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48 results for Local Refinement

Establishes refined singularity estimate for nonnegative n-superharmonic functions in locally conformally flat manifolds.

problem Analyzing volume growth and verifying Cohn-Vossen inequality in locally conformally flat manifolds.
method Refined singularity estimate and characterization of volume growth.
result Analytically characterizes volume growth and verifies Cohn-Vossen inequality.

Proposes a method to refine PDE-driven high-dimensional rare-event simulation.

problem Challenges in constructing accurate surrogates for rare-event simulation.
method Adaptive importance sampling framework that refines a locally constructed surrogate.
result Achieves accuracy comparable to true-model adaptive importance sampling with fewer high-fidelity evaluations.

Refines neural network predictions using background knowledge for improved accuracy.

problem Compensate for lack of labeled data in neural networks.
method Introduces differentiable refinement functions and Iterative Local Refinement (ILR) algorithm to refine predictions efficiently and accurately.
result ILR finds competitive results in MNIST addition task and refines predictions on complex SAT formulas.

LARA forecasts financial asset trends by refining noisy labels and extracting profitable samples.

problem Low signal-to-noise ratio and stochastic nature of financial data lead to poor predictions.
method LARA combines LA-Attention and RA-Labeling to refine and extract profitable samples.
result LARA significantly outperforms existing methods on Qlib platform.

Graph neural networks refine speaker embeddings for better session-level diarization.

problem Local speaker distinction in meeting sessions using deep embeddings.
method Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) refine speaker embeddings using session-level structural information.
result Spectral clustering on refined embeddings outperforms original embeddings significantly.

In the previous article "Refined Analytic Torsion on Manifolds with Boundary" we have presented a construction of refined analytic torsion in the spirit of Braverman and Kappeler, which does apply to compact manifolds with and without boundary. We now derive a gluing formula for our construction, which can be viewed as…

2008-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We first apply the method and results in the previous paper to give a new proof of a result (hold in C/Z {\bf C}/{\bf Z}) of Gilkey on the variation of h-invariants associated to non self-adjoint Dirac type operators. We then give an explicit local expression of certain h-invariant appearing in recent papers of Braverma…

2006-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of 5D SYM theory on toric surfaces yields refined Vafa-Witten invariants.

problem Computing partition functions in 5D SYM theory on toric surfaces.
method Supersymmetric localization, Nekrasov partition functions, moduli space of sheaves.
result Found correspondence between poles and torus-fixed points in moduli space, leading to refined Vafa-Witten invariants.

The Chern classes of a K-theory class which is represented by a vector bundle with connection admit refinements to Cheeger-Simons classes in Deligne cohomology. In the present paper we consider similar refinements in the case where the classes in K-theory are represented by geometric families of Dirac operators. In low…

2002-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Generates infinite-depth hierarchical clusters from few examples.

problem Inadequate finite-sample clustering methods for fine-scale hierarchical structures.
method Classification fields generated by a local refinement rule, approximated by predictors.
result Learned predictors can approximate infinite-depth hierarchical structures.

Describes the relationship between two spectral sequences and their joint refinement.

problem Computing the cohomology of a group or space using spectral sequences.
method Joint tri-graded refinement of the Leray--Serre and Eilenberg--Moore spectral sequences.
result One of the spectral sequences always degenerates from its second page, and the other satisfies a local-to-global property.

We compute explicitly, and without any extra regularity assumptions, the large time limit of the fibrewise heat operator for Bismut-Lott type superconnections in the L^2-setting. This is motivated by index theory on certain non-compact spaces (families of manifolds with cocompact group action) where the convergence of …

2013-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

BN refines local partition geometry in piecewise-affine networks during training.

problem Understanding the effect of BN on the function realized during training in piecewise-affine networks.
method Analyzing the geometry of switching hyperplanes and affine-region partition conditioned on a mini-batch.
result BN increases expected local partition refinement in ReLU and piecewise-affine networks.

Proves convergence of gradient Ricci shrinkers with uniform bounds.

problem Compactness and energy concentration in gradient Ricci shrinkers.
method Bubble-tree convergence and local energy analysis.
result No energy concentrates in neck regions, leading to a local diffeomorphism finiteness theorem.

This paper provides a general result on controlling local Rademacher complexities, which captures in an elegant form to relate the complexities with constraint on the expected norm to the corresponding ones with constraint on the empirical norm. This result is convenient to apply in real applications and could yield re…

2015-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We study a class of localized indices for the Dirac type operators on a complete Riemannian orbifold, where a discrete group acts properly, co-compactly and isometrically. These localized indices, generalizing the L2L^2-index of Atiyah, are obtained by taking certain traces of the higher index for the Dirac type operat…

2013-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Classifies gradient Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl curvature in dimensions 5 and above.

problem Classifying gradient Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl curvature in higher dimensions.
method Developed a novel method of refined adapted frame fields and used geometric arguments.
result Local and complete classifications of gradient Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl curvature.

Study non-orientable link cobordisms using Floer homologies to prove inequalities.

problem Prove inequalities involving Euler characteristic and local maxima in non-orientable cobordisms.
method Use unoriented instanton and knot Floer homology to introduce unoriented versions of band unknotting number and refined cobordism distance.
result Show that the difference between unoriented refined cobordism distance of a knot from the unknot and non-orientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large.

S.Bauer and M.Furuta defined a stable cohomotopy refinement of the Seiberg-Witten invariants. In this paper, we prove a vanishing theorem of Bauer-Furuta invariants for 4-manifolds with smooth Z/2-actions. As an application, we give a constraint on smooth Z/2-actions on homotopy K3#K3, and construct a nonsmoothable loc…

2007-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Locally-verifiable conditions ensure exactness of spline discrete de Rham complex.

problem Ensuring cohomological equivalence of spline discrete complex to continuous de Rham complex.
method Theoretical analysis and locally-verifiable sufficient conditions for exactness.
result Locally-verifiable conditions guarantee exactness of hierarchical B-spline discrete de Rham complex.

The huge amount of available data nowadays is a challenge for kernel-based machine learning algorithms like SVMs with respect to runtime and storage capacities. Local approaches might help to relieve these issues and to improve statistical accuracy. It has already been shown that these local approaches are consistent a…

2019-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A new sampling strategy improves reliability and robustness optimization for complex designs.

problem High sample requirements for optimizing reliability and robustness in complex designs.
method Local Latin Hypercube Refinement (LoLHR) for multi-objective design uncertainty optimization.
result LoLHR achieves better results compared to other surrogate-based strategies.

Localized Kasner-like singularities constructed in spacetime.

problem Constructing localized singular solutions to Einstein vacuum equations.
method First order symmetric hyperbolic formulation, adapted orthonormal frame.
result Localized Kasner-like singularities with refined uniqueness and general asymptotic data.

New inequality for refined knot invariants in a specific space.

problem General adjunction inequality for refined ss-invariants does not hold.
method Introduced an adjunction inequality for a specific spatial refinement in kCP2k\overline{\mathbb{CP}^2}.
result An adjunction inequality holds for the ss-version of the Sq1Sq^1-refinement in kCP2k\overline{\mathbb{CP}^2}.

This article surveys the relations among local and nonlocal invariants in Atiyah-Singer index theory. We discuss the local invariants that arise from the heat equation approach to the index theorem for geometric operators, as well as the nonlocal invariants (the eta invariant, the determinant of the Laplacian/analytic …

1997-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

AIHT improves online high-dimensional quantile regression by separating support discovery and refinement.

problem Online high-dimensional quantile regression with structural sparsity.
method Adaptive Iterative Hard Thresholding (AIHT) alternates stochastic updates with adaptive hard-thresholding steps.
result AIHT achieves logarithmic regret for the sliding-window objective in high-dimensional settings.

We study refined topological string theory in the presence of orientifolds by counting second-quantized BPS states in M-theory. This leads us to propose a new integrality condition for both refined and unrefined topological strings when orientifolds are present. We define the SO(2N) refined Chern-Simons theory which co…

2012-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New research shows label refinement and weak training have limitations for aligning LLMs.

problem Limitations of refinement methods for aligning large language models.
method Analyzed probabilistic assumptions and alternative approaches to label refinement and weak training.
result Label refinement and weak training suffer from irreducible error, leaving a performance gap.

Extends homotopical theory to locally compact groups, refining their compactness properties.

problem Developing homotopical invariants for locally compact groups.
method Extending classical theory of homotopical ΣΣ-sets to locally compact Hausdorff groups, defining ΣtopnΣ_{\mathrm{top}}^n sets of characters.
result Recovering and generalizing classical results on characters and compactness properties of groups.

LES optimizes designs by sampling descent sequences, achieving strong sample efficiency.

problem Optimizing large, complex design spaces is infeasible and unnecessary.
method LES uses Bayesian optimization to target solutions reachable by iterative optimizers.
result LES achieves strong sample efficiency compared to existing methods.

We first show that the connected sum along submanifolds introduced by the second author for compact initial data sets of the vacuum Einstein system can be adapted to the asymptotically Euclidean and to the asymptotically hyperbolic context. Then, we prove that in any case, and generically, the gluing procedure can be l…

2010-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗