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48 results for Rapid task-solving

Measuring the relationship between any pair of variables is a rich and active area of research that is central to scientific practice. In contrast, characterizing the common information among any group of variables is typically a theoretical exercise with few practical methods for high-dimensional data. A promising sol…

2016-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New method detects TC imagery patterns for rapid intensity change.

problem Detecting upcoming rapid intensity changes in TC satellite imagery.
method Nonparametric test of association between images and event labels using neural networks and bootstrap.
result Identifies archetypes of infrared imagery associated with elevated rapid intensification risk.

Improves deep RL agents' generalization to unseen environments.

problem Deep RL agents struggle to adapt to new environments.
method Information Bottleneck regularization and annealing-based optimization.
result Agents can generalize to test parameters more than 10 standard deviations away from training.

We present RAPID (Real-time Automated Photometric IDentification), a novel time-series classification tool capable of automatically identifying transients from within a day of the initial alert, to the full lifetime of a light curve. Using a deep recurrent neural network with Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), we present th…

2019-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

AI helps forecasters understand TC convective evolution before intensification.

problem Challenges in extracting scientific insights from complex TC data.
method Combining AI prediction algorithms and classical statistical inference.
result Identifies patterns in TC convective structure leading to intensification.

Predicting and improving player retention is crucial to the success of mobile Free-to-Play games. This paper explores the problem of rapid retention prediction in this context. Heuristic modeling approaches are introduced as a way of building simple rules for predicting short-term retention. Compared to common classifi…

2016-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe a mechanism by which artificial neural networks can learn rapid adaptation - the ability to adapt on the fly, with little data, to new tasks - that we call conditionally shifted neurons. We apply this mechanism in the framework of metalearning, where the aim is to replicate some of the flexibility of human …

2017-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Reservoir computing is a neural network approach for processing time-dependent signals that has seen rapid development in recent years. Physical implementations of the technique using optical reservoirs have demonstrated remarkable accuracy and processing speed at benchmark tasks. However, these approaches require an e…

2018-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows rapid decay of Hitchin metric from semi-flat metric on Higgs bundles.

problem Analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the Hitchin metric on moduli spaces of Higgs bundles.
method Examined the decay rate of the difference between Hitchin and semi-flat metrics on smooth spectral curves.
result Exponential decay of the difference between Hitchin and semi-flat metrics as t approaches infinity.

Neural networks have been successfully applied in applications with a large amount of labeled data. However, the task of rapid generalization on new concepts with small training data while preserving performances on previously learned ones still presents a significant challenge to neural network models. In this work, w…

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is a fundamental component for performing natural language tasks such as parsing, information extraction, and question answering. When POS taggers are trained in one domain and applied in significantly different domains, their performance can degrade dramatically. We present a methodology f…

2014-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new calculus for studying operators on principal bundles.

problem Investigates GG-equivariant operators on principal bundles over manifolds.
method Introduces Borel-Weil calculus to analyze GG-equivariant (pseudo)differential operators.
result Explicit conditions for rapid mixing in dynamical systems and spectral theory results for sub-elliptic Laplacians.

Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) innovations are being introduced at such a rapid pace that model owners and evaluators are hard-pressed analyzing and studying them. This is exacerbated by the complicated procedures for evaluation. The lack of standard systems and efficient techniques for specifying and pro…

2018-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DONNA rapidly finds optimal neural networks across diverse spaces.

problem Efficient scaling and handling of diverse architectural search-spaces in NAS.
method Three-phase pipeline: accuracy predictor, rapid evolutionary search, and optimal model finetuning.
result 100x faster than MNasNet in finding state-of-the-art architectures on-device.

RAPTOR-GEN accelerates digital twin development for biopharmaceuticals.

problem Lack of agility in rapid, on-demand production of biotherapeutics due to bioprocess complexity.
method Bayesian learning framework based on a multi-scale probabilistic knowledge graph (pKG) and stochastic differential equations (SDE).
result RAPTOR-GEN accelerates intelligent digital twin development from sparse and heterogeneous experimental data.

These are notes for a very rapid introduction to the basics of exterior differential systems and their connection with what is now known as Lie theory, together with some typical and not-so-typical applications to illustrate their use.

2014-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Exact solutions reveal how unbalanced initializations promote rapid feature learning in neural networks.

problem Understanding how neural networks efficiently extract features from data.
method Deriving exact solutions to a minimal model of neural networks transitioning between lazy and rich learning regimes.
result Unbalanced layer-specific initialization variances and learning rates determine the degree of feature learning.

Dr. of Crosswise proposes a new architecture to reduce over-parametrization in Neural Networks. It introduces an operand for rapid computation in the framework of Deep Learning that leverages learned weights. The formalism is described in detail providing both an accurate elucidation of the mechanics and the theoretica…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Since Giles introduced the multilevel Monte Carlo path simulation method [18], there has been rapid development of the technique for a variety of applications in computational finance. This paper surveys the progress so far, highlights the key features in achieving a high rate of multilevel variance convergence, and su…

2012-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Scaling relations, such as the IPAT equation and the Kaya identity, are useful for quickly gauging the scale of economic, technological, and demographic changes required to reduce environmental impacts and pressures; in the case of the Kaya identity, the environmental pressure is greenhouse gas emissions. However, when…

2011-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning dynamics and NTK evolution studied through diverse measures.

problem Understanding the training dynamics of deep neural networks and their loss landscapes.
method Phenomenological analysis of training dynamics in multiple architectures and datasets.
result Training dynamics exhibit a chaotic initial transient followed by a stable phase, with the NTK evolving to match full network performance.

Sparse codes improve optimal control tasks with correlated inputs.

problem Optimal control tasks with correlated feature inputs.
method Used a sparse code to represent natural images in an optimal control task solved with neuro-dynamic programming.
result An over-complete sparse code increases memory capacity and learning speed beyond a complete code.