal dependencies and similarities among a large number of random processes. Linear models are considered to describe the relations among the time series and the energy associated to the corresponding modeling error is the criterion adopted to quantify their simil…

2008-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Modified Gibbs-Helmholtz equation geometric models for thermodynamics.

problem Geometric interpretation of Gibbs-Helmholtz equation in thermodynamics.
method Developed new holonomic and non-holonomic geometric models associated to Gibbs-Helmholtz equation.
result Characterized equivalence between Gibbs-Helmholtz entropy and other entropies.

CNN detects phase transitions in Potts models without prior knowledge.

problem Detecting phase transitions in qq-state Potts models using deep learning.
method Trained a deep CNN on Ising model spin configurations and temperatures, then tested on Potts model images.
result Deep CNN accurately detects phase transitions in Potts models, including high- and low-temperature regions.

Moment Pooling reduces latent space dimensions in machine learning models.

problem High-dimensional latent spaces in machine learning models are hard to interpret.
method Moment Pooling extends Deep Sets networks to arbitrary multivariate moments.
result Latent dimensions as small as 1 can achieve similar performance to higher dimensions.

The paper finds shape modes for vortices in a specific sigma model.

problem Existence of internal modes in CP1\mathbb{C}P^1 vortices.
method Developed a geometric formalism based on the Bogomol'nyi decomposition of the energy functional.
result Proved the existence of at least one shape mode for a general CP1\mathbb{C}P^1 vortex solution.

Internal Lagrangians derived from variational principles.

problem Reproducing the principle of stationary action in variational geometry.
method Introducing stationary points of internal Lagrangians, establishing connections with symmetries and conservation laws, and investigating relations between non-degenerate and internal Lagrangians.
result Noether's theorem reformulated in terms of internal Lagrangians.

Model predicts internal fraud in retail banking is cyclical and influenced by corruption.

problem Predicting and mitigating internal fraud losses in retail banking.
method Developed a dynamic model considering internal factors and macroeconomic indicators.
result Internal fraud losses are pro-cyclical and positively affected by corruption perceptions.

It is well-known that the precision of data, hyperparameters, and internal representations employed in learning systems directly impacts its energy, throughput, and latency. The precision requirements for the training algorithm are also important for systems that learn on-the-fly. Prior work has shown that the data and…

2016-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

FEPS models agents to learn and act in complex environments without deep neural networks.

problem Modeling complex adaptive systems and understanding self-organizing behavior.
method Introducing Free Energy Projective Simulation (FEPS) within the constraints of the free energy principle and active inference.
result FEPS agents resolve ambiguity and infer optimal policies in partially observable environments.

A key question for machine learning approaches in particle physics is how to best represent and learn from collider events. As an event is intrinsically a variable-length unordered set of particles, we build upon recent machine learning efforts to learn directly from sets of features or "point clouds". Adapting and spe…

2018-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural network architectures are at the core of powerful automatic speech recognition systems (ASR). However, while recent researches focus on novel model architectures, the acoustic input features remain almost unchanged. Traditional ASR systems rely on multidimensional acoustic features such as the Mel filter bank en…

2018-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops models to understand sensory coding and cortical topography.

problem Understanding how visual cortical areas' receptive fields and topographic maps relate to environmental statistical structure.
method Energy-based models applied to probability density estimation, constrained by biological constraints.
result The models qualitatively reproduce receptive field and map properties found in vivo.

While the fundamental object in Riemannian geometry is a metric, closed string theories call for us to put a two-form gauge field and a scalar dilaton on an equal footing with the metric. Here we propose a novel differential geometry which treats the three objects in a unified manner, manifests not only diffeomorphism …

2011-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This study assesses how economic shocks affect the efficiency and robustness of international pesticide trade networks.

problem Economic shocks impact the efficiency and robustness of international pesticide trade networks.
method Simulations were used to quantify efficiency and robustness under different economic shocks. Three strategies were tested: descending, random, and ascending node removal.
result The international pesticide trade networks became more efficient and robust except for clustering coefficient. Import-oriented economies were more vulnerable to shocks.