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A drone catches another agile drone using competitive reinforcement learning.

problem Intercepting an agile drone with another agile drone.
method Formulated as a Competitive Reinforcement Learning problem, trained with PPO, using a high-fidelity simulation environment.
result Trained policies outperform common heuristic baselines in catch rate, time to catch, and crash rate.

In this paper, we point out a fundamental property of the objective in reinforcement learning, with which we can reformulate the policy gradient objective into a perceptron-like loss function, removing the need to distinguish between on and off policy training. Namely, we posit that it is sufficient to only update a po…

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzes Lévy flights on manifolds for finding small targets.

problem Finding small targets using Lévy flights on various manifolds.
method Analytic description of Lévy flights on closed Riemannian manifolds, including asymptotics of expected stopping time.
result Computes the expected time for finding a small target by Lévy flight on surfaces.

Traditional control methods are inadequate in many deployment settings involving control of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In such settings, CPS controllers must operate and respond to unpredictable interactions, conditions, or failure modes. Dealing with such unpredictability requires the use of executive and cognitive…

2019-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new method to learn combinatorial patterns for airline crew pairing optimization.

problem Enhancing airline crew pairing optimization for large-scale, complex flight networks.
method Variational Graph Auto-Encoder for learning combinatorial patterns among flight-connection graphs.
result The proposed method generates new pairings for the optimizer, improving the efficacy of airline crew pairing optimization.

Truncated Lévy flights are random walks in which the arbitrarily large steps of a Lévy flight are eliminated. Since this makes the variance finite, the central limit theorem applies, and as time increases the probability distribution of the increments becomes Gaussian. Here, truncated Lévy flights with correlated fluct…

1999-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem of an arbitrary truncated Levy flight description using the method of cumulant approach has been solved. The set of cumulants of the truncated Levy distribution given the assumption of arbitrary truncation has been found. The influence of truncation shape on the truncated Levy flight properties in the Gauss…

2010-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep RL drone trained to compete against classical path planning in drone racing.

problem Optimizing long-term drone racing strategies using reinforcement learning.
method Used PPO algorithm on a simulated quadrotor in a racing environment created with AirSim.
result Deep RL agent outperformed classical path planning in drone racing competitions.

Study of Lévy flights on Zoll surfaces, revealing geometric information.

problem Understanding the mean first capture time of Lévy flights on Zoll surfaces.
method Analysis of geodesic Lévy processes on Zoll surfaces, focusing on the first correction term.
result The first correction term encodes geometric information, specifically the degree of the conjugate point.

Machine learning improves aircraft performance prediction by analyzing flight data.

problem Limited aircraft performance models based on industry-wide guidelines.
method Use machine learning on flight data to estimate drag and lift coefficients.
result Excellent accuracy in real-life data, supporting aerodynamics principles.

Machine learning predicts flight connections for airline crew scheduling.

problem Predicting the next connecting flight for airline crews.
method Adapted neural network for multiclass classification from historical data.
result High accuracy (99.7%) in flight connection prediction.

Paper addresses CPA line forecasting in online advertising mid-flight.

problem Forecasting ad campaign performance mid-flight considering bidding mechanisms.
method Generates relationships between metrics and optimization signals, estimates sensitivity, and characterizes advertiser spends vs. eCPA.
result Demonstrates promising accuracy in forecasting against actual deliveries.

The Big Data analytics are a logical analysis of very large scale datasets. The data analysis enhances an organization and improve the decision making process. In this article, we present Airline Delay Analysis and Prediction to analyze airline datasets with the combination of weather dataset. In this research work, we…

2020-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

EDU method finds diverse optimal solutions for expensive simulators.

problem Optimizing expensive black-box simulators for diverse solutions.
method EDU method searches for diverse locally-optimal solutions within a tolerance level.
result EDU yields a closed-form acquisition function facilitating efficient sequential queries.

Gradient-enhanced deep GPs improve multifidelity model accuracy.

problem Improving accuracy in multifidelity models using gradient data.
method Extending deep Gaussian processes to incorporate gradient data.
result Gradient-enhanced deep GP outperforms other models in predicting aerodynamic coefficients.

We study a simple modification to the conventional time of flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) where a \emph{variable} and (pseudo)-\emph{random} pulsing rate is used which allows for traces from different pulses to overlap. This modification requires little alteration to the currently employed hardware. However, it requi…

2012-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have revolutionized a broad class of civil and military applications. However, the designs of wireless technologies that enable real-time streaming of high-definition video between UAVs and ground clients present a conundrum. Most existing adaptive bitrate (AB…

2019-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of efficiently constructing cheap and novel round trip flight itineraries by combining legs from different airlines. We analyse the factors that contribute towards the price of such itineraries and find that many result from the combination of just 30% of airlines and that the closer the departu…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The recent crisis and the following flight to simplicity put most derivative businesses around the world under considerable pressure. We argue that the traditional modeling techniques must be extended to include product design. We propose a quantitative framework for creating products which meet the challenge of being …

2011-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

DeFi exploits lead to reduced CP spreads, contrary to contagion hypothesis.

problem Vulnerabilities in DeFi destabilize traditional short-term funding markets.
method Analysis of commercial paper spreads and regulatory segmentation.
result DeFi exploits lead to a 'Flight-to-Quality' pattern, narrowing rather than widening CP spreads.

The paper assesses how equity tail risk impacts US Treasury bond returns.

problem The effects of equity tail risk on the US government bond market.
method Estimating equity tail risk using option-implied stock market volatility and assessing its predictive power in reduced-form regressions and a term structure model.
result Equity tail risk significantly predicts one-month excess returns on Treasuries.

Improved real-time UAV terrain following with RVM-RLS filter.

problem Accurate real-time waypoints estimation under measurement noise in nonlinear, time-varying systems.
method Residual Variance Matching Recursive Least Squares (RVM-RLS) filter guided by RVME criterion.
result Improved waypoints estimation accuracy by approximately 88% compared to benchmarks.

Our society has been computerised and globalised due to emergence and spread of information and communication technology (ICT). This enables us to investigate our own socio-economic systems based on large amounts of data on human activities. In this article, methods of treating complexity arising from a vast amount of …

2012-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses MIL and MHCNN-RNN to predict precursors to aviation safety events.

problem Identifying events that precede aviation safety incidents.
method Multiple-instance learning (MIL) framework combined with a Multi-Head Convolutional Neural Network-Recurrent Neural Network (MHCNN-RNN) architecture.
result Multiple binary classifiers outperform in predicting high speed and high path angle events during the approach phase.

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) or Gauss Markov random fields are widely used in many applications, and the trade-off between the modeling capacity and the efficiency of learning and inference has been an important research problem. In this paper, we study the family of GGMs with small feedback vertex sets (FVSs), whe…

2013-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of optimal investment and consumption in a class of multidimensional jump-diffusion models in which asset prices are subject to mutually exciting jump processes. This captures a type of contagion where each downward jump in an asset's price results in increased likelihood of further jumps, both …

2012-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗